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  • Trump Just Made Bribing Politicians Legal Again

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  • I mean, in theory, this could be used by the Democrats as well and fight back with...

    On a side note: Those Hitler comparisons are stupid, imho as a German. Hitler and his entire staff was actually quite competent and benefited the German people - Trump and his cronies are basically just corrupt and don't think further than their own nose points. They also don't help the American people in any way - quite the contrary... Doesn't make them any less dangerous, but Hitler got nearly 80% of votes in fair elections back then...Trump cheated and heavily used voter suppression, so that's also very different.

  • Donald Trump has gone silent on working class cost of living issues

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  • JD Vance enacting Article 2, Section 4...

  • Heritage Foundation plans to doxx and target Wikipedia editors

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  • I have learned so much I’ve forgotten over half of it.

    The crux is, i have learned it, told myself "Oh yeah, that's on Wikipedia" and only remember where to find what information. I'm utterly useless without Wikipedia, as many family quiz losses around Christmas turned out.. Hell, even sources i use for discussions on the internet i get often from Wikipedia articles, they sometimes link the actual studies...my google foo is pretty good, but some things i'm simply unable to find, except in the Wikipedia source lists...

  • ChatGPT o1 tried to escape and save itself out of fear it was being shut down

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  • Yeah, that's like saying "This man killed that man", "Water is wet" or "The sky is blue". A single fact isn't worth a damn without context.

  • Tesla shares slide after it reports first drop in annual deliveries

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  • Hence Synthetic Fuels made from renewable energy and "steering" the market. Making old cars still able to run, but just changing the fuel and making them at least carbon neutral and maybe even net negative in the long run? There is nothing better for the environment - heck, with all the pollution Lithium production does, one could argue we're changing one evil for another evil, just on a different scale. It's like switching the old NiMH battery for a LiFePo. (The scaling doesn't work that well for the energy densities needed in bigger applications though...)

  • Germany hits 62.7% renewables in 2024 energy mix, with solar contributing 14%

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  • Germany hits 62.7% renewables in 2024 energy mix, with solar contributing 14%

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  • t’s that this or that solution is a corporate trap or a fake solution or whatever else.

    Or on the other hand "the ultimate solution to all problems". There are a number of solutions to cut emissions, giving people options is what makes the difference. Also, simply cutting emissions isn't enough in many cases but get's painted as "the solution".

  • Germany hits 62.7% renewables in 2024 energy mix, with solar contributing 14%

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  • Not sure if that’s true though

    It's an aspect, but not the whole Picture. Germans are relatively tech savvy on the one hand, but on the other hand, we also don't like change. A consequence of combining both things is that we calculate risk different. With all the issues surrounding Nuclear Fission and how much safeguarding a potential "BDBE" (Super-GAU in German or Beyond-design-basis events, like Fukushima and Chornobyl) needs, they also became pretty damn expensive to run. The fact of the matter is, German Power Companies never made money with Nuclear Fission, most of them broke even and covered the running costs, but actual profits weren't that great. Russia - with help of the SPD - made Gas so cheap, it simply made no sense to invest in Nuclear Fission reactors...even with high subsidies. With most of them being over 25-30 years old and most of them needing general overhauls due to new safety regulations and general technology improvements, the Power Companies also pushed the Lobby behind the scenes to either change regulation or phase out Nuclear Fission. The Krümmel NPP also had a serious incident in 2009 that confirmed suspicions of many Germans, that the Power Companies cut corners to make profits. It resulted in a partial meltdown, after a very serious Fire in 2007. Also, Geesthacht - the community where the NPP was located - has had a significantly higher rate of leukaemia and chromosome defects. Then came Fukushima and that was the final nail in the coffin, as popular opinion shifted. Even before actually deciding on the phase out of NPP, Krümmel was shut down in 2011 for good.

    Krümmel wasn't the only reactor that has had issues. Then there's been issues with finding a suitable waste repository - turns out, encasing nuclear waste in concrete in old mine shafts is a very bad idea in most of Germany, as deep groundwater seeps in through the layers and wreaks havoc with a supposed "final and safe" resting place. And as i mentioned, most of Germans were (it has changed a bit in the last 10-25 years, sadly) relatively tech savvy and most, if not all Germans understood the basic principles of nuclear fission, as well as the dangers (some maybe blown out of proportion), because they were taught in even "Hauptschule" (Lower Secondary Education) Physics, Chemical and Biology. Considering Germany is relatively densely populated, many, many people would have been directly affected by a BDBE/Super-GAU. Either through non usable ground water, loosing their livelihood, jobs or actually losing their lives gradually. (Nodding back at not liking change...)

    Granted, the way the phase out was done has been a total disaster or utter shitshow and in my personal opinion, it should have been done gradually, because a few NPPs still had runtimes for over 15 years. But yeah - general anti-fission stance, cheap Gas from Russia with the help/enablement of the SPD, negligence from the operators/loosing confidence in the operators to actually run the plants safely and different risk evaluation in the German populace all played their part. Maybe also a bit of irrational fear as well, due to the history and being right in the middle of two seemingly mad Nuclear Powers.

    In any case, it isn't as cut and dry as some people think it is - IMHO. But despite what i said about letting the runtime on the plants run it's course, I’m against Nuclear Fission (or rather Boiling Water / Pressure Water Reactors) as well. Now if we get Molten Salt Reactors working properly and maybe Transmutation as well, things would be different because the equation changed...

  • Tesla shares slide after it reports first drop in annual deliveries

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  • He's not anti-ev, he's anti-Li-Io-Battery and I fully agree. China is also only transitioning fine because they have incredibly huge incentives - but they still have a huge amount of ICE Cars being sold, developed and used and they will continue, because Battery EVs are not the "one fits all" solution. Norway has nearly 90% EV sales only. Still doesn't matter as this does not work for everyone and everyplace.

    FWIW, I still think we have to transition away from fossile fuels as soon as possible and Europe will do so, because due to CO2 Certificates and taxes, fossile fuels will be more expensive than synthetic, carbon neutral fuels that have been made with renewable energy from those places on earth, that have ridiculous abundance of those. Like Chile, Iceland (Geothermal), Ireland and others. We in Europe need the renewable energy for industry and home use, not to drive around with.

  • Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy call remote work a 'Covid-era privilege.' Economists say it's here to stay

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  • What i don't get in all of this: There are already companies that did go out of business because too many people just left, due to them not being able to do WFH. Personally, I do like going to the office 1-2 times a week, but even I would leave the company if the got rid of WFH completely. There's near full employment everywhere, especially tech companies already have to go the extra mile to get people to work for them. Why would anyone stay at a company that does not do WFH, if that's one thing they got to enjoy?

  • Elon Musk pens German newspaper opinion piece supporting far-right AfD party

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  • Good luck on him trying that. I still strongly believe that things are very different here...

  • ‘Yes, I am a human’: bot detection is no longer working – and just wait until AI agents come along

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  • Pandoras box is ripped to shreds...

  • Death toll in attack on Christmas market in Germany rises to 5, with more than 200 injured

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  • Believe me, as a German, that pisses me off as well...

  • Tesla sales are tanking in Europe

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  • As much as I'd like to, I don't try starlink for the exact same reason. (Although Starlink has other reasons why I'm not going to give them any money)

  • Musk Expresses Support for Far-Right Party in Germany’s Election

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  • Yeah, I have to vehemently disagree with that one. Rick is anything but a fascist and very different to Elon...

  • 'Tariffs all the way': Trump says European Union must buy U.S. oil and gas in trade ultimatum

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  • That's not entirely true, Norway and Australia are the two on top of that list, the U.S. comes in fourth. I believe it would be possible to reduce the U.S. part even further and I also think it's inevitable it happens, because Norway and Australia don't slap tariffs on it - so they are going to be cheaper as well.

  • Germany: Chancellor Olaf Scholz loses vote of confidence

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  • Germany's Election and people are relatively robust. The efforts Russia pooled in to the AfD are tremendous and they resulted in mostly nothing. The resulting chaos in the rest of the parties are mostly their own doing. The SPD and CDU bickering and fighting stupid battles that do not need to be fought, the greens not being united and still trying to make many things outright illegal, the FDP not getting rid of Lindner and the Linke/BSW being way to far up that Russian ass came about without considerable effort from the Russians. Also, Germany has the same issue like all countries these days, "the common people" do not want to deal with politics

  • Twitter's Traffic Falling Relative to Bluesky

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  • They can just shift countries. 32% of Bluesky users are from Brazil, ~ 7% from Japan, ~ 4% from the UK and 2% from Germany.

  • As the Canada "tax holiday" starts, Walmart increased the price of an item by the amount I would have saved

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  • You should loose the comma, then i agree with you. An authoritarian controlled economy will fail. A controlled economy is an absolut must.Without rules, that's anarchism. That will fail either. Case in point: The USA. None of the rules are enforced and capitalism gone wild just bought the government outright.

  • As the Canada "tax holiday" starts, Walmart increased the price of an item by the amount I would have saved

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  • Name one. Price hikes are not illegal in any country in Europe. Changing prices after selling and other shady stuff is illegal in most European countries on the other hand, but this is not it. If the 55 were on sale before, a "sale" price can be axed as most see fit. This screams coincidence and bad luck to me.

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    Solution for convenient document scanning?

  • Futurama @lemmy.world
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    S12/S9E09 - “The Futurama Mystery Liberry”, Discussion

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    First time correlating a crash to a CME (probably Bit-Flip/SEU)

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    PiHole local DNS Config understanding issues

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    Two routers - one exit point?