If you don’t know where you’re going: French is probably the most wide spread after that.

You’ll just have to vote for the lesser evil, whichever side you’re on.

Getting trapped under something for a few thousand years.

Seems unwise to take that risk. What if I don’t change my mind?

Cryptocurrencies can be useful as currencies. Not very useful as investment though.

Like with any new technology. Remember the blockchain hype a few years back? Give it a few years and we will have a handful of areas where it makes sense and the rest of the hype will die off.

Everyone sane probably realizes this. No one knows for sure exactly where it will succeed so a lot of money and time is being spent on a 10% chance for a huge payout in case they guessed right.

They told me I’d change my mind about not wanting kids when I got older. I’m still waiting for it to change.

Few outright spam accounts. Anything I find offensive enough to warrant a block is usually bannable anyway.

Thank you!

Any metal with growing. I don’t care for lyrics unless they are funny. This applies to music where you can actually hear them too.

Try suggesting a metal band too extreme for me. I don’t like the lo-fi black metal because of the lo-fi part.

Being rejected the first few times is very unpleasant but very important to go from child to adult.

You tried and you’ll get a high five from me, a complete stranger on the internet.

Seeing your crush with someone else will teach you the lesson to kill off non mutual feelings and move on. An important lesson but you did not choose to be brave and take it.

As for what feels the worst in the moment that depends on context and how many times you’ve had it happen before.

Forest walk with dog.

I like variety but if I had to pick one the local pizza place has one thin crust with beef filet, shrimp, sliced tomato and onion.

It sounds like mummy still pays your bills. Troll grade: C-.

North Scandinavia.

Most of the electricity here is hydroelectric that has been built many years ago so the power plants are paid off.

The price during summer is very low. In the winter especially the cold months is much higher with Dec-Feb being the peak.

The determining factor is still the capex for storing it. At $50 it makes no sense. At $0.2 it makes sense in some places. I don’t know which assumption is correct, I expect to be wrong in 50% of the cases when I argue on the internet.

You have to build and maintain the storage.

Even if the electricity is free you’ll have to replace your battery once in a while and at current prices that is ludicrously expensive.

It’s cheaper to pay an already built fossil fuel plant to idle with spare capacity.

Give it a few years for battery technology and it may look different.

Give it a few years and I’ve got my hopes up for batteries.

The calculations showed the absurdity in gravity storage today, not batteries in the future.

I don’t live in the US either.

I think the actual value on my bill is 2300kwh. But we can use 2700.

I can’t find any source for $0.2/kWh. I used https://www.energy.gov/eere/analysis/2022-grid-energy-storage-technology-cost-and-performance-assessment and eyeballed the cheapest gravitational storage. PSH is still above $50. Well let’s assume $0.2 per kWh per year and that half of it can be stored it’s $270 per year in storage fee

My actual price for electricity is much lower than €600 per year, most of it is taxes and fees that does not get benefit from storage. Looking up the invoice from March i paid $0.07 per kWh, September was $0.01. Half of 2700 would be $95 using March price for the entire year.

We are spending billions, we must spend billions, but we have to spend them where it makes sense. Spending 270 to save 95 is insanity.

No. It’s district heating and not included on the electricity bill. I live north of the Arctic circle and a house from the same year with a heat pump would use an order of magnitude more.

The example was meant to highlight the absurd costs despite ludicrously favorable assumptions.

Changing the words does not change the meaning.