“yay natural resources!” -The other side

That application was in 1987. A lot has changed. In 1987 Spain only just joined (1986). There has been for a very long time dispute about the Western Sahara, occupied by Morocco and from where a lot of previous inhabitants/resistance have since lived in Spain. It was at that time and I think it still is also just an easy excuse to not include an officially Muslim country. And a Moroccan border would be a lot harder to guard against than current borders. Little of this kind of stuff with Canada, they’d just blab about historical ties and historical times requiring historical steps etc and make it happen. Biggest obstacle would be Hungary, USA, Russia, not geography.

Dunno and didn’t read article, but buy in Europe first, prices go up, sell in USA last.

Honestly a not-the-worst back-up for a starter is just regularly (monthly for example) plugging in an external SSD, HDD or even a memory stick and put data you value in cold storage. Almost all can be rebuilt and gathered again, except data you personally value.

And when it does you buy a display, not a tv

More important than ratio is how many seeds are left. Keep the ones that are low on seeds, ditch the ones where there are hundreds of others seeding.

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On mobile Voyager is quite nice imo

There’s just one little hurdle: choose an instance when joining. Maybe it could just be some sort of “choose for me” and every instance gets equal new users, random. Of course with the option to “nope, I’ll choose instance myself”. Everything else is technical and a casual new user shouldn’t be bothered very much by it. Some are very interested and dig in to the knowledge, some just want to scroll cat pictures and call it a day, and that is fine too.

Can digitise for you

The efficiency of an EV SUV will never be anywhere near the efficiency of an (electric) bicycle. Motor and battery efficiency also improves for bicycles. The bicycle will always need only a fraction of the resources, in materials, electricity and occupied space.

It embeds the existing dominant individual, resource-wasting mode of transport even deeper into the culture (and urban planning). That makes it a negative for urban environments. Bit different story in very sparsely populated areas.

There is no more room for diplomacy when the ones you have to agree with have already backstabbed you before. Donald trump is the biggest problem this world has currently. Even less reliable and less predictable than Putin. Why won’t these old men just die already. Trump is clearly demented on top of being stupid and an asshole.

haha didn’t think of that yet. The “thank you” from trump to Qatar, Bahrain, Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Jordan: quite a few of the members got fucked over very quickly with the generous gift of regional instability!

She is willing to recognize the error and that is exactly what is needed now. Yes it comes from their selfishness but it’s the best way to turn these people around: them feeling it themselves and finally connecting in their mind that voting for this idiot = everything is getting crazy more expensive. Not sure if she should be made fun off for finally seeing her error. The more people feel okay with having been wrong, the better the next vote might be… while there still is voting. Making fun of them will make other people dig themselves even deeper in their trenches of stupidness?

I’m not very familiar with situations in every country ;) A bit in Belgium and Germany. In Belgium it is like the Polish miners: if certain groups are involved, I think the effect is felt in agreements in the end. But that is still what is needed after all: agreements. No union wants to strike forever, there is money to be made after all, striking is expensive for the workers (which is a main reason unions exist at all). Workers and owners share similar goals, don’t forget: work, make money, be wealthy. Strikers generally aren’t disputing that, all they are disputing is how much % of the wealth goes to whom.

If the Metallurgy takes to the street, politicians are scared. If farmers/truckers block highways, politicians are scared. If dockers go to Brussels, they bring fireworks (also literally), politicians are for sure scared of them. These do happen to be some of the best paid ‘low education’ jobs. Is it a coincidence?

The magic is, and it happens rather rare indeed, that all of them strike together, you need the dockers supporting the nurses etc. Unfortunately I think the battle against the pension age is lost everywhere. The EU serves as a divider by the way: we’re always told we need to earn less of pension later or … because “all our neigbouring countries are more competitive in this field!”. Then you tune in to the media in the neighbouring countries: it’s the same fairytale. The capital succeeded in dividing the workers across Europe, unions across EU-inner-borders extremely rarely join forces, and it has become a major weakness of the unions in EU today.

In my experience the general public transport strikes do more bad than good to the workers, for sure in the long run. These strikes are just way to common, general opinion outside the profession is that they are already generously treated for pensions, holidays, etc.

Then there are a few groups of workers… they barely have to announce a strike and they’ll get what they want. One group is the train drivers (not all public transport, just the drivers). Another are the maritime pilots. If these strike, nothing moves. All ships/trains are blocked and the entire economy bleeds like crazy immediately.

But no, I can’t provide you with any concrete evidence of protests actually having forced a better deal than if no protest would have been held. It’s a gut feeling i guess. I don’t think there has been a lot of A/B testing on this, tricky to organize ;) And between countries cultures and striking traditions are just a tad too different to be able to compare it easily.

In some cases I think it does help to protest and take to the streets and not only strike. For example striking dock workers and metal factory workers is one thing. Having them march on the capital is another still… There’s definitely overlap between these groups of workers and soccer hooligan groups for example. A large protest of certain groups imply the promise of non-state controlled violence if agreements aren’t reached.

Other case is when the protests is just really really big. A few hundred thousand does work to get the message spread more clearly how ‘willing’ they are to keep striking. While striking and just sitting at home during strike sends rather mixed signals.

It also enforces the “we’re in this together” in the workers.

Honestly for headphones this is the case. There’s absolute crap low to mid segment. But there is really really good stuff mid segment. The main quality factor for headphones to me is how comfortable they feel for you, physically, on your ears. Supergood sound but bad feel = very unpleasant.

The water in the pipes requires a lot of energy. Extraction, cleaning, pumping it around. It will get more expensive with higher energy prices.

Producing food requires a lot of energy. Tractors, harvesters, packaging plants, transport to supermarket. Energy prices will make your food more expensive.

Houses need heating, cooling, repairs.

The cost of almost everything almost everywhere will rise a lot very quickly in the coming months if this mess keeps getting messier (and it is). Fossil fuels and the price of it are deeply embedded in every aspect of life.