And all your water, please.

I don’t a lot. Just all of it.

I’d choose kangaroo over single mother any day.

Because of the pouch.

the article doesn’t even mention what other choices the babies had.

I agree on your distinction. However, I don’t think that revenge-raping a rapist does any good to anyone or redeem any of the wrong doing. It only creates another rapist.

Punishment should be something that benefits the victims or society.

I paid my share by sharing.

Pro was not, but the earlier versions were technically crippleware. It was distributed freely with magazines and what not. There was no actual cripple though.

Back on in 2003 Adobe bought the freeware software called CoolEdit 2.0 and republished it as a paid product as Adobe Audition without changing a god damn thing.

CoolEdit was too good to be true. It’s only fair that the developers got paid, but I just wish they didn’t have to sell out to Adobe of all companies.

I hope this 2026 version of Audacity will finally be on level with what we had for free in year 2000.

Audacity is like a tape recording studio. It doesn’t support midi programming and VSTi as far as I know.

Everything is a DAW if you’re brave enough, and there’s no strict definition, but for something to be a full DAW, it should have both recording and virtual instruments IMO.

As of now, there’s very few free ones that does both and Reaper beats all of them as the cheapest paid option. However Reaper doesn’t do everything. Some paid DAWs still have features that Reaper doesn’t.

It already was unsafe for aircraft from most countries anyway. This is just a kind warning for Russia and China who still flies there. It’ll be interesting to see what China does. It was only yesterday that someone here wrote how he preferred the Chinese airlines because they flew the fast route over Russia. Guess you need to reconsider that.

Crowbar stocks is on the rise.

Take heat from homes

That’s the tricky part.

This sand battery works by offsetting the production of heat to be used in an already existing district heating system.

That system does not easily change into a district cooling system. It is simply not built to run in reverse. Every part of it from production through distribution, exchanging and in-house distribution are made with one purpose: To transfer heat in one direction.

It makes sense to use renewable energy to charge this battery, so they don’t need as much fossil fuel or whatever they use normally.

But, if we were to make a district wide hvac-system the same way, it would probably be better and more efficient to simply use individual airconditioners using the renewable energy directly.

I think AI could have a good tool for specific purposes and also a very lucrative business if only they had not thrown all that money at it.

The extreme investments forced them to roll it out prematurely over a much larger market that it could ever supply in a meaningful way.

They’re trying to force a camel through the eye of a needle.

I think fertilizer production is one of those things where we already have a solution that works on renewable energy, but it’s more expensive than the conventional methods.

It basically boils down (pun intended) to pressure cooking organic materials. This requires a lot of energy. In my opinion it would make sense to decentralize the production and make it smaller and closer to the also decentralized sources of renewable energy.

About 50% of the price of conventional fertilizer comes from the transportation anyway, so it would make a lot of sense to make it closer to where it’s needed. This is not economically feasible with the conventional production though.

I wonder how long it would take to rebuild society without oil, if we were to cut it from one day to the next.

I don’t think it would be long. Lots of solutions already exist but are infeasible only because oil is cheaper.

Peace is coming.

We don’t send draftees to war. It’s only basic training.

You won’t get banned, but Patrick will add you to his list if you scare the normies.

Yeah BYD will survive, but smaller brands like hiphi, neta, nio, LI auto, etc. There are more than 160 different Chinese brands trying to enter the markets. Most of them will or have already failed i. Europe, even if they are active in other countries.

Plenty of new European brands have also failed for the same reasons.

I do see some chinese brands on the road, but not many in comparison to other more established brands.

The thing keeping people away from chinese brands is the uncertainty of future repairs. The “flood” might come in a few years once people have more experience with how it’s handled. Currently, as people get their first EVs, they want to be able to take their VW to the VW shop, not take their BYD to the random no-name mechanic with a BYD sticker on their window.

Everyone is also waiting for the statistics from the EU inspections. Nobody wants a car that can’t pass the inspection in a few years time. Tesla has proven to be a huge failure in that regard, and I think that will scare people away from not only Tesla, but also the unknown chinese brands who yet have to prove themselves.

It also doesn’t help that these smaller brands pop up and go bankrupt in the same year as they scramble to find their markets.

EU brands might not be any better or cheaper, but at least they are better represented locally.