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Cake day: October 15th, 2024

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  • Couldn’t really find any sources, but honestly it sounds reasonable enough. Engines are way more specialized for their single mechanical task than our legs are.

    Of course you also move around way, way more weight most of the time. The mass/payload ratio is way worse with cars than with bikes so the comparable thermal efficiency would need to be greater to make up for that.

    Beyond being a curiosity it is a moot point anyways. Humans need exercise to be healthy, and as you said, there are other environmental factors like car construction, gas refinement, etc. That I imagine mostly favour bikes too.





  • The countries in the EU simply haven’t really needed to spend a whole lot. Most of what our military did for the past 20 years was uselessly fucking around in the middle East at the behest of the USA. Having a low military budget at this time made sense.

    Times have changed though. The geopolitical landscape looks different. The US itself is a possible threat, having stated invasion of Greenland was not off the table. Russia is a threat and even if they can’t convincingly beat Ukraine they can be a massive pain in the ass and an existential threat to the Baltic countries if NATO collapses.

    Yeah, we have to invest more in military. I don’t think things would have been massively different through most of the 2000s and 2010s even if the EU and the US weren’t close allies. Perhaps Russia would have been bolder earlier.








  • I decided to see what would be made following your prompt. Here’s the image.

    Seems decent. Doesn’t really have the warmth of a home, but that’s more on the prompt specifying house without further detail. I took it a step further and told it to add a couch and a lamp like in the logo in the op.

    I definitely prefer the freelancer one but I don’t think it’s bad. Certainly better than the logo in the op lmao.

    Edit: given where I am I should probably specify I think it’s not bad compared to the trash fire that is the ai logo in the op. Design wise it’s very lazy and looks like someone threw in a pair of icons from an icon pack into a house in a generic way. The two assets in the house do not feel like they exist within the same space.