What many posters in this thread fail to realize is that there is a very good reason why steam hasn’t been hit by the enshittification that otherwise permeates human existence in 2024.

Of course, Gaben as their CEO has the last say in it. And he’s just a good guy. But wait, aren’t there other companies that have good guys as their CEO and yet the enshittification persists?

The profound reason is that Valve is not a publicly traded company. They have no obligation to any investors to make number go up. They are a private company, they can do whatever the fuck they want. If they stay flat and keep paying their employees, that’s totally fine, and there is 0 pressure on them to change anything. THAT‘s why Valve seems like such a different company compared to everything else that’s out there.

Of course it’s still a choice to go public or not, and they have made the right call (for us consumers).

Good man. I agree 100% - the more warming we get, the bigger of a difference each .1 degree makes. So we should only get more aggressive about climate change the worse it gets instead of giving up.

Nahe 50% ist für Spitzenverdiener. Also Fachkräfte. Die Leute, die man angeblich so dringend haben will.

Man hinterfragt es normal nicht weiter, bis man mal ein Praktikum in der Schweiz macht, wo nur 8.5% Steuern gezahlt werden … und dann ist man richtig verwirrt.

Die Schweiz ist ja natürlich auch ein sozialistischer Musterstaat.

Indeed, what the hell is this article?

Ain’t that the truth

Ist das nicht literally das setup zu bahnwärter Thiel?

Wegen BILD und russischen trollfarmen.

I’d like to relay this comment from hacker news: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36834046

It seems there’s news of a battery breakthrough every week. I’ve learned to temper expectations, because so many “breakthroughs” turn out to be dead ends. Because it’s not enough for a battery to be incredibly light, or made of abundant materials, or last for ten thousand cycles. It needs to be good at many things and at least okay at most things.

E.g.—

• How much capacity per dollar?

• How much capacity per kilogram?

• How much capacity per litre?

• How quickly can it be charged?

• How quickly can it be discharged?

• How much energy is lost between charging and discharging?

• How predisposed is it to catching fire?

• How available are the materials needed to manufacture it?

• How available are the tools/skills required to manufacture it?

• How resilient is it to mechanical stress, e.g. vibration?

• How much does performance degrade per cycle?

• How much does performance degrade when stored at a high state of charge?

• How much does performance degrade when stored at a low state of charge?

• How much does performance drop at high temperatures?

• How much does performance drop at low temperatures?

• How well can it be recycled at end-of-life?

A sufficiently bad answer for any one of these could utterly exclude it from contention as an EV battery. A battery which scores well on everything except mechanical resilience is a non-starter, for example. Though it might be great for stationary storage. I’m only a layperson and this list is what I came up with just a few minutes of layperson thought. I’m sure someone with more familiarity with battery technology could double the length of this list. But the point is, when you daydream about some hypothetical future battery tech, you need to appreciate just how well today’s lithium chemistries score in so many areas

While I appreciate the sentiment, I think it’s unrealistic to expect the greenhouse gas concentration in the atmosphere to decrease. For that, we already would need net 0 emissions AND some sort of carbon capture system in place.

For now, what must decrease is greenhouse gas emissions, and the article admits that that is what happened (but the decrease was so low it could be attributed to natural fluctuations).

Der zweitbeste Zeitpunkt ist heute.

Hat nicht geklappt weil die NPD nicht relevant genug war, und ein verbot damit nicht nötig ist, war die Begründung.

Das ist bei der AfD anders.

I did not realize this is a month old. I certainly did not know about this, but I figure this piece of information probably can’t be overstated for now :-)

Not with this attitude. Did you consider writing your representative that you support this motion?

Kann man da nicht Anzeige wegen volksverhetzung stellen? Da wird sich bei den Riesen Firmen nie was ändern, außer legal klopft an. Und dann geht das aber extrem schnell, glaub mir.

Kann leider nur einen upvote geben, aber das trifft den Nagel auf den Kopf.

So eine Einstellung hilft halt auch nur den rechten Parteien. Wenn die Linken immer nur 100% ihrer überzeugung durchsetzen dürfen, sonst sind sie nicht „ideal“ - wie soll das gehen? Wenn sie nur 15% der Stimmen haben? Da muss man halt auch realistisch bleiben und eben die Partei wählen, die am nächsten an den eigenen Überzeugungen ist, auch wenn die nicht 100% davon durch kriegen.

Wenn man die Flinte ins Korn schmeißt, gewinnen halt wieder die Rentner mit ihrer CSU oder den AfD Zombies. Damit ist dir sicher auch nicht geholfen.

Die „gute nachricht“ ist, Bayern war schon immer so! Hier die Ergebnisse von 2003:

Bottom line kommt man auch da auf ca. 65% rechts. Ich vermute mal, das gute ist, es ist nicht mehr geworden …

Jo, sobald andere Parteien gewählt werden „fehlt ihnen das bayerische gen“, wait what …

Im not sure what you are talking about, carbon taxes are one of the best ways to mitigate co2 emissions.

If two producers produce the same good, but one of them emits less co2, that one will have higher profit margins.

This is just one of the levers to nudge industries (who, let’s be real, are the main polluters) towards cleaner operations, and as far as I am informed, it’s one of the most effective ways.

So this is good news. It’s good. We have to celebrate that, too, lest we all suffer from doomerism. Can more be done? Yes, there is always more to be done.

But is this a good, important step?

Definitely.