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yeah but Elon is still a Nazi so there is that

If that means businesses will accept a card without grumbling (or at all) I'm all for it. Feels strange to come from a supposedly less-developed country to Germany and having to pay cash.

> highly redundant operations

We wish, but that might not be true. Last year a South Korean government data center burned down and some data was lost forever with it. A few days ago, Ukraine attacked Yandex data centers (3 of them I think?) and some services stopped working, one of them a bank, so people can't get to their money, and it's not certain they will in the future.

Power generation generally seems to be much more redundant in that war. In part because Ukraine connects to the EU power grid and Russia itself has a huge grid. Sure for a small island country the situation would be different.

The BBC article fails to mention that this new 2CV is aiming for the new M1E vehicle category, created especially for small, affordable EVs.

If you want something bigger (than 4200 mm) then the battery will be so expensive anyway that most of the added tech does not change the price considerably. And also forget about the analogue dashboard because we have a billion mandatory digital assistants anyway (I'm not complaining, anything to save lives).

Does it not bother you it's entirely fact-free? No source, no info what exactly is on Y-Axis and provided data ends in the future at the time of the posting?

(and Zdechovsky is not a reliable source at all)

I'd guess in 2026 all vignettes can be bought online, for several different periods from one day to whole year, so you can and should buy them once your itinerary is set.

Russia is an extremely rich country, in natural resources and potential. But the governing class is worse than a mafia because mafia does not lead senseless wars outside of its territory while making their own (mafia) people worse off.

Your point is a good one but there are many people who left even when they couldn't really afford to and are stuck somewhere, but still won't return.

it's storage being hit too.

Well, did Russia agree? They didn't and they won't so this is moot. You are certainly able to grasp the diff between Trump wanting unilateral Ukraine attack stop and Macron wanting a bilateral stop.

Well the Russians themselves also considered the vaccine a geopolitical and propaganda tool, which is why they rushed it so much.

Sedatives are often also dis-inhibitory drugs (like alcohol, but that one has a more complicated profile also involving dopamine) and benzos, and they contribute to socialization by downregulating inhibitory behavior.

(but I agree it's probably fake).

> The F1 isn't just spectacle it's also something that should show real advancement in technology.

Maybe 30+ years ago. Carbon fiber parts, motors made of Beryllium alloys, the hybrid tech was interesting for a short while etc.

But then, either you want fun for the fans of the fossil engines OR you want advancement in technology. I don't think it can be combined anymore. My feeling is it will go the way of horse races, completely irrelevant to the broader transport technology, and won't go electric at all.

> China has been blatantly dumping a buttload of products for decades

By that account China would be bankrupt by now because subsidizing a "buttload" for "decades" does cost a lot of money.

I think the reality is much more subtle - they force their way into a new market if needed and then stop and let the market forces do their thing.

Not my experience regarding the smell.

The shiny look is probably not an unchangeable property of the polyester yarn. Right now I've got 100% polyester trousers (uniqlo) on me that are not at all shiny.

Polyester is great. Not in suits perhaps, but otherwise, it doesn't absorb sweat and so it's a much better option than cotton in warmer climates.

do you also count eg published results of very expensive physics experiments? because once the costs of things like these are taken into account, we are way over 10 billions.

It is currently proven beyond doubt Assad indeed used chemical weapons. You are most probably a Russian propaganda tool.

see for example https://bsky.app/profile/eliothiggins.bsky.social/post/3munb...

> I guess this is why most wine carry a sulphate allergy label these days.

Partly. There is some natural level of sulfites present in wines - very dependent on the terroir, and then the rest comes during the manufacturing process; some sulfites may be added directly so the wine does not spoil.

There are wines that do not contain any added sulfites and even then may cause trouble to the sensitive persons if the sulfur content of soil is naturally high. Some manufacturers therefore also add info about total measured sulfite content to the label.

And nowadays, not only demijohns or wooden barrels are used to hold wine; of course stainless steel vessels, but also concrete vessels and even things like the Georgian qvevri underground clay vessels or amphorae are having a comeback.

You can't generalise from one wineyard in one country, but you know that. And France is hardly an organic wine leader.

Copper sulphate is a fungicide used for centuries and is pretty safe (so safe that my chemical engineer father was willing to use it in his otherwise completely sans-chemicals garden). Organic wine not only does not use (other) fungicides and herbicides; it also does not use other chemicals and processes in later stages of winemaking.

> there's almost no second hand market for the vehicles

this is very simply completely untrue

It's difficult to find used cars with automatic transmission, I assume? Because most new cars being hybrids or EVs already come with one.

It's a complete non-issue.

"compact manual transmission cars" means cheapest cars you can get. Nobody loves them, but they were cheap. They aren't cheap anymore and if TCO points to a small EV, people will buy that one.

If my memory servers right, in 2008 you could buy a new Dacia Sandero for under 6000 euro in our country (EU). It's over 13600 right now for the current generation.

That's only possible in countries with completely broken citizen IDs (like the US and the UK). Of course correlation is messy and broken and it's not used in other countries. It's also intentional because every attempt at fixing gets stopped or even backtracked.

In other countries citizens have IDs, and the ID can be sometimes wrong (ask me how I know, although that was back in the paper era) and that's the one thing that needs to be fixed. Once the ID is correct, everything works, because that's the single source of truth after that.

More or less anything you said is wrong and the path to better Europe is certainly not through dropping import controls.

You could have checked the facts yourself, you didn't, and now when it's clear I was right you moved the goalposts. You are arguing in bad faith.

from 1.3bn in 2022 to 5.9bn in 2025

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/29/eu-introduces-...

surely you will apologise now, right?

I have never been addicted to nicotine so can't compare but it's quite easy to quit caffeine, I'll get headaches for a few days and then it's gone. But then what? Caffeine makes it easy to concentrate and work, enables me to get anything done at all. Other drugs that do that are illegal. Maybe one day, when I'm no longer working, I'll quit it for good. Not yet.

This was exploited from the other side by sending billions of low-value packages, so now the EU adds €3 per article category (so 2 shirts = €3, 1 shirt and 1 spoon = €6) to every package that's under other customs thresholds (€150 usually). With the view this will be eventually replaced by automating the tariff calculation for every package in a few years.

As a result, the number of imported packages dropped anywhere from 30% to 80%, we'll have to wait for the full numbers, but there is a reason to expect something similar will happen in the US.

Why didn't CDU "solve the housing crisis"?

There are also fleet emmission fines for ICEs so it's not so bad (and very expensive fuel too). Otoh you need buy-in from the population, so making domestic EVs more attractive than foreign ones is one of the better ways to do that.