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Wish my wife would fondle my nuts daily to check whatever.

It’s just amazing to see the difference to where I live in Europe. I’m below 100k, but our income is considered quite high and we just got a large-enough house for our family of five about 30 minutes (by car) away from our jobs. It’s staggering. Even more so if you consider that wages are said to be too high to be competitive.

So, let’s make the formula for concentrated dark matter our secret code.

I don’t think seven figure net worth qualifies as rich anymore.

What?

I am going to guess the comfort zone now is in the mid eight figures.

Whaatt???

All it takes are a few health issues and the US healthcare system will drain your life’s savings.

Ah, yeah, the US. No questions.

Man, I’m so glad I don’t live there. Living in the US is right up there on the list of things I’m glad I don’t have to do, next to cave diving.

Bitte nicht.

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Lindner:

In der 19. Legislaturperiode (Stand August 2020) erhielt er mindestens 424.500 Euro aus Nebentätigkeiten[92] und gehört damit zu den Mitgliedern des Bundestags mit den höchsten Nebeneinkünften.

https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Lindner

Merz:

Im Jahr 2018 sagte er bei einer Veranstaltung der «Bild»-Zeitung, er gehe jedenfalls nicht «unter einer Million Euro im Monat» nach Hause. «Brutto», wie er betonte.

https://www.watson.ch/international/wirtschaft/712783180-blackrock-chef-spricht-ueber-das-gehalt-von-friedrich-merz

Zu Söder selbst finde ich gerade nichts ähnliches, aber:

Die Ehepartnerin von Markus Söder, Karin Baumüller-Söder ist eine der mächtigsten Unternehmerinnen des Landes.

https://www.infranken.de/ratgeber/karriere-geld/markus-soeder-und-sein-vermoegen-wie-reich-ist-er-und-verdient-seine-frau-mehr-als-er-art-5395700

Lars Klingbeil verdient laut wiki 147k€ nebenher ( https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_Nebeneinkünfte_der_Mitglieder_des_Bundestags_in_der_19._Wahlperiode ), was ihn natürlich hier am unteren Ende positioniert, aber immer noch echt üppiges Geld ist. Wenn man über 10k im Monat zusätzlich zu dem Gehalt aus dem Bundestag bekommt ist man auch nicht unbedingt arm. Da würde ich mich aber über die Größe der Spende weniger echauffieren als beim Rest, um ehrlich zu sein.

Yes. It’s the one we’re on now.

Heeeeeey, MAGDArena!

Did that, kind of. The system’s been running flawlessly for like a decade now. I’m not sure if they even understand the difference.

Tbh, that’s the first time I heard that take. With the openness of the deck I’m sure you could somehow just use a deck as the controller though.

With a smart TV it should already “just work”… Just get the steam link app for your TV and pair it to your deck to play on the TV and use the deck as a wireless controller. Don’t know if you can turn off the deck’s screen though.

First, you’re moving goalposts. That already makes you seem like you’re arguing in bad faith. You can’t start with “an EV would have me wait for an hour just to be charged” and when people call you out on your bs be like “oh yeah, which EV charges in 10 minutes??” That’s not what you said first. And when you’re told that there are models that do charge in about 10 minutes, you’re just like “well about is not enough”. Just charge 10 minutes and leave the charger at 75 % then, if that 10-minute-mark is so important to you.

Second, charging embeds well into everyday tasks. Groceries? Car charges. Movies? Car charges. Restaurant? Car charges. Etc etc. Sure, 11 kW won’t fully charge your car while you’re shopping, but they don’t have to. Just add some km while you’re at it. I have friends and colleagues that don’t own houses and still drive EVs and they say that there are more charging opportunities than they need, so they don’t even always charge their car. If your commute requires you to charge more often, just charge before your first break and maybe ask your employer if there’s a plug somewhere that you could use.

Only if none of that works and you’re talking about a really long commute, you need to take detours to fast charge your car. Tbf, I never met anyone who had this issue, but yes, if you’re that person, you’ll have to adapt that convenient EV charging scheme I described above to… behave just like you did with your old combustion car. Yes, it’ll take slightly longer to charge your car than to fill it. Just grab a coffee while you look for a supermarket that provides L2 charging so you can avoid it next time. I’ve certainly had my wait times at gas stations during rush hour or holidays, but that’s seemingly not an issue.

Asking these things to be at parity with gas (as in, can I fill my electric car with power with the same speed as a gas car) is not a lofty goal. It is the baseline goal for any other technology.

That’s just nonsense. EVs are so much better than ICEs in so many regards, worst case charge times and front up prices are the only things left for people to complain about. They’re cheaper over their lifetime, their acceleration values (that car enthusiasts were comparing for decades to determine the awesomeness of a car) are beyond anything combustion engines can provide, they are quiet, etc etc. This weird idea that none of this counts if you have to spend half an hour to charge because you seemingly can’t be arsed to charge it while you’re doing something else is just ridiculous.

The EV asks its buyers to change their habits. It asks you to take the hit for the climate

You know what, so far it doesn’t. So far, it’s an offer you may or may not take. But eventually, yes, people will have to change their habits. As they did before. When the ozone layer started falling apart in the 70s, the world sat together and prohibited the usage of CFCs in the 80s, with some countries taking more or less time to turn this into their local laws. But yes, people then had to change their habits as CFC alternatives sometimes worked differently. Look at who complained the loudest then and maybe still complains about it today and ask yourself if you really want to be perceived like one of those folks.

using technologies like modern batteries which are straight up bad for the climate.

I’ll just assume that you actually don’t know what’s worse for the climate. I mean, yes, we should reduce car dependency as a whole and use more bikes and public transport, but an EV is so much better for the climate than an ICE, it’s not even close. Even if you charge it with electricity straight from a coal plant, it’s just so much more efficient that eventually, it’ll have been the better option for the planet, but assuming you just take the energy mix that’s available where you live, it’ll be fast to offset the worse climate footprint from battery production.

For a comparison that also mentions battery production: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tc-6GHdCmgI

So they really just took the steam deck controls and got rid of the screen, more or less. I love it.

The problem here is that most of the US population is centered on the coasts, and in the midwest, and a bit of the south, so most rail infrastructure would be useful there

So that’s why there are those four hyper-dense rail networks on the coasts, the midwest and the south and the US’s only problem is that these aren’t properly interconnected?

Saying it doesn’t make it true.

As you sound like you know about it: What is that cloud made of? Can’t be water, right? I mean, we have speculated for decades on whether there’s water on Mars, we wouldn’t have done that if there’s a yearly 1000 km trail of water that can be seen from orbit, right?

Well, as houses don’t magically appear out of thin air, I guess it has been like this since we started building permanent shelter.

So is that actor’s name pronounced “Seen Been” or “Shawn Bawn”?

Nordsylt ebenso.