BMW pinned so much of their visual identity on their kidney grilles. Literally decades of variations on the theme, mainly just getting bigger and bigger. And now grilles are completely redundant with ev’s and BMW hasn’t got a clue what to do about it. The lack of foresight and imagination is stunning.

It’s one of these.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photo_stand-in

People have jumped on this but it’s just an anonymous tip done through an open web form. It’s about as substantiated as writing on a bathroom wall.

Doesn’t mean it’s not true, but it’s also the weakest evidenced thing in there.

You may not like tiktok or use it but a lot of people do. And now it’s in the hands of a bunch of nasty bastards.

Amen. You have to stay away from that toxic commercialisation. It messes with your brain and stalls your progress in any hobby.

I think one of the best things about arts, crafts, sports, music and the like is that it has a built in resistance to that kind of commercial takeover. Having good pens will not make you better at art, good shoes won’t make you better at soccer, a fancier gym won’t give you bigger muscles. These things come from hard work, perseverance, dedication. You can’t buy skill no matter goes much money you have, I love that.

Any art or craft or sport is pretty much free when you weigh up the hours vs the outlay required.

Except skiing and motorsports. That eats money.

I think that was potassium-permanganate and sugar. It was one of the saner recipes ( who really wants to blow their face off or smoke banana skins ) with somewhat easily available ingredients.

It was legit. But the temperature window between melting the ingredients together and igniting it was very narrow. We did what your friend did, we made the smoke bomb and also set it off in one go.

Your friend must’ve been in a while ton of shit.

The guy explained the rational he didn’t say it was his personal view that it should be done.

And even if was his view we shouldn’t be down voting things based on whether you agree or not. We should do it on whether it adds to the discussion.

The quality of discourse on lemmy is fucking dire.

It cost governments around the world trillions of dollars to get through COVID… The uk’s debt went from 80% of GDP to 100% in the space of just 18 months. It’s hardly a viable economic plan to carry out on an ongoing basis.

Many non essential industries and travel just completely froze And guess what? Co2 production barely even stuttered according to your graph.

The solution is to transition into a renewable, prosperous, circular economy. Not go backwards into poverty.

Perfect! You just summed up the problem more clearly and concisely than I have seen in any mainstream media.

But I see this kind of coffee shop maths everywhere going completely unchallenged. Company statements just printed wholesale.

I keep reading this, I don’t think it adds up in the way that coffee shops are claiming.

Nikki Bravo, the co-owner of Momentum Coffee in Chicago, raised prices by about 15% last week for lattes, cappuccinos and other drinks at her four locations.

Bravo said she is paying 15% more for coffee beans compared to a year ago and has started roasting more beans in-house to save money. She gets most of her beans from Africa.

When you a buy a coffee you’re paying for beans, sure. But mainly the expenditure of a coffee place is it’s staff, premises, taxes, equipment, water, electric and all the other overheads.

The average U.S. price of a pound of ground coffee hit $9.14 in September, a 3% increase from the August average of $8.87 and 41% higher than in September 2024

40% in a year is massive, but what does a lb make? 50 cups of coffee?

So the cost of the beans went up 8c and she puts her prices up 50c and says it’s the beans.

and none of it is indeed by search engines. No one else will ever be able to Google their problem and find the answer. All the useful knowledge put into a box and buried. It’s just awful.

Same as if you let go of a kite. It’ll just tumble back down to Earth over some distance.

Have a look at the clock faces there using to Benchmark and it’ll make more sense.

£2k. And £50 a year for a chimney sweep.

Pretty sure heat pumps have higher maintenance costs as well.

Fire is dirt cheap, that’s why a good chunk of the world still uses it as their principal source of cooking and heating. They’re not doing it for the vibes.

Hear pumps are great, they have many advantages but cost is not one. Hopefully that’ll change.

A heat pump is £10k to buy and install, that ain’t cheap. In fact that would buy me enough wood to heat my house for 50 winters.

I think that’s how it’s been justified but the company just sold so it’s not worthless anymore right? Can’t have it both ways.

Firefox blocks this behaviour. If you click a link hijacked by an app you can choose to continue in the other app or open it as a website.

This is what diplomacy with a narcissist looks like, and everyone is doing it. Trump whisperers are in hot demand.

The bit I find funny is trump is so dense he doesn’t even realise he’s being spoken to and manipulated like you would a child. In this case for a good cause, so well done Rutte.