I'm not saying it's impossible or unfeasible, but it has to be taken care off. It's effort, it's part of a device that can fail or break. There's something nice that the spinning metal takes care of that automatically. Physics has much less bugs than software.
But I agree that there are probably easier ways to cope with that problem than building a nuclear power plant.
Load yes, but synchronizing a DC battery to a frequency (including phase!) is a different thing.
Exactly.
But that's what this whole thing sounds to me like. You have a company that's about to go belly up, and you somehow strike a deal to suck everything of value out of it instead paying back bills, credits or any other kind of liability, scr*wing over all your creditors. And, in this case, customers.
Someone is transferring money to himself that belongs to the creditors. A fraudulent scheme.
So I cold set up a straw man company that takes out a credit to buy a car, then sell the car (its asset) to me for a dime on the dollar and then go bankrupt and not having to pay back its liabilities?
Sounds like a) fraud and b) similar to what is happening here.
But so is the crime of bankruptcy fraud when you would such a tactic to remove assets from a company before it goes belly up instead of using them to cover liabilities.
But then again, selling all assets to cover as much liabilities as possible is part of the bankruptcy process..
So I could go to a restaurant or a car dealership and only buy lunch or a car as an asset but not buy the bill that comes with it because it is a liability? (Of course I may have to do that through a third party)
No. But fraud is.
What you can get from context is amazing, too, but what happened here is the exact opposite as I gave literally NOT context when I asked for the meaning of "like a hogshead in a duck pond"
Decoding that with context would have been something like "Have you seen that drunken guy on the dancefloor stumbling around like a hogshead in a duck pond"
But you don't even need fake etymology. I don't know if it's a feature of language or intelligence, but we are able to understand language constructs, that have not existed an instant before. The whole humor of malapropism works on that principle. We not only can coin new phrases, but often understand them without explicit explanation.
But of course explaining some "new" or "newly made up" term like it has always existed is a new form of funny.
Well... let's see what we get:
That's a wonderfully vivid and rather humorous idiom! "Acting like a hogshead in a duck pond" means behaving clumsily, awkwardly, and disruptively in a situation where one is out of place or too large and unwieldy.
Think about it:
A hogshead is a large barrel, typically used for storing liquids. It's bulky and not easily maneuverable.
A duck pond is a relatively small and calm body of water, suited for ducks to glide and dabble.
Imagine trying to put a large, heavy hogshead into a duck pond. It would:
Be out of proportion: It's far too big for the environment.
Be clumsy and awkward: It would likely bump into things and struggle to fit.
Cause disruption: It would stir up the water, scare the ducks, and generally make a mess.
So, when someone is described as "acting like a hogshead in a duck pond," it implies they are:
Lacking grace or finesse.
Being insensitive to their surroundings.
Making things uncomfortable or difficult for others.
Generally not fitting in and causing a disturbance.
It's a colorful way to say someone is being a bit of a bull in a china shop, just with a more watery and barrel-filled image!
Well, makes sense.
Sorry but I'm not a multi-billionaire who gets the tax breaks to do it.
Seems like they don't want to do their job any more that the Gen-Z....
...and considering that there are probably much more Gen-Z than the 4 million mentioned above.... your experience is not in any contradiction to the article.
Not ALL are unemployed, not ALL are lazy.. and so on.
Sorry, you missed my point.
Of course everyone should be able to live with coffee latte and eat avocado and an occasional movie. Even a trip to the cinema with popcorn!
But anyone slightly more responsible than a 16 year old teenager should have an rough overview over his finances to answer if he actually can afford it.
And to be honest: That's what makes those things great: They ARE affordable. Even if you have to keep your money together, you usually can treat yourself to one of those occasionally.
Go back and read my post again. I said, that these things are not the problem, but a lack of financial oversight(*).
(*) some people may go overboard and try to call it something fancy like "financial intelligence". I won't go that far as there is nothing "clever" to the basics but knowing your monthly income and monthly fixed expenses (rounded to the nearest 100). You should not just skip Starbucks if you don't even know those, but not spend any money at all until you looked it up.
The avocado toast is not the reason.
But it is a symptom. For the complete lack of interest up to outright refusal or denial of your overall financial situation. Most people don't even have a rough estimate of monthly expenses vs. income. They know that skipping the daily latte won't buy them a house - but they do not know that it would pay filling up their car once. So they don't realize that that anxiety attack when the reserve light comes on two days before the next paycheck is totally optional. And you won't realize it's a bad decision if you don't even know that it's a choice.
People think of their daily latte or 15 streaming services as "self care" instead of taking care of their mental health.
https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/volkswagen-currywurst-rekord-100.html
It turned into a Food Store.
In 2024, VW produced and sold more Curry-Sausages than cars. (Combined number of cars and trucks over all VW-owned brands)
In a five year period we can get one superb programming language. Only we can't control when the five year period will begin.
