matlag

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[–] matlag 2 points 10 hours ago

1.Provide a code that's not the one running

2.Then commit to use the code you provided

3.Change the code back again right after the investigation stops.

With all delays you can legally add to the process, by the time, you've helped electing enough neo-fascists around, who all rely on you, to shut down the whole case.

[–] matlag 2 points 10 hours ago

I really hope the EU will ban it, but I'm afraid they will ask firmly for "some changes", and claim victory over whatever "small change" is in reality. Their investigation took too long and the lead was replaced already. Then they will declare that "recent events and information were not taken in account" and go on for another N years of investigations.

[–] matlag 5 points 1 day ago

No matter what would have happened, he would have blamed someone else and his followers would have listened without any question. He can shoot someone on the 5th avenue and claims it's because of immigrants, his base will repeat "immigrants, immigrants" like a mantra.

[–] matlag 1 points 1 week ago

It's not how much money you're pouring on it. It's not that "it's not working".

Fake news enraging idiots who will vomit their hate all over and get into clashes is the highest earning formula for the business. And in a time where the new ruler of the USA is himself a big fan of hate speeches, while the EU and some other countries are ready to hammer Meta over their poor moderation, it's also a strategic political move.

So the idea is to allow fake news and hate speecher while making big claims about freedom of speech and appeal to MAGA's kindergarden bosses in hope they'll defend him against evil regulators.

That's all it is.

[–] matlag 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't think he even cares. He wants to appeal to MAGA's bosses.

In 4 years, if Dems take back power, he will make a vibrant speech about the need for diversity and to tackle fake news.

[–] matlag 4 points 3 weeks ago

They do. But you need to reduce the generation to make sure you don't heat up too much the water for the ecosystem that lives in. Less water means the temperature difference before and after the plant is higher. That's the constrain.

[–] matlag 3 points 3 weeks ago

Prices capped have nothing to do with nuclear energy and everything to do with stupid EU price policy.

France used to have a monopoly by a state owned company on electrIcity: EDF. But everyone knows that's terrible, and private market is the way to go. At the time, electricity in France was the cheapest across Europe, but it's still terrible because... well that HAD to change!

In order to introduce some competition, generation, network and "distribution" (billing...) activities were separated.

Then private distributors (again: billing companies with 0 generation capabilites and 0 grid network) were allocated some quota of electricity from the nuclear electricity generated by EDF at low cost.

In addition, and that's the European policy: electricity price on the market would be set at the cost of the most expensive generator at a given time. Example: 100% nuclear today: cost is set at cost of nuclear. 95% of electricity from nuclear, 5% from gas: 100% of the electricity that day is billed at cost of gas! 80% nuclear, 15% gas, 5% coal: 100% of the electricity billed at cost of coal!

Why? So that the priate newcomer would get huge benefits and be able to invest in electricity generation. But: there was 0 constrain in doing so, so they just rack up benefits at the expense of EDF and clients! Even better: since they get such low prices from their quota, they're cheaper than the EDF split distributor company. So at some point, their quota was insufficient for their client's demand. Time to invest... hahaha! No I'm kidding: time to ask for a bigger quota, of course granted by Macron and his team.

Then came Ukraine invasion. Uh oooh! Gas price exploses, even the "distributors" start to feel the pain. What to do? Well, kick out their clients! Refure to renew contracts, or ask for such a ridicuously high price to make sure they just go! EDF's hisorical distribution company is legally obligated to take them back. And that's where the 2nd joke kicks in: EDF gave s much quota of nuclear electricity that they no longer have enough for these clients they have to take. No worries: the "distributors" sold back the electricity quota... at market price, ie mostly gas price!

With the price of gas multiplied n times determining the cost of the whole production, it became unbearable for clients. That's where genius Macron and Lemaire (Minister of Economy) set a "shield" (cap) on the bills. It's no shield nor cap. It's actually the state of France paying the difference in the bills between the actual bill and the cap they set. That's public money!

And again, that money didn't go to resources. It went straight to "distributors" (rather call them parasites).

For sure, the heavy maintenance work on the nuclear power plant done at the time didn't help. They decided to do it on all plants at once (another bad call) and it lasted longer than planned.

But the price issue has nothing to do with nuclear and everything to do with stupid policies.

And now, lesson learned (not): Spain and Portugal got out of that absurd elecricity market. Germany and France (and many other countries) made a few changes and keep going. Because competition with multiple private actors in electricity is good. Can't you see it??

[–] matlag 11 points 1 month ago

You should be more undersantding. Since Trump is now enraged because people call Musk the President, Musk needs to find a backup country where he'll be called the leader before Trump kicks him out. That's all just risk mitigation!

[–] matlag 1 points 1 month ago

I was more thinking about the day they take the containers out, and the trucks rotation. If they do it once a week, imagine the smell and how many trucks they need...

[–] matlag 16 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Am I the only one who worries first about trash collection day than pizza delivery (wildly unpopular in China btw)?

[–] matlag 50 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I usually feel so immersed when playing white haired super-ripped giants with magic powers. It's as if they were a second me, except for the hair, size, muscles, facial traits, strength and magic powers.

[–] matlag 4 points 1 month ago

All inventions being based on some previous work, is it not the Wright who invented the airplane, and Lilienthal who invented the glider?

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Reading material for learners? (self.languagelearning)
 

I'm using Duolingo to improve my Mandarin and learn to read, and to learn Spanish.

Does anyone have some recommendations of texts for learners to practice reading?

My wife suggested me to use kids books, but I'd like a more motivating content than teddy bear's adventures...

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Match Madness only (self.duolingo)
 

So it's been a while now since the leaderboard's challenge is Match Madness every day except on Saturday, when it's the Ramp Up.

I don't know if it's just me but that's getting me pretty disengaged. I quickly hit my limit on the Match Madness, then it has no interest to me.

Previously, I would use these challenges on a daily basis, as a way to review past lessons. Damned, I would use them over and over to score high in the leaderboard too.

Now I've completely lost interest in the leaderboard, but worse: I'm wondering if I'm moving back by lack of practice on past lessons vocabulary and grammar.

I don't feel like going through some past lessons and pick some randomly. How do you make sure you do pick randomly?

Am I the only one who thinks that "all Match Madness" thing is a regression?

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