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by grumpy-de-sre 1y ago
I mean the obvious is that Switzerland is rich, and money is power. But it's true that public infrastructure is more dependent on local rather than federal governments. I think the best example of weak local governments has to be the U
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by grumpy-de-sre 1y ago
I mean the public transport infrastructure here is great, and there's a lot to love about the place (it's why I'm still here after all). But spot on about the mentality. A lot of that great infrastructure here was inherited,
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by grumpy-de-sre 1y ago
Warsaw really is booming, visiting from Berlin feels like stepping ten years into the future. Lots of real (and not paper) economic growth.
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by grumpy-de-sre 1y ago
But you cannot have good public infrastructure without a strong state (strength on its own isn't authoritarianism). A lot of western governments are rather weak, I swear baumols cost disease and spiraling social/retirement/de
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by grumpy-de-sre 1y ago
Public transport is in a lot of ways an aggregate expression of state power. It takes a lot of state capabilities to be able to execute public transport well.
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by grumpy-de-sre 1y ago
One of the very few places in London that I ever felt truly at peace. I think the heavy maze like structure was incredibly effective at blocking out the sound of the city and the water features / conservatory made it an amazing place t
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by grumpy-de-sre 1y ago
Yeh the congestion on Beijing's ring roads is pretty awful. Orderly but awful, also less EVs than ideal. Have a friend from Shanghai here in Germany that had a really hard time getting a drivers license due to her old driving habits. A
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by grumpy-de-sre 1y ago
Was actually quite surprised by how "civilized" the driving was in our recent China trip. Don't think I heard a horn once in probably 20h or so as a passenger, did find the drivers up in Heliongjiang a bit bold with their lan
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by grumpy-de-sre 1y ago
Big concern IMO with 10BASE-T1 and PoDL for long runs / in wall installations etc is the lack of galvanic isolation. Maybe I'm just paranoid but there's a ton of advantages to not having to worry about things like ground loop
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by grumpy-de-sre 1y ago
"Judge Flannery did not record a conviction against Lidden and ordered that he be subject to an 18-month bond and recognisance release order." Thank god, after a couple years he should have a real chance of getting his life back i
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by grumpy-de-sre 1y ago
Even worse is that if you google the poor blokes name they had the paparazzi out taking courthouse photos. The gutter press in Australia have a field day at peoples expense. Plenty of precedent of throwing high profile court cases too (hard
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by grumpy-de-sre 1y ago
Pretty sure he won't be getting a license to drive a train anytime soon. Especially not with a recorded conviction.
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by grumpy-de-sre 1y ago
In the meantime public sentiment toward cats in Australia is becoming really toxic (due to the consequences of a long-term ineffective feral control program). I swear one day when the chemical baits turn out to be worse than the cats themse
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by grumpy-de-sre 1y ago
I've joked that the nuclear wasteland will be populated by cockroaches, rats and ... cats. They are the ultimate survivor.
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by grumpy-de-sre 1y ago
From what I understand SAC305 if not exposed to corrosive environments has a relatively low (but nonzero) risk of whisker formation. But in practice in a hobby environment it's not going to be a big issue. Pure tin (or Sn99.3Cu0.7 allo
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by grumpy-de-sre 1y ago
Damn right, there's absolutely no justifiable reason for using leaded solder for hobby projects today. Get a good iron, and a nice roll of SAC305 from a reputable vendor and you won't have any issues.
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by grumpy-de-sre 2y ago
You're definitely not alone. In my case it's somewhat of a learned behavior, a lot of my favorite video games make me violently motion sick so over time I just stopped playing them. Most TV is pretty boring IMO. There's alway
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by grumpy-de-sre 2y ago
Visiting China earlier this year broke me, left the place dismayed about the situation back home. I'm no communist, just someone who recognizes the social and economic benefits of abundant housing, cheap energy, and forward thinking tr
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by grumpy-de-sre 2y ago
The post 1970s financialization of everything [1] is probably behind most of Britains decline. The UK was just an early adopter [2]. Embracing that nonsense (including rampant neoliberalism) has really rotted the backbone out of our society
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by grumpy-de-sre 2y ago
Various state governments are already blocking solar projects. I'm continually shilling Saul Griffith's work on here, I can't remember the particular piece but he calculated that by delaying the solar/wind transition, fo
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by grumpy-de-sre 2y ago
The secret ingredient is millions of dollars from fossil fuel lobbyists, and the Murdoch media running a heavy propaganda/misinformation over the past year. Their only goal is to divert public funds away from solar/wind projects.
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by grumpy-de-sre 2y ago
Propranolol is such an underrated drug, or at-least it was when I first started using it twenty years ago (initially for hand tremors but I found it did more than settle just my hands). Glad others have been discovering its usefulness over
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by grumpy-de-sre 2y ago
I mean are we talking about the USA here or Iran?
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by grumpy-de-sre 2y ago
Definitely a great place to start! Do you have any links to any material/info on this topic? I'm sure some folks have begun talking about protocols.
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by grumpy-de-sre 2y ago
The great news is we can break the internet if needed. It will be torn down and chopped up into moderated walled gardens, it's inevitable. Algorithmic rage bait and echo chambers are incompatible with a functioning society.
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by grumpy-de-sre 2y ago
We are all rapidly aging and pretty much no-one is bringing in anywhere near enough net contributing migrants to offset this. What the immigration argument overlooks is domestic migration, particularly urbanization. It's zero sum for s
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by grumpy-de-sre 2y ago
All of the above is completely true. But right now they are in the acute/fallout phase of a massive economic disruption (the deleveraging of a highly indebted real estate sector, no less severe than the GFC, they overbuilt to a massive
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by grumpy-de-sre 2y ago
I'm not sure how much acceleration we're seeing, do we have numbers on this? Or are voters just becoming disenfranchised? Acceleration is great hope/source of optimism.
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by grumpy-de-sre 2y ago
I vote, monetary policy, weapons of mass destruction [1]. At-least have a long term plan for deleveraging residential real estate. Sure that'll suppress construction even further for a while but I'm sure we can get to the other si
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by grumpy-de-sre 2y ago
On a purely numbers basis the older generation of homeowners far outnumber the young. It's going to take a good while before the balance of power can be shifted. Democracy has the longterm tools for sure, just not for another twenty ye

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