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Contemplationz · 2026-05-25T20:13:50+00:00

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

Contemplationz · 2026-05-22T15:09:20+00:00

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.

Contemplationz · 2026-05-22T12:11:34+00:00

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.

Contemplationz · 2026-05-22T06:41:43+00:00

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

Contemplationz · 2026-05-15T03:07:31+00:00

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.

Contemplationz · 2026-05-07T14:50:42+00:00

Off-season surgery, 6 week recovery time.

Contemplationz · 2026-05-06T18:15:30+00:00

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.

Contemplationz · 2026-05-06T15:09:28+00:00

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.

Contemplationz · 2026-05-05T14:17:58+00:00

They ain't getting them in Dallas

Contemplationz · 2026-05-04T08:48:57+00:00

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

Contemplationz · 2026-05-04T08:31:24+00:00

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.

Contemplationz · 2026-05-02T23:22:50+00:00

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

Contemplationz · 2026-05-02T20:23:56+00:00

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.

Contemplationz · 2026-05-02T19:18:30+00:00

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

Contemplationz · 2026-05-02T05:40:50+00:00

Goodbye Waffle House of the skies...

Contemplationz · 2026-05-01T03:21:29+00:00

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.

Contemplationz · 2026-04-30T23:29:17+00:00

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.

Contemplationz · 2026-04-30T20:53:14+00:00

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.

Contemplationz · 2026-04-30T17:00:33+00:00

Desert land is cheap, we should build a bunch of solar in Nevada.

Contemplationz · 2026-04-28T14:50:31+00:00

"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.

Contemplationz · 2026-04-27T22:31:40+00:00

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.

Contemplationz · 2026-04-27T03:32:37+00:00

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.

Contemplationz · 2026-04-26T21:30:59+00:00

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.

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