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Didn’t know that they had low orbit sattelites - good for them and for EU

One problem: The alternatives work on geostationary orbit while Starlink is on LEO. This means Starlink has fibre-like delay of ~60ms, while others are 230ms+

Even better: Hybrid Trolleys that can run prolonged distance without electrical traction

What they have now is about same as 30s Germany and 90s Rwanda

I don’t know much about Rwanda, but I can tell that claim “Ineqaulity caused Hitler” is pretty much wrong. You’re trying to say, that the people fed up by the inequality between elites and the poor voted Hitler into power, but that’s not what happened. It was the majority party SPD - German Social-Democrats - who put him in the chancellor position. Nazis had something around 20% and two biggest parties were Social Democrats and Communists.

I’m constantly amazed that these events are given so little time in the history classes in schools.

When was the last time wealthy stopped getting wealthier?

This isn’t even a problem. You should strive for increasing quality of life for everyone rather than some idealistic notion of equality. People aren’t equal, period. Some have great ability to run business or produce goods, others don’t. Inequality is inevitable.

Rich pay fuck ton of taxes. Most of EU has progressive taxation and capital gains tax. What else do you want? Unlike in USA there’s no ‘Buy, Borrow, Die’ loophole allowing tax escape when inheritance happens

Public transport is not a for-profit business

In the end everything is for profit business. New fleets of buses won’t magically pay for themselves. City may subsidize the public transport, but it’s because the increased economic activity and quality of life attracts people and businesses resulting in higher tax revenue.

These businesses still operate on profit and loss. They can’t just move to full electric because in 100 years world might warm up by 4 degrees. If you want electrification, then make electricity and batteries cheap in the first place

Warsaw public transport made a report few years ago about costs and issues with electeic busses. Main problem: Range, Second problem: Higher total cost over entire lifespan of the vehicle

The rumour is nonsense and Valve isn’t making a console with a 9070

Valve isn’t making a console, but independent OEMs definetly are. There were branding guidlines released by Valve some time ago. It looks like Valves plan is to maintain the operating system, while everyone else is making hardware running it.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/valves-new-branding-guidelines-hint-at-steam-decks-steamos-for-more-devices/

you only need one pool of memory

RAM is dirt cheap lately, so I don’t think it would make sense to design entire custom circuitry to save on that

Surely this just adds cost and design complexity.

I’d say it’s the opposite - it’s just a small form factor PC with off the shelf components

Commission on Human Medicines (CHM) had published independent expert advice that there was “currently an unacceptable safety risk in the continued prescription of puberty blockers to children”.

Wait, that means Trump was right?