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  • McDonald's to 'rethink' prices after first sales fall since 2020

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  • I'm from Europe, and this doesn't match my experience. McDonald's is bottom tier fast food. Probably KFC is worse, but that's about it.

    In general, to me it always seemed like Americans value fast food and chain restaurants way higher than Europeans.

  • Samsung delivers 600-mile solid-state EV battery as it teases 9-minute charging and 20-year lifespan tech

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  • You drive a full day with only one five minute stop? I think taking regular breaks is recommended when driving for long periods.

  • Has Netanyahu finally lost America?

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  • The sad truth is that there are overriding geopolitical strategic interests behind the US support of Israel. The American executive power recognizes this, so military support is not going to go away as long as those interests are a concern.

    They may pay some lip service to the whole genocide thing, but this is ultimately realpolitik. Human lives do not matter when they are not American.

  • Japanese carmakers ‘very scared’ by China’s rapid EV development

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  • Hydrogen is a Japanese government strategic initiative, they want to be world leaders in the technology so they're encouraging Japanese companies to invest. And giving out hella subsidies too.

  • BYD breaks into Toyota-dominated Japan as EV sales climb

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  • This is bigger than Toyota. Hydrogen is a strategic initiative from the Japanese government, they are sick of having to import all their fossil fuels and are betting hard on the technology. Not just for cars but in general. Toyota is receiving big government subsidy checks to push that stuff.

  • China is on track to reach clean energy targets six years early

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  • China leads the world in both renewable energy usage AND coal use. And by a lot.

    They also have some of the most people (is India ahead nowadays? I can't keep track), and they manufacture tons of things meant for export to other (including western) countries.

    The point being, everybody is greenwashing. China is greenwashing their energy mix. Western countries greenwash their own energy by essentially outsourcing the production and thus pollution. And this isn't about China really. I could say the same for a bunch of countries.

    The small consolation is that beside all the green propaganda, some progress is at least being made. Probably not enough, but some.

  • 37 years later, Hideo Kojima says Metal Gear was so "ahead of its time" because of its portable radio, not its stealth-action

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  • Why do these websites feel the need to write an article mindlessly regurgitating two Hideo Kojima tweets? You could just go and read the tweets themselves instead.

  • Bill Gates-backed startup makes ‘butter’ out of water and carbon dioxide

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  • It's not intended to be a carbon sink. It's essentially intended to be a more carbon efficient way of producing margarine without having to grow e.g. palm oil and destroy forests. They thought, instead of making plants do the work of turning water and CO2 into fats, let's just do it in the lab.

    The basic science could work, although it's usually tough to beat "put seeds into ground and wait" on pure cost. However the fact that they compare this to butter makes me sceptical. Given how wasteful growing a whole cow is just to make some milk fat, it's easy to look efficient compared to that. They would compare themselves to sustainably produced margarine if they were honest.

  • Lawyers for ‘Rust’ armourer move to get case dismissed after Baldwin trial collapses

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  • Airplane mechanics are held responsible for their failures, should we throw that out the window and when they forget to tighten down a bolt that drops a plane just say whelp, better luck next time, lets get George some more training and hope he follows the procedures that are in place to prevent that from ever happening again.

    You are joking, but that's almost exactly what happens. Aircraft investigations are universally conducted on the basis of not assigning blame, but figuring out how to prevent this in the future.

    The point is that airplane mechanics generally do not forget to tighten bolts out of pure evil intent. They are for the most part just ordinary humans who can be expected to behave as such. Therefore when an error occurs it is a failure of the system, not them personally. Replacing them with another human who makes human mistakes doesn't fix anything.

    In this case we ask the same thing: what happened that caused things to go so wrong on this set, and what can we change to prevent that from happening again? I'm quite certain that putting this person in jail is not the answer to that question.

  • Hes alive so this meme is OK right?

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  • Abe was shot from just a few meters away though. Hard to miss at that distance (well, one would think. The assassin missed his first shot).

  • He's aware he's AI generated

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  • Wojak is a polish word that means something like "soldier" or "fighter." Wojak images generally intend to convey someone in great pain, but dealing with it.

  • Nuclear isn't perfect, but it is the best we have right now.

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  • I could not find the 47 grams figure on the page you linked, where is that stated exactly?

  • Analysis: The fertility crisis is here and it will permanently alter the economy | CNN Business

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  • I commend your optimism, but personally I'm not sure automation is actually going to carry us through this in the time frames that we need. This population problem is going to hit really hard in the next twenty to thirty years. I don't think we're going to fully automate the world economy in that time.

  • Analysis: The fertility crisis is here and it will permanently alter the economy | CNN Business

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  • The problems listed in the article are real. we've built a system:

    1. Where a lot of economic growth stems from an increasing supply of (cheap) labour
    2. That relies on people of working age being able to financially support a retiree class.

    Both of these are going to fall apart if the population stops growing. The smaller group of working age people won't be enough to support the amount of retirees, and without population growth there's no economic growth.

    It's sad that economists correctly see all this coming but then conclude that the only solution is "make more babies." It's short term thinking almost by definition, because in the limit it's rather obvious that at some point we will not have the resources to support any more people. And the closer we get to that limit the less each individual person will have (even worse when wealth is not equally distributed).

    Unfortunately I don't see any economist putting forth a plan that accepts population decline and alters the system to account for it. It wouldn't be easy but it seems no one is even trying.

  • VW will invest up to $5 billion in Rivian as part of new EV joint venture

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  • VW is good at making cars, but bad at software. They've had to delay the introduction of new models (Golf, ID.3) because of software issues. Rivian has sort of the opposite problem: their production lines sit still often because of problems in the supply chain.

    Volkswagen has the expertise to solve Rivian's production and supplier problems, and the cash they will need to survive and develop some cheaper models (the EV market is stagnating right now for a lack of budget options, and Rivian only sells trucks and SUVs). And they're hoping Rivian software engineers can help them fix their software woes.

  • How One Chinese EV Company Made Battery Swapping Work

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  • Yup, just like that

  • How One Chinese EV Company Made Battery Swapping Work

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  • Apologies. I'm from a country where the meaning of the period and comma is reversed compared to the US, so I did it this way out of habit.

  • How One Chinese EV Company Made Battery Swapping Work

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  • Honestly, I think it may be possible to build entire roads with enough crushed metal elements in the asphalt/concrete and a slight low power charge throughout the entire surface would be able to keep any vehicle battery at a steady charge.

    You might be underestimating how much power a car consumes while driving. For example, a Tesla model 3 has an efficiency of about 130 Wh/km in mild weather at highway speeds. Assuming that on the highway you'll travel 100 km/h, that means you'll use 130*100 = 13.000 Wh/h, a constant power draw of 13kW. That's enough to power perhaps 8-12 houses on average.

    A km of road could have, let's say, 200 cars on it (4 lanes, 20m per car). That means you'd need to pump about 2.6 megawatts of power into every kilometer of road to keep them all topped up.

    EDIT: fucked up math

  • math checks out

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  • He didn't say "most of the time" though. He said "always."