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by mantas 1y ago
I had similar revelation watching friend’s son asking him stuff about how to use cell phone. When I was young, it was always the other way around. And it still is, I keep helping my parents. But now I wonder if I’ll end up the IT guy in bot
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by mantas 1y ago
I am not an electrician, but big problem with home-solar is grid not being bi-directional. In my whereabouts it's common to have good „down“ power, but no permit for „up“ back to the grid. Which makes it not worth it for home users. Ba
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by mantas 1y ago
As an euro, here it's the same. Even though (most of?) europe is pro-solar.
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by mantas 1y ago
On the other hand an old-school power plant has relatively tiny footprint compared to the same output solars. Many old school plants also rely on dams and provide massive ponds. Which sucks during construction when some people have to move.
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by mantas 1y ago
Technically I could see some reasons. Grids need serious upgrades to support personal solar properly. Which is €€€ and, if end-customers would have to foot the bill themselves, very few people would install solar at home. On top of that, at
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by mantas 1y ago
Eh. Here we had some leftists in previous government. They had fancy idea to make hate speech an administrative offense. Because apparently penal offense process was too complex so they couldn’t trial as many people for online comments as t
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by mantas 1y ago
It’s not specifically far-right thing. The left are snitching and doxing people for the last decade if not longer.
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by mantas 1y ago
And what is on the table according to you?
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by mantas 1y ago
My views didn't change. I voted moderate right before it was tolerating migration. Here „far“ right offer is to deport illegals and curb new migration. Also, we have detention centers since forever. What do you propose to do with illeg
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by mantas 1y ago
Good question. My views didn't change. But somehow from voting moderate centre-right or even classical liberal I had to start voting for far-right instead. So... who am I?
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by mantas 1y ago
Nowadays this label is overused so much that it pretty much lost it's meaning. It's not fascism-nazism to be against mass migration. Nor it's fascism-nazism to not fully support whatever letter comes next to join LGBTQAZ+ or
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by mantas 1y ago
As a european, US migration situation is insane. And it’s hard to cal US „right“ that tolerated such policies promoting illegal migration for decades a „right“ wing. And european mainstream right is no longer right for the last few decades
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by mantas 1y ago
Calling today’s „far“ right fascists/nazis/etc is just a disgrace to victims of the real thing.
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by mantas 1y ago
The so-called conservatives are radical centrists at best. While today’s „far-right“ would have been considered moderate conservatives not so long ago.
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by mantas 1y ago
That’s what is going on here - parties repeatedly getting 2% over 4 years get gov donations - parties can take capped membership fees - private citizen can forward a minuscule part of incomes tax towards a specific party, fully anonymously
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by mantas 1y ago
Japan or Korea are not shrinking that much, but they’re getting older. Give it a couple decades when last bigger generations start vanishing entirely en masse.
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by mantas 1y ago
Real estate bubble would pop for simple reason that were would be significantly less people overall. And much lower real estate prices could amortize a lot of wages shrinking, from labour perspective.
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by mantas 1y ago
By allowing uncapped funding, you’re just giving a lot of power to big money. Which is not exactly democratical either.
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by mantas 1y ago
Still less work hands would mean change of balance between the capital and the labour. The changes in real estate pricing, which is one of the main expenses for labour, would be massive.
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by mantas 1y ago
So far government does u-turn after each election so it looks like there’s enough safeguards to make sure formula stays sane. Maybe it would be a problem if private citizen funding was fully banned. But now that’s allowed with a cap to avoi
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by mantas 1y ago
So… FB with like and no dislike button?
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by mantas 1y ago
But essentially it’s very close. The result here was that private campaigning was rediced a lot. Debates are mostly state-organized. Big portion of posters are on state-designated special billboards. There’re still some ads on all sorts of
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by mantas 1y ago
I wonder what would happen given today’s demographic if mass migration was shut down. There may be similar change. But ruling class is hard at work to avoid that.
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by mantas 1y ago
Not 100% what OP proposed, but in my country political funding is extremely capped. Compared to US, campaigns here are tame to say the least. But overall it’s for the better IMO.
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by mantas 1y ago
And even the connecting like-minded people turned out to be crappy echo chambers
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by mantas 1y ago
There're dozens of us! Dozens! I'll stick to my almost-4-years-old 13 mini as long as I can. Probably will change battery before original batteries are too hard to get hold of
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by mantas 1y ago
And it’s still shitty. Uber/Bolt is like on par with 90s taxis. At least here there was a short attempt to make things better in early 2010s with nicer cars and trying to force drivers to be nicer. But then it was „disrupted“.
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by mantas 1y ago
That was a year ago when the writing was already on the wall. I guess they accepted defeat and just want to cash out in Chinese market as much as possible before the inevitable hits.
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by mantas 1y ago
It was very strange when Germany was one of the countries blocking protectionist policies for car industry. If they keep going for short profit avoiding retaliatory policies, it may get awry. I think there will be even stronger trend of eur
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by mantas 1y ago
And those decisive actions will probably end up being bottle cap style.

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