You go far enough left you end up meeting far right ideas. Same when you go the other way around.

Israel <> Jews

Just like

Hamas <> Palestinians

The risk of letting in a spy or terrorist is too large. No thanks.

There are plenty senates in EU states and EU also has multiple bodies where one state = one vote, and plenty EU resolutions need unanimous vote for passage giving (say 2.1M Slovenia veto over the other half billion people)

Giving more power to the unpopulated rural areas has not gone away at all.

Reddit’s bottom line in the short term is unimpaired that is how they won.

But in the long term- they are dead. I mused on this before.

Social network need monopoly - otherwise the business model struggles. One Facebook. One Reddit, one Instagram. Facebook, Insta, Snap, and TikTok however are struggling because they are now the same thing in different packages.

Not so Reddit. Reddit was a true monopoly. Nothing else compared. Well no longer. All their hiking have spawned a true credible alternative in Lemmy/Kbin. This will kill them. No matter of it’s Fediverse or something else - now there use than one place for Reddit. That means a third, fourth and fifth place is in the realm of possibility. And they WILL emerge. Others will try to enter the Reddit space.

Reddit had a niche and it was so dominant. No one truly tried to enter my ya niche. But that was not good enough. The enshittified it over and over again. And now the. Have competition. As they will never have a monopoly again. They will struggle to get their ads money. They will struggle with the margins. They will struggle. Yahoo will buy them in 10 years and do the mercy blow.

It’s not about pro Russia. It’s about being pro corruption and oligarchy.

Yes. Everyone told them to use the “disturbance of public peace” angle. They chose this idiocy. No f— clue why.

In Danish media the quote actually said the recycle bricks had higher carbon footprint than those from virgin plastics.

Plenty other uses for recycled plastics. Not every application is ideal for recycled plastics.

What if I told you, the kid playgrounds are there for the parents ;)

(Yeah yeah. Not all adults are parents. Still tho).

Adieu , a parent of a kid.

I think there is more to this. In Sweden OK/Q8 their main chain of gas stations is installing chargers at many station and more coming every day.

Similar in Denmark.

the business model does seem to own out. Germany sells nearly as many EVs (as a %of all car sales) not sure why the progress is slower in Germany.

There are some stubborn car/ICE centric cultural and commerce cliques in Germany. Perhaps this is a response to them? But I feel there is more to it than meets the eye.

There are more … controlled ways to do that than in the middle of a war.

Thank the Saudis for that. Since the start of the invasion, the Saudis have been coordinating with Russia in decreasing output to drive oil prices high.

The US has been subsidising the domestic demand/prices by releasing from its strategic reserves, but last I heard this are about run dry.

You’re just reiterating my points. Yes they are better. And for people without a choice living in car dependent he’ll holes - an improvement.

But the fact that you live in a car dependent he’ll hole is another failure of our society - and prevents you from using much better options.

We should be addressing the root cause. Not the symptom.

In functional societies, EVs are a small improvement. The noise and carcinogen pollution, land use impact and simple danger to soft street users are key damages ALL cars make to spaces occupied by people.

Finally - I am tired of “we need cars for those with impairments / to reliever things / other bullshit.” We do not. It’s just the completely broken car-dependent American perspective.

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Two failures do not make a right.

The point above stands. EVs do little for the environment. Compared to sensible options like transit and biking and walking they are marginally better, but hm hardly at all.

Oracle or RedHat?

Let’s wait for the final bill.

I do not thing we will return to user swappable batteries. It will just be easier to have a shop replace your battery. But that is just my guess. We do not know the final bill yet.

Sweden just taxes you upon landing. Sure some airlines left and some only fly short connect flights. But those are not easy fixes especially if all of EU was doing this.

They have been stuffing ballot boxes for decades.

The point is not to have sick people jumping through hoops and shopping around. The point is to stop exploitation in healthcare.