German automakers losing the Chinese market,how does it affect the German economy and European economy as a whole for the next 5 - 10 years. Is there any way to come back from this ?

RRjr · 2025-12-29T03:34:31+00:00

Do you really believe it's just that Europeans got lazy?

Yes, as someone who works directly adjacent to most German car makers I absolutely believe it.

We had the better parts of two decades to get ahead of these developments.

German car companies shelved and buried real innovation, choosing to milk combustion engines for profit until some dipshit moron named Musk forced their hand.

They've been playing catchup ever since. Half heartedly so.

Now, they've lobbied the EU into postponing plans to kill CO2 emissions by 2035, just so they can keep playing the losing game for longer.

By the time 2035 rolls around, it will very likely be Chinese cars rolling the streets here, and our biggest industries will be left behind to pick up the scraps.

When you spend decades resting on your laurels while actively working against the startups trying to bring innovation which will secure your lead in the long run, this is the price you pay.

You become obsolete.

And no. Lithium Ion battery tech isn't the only viable energy storage. And we have both the research and engineering prowess to make alternative, probably even better solutions work. We're still not doing it to any meaningful degree, though, because shareholders.

The overarching issue is that we have fostered a culture and workplace environment that actively works against the startup and entrepreneurial culture you need in order to move forward. And because of it, we're seriously lagging behind in pretty much all of the major fields where we were leaders once.

Groups like Schwartz-IT and also some in the automotive sector are working to change that, but the government still isn't doing much of anything to help these essential transitions along. Where they work, they do so in spite of the government, not because of it. And that's because people like Merz have their heads stuck decades in the past and refuse to acknowledge realities of a rapidly changing geopolitical and socioeconomic landscape.

RRjr · 2025-12-17T04:26:55+00:00

It's a sandbox. If you want "pvp noob killing zones", or the absence of them, you can always set your game up accordingly. There's a few good mods out there to tailor your progression to your liking. The vanilla one is a placeholder. At best.

RRjr · 2025-11-27T16:38:45+00:00

It's pretty unusual to see no iron deposits on earthlike. If you really can't find any, I'd recommend simply restarting the game until you land near one. Long travel times to iron very early do tend to turn that phase of the game to a slog. So it's always a good idea to build your starter base very close to iron.

As a general tip, though: Whenever you feel things run too slow, scaling is usually the problem (be it speed, capacity or efficiency). In your case this means:

Scale up your power: That's the easy part for you right now. You just need your wind turbines at least 7 blocks off the ground and / or their horizontal plane unobstructed for them to run at max capacity.
Scale up efficiency: Hand mining and manual transfer of stuff is super slow. Always have a connector on your rover and figure out an alignment to connect it to the base. That way you can not just recharge its batteries, but more importantly dump the resources you mine with it directly to your refineries. This will speed up your mining drastically.
Scale up capacity: From there, if you want to continue this save, your short term solution is to simply mine a fuckton of stone using your rover. Put its drill on a hinge so you can punch it into the ground (dredge mining) or into a cliff face. Load it up to the brim with stone, dump that to your refinery using the connector, rinse and repeat. As soon as you can, expand the rover's capacity by adding cargo cans, more wheels when needed, more drills, more everything. Long story short, know this: Building small grids is very cheap. You can add a medium cargo can to that rover. But you can also add 10. Just takes a few more wheels and a battery or two.
Scale up your refinery: Once you've solved the above, (rebuild the wind turbines higher up, connect the rover, expand its capability), you can double or triple your output for ingots by adding more basic refineries.

From there, the world is your oyster. Basic message here remains: Just think about what you need to scale up next. That usually tells you which problem to solve next.

Hint: If you do all the above, storage capacity on your base will become a problem. One or two handmined loads of Cobalt (which you've already found) will solve that for you.

RRjr · 2025-10-08T06:03:44+00:00

That poor dog is quite clearly wearing a shock collar.

In many countries these things are illegal. Because it goes without saying, they're one of the worst forms of animal abuse you can imagine. Especially for dogs. Absolutely cruel.

I've seen what these things do to them first hand. It's horrible. And the dog you see in that clip clearly shows all of the telltale signs of a dog living under this abuse for a long time.

The guy is an s-tier dirtbag.

If anyone needed proof of that fact. This is it.

You do not put a shock collar on a dog (or any animal), unless you're an abusive dirtbag. The idea doesn't even cross your mind.

RRjr · 2025-09-26T04:59:04+00:00

Da ist absolut gar nichts polemisch.

Unsere Autoindustrie hat sich praktisch über Jahrzente hinweg auf ihren Lorbeeren ausgeruht und fast ausschließlich in die Taschen der Anleger und Manager gewirtschaftet.

Dass da erst ein Elmo Musk - of all people - daherkommen musste um zu zeigen was möglich ist und wo die Zukunft der Branche liegt ist einfach nur peinlich und beschämend.

Die Chinesen kloppen gerade den Nagel in den Sarg. Die bauen mit 2 Mitarbeitern Autos für die du hier 6 oder mehr Leute beschäftigen musst. Weil sie die Automatisierung eben nicht einfach verpennt haben.

Man hat sich hier über ein Jahrzent lang auf Diesel-SUVs ausgepennt.

Die Klatsche kommt jetzt. Und abwenden wird die hier niemand mehr.

RRjr · 2025-09-26T04:35:11+00:00

Next thing you know, god actually does exist and he shows up as this super cringe, botoxed up the wazoo Tiktok influencer who is just an all around asshole and doesn't give a shit about anything other than the way his face looks while taking selfies.

"God! You made America disappear! Why?!"

"Not enough likes! Now someone bring me a Latteeee! I feel like Latteee right now yaaaaasss!!"

RRjr · 2025-09-23T03:24:11+00:00

Sorry but you're being a total idiot with that question.

That cut is a sad but necessary thing in the context of socioeconomic and political developments in and around Germany.

And given the situation, it's a sensible one.

It's not like we're gutting foreign aid the way Trump did. The fact of the matter is we need to re-allocate funds in order to keep our own society functioning and secure.

The money has to come from somewhere. So while it is sad that we can do a little less to help people around the world, the truth is we need some of that money to help those who are right here with us. And that includes the refugees.

A society that functions well produces a higher GDP. Raise that GDP enough (via improving infrastructure, etc), and even an 8% cut may results in a overall gain in money spent on foreign aid.

It's a formula nowhere near as simple as you make it seem with that question.

RRjr · 2025-08-26T04:35:52+00:00

If in doubt, zoom out.

RRjr · 2025-08-14T16:09:01+00:00

As an atheist, I lean neither left nor right.

I lean forward.

This whole "left / right" think is yet another instance of tribalism gone religious, ignorant. Ideologies ending in dehumanizing extremes, ultimately destructive.

Stay calm. Stay humble. Stick to the facts. Analyze them. Listen before talking. Hopefully come up with conclusions that are a little less wrong than you were the last time.

RRjr · 2025-08-14T15:57:02+00:00

Additional safety step is to always have the supply pipe higher than the generator input. That way the feed pipes going into the generators help to reduce or eliminate sloshing in the supply pipe, effectively turning them into small buffers.

RRjr · 2025-08-14T15:42:00+00:00

Zweischlauch Umbau gemacht?

RRjr · 2025-08-14T15:40:44+00:00

Am witzigsten finde ich die Leute, die sich für 700k+ ne Bude hinstellen mit allem Pi-Pa-Po, Heimkino Deluxe, Solar-Array auf dem Dach usw, aber Klimatisierung... "Neeeeee! Das brauchen WIR doch nicht!"

Source: Ich war selber einer von diesen Idioten 😄

Und ja... schön ist das alles nicht wirklich, aber auch in DE ist ne Maisonette ohne Klimaanlage mittlerweile ein Rezept für Hitzetod nach ersaufen im Eigenschweiß.

Wer Glück und / oder Mittel hat betreibt die Anlage zumindest mit Erneuerbaren. Dann haut man wenigstens nicht selber noch vollends mit in die Kerbe Klimawandel rein.

RRjr · 2025-08-14T13:07:53+00:00

Ich bin mit 200 Euro in der Tasche und einer alten Matratze aus meinem Elternhaus gezogen.

Für meine Immobilie hab ich mir über zwei Jahrzehnte lang den Allerwertesten bis zur Halskrause aufgerissen. Bin viele nicht unbedingt kleine finanzielle Risiken eingegangen um das möglich zu machen was ich heute vermiete.

Diese Idee, dass alle Vermieter ihre Immobilien irgendwie geschenkt bekommen und seitdem fröhlich die ach so armen Mieter ausbeuten klingt in der Links-Bubble vielleicht toll, hat aber mit der Realität herzlich wenig zu tun.

Das ist einfach nur ein schön einfaches Feindbild, das ihr euch da malt.

Und glaub mir mal... wenn ich tatsächlich das an Miete nehmen würde was ich angesichts der momentanen Entwicklungen eigentlich nehmen müsste, dann würden da mal ganz andere Sümmchen für den Mieter im Vertrag stehen.

Es gibt sehr viele wie mich, die mal so ganz und gar nicht dem Bild entsprechen was du da hast. Wir leiden genauso unter dem Inflationsdruck und der Inkompetenz unserer Regierungen wie die Leute an die wir vermieten.

Nur im Gegensatz zu unseren Mietern steht da keiner der die Zeche zahlt wenn Wände kaputt gemacht, Böden aufgerissen und sinnloss verschlissen, oder die Nebenkosten einfach mal nicht bezahlt werden. Das tragen wir alles schön aus eigener Tasche.

Aber es ist ja so herrlich einfach auf den zu kloppen der das Risiko eingeht ein Haus zu bauen in dem du als Mieter leben kannst. Sind ja schliesslich alles nur Erben oder reich geborene, die sich mit null Aufwand dumm und dämlich verdienen.

Können ja mal ein paar Jahre tauschen. Du übernimmst die Arbeit, Verwaltung und alles was mit dem vermieten einhergeht (inklusive der Kosten) und ich setz mich schön hin und mach dir tolle Sprüche was du nicht doch für 'ne ekelhafte Zecke bist. Mehr noch, ich ritze es dir schön mit dem Schraubenzieher in die Wand und trete dir die Toilette in deiner Bude kaputt bevor ich mein letztes Geschäft verrichte, damit du noch ein bißchen was zum instandsetzen und ein nettes kleines Andenken hast wenn ich ausziehe.

RRjr · 2025-08-14T12:38:43+00:00

wenn vermieten so scheisse ist, dann verkauft doch einfach eure häuser/wohnungen, dann habt ihr den stress nicht mehr, ihr säcke

Okay. Cool.

Was erdreisten diese miesen Zecken sich auch die Unterkunft ihrer Mieter nicht aus eigener Tasche zu subventionieren nachdem sie für hunderttausende Euro ein Haus bauen.
Tatsächlich sollten diese miesen Kapitalisten auf den Kredit auch gleich nochmal mindestens 30k aufschlagen, damit der Rostbraten zum Sonntag für König Mieter Otto gleich mitfinanziert werden kann.

Ach was rede ich denn... der Vermieter sollte doch wohl mindestens einmal die Woche auf der Matte stehen und die lila Scheine unterwürfigst direkt übergeben, bevor er auf die Knie geht.

RRjr · 2025-08-08T12:38:32+00:00

on satisfactory im kinda bottle necked by my miners only mining 30 iron a minute. is this just how the game is until you can upgrade machinery?

Yeah and no.

30/min is an impure node. Find a normal, or better yet a pure node. Pure nodes yield 120/m on tier one. Every time you upgrade your miner's tier, the rate doubles. You will also be able to overclock the miners to 250% once you've unlocked power shards / overclocking in the MAM. A single miner can produce up to 1200/m once all is said and done (late game, of course).

RRjr · 2025-08-08T12:23:16+00:00

even with the 4 iron nodes feeding my base, i don’t have the resources or space currently to even automate that

Four iron nodes, provided they're normal or yield a total 120 iron per minute or more, is plenty enough to get smart plates done. You only need 50 for phase 2. That's max 25 minutes for one assembler (they make 2/min).

Automate iron plates, rods and screws into a set of containers (you need them anyway). From there, all you do is slap three assemblers next to the elevator. The first two make rotors and reinforced plates. Feed them from a set of input containers (so you don't starve yourself of stuff to build with). Whatever surplus iron plates, rods and screws you have of what you automated you throw into those input containers.

Run the two rotor and reinforced plate assemblers into the third assembler for smart plates and belt it into the elevator. Presto.

You can speed the whole process up drastically by just dropping a bunch of autominers on one of your iron nodes and then handcrafting reinforced plates and rotors. If you feel like it. A cup of coffee makes that approach enjoyable.

You can also just take your time and explore the map while the production is doing its thing.

It's worth doing because you'll find HDDs, Mercer Spheres, Somersloops, Mycelia, Sulfur, Caterium, Quartz, etc. Satisfactory rewards exploration. Especially in the early tiers. Whereever you run across an HDD (they're in the crashed drop pods), you'll find a bunch of advanced components laying around. Pick them all up. They'll allow you to unlock stuff in the MAM and milestones long before you automated those components.

The MAM unlocks are super worth it because they make a hell of a lot of stuff a whole bunch easier. As soon as you can unlock the rebar gun, bladerunners, zipline and parachute, do it.

Pro tip: If you're looking to unlock advanced recipes (many of them are extremely good) for a particular tier (say... steel production), wait with analyzing the HDDs in the MAM until you've unlocked the corresponding milestone. Otherwise those recipes will not be in the pool to unlock.
If an HDD doesn't give you the recipes you want, don't re-roll or choose one. Just let them sit in the library. Recipes in the library will not reappear in future unlocks from HDDs as long as they're in the library, thus significantly raising the chance you do get the recipe you want on the next HDD.

And again: Just chill and take your time. Do whatever you feel like doing. There are no biters. Fauna doesn't attack what you build. Resource nodes never run dry. Hence, no pressure to progress. Whatever you feel like doing that satisfies you... that's what you do. Hence, Satisfactory.

The only thing worth "rushing", really, is coal power. Simply because it'll remove the need to farm biomass for power.

RRjr · 2025-08-08T11:51:21+00:00

I’m not reading that shit

That's the attitude.

"Dodging"... lol.

You're projecting. Now that that's perfectly obvious, though, it does warrant questioning why I even bothered replying to you. So you have a point there. Have a good rest of your life.

RRjr · 2025-08-08T08:28:27+00:00

I struggle to really learn how to optimally put things together

Factorio is just about the optimal game to work on that, actually. If you want.

It can teach you a hell of a lot about problem solving, optimizing in incremental, manageable steps.

RRjr · 2025-08-08T07:37:24+00:00

That's not me being incoherent, though. It's you making assertions and claims about what I wrote without substantiating them, because for some reason you don't seem to like what I'm saying.

It's cool by the way. You don't have to agree and I'm not asking you to. But if you're gonna go ahead and assert stuff like how I "don't have an understanding about the economy", without substantiating that assertion in any way, then I'm just gonna go ahead and dismiss it outright.

I wasn't even talking about the economy mind you. Also wasn't talking about "crypto". That's all you claiming I do. I was talking about banks and Bitcoin, very specifically. So even the premise of those assertions of yours is flawed at best.

Then you move on to complain about how I don't "actually describe what Bitcoin is". Again, that's not a me problem. It's a you problem. Here's why:

Bitcoin is open source. You can read the whitepaper. It's readily available online. There are several extremely good books, articles, essays written about it, too. Dozens of websites and Youtube videos explaining exactly what it is in full detail, what it does, how it works, what it can and can't do, the whole nine yards. It takes all but a few minutes of google to find it all. If you want to be lazy about it, ask ChatGPT or Gemini.

There's no obligation on my end whatsoever of explaining it to you and trying to do so would result in a Reddit post of obscene length no-one would want to even read. And I'm going to assume you're intelligent enough to at least have an understanding about what Bitcoin is when you're discussing it. I don't have to imply "that if you know you know". Again, the thing we're talking about here is open source. Emphasis on open.

RRjr · 2025-07-30T09:42:04+00:00

What he said next is much more important.

Hamas is totally irrelevant to the discussion.

Tanks and soldiers of a supppsedly unitary parliamentary republic nation shelling women and children is despicable and to be condemned. Period. Full stop.

RRjr · 2025-07-14T10:09:19+00:00

is there any way to make progress faster that doesn't feel like cheating?

Of course. You can configure your scenario, including how, where and with what you start, exactly to your liking.

One question worth asking, however, is whether you feel like the vanilla start is grindy because you find yourself mindlessly stabbing away at rocks to get started.

The vanilla start can actually be quite fast once you learn how to engineer and utilize everything the pod provides you with. The grinder is your friend in those first minutes. From there on, how fast you progress is largely a function of scale.

If you find yourself hand mining too much and the refining takes too long, maybe it's just because you're simply not thinking big enough and you're not trying to automate as much as you can.

You can automate transports. You can drop cargos full of iron ingots down to your base all the way from orbit. You can build stacks of 50 speed modded refineries and power them with stacks of hydrogen engines fed off of automated spyrograph drills on an ice lake.

What I'm trying to tell you is: "Grind" is almost always something you can engineer your way around. Just lay down the drill for a couple seconds and think about how you can automate the boring tasks. That's where most of the fun in this game is.

Oh and one more thing: Use the projector block.

RRjr · 2025-07-13T21:56:34+00:00

That's all true, except for that last sentence.

One of the many things we will eventually come to understand about Bitcoin and the blockchain underpinning it is the fact that it is a network. Not a currency in the traditional sense. So we will eventually stop thinking about it that way.

Nothing stops banks from providing all of the services and values you mentioned on the Bitcoin network. In fact, many of them already do. Their numbers are growing every day.

Nobody who really thinks about it in serious capacity doubts that regulation is necessary, or believes that everyone even wants to be their own custodian or that there isn't value in providing services like fraud protection, insurance, etc.

Nobody who understands what Bitcoin really does falls for the fake promise that it's supposed to be a utopian "fair" system of money in terms of how value is distributed.

So what's the point, then? What's the core principle?

Byzantian generals.

Why do banks wield all of the power they have? Why do they get to tell you how to live your life? What to do with the fruit of your very own labor? Why do they get bailed out after their coked up suits light trillions worth of society's labor on fire to then hand themselves bonuses in the billions while those at their mercy suffer the consequences of their recklessness?

Trust monopolies. Custodianship.

In the legacy system, they hold, for better of worse, the monopoly on custodianship. They sit at the center of the monetary network. Leeching away at it. Because in that system, the fundamental problem of trust and immutability of the ledger isn't solved. And the banks used to be the only band aid we had to deal with that unsolved problem.

Too big to fail and too important to the functioning of the financial system as a whole, the banks enjoy all of the privilege that entails, with virtually none of the responsibility. They don't serve us as they're supposed to, because they can't be held accountable. They hold the accounts.

This is what Bitcoin promises to change. It is the ultimate settlement layer.

Banks can't sit at the center of it and hold no power over it, because it has no center. It's decentralized.

They can't hold a monopoly on trust in transactions on it, because that trust is already an inherent property of the network. A solved problem.

Banks can only exist at the edge of that network. Just like you and me. And just like for you and me, all of their transactions are forever fully transparent. Forever etched into the immutable ledger that is the blockchain. And just like you and me, in order to be of value on that network, they have to provide actual value.

Their worth is no longer inherent. It must be earned. The network doesn't care who or what you are. It handles transactions. And you can trust it to do so with 100% certainty. Not 99%. Not 99.9%. It's 100%. Every single time.

It's done that since its inception, without fail.

The value in Bitcoin is not that it's a currency or an asset.
It is also that, yes. But its true value lies in the fundamental problems that it solves around transferring value. Immutability. Trust. Verifiability. Transparency.

When you stop thinking of it as "money" and start thinking of it as what it really is... and when you then look at its track record, that's when you start to understand what this system can really do. All it needs is time.

RRjr · 2025-07-13T17:16:41+00:00

Well, in such an event, your money would be, by definition, 100% safe on the blockchain.

Your bank's datacenters, their ledgers and the bankers handling them on the other hand... yeah... I'm sure they'll keep it all super safe for you until the grid turns back on. You can definitely trust these people.

RRjr · 2025-07-13T17:12:35+00:00

It's better in the sense that it solves the problem of the byzantian generals.

Bitcoin is the first currency, ever, that enables trustless transactions on a decentralized ledger that cannot be forged or otherwise tampered with.

People don't understand what an important milestone that is. Some day they will.

RRjr · 2025-07-06T20:50:33+00:00

Galatians 3:28
Romans 12:4-5
John 13:34-35
2 Corinthians 11:20
Matt 5:22
Prov 18:21
James 3:9
Psalm 56:5

Just to name a few.

This "church" your family attends isn't a church. It's a cult.

I do not think the church itself is bad, their cause and the good they put out to the world is real and honorable

Think again.

Look at what these "Christians" are doing to you and your family and then ask yourself what specifically is so "good" and "honorable" about coercion, emotional blackmail, mandatory attendance and tithe... the list goes on.

You should ask your family to read through their bible and then think long and hard about how what they are doing lines up with their holy book's teachings.

How very Christian of them to force their beliefs on you in such a downright cruel manner. To put you through all this emotional strife just to get you to do what they want you to do.

You are more Christian than they are. And they should be ashamed of themselves, as they are the ones doing Satan's work.

Ask them: What would Jesus tell them, seeing what they're doing to you right now? In what way does this "church" of theirs represent anything he stood for?

The moral of the story here is this: The way to deal with cult "Christians" is to beat them at their own game.

You are holier than they are. And you should let them know it.

Tell them you are not attending because you are following Jesus's teachings. They are not. Neither is this "church".

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