You’re gonna love this. We (Australia) give a bunch of gas away (no royalties), barely tax the companies on their profits, and then most of it gets shipped overseas so it’s expensive here.
We’re a third-world country in disguise.
(Gas is dumb and should stay in the ground, but it’s even more stupid for us not to get any revenue from it)
https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/gas-exports-56-given-to-corporations-royalty-free/
This is the real answer. The french aren’t the pretentious ones in this story, they’re the plebs who don’t know any better haha
(All in good fun)
REEEE MM/DD/YYYY Burn it with fire
Missed opportunity to call it “AkkuBattery” for all the dual language pun enjoyers out there 🎩
How so? At least dots haven’t prevented me in the past (windows, Mac, android, various cloud storage).
We need to be moving before technology becomes profitable. This is one of the major downsides of capitalism. We temper it somewhat with government investment and regulation, but buy-in-large, the profit motive is what drives practically all economic questions.
We simply do not have time.
We need to building more energy storage, like yesterday.
It just hasn’t made much financial sense to build it, because fossil fuels were cheap, now we’re slowly getting started.
If the profit motive wasn’t the motive above all else, we could get a whole bunch more done in the fight on climate change.
We can’t wait for capitalism. It’s just not fundamentally aligned with our preservation, it’s aligned with profit motive.
We’re lucky it’s becoming more profitable. But we’re still massively reliant on fossil fuels. It’s way, way, way, way not fast enough.
And yes, capitalism is the problem. If governments weren’t so afraid of being criticised for how they run something we’d bring back more state run organisations and just start building, even if it runs at a “loss”.
Or at the very, very least, we should be directly contracting private companies to build and maintain the infrastructure, but WE own it. Not them.
Conclusion, capitalism isn’t the only economic system we can imagine. We already temper it. We used to even temper it more than we do now (post-world war II in the anglosphere, as an example, until the neo-libs privatised practically everything).
The neo-liberal experiment has been a colossal failure.
Capitalism isn’t the end of history.
Or you can do what the idiots at Standards Australia proposed (no news yet on if they’re actually gonna do it).
https://www.standards.org.au/news/revised-standard-recommends-larger-parking-bays-across-the-country
Luckily practically all the feedback in the 3.5 weeks the gave for feedback (suspicious, much?) was “This is dumb, just make standards on maximum vehicle sizes better”
We are captured by the fossil fuel/car industry though, no doubt about it.
I hate that US style vehicles are becoming more popular here too. We gotta ban that shit ASAP.
The observation is that capitalism isn’t any good at efficiently allocating resources
To me any religion that excludes people or exalts people on the basis of tribe is not tolerant end of story.
I haven’t read the entirety of the Bible. But happy to be persuaded that my understanding of God and his chosen people is inaccurate.
For example, this was incredibly easy to search for: Destruction of the Canaanites
I would wager there are many such stories. Judaism, like most religions, is pretty fucked up.
If anyone really believes God chose their people over others, you inherently believe your tribe is more special, more righteous, or favoured by God. To me, that belief is nothing short of dangerous - *gestures broadly throughout human history*
I’m not really out of line here to assert that makes the orthodox belief foster ethnic/tribal supremacy.
I’m not saying everyone who believes in Judaism believes this way, but as a whole it’s pretty hard to argue their shit doesn’t smell as bad as the others.
Exclusion is just not a sign of tolerance. Sorry ¯_(ツ)_/¯
People are individuals, and I’d assert there’s a spectrum of views across believers.
If we’re talking about the religion in general? I’ll have to strongly disagree that it’s only inward looking.
RIP Australia and our DD/MM/YYYY (and rest of the former British Empire I assume).
Drives me nuts when software doesn’t properly localise.
Looking at you, Excel for web which defaults to MM/DD/YYYY in our company for some reason, even though the desktop app has no issues…
MM/DD/YYYY genuinely causes issues, because it’s very easily misread by the rest of the world, and vise versa for Americans.
I have been mislead more than once, because the MM and DD are both ≤ 12.
MM/DD/YYYY needs to die
Month Day YYYY is fine, because it’s unambiguous when the month is spelled out.
YYYY.MM.DD, or similar, is the only way to sort dates properly anyway.
♥️ this is what I decide to use at work. Dots are superior than dashes in my opinion because they prevent line breaks
I wouldn’t call English simple haha
To me the richness comes from interesting cultural quirks of why we say something, but I’m not really feeling that for emigrate, personally, so would prefer we speed up it being forgotten. Words falling out of use is very common, so I’m happy to lose ones that are annoying
I should also specify, I’m just getting into the spirit of enjoyable nitpicking, also
This is very upsetting
Thanks for the heads-up. I would have been happier never knowing haha
The implied brackets. THE IMPLIED BRACKETS!! The horror.
Thanks for the response kind soul
They run a large budget deficit each year which Denmark subsidises out of historical obligation, since they subjugated Greenland. Fair enough I say.
Greenland is largely independent on internal policies and have their own laws, but still technically part of Denmark.
This is my laymen’s explanation.
Yeah, the religion with the “chosen people” . Yep. Definitely tolerant of non-believers.
God’s wrath? This only is directed at believers right?
Lol
Jews are welcome to believe in whatever they like provided they’re not hurting anyone, but let’s not pretend their religion as written, or hell even widely practiced, is somehow more tolerant compared to other religions.
100 - 10/100 ≠ 90
I’m not a fan of this at all and wish people would treat percentages as if they were a unit. x% is x of y per 100 total.
x% = x yi / 100 ytotal
Where yi is the species in question.
My cup is 90% full: My cup contains 90 unitswater / per 100 unitscup
This is why I don’t like Baker’s percentages. I guess it makes sense, because it’s still per cent, but they’re mixing the meaning used practically everywhere else these days.
50% water for baking isn’t 50 unitswater / per 100 unitsdough, it’s 50 unitswater / per 100 units**flour**. In my mind that means you have 33.33% hydration, not 50%…
Just feels weird to not express that as a ratio. But I guess it’s a shorthand that works for them :/
Percentages for show, decimals for a pro
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It’s a bit weird the artist drew an “elementary” school girl in their underwear though.