Where “is” actually means “has been for many years” and “people finally started acknowledging it recently” but still won’t do anything about ti for a few more decades…

I think it’s not natural, rather an illustration of covert media propaganda being very powerful.

That the point…

In reality nobody loses faith in democracy. They simply criticise the application/implementation (specifically the EU one that isn’t very democratic in the first place and the total lack of consequences for lying politicians).

But the decline of democracy has another facet… the deteriation of media quality and information being replaced by attention seeking and framed clickbait bullshit. Which is what brings you this rediculous misinterpretation of the cited study.

Or: reading this article should not tell you that people lose faith in democracy but should make you lose faith in journalistisc standards at the Guardian.

Actually young Europeans are losing faith in the actual implementation where constantly lying politicians suffer zero consequences while the media floods everything with bullshit as a diversion.

This BS article with it’s utter misrepresentation of the actual study cited is a perfect example of the latter…

And as usual -because it’s all about diversion anyway- we are talking about the wrong topic.

Carbon credits aren’t the problem. Making cheaper and climate-damaging production more expensive artificially so climate-friendly alternatives make sense economically is the whole point.

The problem (the actual one they don’t want to publically talk about) is that those credits are far too cheap at best, just a total scam at worst. And that’s intentional… thus the constant diversion by discussion much less important details.

You can’t have a high military budget, a big military industrial complex, knowledge about your stockpiles (and the rate at which they are depleted) for several years and problems with your stockpiles running dangerously low all at the same time.

And given that we know the first three points to be a fact…

Linux is Linux. What sets distros apart are basically the config and pre-install defaults and the package manager…

The latter is Portage, developed for Gentoo and used (among others) by ChromeOS.

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The problem is that the people lacking those technical skills are struggling with Windows, too, but got brain-washed into believing that this is how it’s supposed to be. And they are somehow also the ones defending Windows bullshit the loudest because else they would need to acknowledge being wrong.

But Europe already took note… and then copied them meticously to produce a massive shift to the right to weaken social programs, privacy rights, environmental protections and human rights in the name of fabricated immigration issues (read: actively sabotaging integration then flooding everything with xenophobic bs -with some culture war non-sense sprinkled on top- to divert from their looting and pillaging…).

What I cited was growth in May (with other brands having numbers from 3.3 to 6.3…) which then was followed by the statement that “Chinese car brands were the main driver of growth in May” with no numbers given. And that makes no sense.

Nobody doubts that the yearly growth is impressive (out of context that is - see below…) but that’s not what the “in May” statement is about.

Also we can find yearly numbers for registered EVs further down in the article. And sure… BYD’s +158% or Xpeng’s +350% for example look impressive. But then there are Skoda (+182%), Ford (+280%), Citroen (+411%), Porsche (+204%) with several of them having completely new entries in 2025’s most-registered top25… unlike those chinese brands. (Side note: the post’s description talks about increased market share “led by MG & BYD”… MG actually lost 40% in registered EV volume year to year.)

So I still see this as manufacturing hype about chinese EVs when in reality growth of chinese brands just reflects the growth of the electric share (massively for those bringing brand new models to that quickly changing market) in the total car market, with multiple European brands showing comparable (or better) performance.

File permissions…

allowed to execute=1, allowed to write=2, allowed to read=4

grouped by owner/group/everyone.

So one of your own files you have full access to while users in your usergroup are only allowed to read it and nobody else has any permissions would have: 740 (read+write+execute / read / none).

That’s not a problem but a feature as those morons very well align with authoritatian assholes like Putin. Okay, Russia’s imperialist ambitions look like a problem at first but that can obviously be solved by being on Putin’s good side *wink wink*

As much as I despise Windows while also using archlinux/i3-wm as my daily driver…

Tiling is no rocket science. Basically every stacking window manager including Windows can do it well enough to be usable with just a few properly configured defaults and short-keys.

For the majority there is sadly a very simple answer…

Reason #1 to be at risked of being impacted by that malware? You don’t care and won’t read a technical article either.

Maybe I’m bad at maths but…

VW Group: +3.3%

Renault Group: +4.6%

BMW Group: +6.3%

Chinese Brands: +5.9%

How can chinese car makers with less than 6% market share and not actually exceptional growth compared to competitors be “the main driver of growth”? Other than “that’s the narrative we like to spread” of course…

People are obviously too stupid to learn so why waste ressources on inventing new lies when you can just tell them the same rediculous one over and over?

If you are talking about 2016/17 then your statement is missing a “in the span of just about 3 months”.

Can’t be true or they wouldn’t constantly increase their US dependence against the explicit will of the voters.

Depends: If you want to show that officials are blatantly lying the stuff they say is indeed the relevant information.

I might surprise you but people don’t vote for the law as written but indeed for plans and promises made by law makers.

Green energy transition FUD #3248902349082380495423

In reality they are already operating green facilities but won’t convert more unless the required green hydrogen is actually available in reasonable amounts at reasonable prices…

Prediction: Next week we will get the next story of how the energy transition is failing because no one wants to build up hydrogen production as industry is already cancelling the projects requiring green hydrogen. 🥱