I’m afraid European countries would not defend themselves militarily because they simply would not stand a chance. US is capable of moving far greater army to Greenland than Europe is.

Europe would respond with economic sanctions and god knows how much of their economy they would be willing to sacrifice over Greenland. Maybe a lot, maybe they would tell Denmark to suck it up.

The manifesto? Why not?

This is useless. No one is recording the fire for Instagram.

It was a good offer, I know.

There would be a lot of infighting and the right would tear itself apart. Charlie Kirk’s death quickly became just another grift and the fight over TPUSA crowd turned ugly. Same would happen with Trump.

Price is the biggest issue for me. Those phones cost over 600 euros while you can get Pixel 9a for 400, probably less if there’s a deal (I got 8a a year ago for 250). 650 euros for a mid-range phone is a lot. 200-400 euros more just not to buy a Pixel… I will think about it.

Gas stations losing 83% of their customers is a huge change with cascading effect

That’s just your guess. When ICE car displays low fuel warning you can still drive for about 60 km and in my experience you can easily reach 2-3 gas stations. Where I live there are 5 gas stations within 2 km radius. It’s typical to have two gas stations on both sides of the highway. When it comes to car charges the GOAL is to have one every 50 km but it’s still not there. When there is a charger it’s only on one side of the road or even couple kilometers off the highway, in some town. Yet we still have about ~16% of electric cars on the roads. Even with 80% less gas stations ICE drivers would still be in a pretty good situation, similar to the situation of EV drivers now. On top of that gas stations double as service stations. People stop there to buy drinks, food, wipers fluid, pump their tiers or wash their car. I never saw w charging stations offer any of that. Gas stations make majority of their profits from their convenience stores and services. So it’s really hard to say what effect losing 80% of cars will have. A lot of gas stations will close, some will transform into service stations with chargers and some will probably stay as they are.

Almost everything can be frozen. If I buy chicken I just prepare it all and freeze it. Same with everything I will not use in the next 4-5 days. If something can’t be frozen I just plan my meals to use it all quickly. Like if buy lettuce I will eat a salad two days in a row.

Yeah, if you try really hard you can do anything wrong.

As a cyclist I’m super careful not to hit anyone because it’s more dangerous for me than for the pedestrian. I mean, high speed it’s probably equally dangerous but at low speed I can bump into someone and end up on the ground.

It’s more dramatic now because a lot of people switched when it was less dramatic. People switched more on a principle than out of need because they understood what Microsoft represented and didn’t want to support it in any way. They switched because they knew they don’t control the direction Windows is going and this exact scenario can happen. Without those people Linux would still be a niche OS and Mac would be the only real alternative. People talk about it like Linux just magically got better on its own, like it was some natural evolution that happened in a vacuum while everyone was using Windows out of convenience. It didn’t, we worked hard for it over the years. So yeah, a “thank you” would be nice.

I don’t know if it’s funny or frustrating that everything people are complaining about with Windows 11 are the exact same things we were complaining about with every previous version of Windows from 95 to 10: lack of control, limited configuration and bugs. Yes, Linux was super raw and difficult back then but we still switched and worked hard to make it better. I think all the articles encouraging people to switch today are missing simple “Thank you”.

Is 80 supposed to be little? I never knew my great-grandparents so I’m only aware of my 2 past mothers. If I knew 10 mothers that would be huge, I would know about the great-grandparents of the great-grandparents of my great-grandparents. 80 is not “only”, it’s beyond comprehension.

Those are the predictions I found:

Basically 17% ICE cars forever. This is pretty much the share EVs have in EU now and today EVs don’t really struggle with replacement parts or charging infrastructure. ICE cars don’t need as many stations so even if many closes they will be fine.

And I think this prediction is very optimistic. Once you leave the door open everyone will try to get their foot in the door. For example with total ban gas stations would be forced to adapt and roll out chargers but now they can also stall. I can already see it. Gas stations are perfect places to put charges but few of them do it. If they do it’s often in the city, not along highways which is stupid and their chargers are the least reliable. I makes perfect sense: they want to cash in the incentives for building charges but don’t want to actually help EV cars. With the new proposal we will see more of it. They got 90%, now they will try to get 80% or 70%. The entire industry will work to slow down the transition and make more money.

It is not quite that bleak. They went from 100% EV for all new car sales in 2035, to 90% EVs and 10% being allowed as combustion engine cars.

It’s not 10% of combustion engine cars being allowed. The entire car fleet produced after 2035 was supposed to carbon neutral but now the goal is 90% reduction. The estimates I’ve seen say that with the new rules 20% of cars will use combustion engine after 2035. The 100% CO2 reduction is no longer planned at all.

What this means in reality is that the industry can keep making combustion engine cars forever. There will not be any hard limit on the numbers of combustion engine cars sold, it will be still be up to the consumers. To compete with China on EVs European companies would have to invest a lot of money into it and they don’t want to do it. This is basically their way of backing out of the competition. People will keep buying gasoline cars and the industry will say “what can we do? people don’t want to buy electric cars. we missed the targets, sorry”. When this happens they hope EU will move the targets again. This most likely means that the automotive industry in EU will die and people running it know it but just want to suck as much profits out of it as possible before it happens.

We’ll see how it all ends. Right now best case scenario is that automakers in EU go bankrupt as fast as possible, Germany looses leadership position in EU and stops fucking things up for everyone.

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I was always taking about the article. Because it’s a post about an article. If someone is talking about something else than they changed the subject. If you want to talk about something else feel free to make a post about different article. I will read it and tell you what I think.

This is not even politics. Politicians in other countries don’t do this. It has nothing to do with policy or administration. It’s empty virtue signaling politicians in US do for some reason. It’s just disappointing to see Zohran is not above it.

I’m kind of disappointed that even he has to do the silly theatrics where everything needs to be symbolic and meaningful. He was sworn in at an old metro station (because public transport) on TWO Qurans “one belonging to his grandfather and the other from the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture”. Because just using his grandfather’s book wasn’t symbolic enough, they had to add one culturally significant as well. Later he will be sworn in AGAIN, this time with AOC and Bernie Sanders present. I guess they couldn’t pack enough symbolism in one ceremony so they will have two. Let’s see what Qurans and how many will he use the second time.

Why not just go to the town hall and swear on a book they have there and be done with it? It all has to cost shitload of money to organize, money that could be spend on something useful. It really looks more like a religion then public service.

Veep made fun of it all the time, like when Selina was buying a Christmas gift and had to buy “a book of poetry by one of my favorite African-American poets and a graphic novel with a very strong female Asian protagonist.”. Yeah, we get it.

This obviously doesn’t say anything about his politics. I just find the constant pushing of narratives pathetic.

Sometimes refactoring tools are not enough and you have to do the same change in couple of places. Boring, repetitive work. For example last thing I did is that I refactored some code and I had to change the way objects used in tests are initialized. Basically couple hundred lines of just constructors and setters. I knew exactly what needs to be created because tests where there so I feed the expected structure into a LLM and it generated the code. Saved me some boring work and I didn’t have to worry about mistakes because compiler and tests would pick it up.