schnokobaer
@schnokobaer@feddit.de
- Comment on Ironing 4 months ago:
Yeah, no need whatsoever to eat cramped too tightly around a table.
- Comment on Netflix to take on Google and Amazon by building its own ad server 6 months ago:
It’s like their password sharing crackdown made people accuse them of being out of touch and they respond like “out of touch? Us?! Lmao, watch this!”
- Comment on I lost mine 6 months ago:
Oh I 100% have one, if not several. I just don’t know the location of a single one.
- Comment on utterly bamboozled 7 months ago:
- Comment on This was the first result on Google 8 months ago:
Licensed Insurance Agent
- Comment on UK starts early trials of World's first pothole preventing robot 8 months ago:
Our cities are too old to be build with cars in mind.
Vast parts of the cities I lived in were completely bulldozed to accommodate cars.
- Comment on Duo out here teaching me the essentials 11 months ago:
That’s the best part, when you meet people of the language you are learning you can say the odd quirky shit from Duolingo and they’ll absolutely love it. What, you are an apple?? A dog is wearing three pullovers?? More relevant for beginners who can say a handful of stuff but can’t yet hold a proper conversation.
It’s not like Duolingo is just randomly generated sentences that make no sense either. They are carefully sprinkled in to break up the routine and make it a bit of fun.
- Comment on iOS 17.2 hints at Apple moving towards letting users sideload apps from outside the App Store 1 year ago:
F-App Store
- Comment on The average car purchased in 2023 emits higher levels of carbon dioxide (CO₂) than its 2013 equivalent. This is due to the large proportion of SUVs in the mix, which tend to be bigger and heavier. 1 year ago:
That’s the whole point, what good would it be to compare equivalent vehicles, when people don’t drive equivalent vehicles? They drive bigger and heavier vehicles on average, negating efficiency gains of newer vehicles.
- Comment on Gen Z is cooking more and shopping less as they struggle to achieve financial success 1 year ago:
That’s obviously what they are trying to get across but they affiliate it with something that isn’t bad at all and people should be doing either way, financially stable or not. It’s kind of a weird argument to say that Gen Z are poor, because it might also mean that they are just consuming more consciously by cooking themselves. There’s clearly ways of telling they are poor without this ambiguity.
- Comment on Bye biiiittttchhhh 1 year ago:
Coming straight from “unless 100% of people abstain 100% I’m not calling it change”-folks. There’s significant shifts in both of these issues. Meat more so, or leading ahead compared to cars, but the fact that some people aren’t going to drop one or either doesn’t change anything about that.
So maybe efforts to reduce the impact of those kinds of things aren’t necessarily wasted.
Not only are they not wasted, they are absolutely necessary. What’s important to understand is, however, that large parts of the negative impact of cars aren’t affected by EVs at all. It’s not just internal combustion engine exhaust pollution, it’s the waste of space, gigatons of asphalt for roads and parking, microplastics from rubber tires driven endless miles by a billion people, traffic congestions and the never-ending demand for another lane to fix them, ““cities”” sprawling out so far that everything is too far to get to by any means other than driving, pedestrian (if such a thing even still exists in your neck of the woods) safety, noise, socioeconomic factors such as the high upkeep costs vs low-income population who are reliant on a car in a car dependant world, …
We have to transition to EVs either way, but it’s not going to fix anything meaningful. And that’s just the neutral outlook, a real danger we’re facing is that through car manufacturers’ greenwashing that is already in full swing, we coax ourselves to a good eco conscience over our no-emissions cars and continue growing the dependency, which would eventually increase the impact. The only real way of reducing the impact is by reducing cars and car dependency where it’s possible. And people are, very slowly, waking up to the fact that this is more often the case than they were led to believe by lobby driven media and politics of the last 60 years.
- Comment on Bye biiiittttchhhh 1 year ago:
Anti-EV? The fuck are you talking about this is anti car dependance.
- Comment on 25 States Agree To Quadruple Number Of Heat Pumps In America 1 year ago:
And what is the problem with a gas hybrid heat pump? It’s an ideal solution for places that get very cold, use the gas furnace for a couple of weeks when it’s below -5 and use the heat pump for many months around that. It’s one of the most efficient ways to use a heat pump as you don’t have to bully it through the coldest part of winter with very bad COPs, you’re only using it when it’s most efficient. And when your heating period is very long, that will only benefit your seasonal COP. So of course it’s more important than a simple furnace, but it will also save loads of energy and redeem itself after 5-10 years.
The best part about this is you already have an AC, aka a heat pump, but you don’t use it for heating?
- Comment on Seamlessly photoshoped 1 year ago:
6 months? In Germany itself 2 weeks of returns is granted by law and most shops do one month, more than that is pretty special here.
- Comment on Nothing says "I'm an accountant" like a big ass ute. 1 year ago:
I always thought a Ute was specifically a normal sized, non-offroad car but with a bed rather than a boot with a lid.
- Comment on Texas could get a 205-mph bullet train zipping between Houston and Dallas 1 year ago:
Rubbish. With around 75-80 dB at 25 meters, high speed trains at 300 kph are about as loud as 6 lane highways, and unlike the highway that is for less than 6 seconds to a stationary observer. A V8 formula one car was ear damagingly loud at more than 130 dB.
- Comment on The most popular Chinese keyboard app which is used by more than 450 million monthly users sends every key typed to Tencent in China. 1 year ago:
Joke’s on them I don’t tap I swipe