Gawds, slam me with the thang!

I find it a wild take to think that the 5% (or fewer?) “special” people will be enough to sustain a completely new, separate refueling network. If anything, these people may switch from gas/diesel to EVs a little later.

EV charging infrastructure has a big potential to become a lot more flexible than whatever refueling infrastructure would allow, e.g. inductive charging, maybe even on the road, is likely to become a thing; battery swapping will become a thing at least within standardized fleets; on-car solar panels may start producing enough energy to allow typical daily commutes; … Over time, all that will ease pressure on the grid. Add in the requisite grid upgrades and Job’s your juncle.

Economics is usually the all-overriding factor. Green hydrogen has a built-in price multiplier in comparison to electricity because it’s based on electricity but adds a bunch of extra inefficiencies in both production and in usage. And the cars are more expensive and much more intricate too. Apparently, in regular use-type situations like buses, current fuel cell designs even need to be replaced every 3 or so years.

Toyota can’t make all of the inefficiencies go away. Even less so if Japan continues to produce its hydrogen from Australian coal. Toyota has had a couple of failed bets (H2, solid-state batteries), to the degree that they’re now so incapable in future tech, they need BYD to help produce models for the Chinese market. In RoW, they needed to go all-in on a 20-year-old technology that has extremely questionable decarbonization potential (gas hybrids).

Other Japanese car manufacturers are also seeing their market share eroded in China and iirc, Mitsubishi even left the market outright. Meanwhile, German companies with their expensive and lackluster but workable EVs are at least doing ok-ish there.

You’re right. For further illustration, go do a web search for “kei car”. The shape of these things is entirely driven by Japanese regulation that gives cars with limited size/weight/motorization certain tax/usage advantages. There are very few of these cars on Japanese roads that are not space-maximizing boxy microvans.

Some of this article’s wording seems rather manipulative:

manufactured with machine tools from the Swiss company GF. […] When contacted, the Schaffhausen manufacturer claims to have delivered them before 2018, well before the invasion of Ukraine. “No sanctions or other export control regulations have been violated in this context,” it said.

SRF has analyzed Russian customs data for the first time and found that since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, more than one hundred machine tools from Swiss manufacturers have found their way to Russia, despite sanctions.

So they didn’t disprove GF’s claims regarding the Kalashnikov production machinery being sold before 2018. Then they found 100 other manufacturers who are producing machines that may or may not be used in war-related production.

Admittedly, claiming innocence selling into Russia post-2014 is horseshit but it’s the kind of horseshit that flies, since everyone did that.

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Nah, fuck us. The EU managed to not get to this point in over two years of war. Pre-Trump, a complete embargo on all Russian fuels (oil, gas, uranium, maybe even wood) would have been welcomed by the US government and Trump would have had a much harder time trying to roll back sanctions. Now that we fucked the dog on that issue, everything is much harder because the more fickle among EU government leaders will have two influential voices in their ears trying to avert further sanctions. I also think this war could have been over already if Europe had given more weaponry much sooner, sanctioned fuel imports much harder, and done anything at all to protect its societies from the influence of Russian propaganda (even RT is still easily accessible, just not at the same web address).

I find it a bit curious. You’re choosing to believe one guy who scrolled Reddit a bit too long and whose Tedx talk to a large actually consists of reading aloud r/nofap comments over actual scientists who research this stuff with some rigor.

That’s not to say porn doesn’t have negative effects. But confidently basing theories on anecdotal evidence is not getting us much closer to truth, is it?

This is Wikipedia on the guy who started the site:

Wilson argued, counter to relevant experts in the subject, that porn addiction is a public health issue,[11] and said it led to negative effects such as depression and erectile dysfunction.[13] According to Jason Winters, a lecturer on human sexuality in the department of psychology at the University of British Columbia “There is no research showing that Internet pornography causes mental disorders — none”.[14]

I find the influx of “non-European dumbass urges Europeans to do dumb thing” articles a little disconcerting, to be honest.

It’s the operational reality of a herd mentality in the C suite across every major and semi-major software company, a C suite that cares much more about bullshit Gartner reports than what their underlings say, coupled with high-ranking marketing people who are addicted to Outlook and think everyone should be.

There are only two possible email providers in the world (apparently) and Red Hat is using Google, so they couldn’t possibly go for that. :)

In any case, if any Suse exec talks to you about digital sovereignty, be aware they don’t believe their own spiel. (The more traditional Linux dev folks think differently, to some degree. But, as elsewhere, the culture wars over that were largely won by the “business” part of the company.)

You don’t want to know how much Suse itself spends on MS365 and Windows licenses. :) All email to/from at-suse-dot-com is going through Exchange 365, and the majority of employees use Mac and Windows systems as their primary work systems, that’s true even for certain groups of developers.

There is a German law against the trivialization of Holocaust and other NS crime. These comparisons tend to run a high risk of such trivialization.

People comparing garden-variety police brutality with Gestapo are likely running afoul of the same law, fwiw.

StGB, § 130 (3) A custodial sentence not exceeding five years or a monetary penalty shall be imposed on anyone who publicly or in an assembly condones, denies or plays down an act of the kind described in Section 6 (1) of the International Criminal Code committed under the rule of National Socialism in a manner that is likely to disturb the public peace.

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VStGB, §6 (1) Whoever, with intent to destroy in whole or in part a national, racial, religious or ethnic group as such [kills, abducts, etc.] shall be punished with life imprisonment.

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Please read the post first before trying to twist my words into something that isn’t there.

Where did I say posts about the middle-east are not allowed here if they are in relation to Europe?

Literally this whole discussion is happening under the premise that discussion on Palestine is restricted.

Restricted, as in “please don’t voice certain opinions here (some of them at closer inspection trollish/unsavory anyway)” but not restricted as in “don’t mention this particular topic”.

Yes, and I’ve stated, if legal concerns are so troubling there needs to be censorship on the topic, moving to a different instance outside of Germany

It’s not hard to start a community here. There are several !europe communities with non-German mods on non-German servers already, too.

But there’s no point in me, as a German, modding the kind of community you want.

I have no interest in participating in a community

This is your first comment here anyway, isn’t it?

Ftr, I will eventually need to unlock those, I hope to get to that at the end of the day.

Thank you!

That “how” is indeed an issue here. I don’t know what to say there.

Perhaps, in terms of a practical example, Germany did unite peacefully. Granted, technically, the West swallowed the East, and the East adopted the Western political, legal, and economic system, so one of the two states had significantly more say in how it happened than the other. Which wouldn’t be a good idea for a Israel-Palestine state, to say the least.

(Fwiw, from what I’ve seen, I would say you’re usually arguing in good faith.)