We also have those Christian holidays in France, and fête de la musique is just one evening, not a holiday. But it is on the longest daylight day of the year, so that’s nice.

I mean that’s fair : value is relative.

The main value of Nebula is no ads. I have YouTube on Firefox with uBlock Origin, so no ads either, but shitty performance due to YouTube fighting the AdBlocker. But more importantly I don’t think the ability to watch YouTube with no ads is a given, so I want to have a viable alternative.

And secondly, I want to support the creators and a platform that sees me as a customer, not as a data-cow to be milked.

I’m sure Nebula will eventually have a free tier, but that can incur high costs and degrade the experience for paying users. They’ll do it when they feel comfortable.

It’s not for everyone, but I think it’s reasonable to pay for a platform that pays its content creators fairly. I spend a lot of things watching videos, and even though my income is limited, some kind of payment for the service makes sense.

I don’t mind blocking ads on YouTube because they used unfair practices (endless resources from Google) to destroy the competition and become the only video provider. They put us in a corner and deserve to be put in one too.

There’s a ton of content that’s much longer. There’s no 8-minute limitation.

Nebula’s getting better and I spend more time there now than on YouTube. Happy that YouTube is working hard to encourage this transition.

SUVs typically have less cargo space than SWs

An electric SUV is the stupidest thing. They have shit range. There’s an electric SW from Nio with 1000 km of range.

Call it American Party X and we have a deal.

A lot of these arguments are not logical.

Yes you can have large PHEVs, but the trend for bigger stupider cars is independent of power source. You can get a PHEV Renault Clio and it’s 20% lighter than the smaller electric Renault 5. And uses 80% less precious minerals because you have a smaller battery.

The gas engine needs maintenance of course, but you do use it much less than the electric motor, requiring much less maintenance than a normal car.

The fact that people buy PHEVs for the tax incentives and use them as gas vehicles is stupid and annoying, but that’s not a fault in the technology itself.

It just fully depends on the driver. A PHEV which the driver does not recharge is just a heavier HEV.

But if you have less than 70km to drive every day and have a home charger, there’s barely ever any reason to use gas.

The issue is that many PHEV owners only get one because it allows them to get around regulations for driving in city centers, so they just use the cars as gasoline powered cars.

Plug-in hybrids are ideal. They get the cleanliness and efficiency of regen breaking, the efficiency of an electric motor, with the much smaller footprint of a battery 15% the weight of an ev battery. They effectively suppress range anxiety while still heavily incentivizing electricity use instead of gasoline. And when they do run on gasoline in exceptional circumstances, they are running more efficiently than conventional gas cars.

Eurotunnel was not state owned. Yes it can technically go bankrupt, but it won’t.

Well Eurostar is a state owned company. It can’t go bankrupt. But if it starts losing a lot of money, it can be scaled down.

Not at all, corporatism is a system where interest groups have a high amount of power : guilds, syndicates, unions, etc…

Capitalism literally refers to pooling capital together from multiple sources to allow shared risk taking and allow for the creation of companies that can get bigger by having more than one owner.

This eventually leads the way for pension funds and multinational corporations whose sole purpose is to extract maximum value for pensioners and billionaires.

That’s not the definition or foundation of capitalism, it’s the definition of a market economy.

The foundation of capitalism is a system where investors can pool small amounts of money together on big projects, to share risk and reward. Historically to fund trading ships on their way to the indies.

So it destructures ownership, which has a million ripple effects on the organization and economy.

I mean you need the mustard or it won’t emulsify. 2 parts oil for one part of acid is better imho

I mean yes if we’re actively looking for a suspect in a red Renault Clio. But in this case the dude is dead, whether his car is a Mercedes or a BMW is a ridiculously useless piece of information for an article to give.

Well it’s both. Which tells you something about the French. Organized and intolerant to this kind of shit.

Well if you just manage your money properly, it grows. I would argue it’s better to do that and give you money away rather than not manage your money properly. In the end, more money goes to good causes that way.

If they “stopped” that would mean leaving their money in a bank account sleeping. The only entity benefiting from this would be the bank.

He does actually. https://observer.com/2024/09/bill-gates-bernie-sanders-tax-wealthy/

He and warren are some of the smarter billionaires, they realize having infinite money is not actually very useful.

Not to say there’s any thing good about there being billionaires in the first place, but there is a spectrum.

That’s kind of irrelevant.

Nuclear handles the base power generation. Grid storage is meant to handle peaks. It needs to be cheaper than coal, which is also used for peaks.

Anyway, grid storage is already about 200$ per installed kw with lithium. If sodium gets us to 100$, a 1GW installation comparable to a nuclear plant would cost 100 million. That’s like 150 to 300x cheaper than a nuclear plant. And a plant takes years to build, decades even. A storage facility takes days or weeks.

Of course that does not count energy generation, but grid scale storage basically stores free excess energy from nuclear and renewables. So they actually improve the cost efficiency of nuclear and renewables, they don’t compete with them.