schnokobaer

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.

That's even better than all cars being EVs.

Rare W

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.

I'm looking at unadulterated communism here and I hate it! Remove the green and the tracks and let honest working people park their lifted F 350 to go grocery shopping and bring little Braendin to school!

I’m not a Swiftie

when Midnights held all ten of the Billboard top 10 slots, and people were talking about it, I decided to listen to it

music isn’t amazing or anything but her lyrics are

resonated with me

a man in my thirties

still listen to some of the songs on it on occasion

Are you me?? Like I genuinely could've written this drunk and forgot. That's literally exactly what I did with that album and how I feel about it.

I listened to it several times for a month even, so much that I got a good chuckle when Spotify informed me in the yearly review that Taylor Swift was my most played artist in 22, which is admittedly easy when all you hear normally is radio stations and playlists with various artists. Still, hilarious to see her on top of my usual metalcore bands.

Some lyrics still randomly pop into my mind these days and then I have that song stuck in my head for a while. I then sometimes put it on while cooking. It's fun music to sing loudly and awkwardly to when you are alone, lol.

Very little space to do it differently I suppose

That's probably what they're trying to do. The better their quality management is the closer to consistently packing -1.95% they'll be.

-2% is probably allowed and this is -1.95%. It's okay I guess. I'd probably trust my cheap, regularly used and never calibrated kitchen scale less than I would trust these companies to comply with such rules.