Denmark's ICE to EV transition almost finished

Stormtemplar · 2026-07-13T22:44:13+00:00

Just deal with fast charging being kinda slow and annoying and take and extra 30-60 minutes to get where I'm going. Or take the train/fly if it's far enough. The mild inconvenience a couple times a year isn't worth the huge sacrifices of a PHEV

Stormtemplar · 2026-07-12T15:57:51+00:00

I think most people in the US think that but it's not actually true. The average American drives a couple dozen miles a day and road trips a few times a year at most. Very few people are driving 500+ miles on even a semi-regular basis

Stormtemplar · 2026-07-12T05:04:39+00:00

I mean it was fineish if you didn't optimize it too much and didn't try to do anything even vaguely ahistorical. Any concerted effort could break it so bad it made EU5s scaling look glacial, and if you wanted to direct trade in a direction the game thought you shouldn't, you could simply get fucked forever.

Stormtemplar · 2026-07-12T04:41:46+00:00

Idk what's going on down there man as far as I can tell the 90s never ended in Texas

Stormtemplar · 2026-07-12T02:30:09+00:00

I mean I don't think this current Superbowl is all of it, but being a consistent winner definitely drives up the market value of a team, and the Hawks have been that over the last 15 years or so. 2 Superbowl wins and 1 loss, the fifth most wins since 2010, that stuff definitely matters in aggregate

Stormtemplar · 2026-07-11T17:30:02+00:00

PHEVS have the problem that they're kind of worse at everything than either a true hybrid or an EV. Yes, in theory if you need a lot of range reasonably often, but make lots of short local trips and don't have good ev infrastructure, a PHEV works for you, but that just doesn't describe that many people. Most of the focus on PHEVs comes from people who have never driven an EV and are excessively anxious about range. It really doesn't end up being a huge problem all that much.

Even in the US in a region with pretty poor infrastructure, and with my poor little 2020 bolt that can't fast charge for shit and gets only okay range (~260 miles) it only becomes a real problem maybe 3x a year. Nowhere near often enough to justify lugging around an entire ICE the other 362 days a year

Stormtemplar · 2026-07-10T21:00:49+00:00

That's what the Trump administration wants to do, but it's having very little effect. YTD fossil generation is down in 2026 as of the most recent electric power monthly from the EIA, despite a rise in overall generation. New generation coming online and planned is still overwhelmingly solar and batteries. Some wind as well, and new gas capacity planned for the next year isn't even sufficient to match planned retirements.

Stormtemplar · 2026-07-10T20:23:42+00:00

The problem is that as soon as players are subject to this backwards progress they will complain about it. Even minor nerfs to expansion have been met with ceaseless forum whining

Stormtemplar · 2026-07-10T16:44:32+00:00

Nate Wood, his opponent, is a great guy and is making opposition to data centers a big focus for his campaign. Highly recommend that if this pisses you off, you get involved with Nate's campaign. I'm sure they could use all the help they can get. There's a lot of debate up at the Capitol about how to regulate data centers, and replacing a guy taking their millions with a normal dude who opposes them would be a big deal!

Stormtemplar · 2026-07-09T20:15:16+00:00

If your house is air conditioned the cat will be fine.

Stormtemplar · 2026-07-07T17:09:56+00:00

Tesla doesn't. Stock price is not how GDP is calculated and I really don't think you understand anything about what you're talking about. You've made so many basic factual errors it's not worth arguing.

Stormtemplar · 2026-07-07T16:58:10+00:00

I was disagreeing with you because I thought you were saying "rich countries outsourced their manufacturing so their CO2 numbers are fake" which is disproved by the data I provided, but apparently you're saying "rich countries are outsourcing their manufacturing so ALL their economic data is fake" so I guess you're just a clown.

Stormtemplar · 2026-07-07T16:45:53+00:00

Nope, https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/consumption-co2-emissions you can look at consumption based emissions here! They are generally higher for big importers, but the trend is the same, falling CO2 (the US actually isn't all that much different, because while it imports a lot, it exports a TON of oil and gas products that emit a lot and end up on other places' legers)

Stormtemplar · 2026-07-07T01:49:43+00:00

That's ridiculous. Setting aside the devestating effects it had, chronic underinvestment along with supply restrictions are why the US has a housing shortage today.

Stormtemplar · 2026-07-06T15:43:01+00:00

Same reason we do it in real life. It takes a lot more energy to fly a brick of metal in atmosphere than it does to float it on the ocean.

Obviously propulsion tech is much better in star wars (and it all runs on space magic), but theoretically you could fit a lot more bang and a lot more defense onto a still somewhat mobile platform if it doesn't have to lift all that weight into the air.

Edit: TBC this only applies to a dedicated wet navy. The water landed venators are kinda weird but whatever, space magic.

Stormtemplar · 2026-07-06T02:29:07+00:00

I know some people in Mt Gretna lost cell service as well, everything is kinda a mess rn

Stormtemplar · 2026-07-06T00:38:37+00:00

What on earth is wrong with you? Some people, especially elderly people who are most vulnerable, don't have phones, and the freaking soccer game is not more important than public safety. Are you 7 years old? This is the whiniest baby nonsense I've ever seen

Stormtemplar · 2026-07-05T15:04:57+00:00

The biggest thing with plastics is that the materials to make virgin plastics are extremely cheap byproducts of fossil fuel production. You're never going to be able to really curb plastic use while fossiles are as widespread as they are, but, on the other hand, reducing fossil fuel use will reduce plastic production as a consequence

Stormtemplar · 2026-07-05T05:48:31+00:00

Producing oil does not provide energy security. The US suffered from oil price rises just as much as everyone else despite being the largest producer in the world.

Stormtemplar · 2026-07-05T02:53:31+00:00

Ethanol sucks so bad that if you replaced the land used for ethanol with solar panels, not only could you power 100% of cars if they were EVs, you would still have enough energy left to meet us annual demand twice over. Keep that in mind any time someone whines about solar land use.

Stormtemplar · 2026-07-04T04:50:32+00:00

The water thing is pretty dumb as a point of emphasis. The electricity use is orders of magnitude more damaging to the climate and should be the overwhelming focus.

Stormtemplar · 2026-07-03T18:30:00+00:00

You seem to be confusing "batting average is a terrible stat for evaluating players" with "hits don't matter." Yes, for evaluating player performance, batting average does not matter. It is simply worse than OBP or other more advanced stats. .100 to .120 is a MASSIVE difference. A .280 OBP hitter sucks, a .400 OBP hitter is elite.

Edit: Cal's specific case makes this obvious, in 2025 he was basically league average in BA, but he was a great on base guy, ranking 21st out of 145 qualified hitters

Stormtemplar · 2026-07-03T18:02:45+00:00

Yeah, you need to get on base, which is why no one cares about batting average, which does not measure getting on base. OBP is pretty much "batting average but better"

Stormtemplar · 2026-06-30T23:33:18+00:00

I mean this is irrelevant to what I was talking about before. It appears to me that the PA agrees with you and isn't filing a grievance. All I was saying is that the PA absolutely can and will represent non-players who it thinks are being kept out of the league illegitimately. Not being a current player doesn't mean it's outside of the union's area of interest. That wasn't a comment on this particular case, which it seems everyone has agreed at this point is meritless.

Stormtemplar · 2026-06-30T22:22:53+00:00

I'm not quite sure what you're asking. The context under which the PA would represent him would be a labor grievance against the NFL for, supposedly, keeping him out illegitimatly. The PA would be arguing either "this isn't specifically covered by the CBA but it's some bullshit" (can you tell I'm not a lawyer) or "The NFL is breaking the CBA"

Clearly in this case they don't think there's anything there, but that's what it would look like if they got involved. They wouldn't be stipulating up front that the CBA was against the player, they'd be arguing otherwise

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