Immerhin haben sie direct zu direkt geändert.

Bees can do whatever the fuck they want, they are not merely there for our desire to get plants pollinated. They just like to do it.

Leihfahrräder

Überspitzt: ein Münchner, der für die letzte Meile in Berlin sein Fahrrad einmal quer durch Deutschland transportiert.

Meinetwegen als Option sicher nicht verkehrt, aber wir sprechen doch hier vom Deutschlandticket, oder? Also nix München Berlin, sondern von zuhause zur Arbeit. Ich hätte da weder Bock noch Geld jeden Tag 2x ein Leihrad zu mieten um vom Bahnhof zur Arbeit und zurück zu kommen. Worst case 4x weil ich Zuhause<>Bahnhof auch noch eins brauchen könnte. Oder Tagesausflug ins Grüne, da können gar nicht überall weit draußen Leihräder rumstehen und ich würde bei einer Radtour definitiv mein eigenes fahren wollen als ein klapperndes Leihrad. Das Leihrad sehe ich eher als Teil des Citytickets in einem Fernverkehrsticket, oder für andere einmalige Trips, da aber um so valider.

Damn I could’ve sworn I’ve studied that for 6 years and am an actual mechanical engineer! To be fair I’m not working in automotive anymore but I have trained as an automotive mechatronic before majoring ME.

I’m also wondering what calculations I’m supposed to doubt here, it’s literally a rumoured engine, no specs other than a displacement that could(!) be 8.3L, no emission data, to performance data. I’m just calling out that author’s claim that they made it bigger so it has less emissions. It’s obvious marketing bullshit he’s parroting. They were forced to, among other things, reduce compression due to emission laws and the resulting engine is inevitably less efficient, so they (could!) made it bigger to negate the efficiency losses and still be able to have a new model with more horsepower than the last one, despite having a less efficient ICE, obviously at the cost of fuel economy and all other emissions but nitrogen oxides. Not that it matters to their customers but that’s what it is, and only a marketing department could come up and twist this into something positive they have thought of to tackle emissions. And stop it with this engineers’ calculations bs, this shit isn’t even technical. NOx formation is far more complicated than just being a function of compression, it’s affected by how hot a mixture burns, determined by how gradual and geometrically even the combustion takes place and how much volume of the chamber is utilised or whether it concentrated to a specific region. Cylinder head geometry and injector design and actuation play just as big a role as compression (which really is a beneficial side effect to modern injector design that lead to a more efficient combustion.) They could’ve just reverted all that lean-burn technology (obviously not lean-burn for a Diesel but it’s the same philosophy) and sold the car with slightly less NOx emissions, but that’s not what this is about. It’s about marketing not being happy about an engine with less horsepower, so they let them build it with more displacement and made up a story of how they made it bigger so it could emit less NOx. They know dense people will buy that.

It would be next to impossible to get 4.5MW from the line to the motor using a third rail or something.

Most modern electric locos and EMUs are 6 MW and up on European 15 or 25 kV AC systems. 8-9 MW is very typical for higher end locos and the BR412 EMU in its longest configuration (for an example of the maximum I can think of) can pull 11.55 MW temporarily, and all of that is from one pantograph. Doing cargo with electric locos is only impossible in NA because… well, because you can’t, because there is no elecrification. Every single corner to has been cut to save every imaginable cost. It’s not like you could try and see what’s better, you literally only have old-school diesel tech.

If you read the article, you would see that

if you believe the entirely baseless claim in that article, …

There you go.

Zum Inkrafttreten fehlten nur die Stimmen des grün regierten Landes Baden-Württemberg.

Wahnsinn.

And the biggest issue is if its even doable.

Right we all didn’t think of that, in that case let’s just keep on overexploiting our finite resources and generate as much short term shareholder value as possible, because we don’t know whether a sustainable approach would even fix some things that are possibly already beyond fixing due to overexploitation and generating short term value in the past.

My personal opinion on ‘fuck tons of products for issues I never knew existed’ is that also a fuck ton is for issues that don’t exist at all, or for issues that were specifically invented for the product to fix.

Loads of jobs would be fun like this, if you ignore there is fierce competition leading to loads of scheduling pressure, bad pay, no benefits, existential fears, health implications…

I guess those professions really would be nice if you’re already set for life and just do it for fun, taking only the best jobs, only doing it for 6-8 hours a day max and have days off… generally not giving too much of a fuck.

Those apps purposely don’t make it trivial to download the files do they? You probably could but someone who swipes Tiktok all day can not.

It isn’t just a question, it’s straight up loaded with implications, most blatant one being to specifically stress ‘adults’ twice, as if it wasn’t a question to you if it were children.

People watch people playing sports, telling jokes or funny stories, acting drama, dancing… playing games fits that list so seamlessly that I can’t help but wonder wtf is wrong with someone asking why people would do it. It’s blatantly obvious loads of people like watching something they find cool and isn’t too mentally engaging, to wind down.