In Netherlands the fixed cost for city based heating is paid by the people who make use of it. That seems fair, but practically it means that it’ll be cheaper for people to arrange their own heating system and rely on electric heating. This because the fixed cost is high. However, if everyone switches to using electricity the city based heating would overall be much cheaper solution than relying on electricity. This as currently loads use a gas solution and there’s a huge cost involved to upgrade the electricity network.

The city based heating variable price is connected to the gas price. So even if city based heating per kWh equivalent would be cheaper, people wouldn’t notice or get the advantage.

As a result, city based heating is very unpopular. Planned projects to switch entire neighbourhoods have been cancelled. Again, logical because people were really upset to pay significantly more despite insulating their entire home.

Seems that in Netherlands they’ll ignore the problem and have the country be less cost effective and upgrade the electricity network for significantly more money.

The Dutch Financial Times did a few articles on above in the last 12 months or so.

Have you had CPR training? What you stated isn’t true. Every second counts. But looking up instructions and seeing a easy video will still help massively.

im qualified enough to know better

Maybe if you make YouTube videos you’d achieve that.

Regarding experts, there’s so many topics where experts are ignored.

I’ve seen pro-life folks

Those people are NOT pro-life. They’re anti-abortion. It would be much better to use the correct term instead of pandering to the idea that it is about saving lives.

Pro life is not the right term. It’s much better to say you’re anti abortion than to pretend it’s about saving lives.

oh you watch videos and it’s hard to concentrate after a while? Welcome to actual driving jobs

Watching videos is comparable to e.g. ATC work. I don’t see driving as comparable. In one you’re actively doing something. In the others you’re only checking for stuff that might go wrong but usually goes ok.

There’s a significant difference in ATC vs the training AI: in ATC work people are swapped out after a few hours and they have regular breaks. While here for that AI the company is pretending it can be done for an 8 hour shift.

I have no doubt that we will likewise see the mental and physical effort of driving as well as the danger of it become as unconscionable as threshing or machine operator work is to us now.

Meh, that’s been said for ages. Currently the reliability of automated driving is often crazily overestimated. Human driving is pretty reliable, especially on highways.

Change for the better is good. But just because there’s a computer involved doesn’t mean it’s already better or that’ll be foolproof.

Only for certain people, likely based upon race. The usual rules for some, not for others.

The rich usually ensure that there are enough gigantic exceptions. And these exceptions often aren’t reported upon.

And maybe he believes the trickle down economy bs.

People are paying way too little attention to this.

The media conveniently ignores it. Loads of media companies are for profit instead of reporting what’s going on. Media is needed in a democracy. Unfortunately media being a business makes them easy to be bought.

There are different type of smoke alarms. Some detect smoke. There are two ways of doing that. Near a kitchen area it’s usually best to get a completely different one that just uses changes in temperature. Though they will only notify you way matter. So highly recommend keeping the existing one and moving that one somewhere else.

Might not be enough. Apparently they have better plans in place to manipulate the voting proces into (incorrectly) declaring Trump and others the winner, even if the votes say something else.

That said, the amount of troubleshooting and wasted time that it took to figure out that the CPU was responsible for months of random crashes

I went through something similar, so I understand.

My (AMD) CPU was defective. But if was only noticeable that it would never be able to wake up from suspend. I didn’t really notice crashes. Just broken suspend. I thought it was a Linux kernel bug, though couldn’t figure out any details. Only after almost a year of pain (no suspend) the CPU just didn’t boot at all anymore.

It was sort of replaced under warranty by the store. They took ages to investigate, then gave a store gift card. Likely because the CPU was temporarily out of stock. I had to wait for the CPU to be in stock to be able to buy it again. Fortunately still had the previous AM4 CPU.

The new CPU suspends without any issues. Took months to be able to not doubt suspend. E.g. if it was suspended I usually thought it had crashed.

An unreliable CPU is a terrible experience.

Read what you wrote again. It is full of contradictions. If it’s for everybody, then why do you want to exclude people? If it is niche, then why suddenly is it full of rich people?

Suggest to lay off following whatever right wing media you’re following. Especially those who blame everything on a small group, trans, drag, women, race, etc.

Your statement screams

…something that’s not similar/equivalent.

McDonald’s is not consistent though. A hamburger can often be flimsy thin. I don’t get why you’d go there. There are enough fast food options with lower prices. McDonald’s is often really terrible.

Renewables are cheaper than coal. And the replacement wasn’t limited to gas and coal. There are articles which explained that there wasn’t a massive increase in e.g. coal usage.

The CNN article article also briefly puts a high figure for coal on energy, which could lead to confusion.

Sky mentioned it over and over during the race. Easier to pretend it’s only this instead of listening to the complaints Max has been making for multiple races.

There’s usually multiple causes of why something happens. But it’s often pretended it’s a singular thing. So the sleeping is pointed to, and then the other causes can be ignored.

Especially as everyone knows that they don’t have the same advantage. Last year it wouldn’t make sense to try and defend a position against Max due to the massive difference in lap times. Currently it might be pretty easy to hold him off.

Does Max start ahead of Perez or behind Perez after the penalty is applied?

Most logically is that Max is still ahead. So I’ll go with behind Perez, because else it would be too damn clear how bad the situation is.

the meltdown from Horner and Marko will be something worth watching.

Aren’t those two divided on which driver their prefer? Also, Horner tried to get rid of Marko, no?

Ocon prefers being faster than his teammates over anything else, so yeah, I’m really wondering how that behaviour and the likely stupid/unneeded incidents reflect on Bearman.