az04

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az04,

Makes me think of Half-life 2

az04,

Solar power in sunny weeks, wind power in overcast weeks and hydro power in rainy weeks means electricity costs in Portugal and Spain have been incredibly low over the last year.

Newspapers here have been running articles saying the way the market works will make further investment and maintenance difficult because power generators are barely being paid. A few weeks ago for a couple of hours the price went negative in the wholesale market, meaning power generators had to pay to generate power.

A friend of mine decided to index his costs to the wholesale market and pays 4c/kWh, while with a normal power plan I’m paying 9-13c/kWh. Meanwhile coal, oil and gas guzzler Germany is paying 4x these prices. At least their geopolitical energy play worked out /s

az04,

In European Portuguese it’s “Feira da Ladra”, or “Fair of the (female) Thieve”

az04,

Actually, a Thai seafood producer bought Red Lobster and made it sell products like shrimp at a loss so it could move more product, allegedly. Patrick Boyle does a good dive into it: youtu.be/BEDFNcsC0JI

az04,

It’s from a Holodeck episode, I think Crisis Point 2.

az04,

Pretty standard DIS episode, awith fate-of-the-galaxy stakes. The action scenes are always so boring, let’s see some puzzle cracking! Also, if your Captain is constantly running point on away missions, they might be a thrill seeker. Beware the cliff edges.

az04,

Don’t show this to the dutch.

az04,

Relevant XKCD

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The state shouldn’t be in the business of killing people.

az04,

Or the B plot in Darmok. I wish it would have been all Picard and Dathon.

az04,

The treknobabble on the ship trying to bring the captain back. Also their attempt to research the Tamarian language on the ship.

az04,

That’s a better interpretation, although I felt those scenes were done much better in the Inner Light.

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Because tech can be easily turned into a remote job. Tech jobs are doing great in countries with low wages. I live in Portugal and all the software engineers I know work remotely for some non Portuguese tech company. It’s good for them because they become some of the highest earners in the country straight out of uni and it’s good for the companies that hire them for almost half what they would pay an American, German or Israeli.

az04,

It’s rare to see a “yes, u” instead of a “no, u”.

az04,

My favorite sin is Lust. My favorite virtue is Chastity.

az04,

It was just a joke, I was hoping someone else would be able to turn it into something with meaning.

az04,

As someone with several family members in Venezuela and many more who fled the country: The only awe inspiring thing about Maduro’s regime is how someone so incompetent and uncharismatic can stay in power this long.

Medicine is in short supply and if you want any chance of surviving a serious illness you go to private clinics, which always only accept dollars.

A 40 year old cousin of mine died because they didn’t have medicine that would have been in most hospitals in other countries. A 28 year old cousin of mine died of covid because there were no spots available in any clinic near her. My 60 year old uncle lost both his legs from a diabetes-linked infection because the state of his mental health didn’t allow him to take the meds prescribed by a private clinic at home and we didn’t have money to commit him.

Everyone there is fucked, even those who work for state companies.

A 35 year old cousin of mine worked for years for the state oil company and bought a very nice, big house in a brand new development. But when inflation was at infinity% and food was hard to get and she decided to leave the country for the sake of her children, she couldn’t sell her house for any amount of money to anyone, because everyone in the country was trying to leave(and still are, 6 years later).

If you want to keep believing that communism could possibly work before a post scarcity world, fine. I guess the fact you haven’t seen any communist country be socially liberal as well as having high wages for the average worker is just a byproduct of not trying it enough times. But if you want some shred of evidence that communism works don’t look to Venezuela. Look to Vietnam or China or something. Venezuelans are only saved from starvation thanks to oil and charity.

And if you want to paint the US as the source of all evils and praise those who do well while being cut off from it, then mention Cuba. They actually have some redeeming qualities.

az04,

As long as Venezuelans keep blaming the US for Venezuela’s problems instead of looking inward, especially to their own corrupt government, things won’t get better for them.

Using the US as an external enemy is great for holding onto power but it doesn’t improve people’s lives. Transparency, democracy and accountability improve people’s lives. These are things most of Europe have and Venezuela does not. Venezuela has vastly different policies from center-left European countries and I’d know because I live in one.

You don’t have to defend China or Cuba because I don’t want to attack them. I wish Venezuela would be like China or Cuba. At least my family wouldn’t go without power, starve or die needlessly.

Maduro has to go, and chavistas need to stop blaming everyone but the government for their problems. But I suspect even after everyone has left and only chavistas remain, they’ll still blame someone else. Don’t encourage them.

az04,

Sabra gives you all your daily nutrients

az04,

The flu is also going strong, but people aren’t saying it still feels like 1918. I don’t know the definition of COVID-19 becoming endemic but it certainly feels like it has become that.

And any reference I hear to it is no more common or strange than a reference to the flu or some other common illness.

az04,

But lower pension costs, and overall it saves money to allow people to smoke themselves to an early death. Even if you count the cost of their treatment, it’s cheaper than 20 extra years of pension payments. It’s a terrifying but sound economic policy.

az04,

Just finished it yesterday, it has more bugs than I’d like, but I really enjoyed the story and puzzles, even if some were beyond my abilities (I guess I was rushing too much to check the rooms for clues). Watching The Truman Show always left me wanting more, and this really scratched that itch.

The worst bug was cutscene volume playing at 100% even if master volume was at 10%. The funniest bug was a chase sequence where the chaser got stuck and my character was running further and further away from the chase while talking as if they were next to each other. That sequence ended in the game crashing because I guess the game couldn’t position the chaser in their place for a cutscene.

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az04,

I use Ecosia for the environmental aspect, not the privacy, so I’m gonna stay with it.

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