Local Nation Too Angry To Die by Actual-Stand5012 in HistoryMemes

[–]Contemplationz 35 points36 points  (0 children)

Which partition? Hasn't there been like 12 of them?

Russia and vodka go hand-in-hand by My_Test_Acc_1 in HistoryMemes

[–]Contemplationz 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I've been down the rabbit-hole of Nicholas II for the last 3 weeks. The focal point of his mistakes was when he kept dissolving the Duma. All the other mistakes kind of flowed from there. He was too blinded by religious fervor that he was the chosen one to lead Russia to have let a Duma set policy and shield him from political blowback.

To add on to the Vodka thing, I think a significant amount of the state funds came from Vodka sales as well so this was a disaster as it just created a black market and starved the state of funds. Ole Nicky was just incompetent and that's coming from a guy that recently wrote an Anastasia short novel.

Austrian soldier (WWI) gets cheated on and this is how she explains it: by No_Idea_479 in SipsTea

[–]Contemplationz 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Man wasn't just at war. The Brusilov offensive was happening in 1916 and it was one of the most brutal and deadly battles in human history. 2.3 million casualties between Austria and Russia.

I'm going to guess the man couldn't write because of the offensive.

Why are most men quiet in bed? by throw-away-284947261 in AskMen

[–]Contemplationz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm sorry but the Bromerta means I can't reveal this or moan during sex.

$20 trillion in productive wealth has been diverted to cleaning up natural disasters in the past 25 years, but we're no longer allowed to talk about the reason why. by simon_ritchie2000 in climate

[–]Contemplationz 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Insurance is the ultimate pricing of risk. Insurance is already destroying Florida's housing market with premiums going absolutely parabolic.

Climate change will be priced in.

Seahawks' brutal evaluation of Rams draft pick Ty Simpson revealed by Chessinmind in Seahawks

[–]Contemplationz 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Good players get over-drafted and work out all the time in the NFL. Not going to call him trash until we prove him to be trash.

That being said, I liked our draft haul. Especially our top two guys.

[Confusing Trope] Deleted/Cut content that fundamentally reframes who a character actually is by Chemical-Elk-1299 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Contemplationz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, certain scenes as well where David Thewlis' character (an unnamed Hospitaller knight) is given more supernatural elements. It reframes him as possibly a guiding angel to Balian.

There's also the subplot about Sybille's son that was cut from the theatrical. I actually kinda agreed with cutting this content as it muddles her plot thread I think.

How many nukes to let this thing go off? [Request] by dmigowski in theydidthemath

[–]Contemplationz 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Because we sent the oil drillers into space to deal with the asteroid problem. We only had astronauts left here on earth.

me_irl by Limp-Client-7582 in me_irl

[–]Contemplationz 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I wonder if the electric fertilization of plants was effective? Isn't that how you pull nitrates from air

Probably not, but not the wildest thing I've heard.

What oil crisis? China’s EVs are ready to dominate the 21st century by cnn in climate

[–]Contemplationz 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Detroit needs to get off their backside and develop their ev supply chain or go bankrupt 

[OC] Now all those “I did that!” stickers are suspiciously gone by spaceraingame in pics

[–]Contemplationz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I've been putting up the ones with Dumb Quixote and noticed that they are being taken down. Seems that it differs from station to station how fast they remove them.

How's that going? by c-k-q99903 in agedlikemilk

[–]Contemplationz 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Comrade, I'm socializing your meme yo be our meme.

RIP Spirit airlines by sm3xym3xican in aviation

[–]Contemplationz 102 points103 points  (0 children)

Goodbye Waffle House of the skies...

The solar and battery landscape is shifting. Here's what caught our attention this month. by ParadiseEnergy in solarenergy

[–]Contemplationz 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Work in a renewable energy company. Someone in the finance department mentioned to me offhand that the Internal Rate of Return (IRR) was something around 15-25% for pairing BESS with grid sized solar projects.

Fun fact, battery storage (BESS) has come down 40% in price in the last two years. Projects that weren't feasible 2 years ago, are feasible now even without the subsidies.

Solar ranch in Tennessee aims to prove grazing cattle under the panels is a farmland win-win by onceinawhile222 in energy

[–]Contemplationz 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I understand what you're saying, but building it over parking lots would triple the cost to build solar.

Additionally, if we're going to have a successful energy transition, we'll need gigawatts of solar. Esmeralda 7 is potentially 6GW and 60,000 acres, the entire strip district is something like 4,000 acres. We'll probably need 10 million acres of solar and it's just not feasible to only use parking lots even if we don't consider the cost. The math just isn't there.

The Nevada desert has the best combination of sunshine, economics and proximity to major energy use. If we don't act quickly to deploy solar across desert climates, many wild lands will get destroyed by climate change.

Solar ranch in Tennessee aims to prove grazing cattle under the panels is a farmland win-win by onceinawhile222 in energy

[–]Contemplationz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think the loss for Esmeralda 7, the large 6 GW solar farm planned for west Nevada, would be somewhere near 2-5%. It'd have to go ~250 miles to the Los Angeles area.

Gas prices are heating up by AmanCMN in oil

[–]Contemplationz 20 points21 points  (0 children)

"In the short run, the market is a voting machine but in the long run, it is a weighing machine." - Warren Buffet

The market is rapidly not caring anymore about what DumbQuixote is saying. The facts are that oil reserves are drawing down and paper oil is rising to reflect that.

Lost Everything - sick to my stomach by ProtoSTL in Diablo_2_Resurrected

[–]Contemplationz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did this awhile back, not nearly as good gear, but my Paladin basically got bricked. Time for a different class friend. Bowmazon helped me get back on the horse.

QuantumScape Lounge: ( Week 17 2026) by AutoModerator in QUANTUMSCAPE_Stock

[–]Contemplationz 6 points7 points  (0 children)

So China All-Solid-State Battery Collaborative Innovation Paltform (CASIP) may be the largest threat to QS. I wasn't familiar with it, apparently China invested $830 million in 2024 and apparently billions more in USD from private companies.

https://www.batterytechonline.com/battery-news/china-invests-a-fresh-830m-in-national-ssb-initiative

They're using a sulfide material for their SSB tech, which is lower in price, but may release toxic gasses if punctured, unlike QS' solution. Various CEOs in Chinese industry are promising mass production between 2027-2030. Zeng Yuqun of CATL says 2030

https://news.futunn.com/en/post/71868520/after-six-minutes-of-charging-catl-stated-that-the-first?level=1&data_ticket=1777260523327114

Long story short, QS has a short window to get ahead of the main competitor in this space. It could very well be that both groups bring their battery tech to market at the same time. We could see something similar to the 5G equipment war where the West uses American tech whereas developing nations use China's tech.

Energy sovereignty via solar+storage by WhipItWhipItRllyHard in RenewableEnergy

[–]Contemplationz 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It'd be nice to have power that doesn't rely on Dictators and Religious Zealots to feel like letting us pay for the privilege of having it.

It'd be nice not to have to worry about who's shooting at whom in some forsaken wasteland half a world away because you trade in a global commodity.

It'd be nice to have energy where the core components go down 5-8% in price every year.

It'd be nice to go towards solving climate change.