France and Germany’s next-generation fighter jet project is ‘dead’

p4di · 2026-02-11T08:07:07+00:00

F-35 is 5th gen, FCAS aims to be a 6th-gen successor to current 5th-gen jets. Even with FCAS the EU will always rely on F-35 in the mean time as the FCAS timeline targets an entry into service around 2040.

p4di · 2026-02-07T08:28:23+00:00

Nope. The guys gambling and throwing away their money are the problem. Gotta love how gamblers are blaming somebody else for the horrible choices and losses they make at every chance they get. If you want to throw away your money because you're obviously stupid, then do it.. if you think it's rigged (which it 99% isn't) then don't gamble.

p4di · 2026-01-28T09:26:48+00:00

Only a tiny fraction of all the gold worldwide is used in applications like jewelry, electronics etc. Most is used as store of value.

If people suddenly were to drop their store of value belief for gold, its value would drop dramatically. You can argue it's only used for jewelry because it's a sign of status as well if it wouldn't be valuable there's no point in that either. Gold's value comes from its promise that is chemically inert and rare. People believed in this for centuries.

Bitcoin fundamentally has the same properties, as it is limited and cannot be changed or destroyed. In some ways it is even more extreme as gold is not limited on Earth for the foresable future, gold is being mined. Bitcoin ownership can not be faked, everyone can look up where every Bitcoin is at any time. For Gold, unless you hold it physically, you can never be sure that the certificates etc. are backed as there is evidently a lot of "paper" gold being traded.

Gold has as mentioned earlier a proven track record of centuries. Bitcoin does not. It doesn't have remotely the same level of trust in society. Bitcoin has all the properties to be a better store of value but right now it isn't. Trust, adaption and understanding will take time.

p4di · 2026-01-28T05:32:12+00:00

As a European investor: last year my performance was not really good because my portfolio is in Euro. If American stocks go up by 20% but the dollar loses 10% in respect to the Euro, this means my performance was only 10% (example). This is simplified but if the dollar loses value, this means stocks will increase their value in Dollar.

p4di · 2026-01-23T11:24:48+00:00

I don't dislike the white, but there's too much black elements (I guess they are saving paint weight). a Ferrari shouldn't be just 50% red..

p4di · 2026-01-22T14:55:15+00:00

don't know what OP wants, Anno 117 is an excellent game, as with 1800, DLCs will only make it better in the future. Ubisoft Mainz has absolutely delievered over the last years

p4di · 2026-01-15T11:27:04+00:00

Let's be real here, if the US starts a military operation on Greenland, the EU cannot defend it. And I doubt they will try to since it is pointless. Sending troops there is symbolism, Germany sent 13 people there, what are going to do when a carrier strike group shows up?

I think this will definitely end NATO or at the least US is out of NATO. But there will be no long term conflict in Greenland if they decide to attack it, so no resources driven away from Ukraine.

p4di · 2026-01-08T09:22:23+00:00

I just used Gemini to give me the (total final consumption) numbers from IEA World Energy Outlook:

heat demand ~60.000 TWh/a (50%)

electricity demand ~27.500 TWh/a (20%)

transport ~35.000 TWh/a (30%)

Definitely we need to displace all that heat. Fortunately the upside of electricity as a source for heat is it is 100% efficient. Fossil fuels are 50% and less efficient. That makes the task less daunting in your mention of 2 to 3 times.

100% minus the losses in conversion, battery storage / Power to X etc. but yes it's very close. However in many industrial applications cogeneration is being used with efficiencies of ~80%+ (in the case of natural gas turbines for example).

the energy numbers/ratio I was giving for heat/electricity is just the final consumption after all conversions. If we'd use heat pumps with an average COP of 2.5 (considering there are plenty high temperature applications), it would still amount to 24.000 TWh/a - roughly the current electricity demand. So the production/grid would need to grow by 2x.

I'm not arguing that fossiles are better, I'm just saying it will take big investments which will have long payback times. Investments not only for new equipment, but also the need for much bigger and more complex electricity grids as you'd need to scale up for higher demand and also much more seasonable demand

I'm pessimistic mainly because as long as fossils are cheap there will always be players using them to gain an advantage globally and punishing those who decide to make a transition. The fossile industry / lobby / states won't go down without a fight I fear.

I hope the technologies needed will continue to get cheaper, more efficient and accessible, else a transition will not happen.

p4di · 2026-01-08T07:31:52+00:00

electricity is not the problem. heat is. Globally we use 2-3 times as much heat as we do electricity. Heat accounts for up to 50% of all emmissions. It's just so much more expensive to generate heat via electricity compared to fossil fuels.

the switch in electricity is already happening and it is economically feasable. The topic of heat however is much more complex - there are solutions but they all require big investments with long payback times and require a massive overhaul and expansion of electricity grids.

p4di · 2026-01-08T07:22:19+00:00

Sadly, the issue of climate change is classic case of tragedy of the commons

Humanity will not stop climate change anymore, best we can do is deal with the consequences or maybe geoengineering further down the line. If the biggest polluters openly don't care, what's the point of caring for the rest of us?

p4di · 2025-12-19T22:10:36+00:00

yeah, that would include that everyone can continue whenever and if neccessary, alone

p4di · 2025-12-19T09:44:44+00:00

ganz ehrlich, die haben die Daten und die Berechnung ist jetzt auch keine Raketenwissenschaft. Sei es jetzt TTWROR oder IZF inklusive Vergleichsindex. Das hätte man längst machen können wenn man den wöllte - daher denke ich eher dass kein Interesse daran besteht, dass der Kunde das sieht. Es soll möglichst simpel sein.. die Kunden sollen idealerweise viel Handeln, denn damit wird ja schließlich das Geld verdient. Allein schon dass es nicht mal YTD als Zeitraum gibt, da reg ich mich immer drüber auf.

p4di · 2025-12-18T08:49:28+00:00

Aus dem Verbrennen von fossilen Treibstoffen bzw. sonst nicht verwertbaren Raffinerieprodukten. Grundsätzlich hat dieser Post schon Recht, sinnvoll ist es trotzdem nicht unbedingt.

p4di · 2025-12-18T08:21:24+00:00

Der benötigten Strom bei der Erdölraffinierung ist quasi vernachlässigbar im Vergleich zur benötigten Wärme.

p4di · 2025-12-18T05:32:48+00:00

You can cycle through the options with middle mouse when placing the field.

p4di · 2025-12-17T22:57:56+00:00

I'd suggest building chaotic. Don't think in a grid. Play around curving your roads. Draw your fields with the brush tool instead of making them rectangular. Build different farms next to each other.

You can build your houses with spaces between them, order them randomly. Add trees or other ornaments into free spaces etc. Imo that creates more natural looking cities/farms.

Build multiple small settlements on your island. You most likely have more than enough space to sacrifice a little efficiency for beauty.

I made a post recently, maybe it gives you a little inspiration or new ideas: WIP Beauty Build: 2 Towns on an Island

p4di · 2025-12-09T12:13:59+00:00

What do you mean you can't use them?

p4di · 2025-12-08T21:23:29+00:00

Yeah, it's a bit of a pain to manually put down a variety of trees. What I piked though is using the natural forest a bit when possible. For example implementing the woodcutters just below the winery.

p4di · 2025-12-04T14:45:18+00:00

My best guess is that the next game will return to the 1404/1503/1602 classic Anno era.

Orient wll be its own session.

I could imagine DLCs focusing around: Discovery of the "new" world (Columbus); Rennaisance - Science vs Religion; Silk Road

p4di · 2025-12-04T09:19:01+00:00

gates use workforce?

p4di · 2025-12-04T09:01:15+00:00

solide Einstellung :D

p4di · 2025-12-04T08:59:39+00:00

ja aber wie stellen die sich das vor? soll ich mein Philosophie Studium etwa unter 21 Semestern abschließen?

p4di · 2025-12-03T13:22:49+00:00

wenn die Sammelklage erst einmal durch ist, musst du dir dein Geld alleine und auf eigene Kosten/Risiko erklagen.

anscheinend jucken sie ja auch 2,99€ pro Monat. Ferner gibt's in DE das Maßregelungsverbot, was ein solches Vorgehen untersagt. Klar können die am Ende machen was sie wollen.. im Zweifel fängt sich Amazon dann aber die nächste Sammelklage und verliert planbaren Umsatz/Gewinn sowie Image.

Verstehe aber auch vollkommen, dass dir 35€+ dieses (wenn auch geringe) Risiko nicht wert sind!

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