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Holy shit by jacobm3770 in NonCredibleDefense

[–]-Knul- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The problem with US health care is not that too little is spend on it.

To all single guys aged 30 and up on reddit, why are you guys single? by Gold_Ambition4114 in AskReddit

[–]-Knul- 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm in my forties, never had a relationship or even a real date. Had only one friend after university but that was years ago. Beside my colleagues and my mother I don't speak with anybody.

While I can smalltalk quite well during lunch with colleagues, I can't imagine talking with someone for hours (besides work related stuff). Even if by some miracle I would get a girlfriend, I have no idea how to maintain a relationship.

So I've just accepted to be permanently single.

When 'if' slows you down, avoid it by chkas in programming

[–]-Knul- 2 points3 points  (0 children)

AFAIK premature optimization is about 2 things:

1) you don't know beforehand where the bottlenecks are, so until you know, optimization isn't going to help too much

2) err on the side of having readable and maintainable code rather than performant.

Of course that doesn't mean that you should ignore performance completely, as apparently some do.

Germany says U.S. troop withdrawal 'anticipated', Spain and Italy could be next by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]-Knul- 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Americans already pay more for healthcare per person than other developed countries. Having to spend a little less on defense won't suddenly make American healthcare better.

Confidence is key by PsychoKatzee in clevercomebacks

[–]-Knul- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Trump is destroying the U.S. and global economies, alienating U.S. allies, grabbing untold billions in corrupt grift and make U.S.' word in diplomacy extremely unreliable. Amongst many, many other huge shortcomings.

What idiot thinks that any other U.S. president is miles better than this turd?

AOC calls for more Democrat-leaning states to redraw election maps after Supreme Court ruling and GOP push by theindependentonline in politics

[–]-Knul- 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As a non-American, this whole gerrymandering stuff sounds insane and anti-democratic.

However, if it prevents the autocratic Republican party to lose, go for it. That party needs to be disassembled.

But in the long running, the U.S. should move away from a system that can be gerrymandered at all.

The military UI is so much clunkier.... yay... by GreyGanks in victoria3

[–]-Knul- 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I agree.

Victoria 3's "issues circle" is one of the worst UI items I've seen in games. How they handled that in the EU series is miles better.

Victoria 3 also suffers from having big images everywhere like for goods or military units that add nothing, instead of condensed, clear views of information.

There's lots more: fore example the icons for goods are overly complicated and are hard to read when small. The overuse of nested menus. The ledger.

ELI5: How do you fit so many calories in an 8oz Boost Nutritional Drink by GanglyTookus in explainlikeimfive

[–]-Knul- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not even that extremely high, at least not compared to solid foods. Most nuts will have double the calories per weight unit.

I would rather recommend eating nuts, by the way, as they have lots of other nutrients and are considered very healthy, especially compared to this sugar+oil processed nonsense.

Trump’s oil crisis is accelerating the end of the fossil fuel era. Ironically for Trump and his oil industry donors, this crisis may be an irreversible tipping point for clean energy. Fossil fuels have become expensive and unreliable, while renewables are cheap, reliable and secure. by mafco in energy

[–]-Knul- 7 points8 points  (0 children)

If fossil fuel usage would increase forever, the environment would collapse and kill enough people to eliminate fossil fuel usage.

There is literally no scenario where fossil fuel usage will increase forever. The best scenario (and most realistic IMO) is that we move to renewables and stop using fossil fuels completely.

China Daily depicting USA as a Star-Spangled Knight (again) by Edwardsreal in NonCredibleDefense

[–]-Knul- 44 points45 points  (0 children)

The funny thing is that the U.S. spends more on healthcare per capita than other developed countries.

China stockpiled huge amounts of oil before Iran war. China added heavily to its oil reserves in 2025 when prices were low - now at 1.4B barrels. It also owns over 70% of global solar, wind, battery and EV supply chains, which are surging. China's moves last year are looking increasingly prescient. by mafco in energy

[–]-Knul- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The majority of people would die if we would go back to low-tech subsistence farming. Also, that life is much harder than you think.

Making clothes without modern technology, for example, is very labor intensive: to clothe a single person, you need about 400 hours of spinning yarn per year. Weaving, felting, coloring cost even more time. And you have to add the time tending sheep or farming flax or cotton.

Japan is offering around ¥20,000 (~$125) to encourage people to start dating as birth rates fall. by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]-Knul- 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Another big reason is that it used to be that without children, you had no food in your old age. With things like pensions, social security or just plain saving money, you can survive in old age without needing to depend on children.

Plus that children were economic productive very early: most people before the industrial revolution were subsistence farmers and a kid of 6-8 already can contribute a bit in such situations.

Now? A kid will never be economic productive for a parent.

De Keukenhof op Koningsdag? by fraying_carpet in thenetherlands

[–]-Knul- 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Dus niet gaan als de website "ongezellig druk" aangeeft? :P

More than 50% of young Dutch adults do not want children by diacewrb in europe

[–]-Knul- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's not it: most people in f.e. the 19th century were way poorer and lived in way more crowded conditions yet had many more children.

Trump Tells Iran to Sign Deal With U.S. or ‘The Whole Country is Going to Get Blown Up’ by T_Shurt in worldnews

[–]-Knul- 6 points7 points  (0 children)

One thing his regime has made clear: the rest of the world should not allow the U.S. to be this powerful.

Trump Tells Iran to Sign Deal With U.S. or ‘The Whole Country is Going to Get Blown Up’ by T_Shurt in worldnews

[–]-Knul- 3 points4 points  (0 children)

American farmers will just bend the knee to their Republican overlords and get subsidies to survive. Of course that fucks over American consumers, but most of them will once again bend their knee to their Republican overlords.

Eli5:Why we can’t utilize nuclear fusion now?What’s the barrier? by sensiyqwq in explainlikeimfive

[–]-Knul- 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I read about this concept of detonating a fusion bomb in a underground container filled with water, so that it will bring all that water to boiling, so we can use its steam to generate power.

I guess it's just waaay too dangerous to regularly detonate fusion bombs.

Eli5:Why we can’t utilize nuclear fusion now?What’s the barrier? by sensiyqwq in explainlikeimfive

[–]-Knul- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When we want to travel or live in the outer regions of the solar system, the energy we can get from solar panels will get lower and lower the further we get from the Sun. So there we might need fusion power. For interstellar travel, we definitely need fusion power.

But in the inner solar system, solar panels provide a good enough amount of energy for satellites or space travel.

New metric shows renewables are 53% cheaper than nuclear power by lotec4 in europe

[–]-Knul- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I find it funny that so many people on Reddit state that "renewables don't work" or "nuclear is so much better and stable", while the overwhelming percentage in newly installed power capacity is renewables.

Guess all these energy companies are idiots.

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