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Joined 2 years ago
Cake day: June 17th, 2023
  • ikttoCanada@lemmy.ca•So how is not buying American going for you?English
    2•4 months ago

    Yep sorry I’m in Aus not Canada, they’re a local manufacturer (https://reclaimenergy.com.au/), expensive as hell but felt like showing my support to at least one of the few places this still does engineering in Australia

    How is that heat pump treating you

    Really good! the separate compressor from the tank makes it whisper quiet, can barely hear it even if you’re a foot away, co2 which is the most environment friendly refrigerant, and power usage is well, minimal, only a small 160L tank because I live by myself, can see example of what it uses here (it’s the light blue bit at around 8am in the morning):

    That said it is summer here in Queensland, will have to see how it goes in winter but under 1kw a day for hot water, that’s really not bad at all imo

  • ikttoCanada@lemmy.ca•So how is not buying American going for you?English
    14•4 months ago

    sorry to butt in but that’s a hobby of mine 😀

    for example going full renewables: solar panels made in south korea (qcells), battery german (sonnen), ev south korea (hyundai ioniq), heat pump australia/japan (reclaim energy)

    I’m now looking at computer parts made exclusively in taiwan (looks like gigabyte mainly) because europe appears to have 0 competitive chip makers

    it seems you can still buy bigger items that are local or non-china made but you will be punished for it, prices are anywhere from 10% to 100% higher

  • iktOPto[Locked] YUROP@lemm.ee•Germans... lazy?? They are now 40% more sick per year than a few years agoEnglish
    5•4 months ago

    By data alignment I mean do you think France/Austria/others are having just as many sick days but they are not being counted?

    Compared to France you were still quite high, but France does not have any data since 2018? Why? But even back in 2018 you had more than double that of France and Estonia etc

    It looks like Germany and Czechia have significantly higher sick days compared to everyone else

    For the downvotes: I am ok with this, I am more interested in the discussion on why Germany appears to rank so high in sick days (also Czechia as well)

  • ikttoTechnology@beehaw.org•China's new and cheaper magic beans shock America's unprepared magic bean salesmenEnglish
    1•5 months ago

    we’re not in the slower than walking era, we’re in the ford model t era, i’m reading someone call the ford model t magic beans (eg. a scam) while millions of people are driving one every day and simultaneously worried it’s going to ruin transportation all over the north america

    “It took years of hard work for us to steal beans from farmers, apply our unique brand of magic, and seek investment from our nation’s finest rubes and oafs,” a Beanco spokesman said. “Now DeepBean wants to steal our magic beans, rebrand the magic, and get money from their own buffoons and clods? It’s just not right.”

    again, these are contradictory statements, it cannot be both a scam that has no value (eg. magic beans) and going to take all our jobs

  • ikttoTechnology@beehaw.org•China's new and cheaper magic beans shock America's unprepared magic bean salesmenEnglish
    1•5 months ago

    You can absolutely leave and fund a “good” company, good luck getting anywhere.

    If the product has value then people will buy it*

    Humans have always created jobs, we love em, can’t get enough of em, in a capitalist system if people want to buy human made goods and services and those systems are profitable then there will be jobs for those people

    This isn’t a communist dictatorship where you will be forced to buy government sponsored AI produce and no other choice is given to you

    *I assume the products would have little logos on them like “non-gmo, organic, human made and farmed fruits!” etc