Tar_Alcaran

The Netherlands has a huge grid capacity issue, but there are two much more relevant problems stopping the growth of renewable power: space and the fact that the earth is round.

The Netherlands is the most densely populated large country in Europe. Wind turbines take up quite a bit of space, and we’ve got a very large part of the country covered with stuff already. There isn’t much room for new wind parks. There is also a steady expansion there already, and we don’t have unlimited will turbine builders either.

The problem with solar is that we already have a lot of solar. Solar panels all produce the most power at the same time, which often causes an excess of electricity turning the price negative, meaning producers will turn their plants off. So a solar park will stop producing exactly when it would have been most profitable otherwise. This means the return on investment is significantly lower, below other safe investments, so people will just invest elsewhere…

And private solar panels suffer from the same issue,along energy companies charge extra to compensate for fixed-rate contracts, making them much less financially appealing for people.

And being a stranger in Egypt is still pretty fucking terrible if you’re not strongly presenting male.

A surprising number of people don’t find out till they get a health checkup for work somewhere in their 20’s or 30’s. Some chemical exposure can slowly cause colourblindness, especially solvents and heavy metals, so people get checked for it, and plenty find out they’ve apparently always been colorblind.

Yes, and now we want to change those laws. It should be easy to follow those too.

Not at all. It’s assuming they don’t suddenly drop in cost 99%

My favorite new conspiracy theory is that everyone promoting the “don’t vote if you don’t fully support them” people are all plants and fakers (with some genuine morons strewn in)

LLM everything. Nobody who is selling AI services is making any money on it. OpenAI is burning tens of billions a year without even a concept of a sellable product, Microsoft is losing billions on OpenAI, and Amazon made 5B revenue on a 120B investment (and negative profit). Nobody who is using these LLMs is paying the full cost, and hardly anyone actually uses them for anything real. Productivity hasn’t gone up for the vast majority of companies using it, and only ignorant management is pushing it hard.

I’ll give it three years until it all falls apart, and that’s very generous.

Stroopwaffel van Klompmill.

I love this, because a “Hans worst” in dutch is someone incompetent and useless.

But they’re a dbzero user, not an ML

Edit: I guess those aren’t mutually exclusive

I’m pretty sure I used the word “unknowingly” there, meaning that they’re not to blame for the first choice, merely for continuing to do so now.

What did we do?

Well, luckily, you can make an account elsewhere and not have people assume you’re an asshole because you associate (unknowingly) with assholes

I broke a Ford windscreen once. Insurance paid 1100 euros to replace it. Without insurance you can bet it would have been a non-heated windscreen for a few hundred.

Genetic diversity obviously plays a role, and epigenetics matter a lot too. The abundance of food and quality of nutrition that we’ve had since WW2 in the Netherlands, combined with genetics that predispose, combine together.

But there is also a BIG difference between the racial stats the US keeps and the direct descendance stats the Netherlands keeps. If your family came from Ethiopia to the US in 1640 and has raised 12 generations of Americans, you’re “Black or African American”.

If your four grandparents are 30cm tall blue Smurfs, but both your parents were born in the Netherlands, you’re a native Dutch person in every Dutch statistic.

That’s hard to tell, because not everyone tracks data the same way.

The UK has a population that’s 72% British/Irish. The Netherlands has a population that’s 74% Dutch.

With Tesla, you can turn a $2,442 windshield installation into a $3,174 windshield installation through the power of interest.

Ok but 2442 is already insane. Yes it’s heated, yes there’s a rain sensor, plenty of cars have that, and their windshields cost half as much.

The Netherlands also has conscription for women, but with the caveat that they haven’t actually called up anyone since the late 90’s

I used to have a “mistake” Savannah, which was at most 40% Serval (mommy got into the male enclosure and nobody knows who the lucky boy was).

He was a LOT of work. I’ve never had a more active cat. You can absolutely train them, and you absolutely have to, or you need to keep them in a seperate enclosure. They will fuck up your house in ways you can’t imagine.

And he was only 40% serval.

It’s this stuff: https://www.tesa.com/nl-nl/consument/tesa-powerbond-outdoor-ean-4042448843432.html

Or your local version of it, but this website refuses to turn to other languages for me.