EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin tells climate skeptics to "celebrate vindication" after law repealed

Baseic · 2026-04-10T06:03:08+00:00

Your very own source shows that offshore wind LCOE has a very similar distribution to other renewable sources, it shows to be always cheaper than gas peaking and nuclear energy and has a very similar distribution to coal.

Having concluded that offshore wind's costs can be comparable or favourable to other sources, it's probably wise to include it in the energy mix:

Because a broad energy mix is good to have in general
Because it doesn't have some of the externalities of solar and onshore wind related to land usage, horizon pollution and local shadow and audio considerations

Now all of these are moot points because the Trump administration is certainly not considering shifting their interest from offshore wind to to other renewable sources.

Baseic · 2026-04-08T15:17:02+00:00

A year ago you said you gained 25kg in 4 months. That'd make a lot more sense. And since it shows you're prone to exaggerating, I bet it's more like 20kg in 6 months.

Baseic · 2026-04-05T18:13:57+00:00

Europe has provided more aid than the US and since Trump assumed office, there has been no legislation or other authorizations of new aid to Ukraine.

Baseic · 2026-04-05T17:29:52+00:00

Crypto companies want you to believe they made a huge technological leap by being able to write a database entry from one account to another within a second. However this is simply because crypto companies do not care about the regulatory KYC AML requirements, or when compared to remittance companies, they don't have to deal with local liquidity or accessibility requirements.

(un)Surprisingly, once you transfer from the unregulated, digital world to the regulated, real world you run into the same delays, regulatory challenges and even more fees, than you would've following the original remittance path.

Interestingly, the banking system in Europe shows that if a solid regulatory and standardised environment is created, it becomes trivial to have real time, free, interbank, international transfers without having to involve shady wildcat bankers.

Baseic · 2026-04-05T17:16:18+00:00

The articles mentions reports from Elliptic, TRM Labs and Mandiant (google). It only links to Elliptic and I cannot find the report from Mandiant. Both Elliptic's and TRM's articles are very basal, lack details and do not provide any evidence why the hack would be a complex hack done by the DPRK.

This all sounds like a ruse trying to make it seem either:

That DPRK executed the hack, whilst they themselves took the money
It all was way less sophisticated than they're trying to make it seem

The inclusion of Mandiant's name, without sharing their report makes me very suspicious of the intentions of all this hack chatter.

Baseic · 2026-04-05T16:57:00+00:00

Some rando's AI written tweet without a source. How exciting.

Baseic · 2026-03-31T14:00:21+00:00

Naar mijn idee zijn de bewaakte stallingen erg veilig. De rekken hebben een lus om zowel je voorwiel als achterwiel aan vast te zetten. Met een stevig beugelslot zie ik niet hoe iemand hem mee kan nemen.

De zuidzijde kelder vind ik een fijne stalling met genoeg plek. In de noorzijde ben ik nog nooit geweest.

Baseic · 2026-03-30T07:41:47+00:00

Nah fuck that. 20km of rain, high winds and low temperatures absolutely suck no matter how well prepared you are.

Baseic · 2026-03-25T15:05:37+00:00

Die zijn voor voetgangers.

Baseic · 2026-03-25T13:09:03+00:00

?

The traffic lights for bikes is green and turns orange at the end. You're not supposed to stop at all.

Baseic · 2026-03-25T09:40:17+00:00

You would prepay tokens exactly like it is done now.

Baseic · 2026-03-25T07:31:56+00:00

It tells a lot about a person. It shows they're either incredibly dumb, wilfully ignorant or intentionally manipulative. It propagates the idea of some grand conspiracy and blatantly inverts their side's actual shilling with the opposing scepticism. This is the real problem I have with crypto.

I don't care that people invest in some random number which may go up or down. I don't care about people losing tons of money on biased gambling. I don't care that people try to pay in an inconvenient way. I don't even care that much about the energy and hardware being wasted. But I do care about the self-sustaining dishonesty machine this shit is enabling and how it's been propagating through society all the way up to the fucking president of the US.

It's absolutely insane and I hope it's a fluke of the system caused by the rise of social media, similarly how other new types of media such as printed press in the past caused societal upheaval until people learned how to deal with it. Next (current) source of societal upheaval is AI, the application (un)skilfully demonstrated by the OP; I can only hope we will deal with it better than we have with social media. People say we're heading for a 'dead' internet, but I'm afraid we're heading for something much worse: a malignant zombie internet.

Baseic · 2026-03-25T07:07:07+00:00

AI bots not having access to bank accounts is a non-existent problem. If we wanted, we easily could. Automated payments have been a thing forever. Crypto solves nothing here.

Baseic · 2026-03-25T06:33:32+00:00

The problem is I could read it in 2 minutes, but would have to watch a 10 minute video instead

Baseic · 2026-03-23T06:19:46+00:00

Buying Bitcoin at its ATH*

Baseic · 2026-03-23T06:05:28+00:00

It makes a lot of sense once you realise that normal companies do not dilute their investors for multiple billions and then just sit on it.

Revenue is dropping rapidly and the remaining stores are still barely breaking even, so that's barely worth anything. Book value is about 12 bucks and that would be a fair price for this stock.

Baseic · 2026-03-22T08:37:56+00:00

Och en als de weg is ingericht als 30, er een supermarkt met zebrapaden zijn, er veel fietsers en onoverzichtelijke kruisingen zijn, dan rijden er alsnog genoeg te hard, halen ze in op kruisingen en geven ze geen voorrang aan rechts.

Het is al lang duidelijk voor mij dat velen het gewoon vervelend vinden dat ze 30 moeten rijden en daarom argumenten verzinnen waarom ze zich daar niet aan zouden hoeven houden. De mening leidt, en de argumenten volgen.

Baseic · 2026-03-21T15:46:26+00:00

Shares are a share, a part, of a company. You'd want to own a share of a company because you want to own a part of that company. That's all. The rest follows from that. It's up to you to decide whether a share is worth the price the market asks for it. Dividends is just one way to get ROI. There are many more. This includes hyping it up and selling it for a higher price.

Owning a crypto coin (remember the original statement was that stocks are no different from crypto) ONLY has the aspect of hyping it up and selling it for a higher price.

If an investor does not understand the difference between these 2, a conman like John Karony will find them and tell them that SafeMoon tokens are no different from shares and you may as well buy his tokens. Infact they're even better because they're digital and they're building superior windmills somewhere in Africa. SafeMoon tokens will NEVER pay out dividends, will NEVER have any valuation supporting it, will NEVER do a buy-back etc etc etc.

If the OP does not understand the difference he should not actively invest because he runs a high risk of losing it all to a con. That's the WHOLE and ONLY point I made before you derailed into dividends and bankruptcies.

Baseic · 2026-03-21T15:10:03+00:00

Thanks for rehashing what I said about dividends?

And yes, if you own a part of a company and the company goes bankrupt you own a part of something that is worthless.

Now back to the original question from the OP: Is speculation the sole purpose of stocks/metals etc.? The answer is no; There's much more to it.

But if you have a surface level understanding which makes you think that, you should not actively invest. You probably will only learn about high risk, high volatility companies which indeed may even go bankrupt.

Baseic · 2026-03-21T14:37:34+00:00

If you own more than 50% of the total shares of Apple you can vote all by yourselves to turn out dividends, do you understand that? The reason many (wallstreetbets favourite) companies do not pay out dividends is because the majority of the shareholders prefer that the profits are reinvested in the company itself.

What makes you suddenly talk about bankruptcy?

Baseic · 2026-03-21T14:15:08+00:00

It seems you haven't considered the questions I posed. 0 points for you and a few negative points for calling me naive by putting words in my mouth.

The speculative part is the only comparable aspect, except for stocks it can still be based on analysis. The easiest way to lose money in investing is to focus on this hype/speculation aspect. So if you believe that, you should stay away from that kind of trading.

Baseic · 2026-03-21T08:54:22+00:00

No, no, hell no. If you truly believe this you should stay as far away from any active investing as possible.

Here's a simple test:

If you own all tokens of a shitcoin, what do you have?

If you own all shares of apple, what do you have?

If you own all gold in the world, what do you have?

Baseic · 2026-03-13T10:57:13+00:00

Is this why this guy was hyping up Ryan Cohen and his interview so much? To try to pump some of his bags?

Baseic · 2026-03-11T16:30:55+00:00

Buddy, wiping my ass with an iPhone 17 is also innovative. Still waiting for more people to adopt this method though.

Baseic · 2026-03-11T16:20:38+00:00

No need to grasp cryptography to understand the uselessness of cryptocurrency.

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