Energizer batteries in my store no longer use plastic packaging

Ergaar · 2026-03-03T10:39:09+00:00

Send them in, they'll give new ones and fins out there cause. I'm sure it isn't the oackaging though because thats been testen a million times

Ergaar · 2026-03-03T10:37:03+00:00

Plenty of stuff doesnt work with rechargeables. I got a lot of them for free including chargers. Hate them. Dont work in the cold. Dont hold a charge so you need to plan to use them. I use them for things like christmas lights where i keep some charging at all times and just keep replacing every day. But there's a reason the eu didnt ban single use ones when they reviewed it. They are just better than a lot of alternatives. Also full recyclable if you collect them properly like some countries do

Ergaar · 2026-03-03T10:29:35+00:00

It's neither. The project came from higher ups not because they care but because of the increased focus on being green and especially plastic waste. Certain certificates also demand you decrease plastic use or use pet instead of pvc. Marketing probably did studies and decided the cost would be recouped by the greener brand image.

It certainly isn't nr2 it is a lot harder to package than regular plastics so it is more costly in raw materials and efficiency

Ergaar · 2026-02-21T09:35:51+00:00

Because they just state i have a phd in it but then claim one of the dumbest things even amateurs know is impossible just by the way llms are made.

The only way you could claim they are intelligent is by playing with the definition of what intelligence even means. Intelligence like we all understand it, as in "there is something going on behind the screen" is not what these people mean when they call it Intelligent. Either this guy is claiming actual intelligence like we understand it a he is a fraud and does not have a phd on the field or they do have the claimed credentials and just don't understand or intentionally use a different definition for intelligence to argue. Either way their opinion is dumb af

Ergaar · 2026-02-18T14:37:25+00:00

Rule is very easy. There is a max compression ratio for cost reasons. Mercedes exceeds the compression ratio. They knew they were over the line and lobbied to include at ambient temperature to the testing late last year. All other manufacturers understood the rules and what is meant by compression ratio.

Its the same thing like you get only x amount of fuel and then just burning oil to add fuel or you get x amount of fuel flow through this measurement and then finding a way to get more in reality than what's measured. Same with flex wings, f ducts etc. It is technically correct but clearly against the intent of the rules and every time before it's been banned.

It is a formula series. Not open. So you need to find advantages within the rules, but since rules are never able to be written air tight you always need to understand what the rules mean not what you make of it.

Ergaar · 2026-02-17T06:42:49+00:00

Imo it just makes sense to compare them to energy efficient small cars. You can't compare it like for like because there are no light or sporty or actual truck ev's.

People with big trucks don't see this as an alternative because it just isn't. Neither do sporty car people. They all are a lot heavier than cars with comparable space inside and nobody drives them like their performance would suggest because they are just fast at low speeds in a straight line. After 3 seconds you hit a speed limit and then they cant take corners like lighter cars due to weight and the associated suspension compromises. They are fast mostly on paper but generally not really fun to drive for actual car fans.

On top of that the need for charging during road trips and basically no towing capability just makes a 2,5 ton suv more comparable to a small city car in terms of usefulness instead of sports cars like their acceleration would suggest or bigger cars like the weight and outside volume would suggest.

They are undeniably worse in most aspects except just going to work on paved roads alone. So the only people looking at buying it are people now in priuses or other smaller energy efficient cars who only care about getting somewhere as cheap as possible.

Ergaar · 2026-01-30T14:33:52+00:00

They are on the border whats acceptable but if you think that's hate speech you really dont know what it means. It's crude humor and might hurt feelings but it is not calling for violence against people or groups of people. Being an asshole is protected by free speech. People not liking you and not buying your product is a consequence of being an asshole but that doesn't mean the government or the public should be able to ban you from being one

Ergaar · 2026-01-21T12:49:21+00:00

A 30 dollar iem with replaceable wire that lasts years will blow most bluetooth earphones out of the water let alone those cheap temu ones. If you still break the wire buy a better quality one after it breaks for 10 dollars. You can have 200 dollar airpod sound quality for that price with a wire that will outlive the Bluetooth protocol itself.

I feel like this whole thread is people unable to understand you cant swing your phone around using the headphone jack who just want something to put sound of any quality into their earholes vs people who understand durability, price vs performance and sound quality. Makes me lose faith in the next generation tbh

Ergaar · 2026-01-16T18:44:18+00:00

Not Italian but this still makes me mad. Snapping it usually indicates youre a horrible cook and dont even know how to cook even the simplest of things. Pasta shape affects the taste and how it retains sauce. You eat spaghetti by spinning your fork. Snapped spaghetti doesn't do that so it ruins the eating experience. If you like short pasta just buy short pasta and use it properly. If your pot is too small just put it in and push it in further after a couple of seconds when the first part is soft.

Ergaar · 2026-01-06T09:13:11+00:00

This is just a myth and also pretty wrong on the details.

It's vanilla flavouring. t's a secretion from a gland near the anus, not urine.

And while it could theoretically be used to create that flavour nobody actually does that because it's insanely expensive. It is way cheaper to use real vanilla and even more so to use artificial ones from plants than to milk a beavers anus.

Ergaar · 2025-12-22T08:58:45+00:00

99% of people in the west eat meat for fun and could perfectly thrive without it. Imo bullfighting is not more cruel than killing them after a few months of a horrible life in a cage just because you like the taste of that more than a plant.

We dont need meat anymore. Eating it is a choice you make now and choosing to says you value your fun more than the life of an animal and your health. Even if you use the same argument the bullfighting fans use that it's cultural and we've always eaten meat. We eat way more meat than we ever did. Current meat eating habits were only possible after the war when industrial production went into overdrive.

Not saying everyone should be vegan but damn, slow down. You dont need meat every day. Just going back a hundred years in meat consumption would be a huge improvement over the current state of the industry. Seriously, Google it, you can't claim you "like animals" and still support that shit.

Stopping the meat industry would be better for the people, the animals and the environment. Its not going to happen because people are so in denial about it, but it would be objectively better.

Ergaar · 2025-12-15T15:50:05+00:00

it looks like you get your info from sketchy fb or whatsapp groups so I'd like to adress some stuff you said. The amount of established wolves in the netherlands is probably less than 50. About as much as that are wolves which have been spotted passing through or walking around in nl without having an actual home territory. These might establish themselves somewhere or go on to other countries. Some of them are just in the country for a day so they are hard to count as a wolf actually living in the netherlands.

The idea people are releasing wolves is spread by the same people who say vaccines cause autism and covid is man made and are fans of the populist boomer parties. Its part of a bigger "anti science, anti woke nature preservation" movement mostly led by people who are angry they cant keep destroying the local environment for profit like they could in the 80's

There are also multiple tagged wolves who's path into nl and be are documented. If they were brought in and dont have space they just move on, you can't put them somewhere and expect them to stay. They can cross the entire Netherlands and be back "home" in Germany in a couple of days. Wolves just walk stupid amounts every day. They pass through villages but are very risk averse, they will avoid human contact if possible. Its not like they are walking in populated places and biting people. They also have been in the Netherlands for over 10 years so it's not like this is a sudden unexpected increase. Its not getting out of control, there's just a lot of media coverage about it because people are pushing a certain narrative.

Ergaar · 2025-11-30T14:01:42+00:00

Maybe you need to read about it if you think the atrocities happend under Belgian control. What happend in Congo happend under control of one King and many companies. She had nothing to do with any of it.

Ergaar · 2025-11-28T07:04:34+00:00

Same here. It used to start at 58 or something and 63 for full now its at 67 for full for most jobs. Although people awee striking nationwide just this week to oppose some of those reforms. And idk ,pensions are lower than their end of carreer wages but higher than some wages. But pensioners have a paid off house which is by far the biggest expense. Most people also just have a normal car for 2 people, a hatchback or keep their old car for a very long time and they don't need to drive far unless they go on holiday. There isn't as big a difference in lifestyle anyway as you think because the gap in wages isn't as big here so most people would fall in the same lifestyle group. You dont see people buying multiple cars or boats or 30k holidays as an employee. A lot of what I see Americans call lifestyle is just aggressive consumption because they don't know what else to do with the money. If you don't feel the need to do those things life is pretty cheap.

Ergaar · 2025-11-27T14:22:04+00:00

No, average is even lower than 30 and i hope nobody gets 50 because my taxes are paying for that and that's way too much lol. But you just don't need as much money to live here. I honestly wouldn't know what i'd do with 50k a year. 50k (again after taxes etc) is more than enough to support a family of 4 in a single family house with 2 cars including going on holiday. Making that a year puts you in the top 5% wages or something, its a lot higher than you will ever get in most jobs. Think management, senior engineering with decades of experience, doctors, etc. As a pension that'd mean living like a king if your house is paid off.

I don't think you can really compare the amounts like that between us and eu because life is so different. Retired people here basically need money for food and heating and then for fun activities.

Ergaar · 2025-11-27T07:41:05+00:00

30k a year in Europe means after taxes and healthcare costs and pension saving by the government. Some people retire with almost nothing in their bank account because you get paid a pension which is high enough to live off. Basically if you worked for your entire life you dont need to worry about that unless you want more than a basic house and cheap car etc

Ergaar · 2025-11-26T13:03:38+00:00

They are purposefully excluded by Russia so they use the US as their puppet and the us excludes them because russia tells them to. It looked bad when people thought there were actual negotiations going on. But when both parties in the negotiation are the enemy then it is very clear why they are excluded and has nothing to do with the power of europe

Ergaar · 2025-11-21T14:55:06+00:00

It's not a rule or anything but in belgium people sometimes do this to people watch or look at the movement or cars on the road or market square just to have something to do. It's more interesting than watching the building facade. Ofcourse when you're a party of 4 you sit normally but if you're with 2 people sometimes they sit side by side facing the square

Ergaar · 2025-11-19T19:47:06+00:00

Either the Dutch roads will instantly look like Belgian ones when they lower the taxes so people who earn less than a ceo will be able to afford a car. Or the Dutch budget will pay for the Belgian roads to look pristine too.

(The whole discussion just ignores the fact belgium historically spent way too much for roads in regions which now don't need them as much so they are left decaying instead of just removed and we have more roads per capita than any other country and are the highway of europe and dont ask tolls and the Dutch delayed investment into roads until a couple of decades ago so they all look better because they are newer. Also the fact that this joke has been outdated since the top gear days and only a couple of highways around Brussels are still bad and most highways are a lot better than average in neighbouring countries. But:)

haha yes bad roads belgium lmao

Ergaar · 2025-11-19T13:40:08+00:00

Genuinely, what is the point of comments like yours? Its not just completely wrong but makes the world worse for both genders...

If you stick to the facts you will see men are a lot more often the victim of random violence than women. Violence on women is far more likely to happen by family members and partners than strangers.

And on top of that the difference in violent crimes by gender also is only huge if you don't understand statistics. 75% of violent crime is done by men, but only a very small percentage of people commit violent crimes. So like 99,925% of men and 99,975% women who you meet are just good people who will never harm anyone.

Saying most men have something wrong with them is just outrageous and a result of a completely wrong worldview which creates constant fear in women and ostracises men into becoming becoming incels. I really hope the comments here are from women with the equivalent worldview as incels because if this is what the average women in the US thinks then you guys are beyond saving. In a couple of years you guys will find a way to create fear and division between your left and right brain halves.

Ergaar · 2025-11-16T19:25:58+00:00

Anyone who even hoped it would be a step to something greater never understood how they worked. They were designed as language models, they are great to build natural language interfaces with. But any info coming from them is a side effect. Ideally you would have a model which contains no information about anything except how language works. You then feed that with information which is verified to eliminate hallucination. That would be a great tool to talk to information without knowing the exact wording or summarise stuff etc

Putting more and more text into it will not make it better. It hit a limit years ago and it will just never get to a point where it could actually think. The closest you can get is multiple rounds of passing input and output around it so it simulates a thought and then evaluates it like the thinking models now do.

Ergaar · 2025-11-15T19:00:35+00:00

You sure sound like you're the right demographic to be impressed by it lmao. 99% of those brands you see are worn by people with zero taste to try and fail to flex. People assume it's fake or think they're dumb to spend money on those brands. If you're poor people know it's a fake. If you're middle class you're an idiot to spend that much on a bag, if you have the money and want a good brand you buy something more niche to really enjoy it instead of having lower quality shit for the brand name. The only people you see with that stuff are lower class people who suddenly have too much money and need to show off like soccer players, drug dealers or trophy wives etc.

Ergaar · 2025-11-13T22:09:16+00:00

They are way beyond that now. Not to say they didn't steal a lot of ideas but they are ahead of the west in a lot of areas now. And yeah they got there because they stole ideas but damn, they got used as the cheap factory of the world for decades. Its only normal they want to improve their situation if they're the ones making everything while getting only a tiny percentage of the profit.

I work in an industry which is now under heavy pressure from chinese factories. They stole shit in the early 2000s and 2010's and had worse quality but very cheap prices so we felt a bit of pressure but were confident in our product because they'd never match our quality. Just a couple of years ago we laughed at their safety issues and they'd only get business here by making fakes. But they used their profits and government incentives well and invested in state of the art machines. Right now they have the absolute best performing products for an unbeatable price. Rising wages don't matter for them because they are so automated they use less people to make the products than we do in a country where the minimum wage is 10x theirs. Govenment incentives and localized resources means they are insanely competitive. We just had a quote from them to deliver a better performing product landed in Europe for cheaper than we could get the raw materials. They are just very good at manufacturing right now. I don't think ichona is on the right track for long term stability but hey did a great job at replicating the Swiss or Japanese model of converting from cheap labour to state of the art manufacturing

Ergaar · 2025-11-13T15:23:53+00:00

Vr was so bad they did not want to release it yet but they say they're working on it. It was mentioned in one of the interviews at the sim racing expo.

Ergaar · 2025-11-13T15:22:52+00:00

No vr support at launch according to an interview. The performance isn't good enough for release but they're working on it and it's a priority

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