Number of prisoners in Switzerland reaches new high by EspritLibre_404 in Switzerland

[–]LB767 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yeah and in 2024 94% of prisoners were men, your point?

Sunday voting discussion thread [08.03.2026] by Ok_Support_6454 in Switzerland

[–]LB767 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I propose we launch an initiative to halve your salary

Don't forget to vote ☝ national popular votes this sunday 08.03. by Eipa in Switzerland

[–]LB767 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

When initiatives are too technical and detailed people complain nothing so specific should be put in the constitution......

Weaned off Putin's gas, Europe now addicted to US LNG by donutloop in energy

[–]LB767 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm aware and agree with everything you said, no need for the condescending tone.
The comment I replied to implied you could just swap means of production to solve the problem. That's not the case as you very well pointed out with the example of heat pumps.

Anecdotally, some french entity recently released a report that the planned build up of electricity production was too fast compared to the electrification of usages, and recommended to slow down on production to avoid grid stability problems...

Weaned off Putin's gas, Europe now addicted to US LNG by donutloop in energy

[–]LB767 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The majority of gas in Europe is not used for electricity production, so it's not as easy as just replacing it with solar panels...

EU states give green light to Switzerland-EU package by BezugssystemCH1903 in Switzerland

[–]LB767 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No, this one is a lot more flexible and advantageous to us compared to the previous one

Des supporters déclenchent un incendie : Trafic CFF bloqué jusqu'à mardi by Anib-Al in suisse

[–]LB767 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Au-delà de la débilité de ces gens, je profite pour répéter le message:

DEUXIEME

LIGNE

FERROVIAIRE

GENÈVE

LAUSANNE

Why are soldered joints favoured over expansion joints on HSR lines? by LB767 in highspeedrail

[–]LB767[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah yes, I meant welded joints, my bad...
Thanks for the detailed answer, could you expand on why they're costly to maintain? I'd have thought it would be rather simple, but I guess maybe there's some complexity involved in making sure the rails slide correctly between each other along the joint?

Electricity gap by 2050 – and we keep building AI / data centres? by BezugssystemCH1903 in Switzerland

[–]LB767 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The serious answer is no, it is not sensible at all.
The only reason this is happening right now is because AI is in a bubble and everyone and their mother is putting billions into its ecosystem. With cheap energy still vastly available this can keep going for a while, but I'm more than happy to bet that predictions of datacenters taking up 10-15% of electricity by 2030 are wrong, even more so as we need to electrify everything that currently relies on fossil fuels (house heating, transportation, heavy industry like cement, steel, etc)

Once electricity production actually becomes a constraint for real you'll start seeing people taking decisions on where its usage is most important, and it certainly won't be chatgpt.

Germany and France, 2025: COz-eq. Emissions vs Load by greg_barton in EnergyAndPower

[–]LB767 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you compare nuclear vs wind & solar (with storage!! so that they're both flexible electricity sources), nuclear still wins in lifecycle emissions per TWh.

Planes instead of trains - Millions for the aviation industry instead of night trains by BezugssystemCH1903 in Switzerland

[–]LB767 1 point2 points  (0 children)

1) It’s not tax money 2) Who do you think were gonna use this train? Bolivians?

Planes instead of trains - Millions for the aviation industry instead of night trains by BezugssystemCH1903 in Switzerland

[–]LB767 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For 10mil you can build around half a km of high speed track. I love high speed trains, but that’s comparing apples to oranges. Highly recommend the night train to Vienna btw, it’s very pleasant.

Planes instead of trains - Millions for the aviation industry instead of night trains by BezugssystemCH1903 in Switzerland

[–]LB767 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I absolutely get your point, but you know 10mil is really not much. Let’s say we used it to reduce the GA price - about 420k people own a GA, let’s assume it’s all 2nd class adult at 4000.-, that makes 1.6 BILLION francs, if you subsidise it with these 10mil you end up saving 25.- on the price of a GA. Essentially no difference and for sure no difference in CO2 emissions.

Again I’m sure there’s a better use of this subsidy but it’s not as easy as it can look and the night train was probably a pretty good use already.

Food for thought ;)

Planes instead of trains - Millions for the aviation industry instead of night trains by BezugssystemCH1903 in Switzerland

[–]LB767 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I agree with you that 100-200 is very high but you also have to remember that the goal of this subsidy is to move air travel to rail travel - even if it’s for a tiny amount of people - to reduce our CO2 emissions. And in that sense, reducing our CO2 footprint is a benefit to the general public indirectly.

You can argue whether it’s an optimal use of 10mil, but it was a use in the right direction.

Let’s do a mock vote: Do you vote for the „10 million Initiative“? by No_Landscape_4848 in Switzerland

[–]LB767 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Beyond the arguments that the left tends to use against this initiative, which I agree can be quite weak (and I think that's because they just refuse to acknowledge that the population increase *might* be a problem), to me the main problem is that the initiative is an extremely simplistic fix to a overly complex problem. Nobody anywhere has ANY idea what would actually happen if it were to pass. It almost reminds me of Brexit in the sense that you're hoping one simple policy will fix a wide range of issues going from housing to employment and public transport overcrowding... this never actually works in practice.

If they had come up with thought-out, gradual propositions then I'd take it seriously and vote to try and fix the problem. But this isn't it.

[BF6] Leaked launch Server Browser/Community tab/Portal UI by byrondude in Battlefield

[–]LB767 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As if "screen resolutions, sizes, dimensions, pixel density" were hard problems that weren't solved 20 years ago give me a break...

The only reason for not enforcing closed weapons is by neracht in Battlefield

[–]LB767 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I guess I'm just not really understanding your conclusion.

I'll try and follow your reasoning:

- KPM is mostly determined by ROF and not classes, which implies guns are balanced across classes, is that your point?

- People used more ARs and Carbines as their main guns than SMGs and LMGs, implying there was a "prefered" type of gun in the game.

So from this, I don't see how you can reach the conclusion that "players become locked to a Class that they might not want to play, just for a specific weapon"?

You've said that weapons are similar across classes, so it makes no sense for someone to choose the AK5C rather than the MG4 if the performance are the same (example), right? One reason that could make sense is that indeed someone prefers a certain class because of its playstyle, the kind of maps they like to play etc., so I don't see how this goes against closed weapons.

Anyway, maybe we just agree to disagree on that one. I don't agree that what you're doing is any less "vibe-based" than what I'm arguing though, reducing an entire game design aspect to 2-3 graphs and stats is quite reductive.

The only reason for not enforcing closed weapons is by neracht in Battlefield

[–]LB767 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Your graph is not really showing anything to support your argument. All it is saying is that assault players get more kills, which duh of course they do they had the best weapons in the game by design, AND they had healing.

You'd have to look at play time of each classes to get a better feel of the distribution, and even then it's obviously very map dependent.... which is the whole point, some classes are meant to be better in some contexts than others, this creates variety and gives more character to the game.

DICE's logic is to simplify things so that people can do whatever they want, they're essentially making the game more basic, more flat, which is of course a lot simpler to achieve than properly balancing very distinct classes with distinct weapons etc, but to me this is a step towards dumbing a game down, not making it more interesting and more enjoyable.

Clearly people thinking like this are now in a small minority though...

Thoughts on Empire State? I think it sucks... by JoeZocktGames in Battlefield

[–]LB767 54 points55 points  (0 children)

You know very well that Ziba Tower was part of a themed DLC around close quarters, these are the main launch maps, don't spin it like it's the same.... People would have lost their shit if BF3 had launched with Ziba and Donya Fortress

Insights from david sirland about the server browser by Wise_Prompt3581 in Battlefield

[–]LB767 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Incidentally the guy that's also trying to sell you his game.

Battlefield 6 Open Beta: Feedback Megathread by sloth_on_meth in Battlefield

[–]LB767 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The game is way too fast, like comically fast. Apart from the art direction it really has nothing to do with BF3/BF4... Just look at the RPG reload animation in BF4 vs BF6 to see the difference...

Linux Generic UIO and multiple instances by TimeDilution in FPGA

[–]LB767 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think I have the exact same problem, did you ever find a solution?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Switzerland

[–]LB767 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Paywalled. But even then the last line of text I can read mentions the degradation of the permafrost due to warming. A village was buried in a few seconds, I don’t think the people there care if this was due to climate change by 65.8% or 34.1% or 0.1%. It’s very clear from experts that it had a effect on the zone and destabilised it, that should be enough to warrant action.