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H1ld3gunst t1_jcvjtk5 wrote

Reply to comment by whatistheformat in Anyone have experience with these? by Different-Bunch-7618

As it’s a Vibram sole, it’s probably good quality for the thickness. It’s pretty thin though, by design of course.
In my experience, the soles of such barefoot shoes wear down very little, as you don’t wear out the heels like you would with traditional shoes.
Depends on how often you wear them. The quality seems good.

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H1ld3gunst t1_j76c70s wrote

Reply to comment by Disastrous-Soup-5413 in New rules would limit sugar in school meals for first time by quigleyupunder3

She attempted to do it, but was forced to shift to “more activity” by the lobby. I don’t know how they were able to foil those plans, it probably was the old “jobs are in danger” and “expensive” argument. Which should be irrelevant, because less sugary food creates the same amount of jobs, and one less ingredient shouldn’t make anything more expensive.

Don’t get me wrong, more activity is great. It just doesn’t change the amounts of sugar in children’s diets is far too high.

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H1ld3gunst t1_j1hbu00 wrote

Reply to comment by joepeoplesvii in US Postal Service commits to buy 66,000 Electric vehicles— finally by MrMike

1 ev needs 1 battery. Not millions of gallons.

The batteries are not recycled because they are reused first. Stationary power storage does not need new batteries. Only EVs do.

Just mind that a lot of the information out there is sponsored by the oil industry. If you try to read up on it in professional sources, ICE cars have been overtaken by EVs in sustainability long ago.

The sources arguing they are worse are easily found out: They usually start with a pre built ICE car, and only count environmental impact from combustion itself. But the EVs are calculated from scratch, including mining, production, transport. ICE cars need cobalt too. They have chips, too, in fact, almost the same amount. Oil needs to be drilled or fracked. Then refined. Transported. Now we are at EVs being more sustainable.

If we wanted to be fair, now we would start to calculate health problems caused by combustion taking place in front of where we work and where we live. All the particles and NO^x and the health care costs it produces every year.

Don’t call people stupid if you haven’t understood the statistics yourself.

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H1ld3gunst t1_j1ctd49 wrote

Reply to comment by joepeoplesvii in US Postal Service commits to buy 66,000 Electric vehicles— finally by MrMike

Most Lithium is sourced in the Atacama Desert.

Remember all those Oil Spills in the Caribbean? Exxon Mobile? Whole Oceans covered in Toxic Liquid? The Rainforests of Nigeria and Borneo being cut down? Saudi’s Arabia, Venezuela, Iran and Russia making Trillions while being able to hold the whole world hostage?

Now tell me that’s better than exploiting small amounts of Lithium in a lifeless desert in the democratic states of Chile and Bolivia.

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H1ld3gunst t1_j0dqr8c wrote

Reply to comment by FlatulentWallaby in Valve answers our burning Steam Deck questions — including a possible Steam Controller 2 by retroanduwu24

It was great, I bought it for 5 Bucks. It’s just so god damn loud. Not the vibration, the buttons click so loud you wake your neighbors.

Did that for most steam stuff (steam machine aswell, still use it) I’m really bummed the Deck didn’t bomb, so I could get it for basically nothing

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H1ld3gunst t1_ivqxviu wrote

Reply to comment by thefpspower in In France all new large parking lots must now be covered in solar panels starting in july 2023. by BuildingBabel

I don’t know how it is in France, but in Germany there is higher payout if you only provide the net, without using any yourself, for bigger scale projects. It’s still not high, but it does pay over a while. The land directly next highways is often plastered with solar cells. Obviously it is profitable.

I’m guessing even more so on parking lots. You still have the parking lot. Only now it’s shady.

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