Pretty sure I've actually seen this image used against the manosphere people more than anything, with the Andrew Tate types being depicted as Soyjaks.
The masculine thing is to treat women with respect and equality, rather than attempting to lord over them and pretend we (men) are somehow better or importanter. The latter is a sign of being insecure, not masculine.
It's going to be a key to unlocking proper grid-scale energy storage.
For example, in my country, there's decent solar output from about april to october at most. November to February we just sit in the dark, the sun barely rises at all. With li-ion, the cost to store enough energy in the summer months to use it in the winter would be at least 100x for the batteries compared to the solar panels themselves. Not the least of our issues is that energy usage in winter is significantly bigger than summer, largely due to increasing number of heat pumps and the fact that EVs require way more electricity in the winter for the same distance as well.
Wind helps out in the winter, but mostly we're at the mercy of fossil fuels, whereas in the summer we have nothing to do with our plentiful solar energy so the price often goes negative, meaning if anyone accidentally sells their power to the grid, they have to pay for the privilege.
Personally I don't significantly care about batteries becoming safer. I do care about them becoming cheaper. I've not had a single spicy pillow on anything I've owned, only seen them at work when I refurbished laptops.
All-iron flow batteries hold immense potential due to their use of cheap, abundant iron and safe, water-based electrolytes.
So it's a rust battery? Because that's what happens when iron gets watery. It rusts.
I mean if it works, that's great, I just find it funny.
Out of curiosity, what's stopping someone from starting a company that hires non-union labour for cheaper than the collective agreement? Or is it mandated by law that everyone must be part of a union?
Car buyers usually buy a new one every 5 years at most while the rest of us buy used. They can keep going for long enough to put at least a few western companies out of business.
I don't think Ford's getting paid a 5 digit sum to sell me a Mondeo lol, not that they even make those anymore.
If I have to think about that I'd honestly rather just do the work myself. Less effort and I trust the author more
That costs actual money though
For the cost of one employee you can give 5 employees AI and tell them to work 10x faster while they have to wrestle the stupid AI.
I knew about Kuru but I didn't know this:
| Usual onset | 5 to 50 years after initial exposure |
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That makes it even worse. Pretty hard to diagnose wtf is happening if it can take half a century to hit. Imagine you're just eating some brains as a healthy 15 year old and then boom, kuru 20 years later. You barely got to be an adult and you're dying because of... Nothing! Nobody knows!
That might just be adrenaline tbh
They all have data mining, regardless of country. China subsidises EVs even when they're sold abroad, to kill the competition. Of course most legacy manufacturers have also lost the plot when it comes to affordability. To make matters worse, many of them also have to deal with expensive union labour. Chinese labour is still much cheaper.
We've had those for nearly a decade, some banks just took ages to update their apps and websites to actually make use of it for all eligible payments because of course they did.
Just 4 years ago, it cost like 3 or 7 euros to transfer money to Revolut from Swedbank Estonia and it took a business day, because it was considered a foreign transfer and Swedbank had "domestic transfers" and "foreign transfers" as separate options and the former couldn't send to a Lithuanian IBAN and the latter didn't use SEPA Instant. Other Estonian banks did it instantly already by then.