There are newer models that can charge to 80% in 15 min. It will probably take a while until fast chargers are widespread, but this is where things are going.

I just don’t understand why such companies can still sell in the EU after such severe safety violations.

Besides YouTube, I only really used Reddit in the last years. Since the API change I basically switched over to Lemmy. About once a month I browse one of like 3 subreddits for a few minutes, but that’s it.

I’m glad I deleted my Facebook account years ago and never really got into Instagram, Twitter, TikTok and all that shit.

So basically just YouTube now.

If I literally had that experience for my whole life until then, I’m pretty certain that I would end it. Even if I knew that I would get out somehow. I can’t even imagine how traumatizing it must be if you never experienced comfort and safety, for your entire life.

Maybe watch Dominion if you can’t see my point.

That assumes that even extremely miserable lifes are worth living. If I lived in factory farm conditions my whole life, with the kind of procedures the animals have to go through, I’d try to end my life as soon as possible, as far as I can tell. Thankfully I never had to make that consideration in my life.

In terms of Utilitarianism, a life on a factory farm is one of the clearest examples of a life with a net negative intrinsic utility I could think of.

I feel like the repugnant conclusion is more about minimally positive utility lives.

Ah yes, the daily flawless logic of “you may treat them like absolute garbage on factory farms, but as long as you breed more, that’s actually good for them”

Next up is how puppy mills are the best invention ever and that the puppies should be grateful.

Would you say that people not getting dogs would actually be worse than people getting dogs and slicing their throats at 1-2 years old?

Imo people who care about animals are opposed to people cutting their throat open, instead of supporting it.

The fact that is considered good conditions for the animal, and that systematic violence get twisted into welfare, is such an incredibly grim reality…

Smoking sucks and I’m glad I’ve never done it, but I’m worried that this will push even more people to the far right because they will feel patronized as fuck.

Also not sure if a flourishing black market is much better. Seems like an enormous source of income for organized crime which might not be the best thing.

Imo it would be much better to only ban it at places where there are a lot of people and do proper education in schools so that children actually understand why it’s a terrible idea.

Seems like the first number is just grid-scale battery storage, while the second includes home batteries, which grew faster in the last years. Grid scale takes more time to get approval, build, connect.

Meat production currently increases by about 2-6% per year globally, while plant-based meat alternatives are growing 9-12% per year, though still much smaller in absolute terms for now. If meat alternatives keep dropping in price as production scales and supply chains mature, it might soon have an advantage, especially in emerging markets.

Store brand meat alternatives have already reached the price of their “real” meat counterparts here in Germany in 2025. Some are even a bit cheaper. It will be interesting to see the medium to long term impact of this on the meat market.

That gets difficult when billion dollar industries are involved, especially multiple. Some politicians will oppose the corruption, but the corporations will just fund the campaign of other politicians that are willing to act in their interest.

Transparency and a vigilant civil society with consequences for scandals can mitigate that somewhat, to varying degrees. But ultimately there’s corruption in every government at every level of governance. Capital interests always find a way, unfortunately.

They’re using the money they got from their customers to lobby politicians to keep doing business as usual. They have so much power because people vote with their dollar, for them, and not for sustainable alternatives.

Blaming politicians while continuing to fund these industries won’t lead to anything.