Formula 1 is actually a great example of mix maxing constantly going wrong from fun perspective, and series changing its rules to bring the previous people who min maxed the fun out of it back in line.

But it's also a bad example because of amount of money involved in min maxing in formula 1.

"Minmaxing the fun out of the game".

1970s called. They want their fearmongering back.

I wish. It's fucking snowing again here in Southern Finland. Can we have some of that "heat stress" please? I had plans to have some fun with football today. Don't think it's happening.

Also was hilarious how quite a few idiots believed the popular narrative and started changing their summer tyres earlier, because late winters aren't a thing any more because of global warming.

Now they're clogging insurance company emergency numbers, because skating on summer tyres is awesome until you encounter a tree or a ditch.

And for those not aware of the "heat deaths" narrative, for every added heat related death, we are shedding about 9 cold related deaths. Because cold is a way better killer than heat.

No, the problem is still too much solar, because due to right of priority seller that intermittents get, it means that stable generators can't sell what they produce much of the time.

Then they go bankrupt and when sun isn't shining, no one is left to keep the lights on.

Subsidy regimes for Big Solar aren't ending any time soon. PRC alone is subsidizing their solar manufacturers so heavily, that pretty much everyone else went bankrupt a while ago. And the regime only got more subsidy heavy since.

Has there been a recent breakthrough making them viable, or is this more of a "but Japanese made one big farm" narrative that keeps going around the internets?

It also requires geographic conditions that are absent almost everywhere on the planet. Geothermal is more available than pumped hydro at scale. Which is why there's a lot of babble from the Green crowd about pumped hydro for intermittent storage for decades at this point, and very little to show for it.

Turns out no amount of tongue wagging can generate mountains with empty reservoirs that aren't permeable.

1. Does not exist in meaningful volumes. Will not exist at relevant scales for decades if not centuries. See: mining company reports.
2. Going from supposedly cheap to hilariously expensive due to building costs, maintenance costs and the fact that you're going to need to move it a very long distance before intermittents are in opposite phase of "on/off". As we have seen in European grids, which are exceptionally interconnected, and we're still getting the extreme variability in spite of that.
3. So you can burn cash in your boiler to generate steam and spin the turbine to get electricity?

Everyone who understood how power grids work told Green idiots that this is what would happen if you keep shoving inflexible intermittents into the grid with not a thought about grid stability.

But for people for whom food comes from supermarket, electricity from the socket and reality has a left wing bias... trying to get through to them with actual reality and what it is like is all but impossible. They're far too sheltered and decadent to see reality for what it is.

It's going to get much worse before it gets better, because big solar is hilariously oversubsidized, while being exceptionally damaging to grid stability under current rules of being able to sell all intermittent power before any of the stable generators can sell anything to the grid.

Which leads to Danish scenario of stable generators that are desperately needed for grid stability going bankrupt due to being legally banned from selling what they produce much of the time in favor of intermittents, while intermittents overload the network with massive oversupply for short bursts, and then go nearly fully offline for short bursts. End outcome is what African nations that were blocked from getting loans for anything but intermittents are struggling with in spite of having absolutely massive energy investments. Grid that only works a few hours a day.

Thank you for balancing the parentheses. Cosmic order has been restored.

I think we should celebrate this important day for you. The day you discovered marketing.

It's a true milestone. Most people in Western world hit it by age of 7 or so. How old are you by the way?

Triggered low intelligence china troll is the best china troll.

But you need to go harder.

It's still not paid for. And likely never will be. But you can buy a premium account with perks.

Which is a model taken straight from free to play games, that have been doing this for more than a decade. And a model everyone in social media is desperate to copy in some way after twitter demonstrated just how successful that model can be.

Unlike Farty Don, who merely wants to shoot them.

It's actually really weird in the way it's interpreted. There was a recent case here in Finland, where a very popular consumer electronics store got fined for a very large sum of money (percentage of yearly revenue that is higher than their yearly profit margin) by a regulator on the basis that they allowed anonymous purchases, but held the data from the purchase beyond immediate fulfilling of the purchase contract.

The store allowed the buyer to get the data, request data deletion, etc. Holding the data was explained by the fact that purchase created a need to also meet requirements of warranty, both legally mandated and manufacturer's, as well as ability for the non-registered purchaser to register and get access to their old purchases list.

Regulator fined them anyway, and according to "severe violation" rules in spite of it. Because it required additional work that wasn't immediately obvious to get the store to delete the data and violation being long standing (in spite of store clearly believing in good faith that they were following the law, and actively helping with the regulator's investigation).

It actually screwed a lot of legitimate customers like myself, because we rely on the store to hold our order data for as long as possible, so we can go back and review, check warranty status, check dates of purchase etc. Now separate action is required to go there and check a box "to hold the data for more than absolutely necessary" as a result of this ruling.