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by mschuster91 19d ago
Railways have emissions standards different from road vehicles. And VW cheated because they couldn't pass European regulations, the thing is that the big lawsuit took place in the US because US courts allow far bigger monetary amounts.
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by mschuster91 19d ago
That is insanely inefficient however. It only makes sense for transoceanic air travel, probably supplanted by synthfuel from biomass, but in the long term we will see ships powered by batteries. Far far more efficient.
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by mschuster91 19d ago
Look around on youtube how dilapidated a lot of US freight rail is. I'm German, so I'm well used to dishing out on our railways, but at least our rails don't look like spaghetti that have been way overcooked and can only safe
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by mschuster91 19d ago
About the same frequency the US starts a major war or oil prices skyrocket for someone else's war. 20-ish years ago was the Iraq 2 war. 20-ish years before that was Iraq 1. Now it's the unholy combination of Ukraine beating Russia
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by mschuster91 19d ago
They do have a point though. Libya, Syria, Lebanon, that's our doorstep, not the US'. And we in fact did not do a good job keeping house there.
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by mschuster91 20d ago
Europe was skeptical ever since 'nam and at the latest Bush Sr's Iraq adventure.
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by mschuster91 20d ago
Simple, for one the ITU region assignment, there's a bunch of other countries in Africa and Asia that are in the European Broacasting Area and thus eligible to join the EBU. The other thing more applies to other sports like soccer, mos
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by mschuster91 20d ago
All that Schengen does is dismantle border checkpoints. As a German, I can freely move to any EU country for any purpose - transit, tourism and work - no matter if, say, I were a convict or whatever. There are expulsions and entry bans even
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by mschuster91 20d ago
It's making a resurgence now thanks to the various wars messing with pricing worldwide.
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by mschuster91 20d ago
Many farmers still have really old diesel tractors around. These things run fully mechanical, sans the starter motor maybe. If there is one thing farmers are good at, it's in-field improvised repairs. Refrigeration is mostly an issue w
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by mschuster91 20d ago
Mutually assured destruction is what keeps everyone quiet at the moment.
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by mschuster91 20d ago
The lack of modern small airplane designs, especially engines, is the extensive and thus expensive certification process. Most of what is a "new" airplane usually is derived from a very old, grandfathered design. The only real inn
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by mschuster91 20d ago
they're already shifting to immigrants for that reason.
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by mschuster91 20d ago
The audit log for the sysadmin is in Cloudtrail, so nothing is lost there.
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by mschuster91 20d ago
> In fact, a majority of people, even on the right, support the core rights affirmed by Bostock. A majority of people support wage hikes [1], anti-trust laws [2], higher taxes for the rich [3], at least a general responsibility of the go
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by mschuster91 20d ago
> That said, it'd take far more than one bomb to take down a country, unless we are talking city states Hit the ten biggest metropolitan areas [1] with one nuke each and you'd hit about 88 million people and probably an even bi
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by mschuster91 20d ago
> Now, one might say, this is just a matter of basic politeness... why wouldn't you use them? because enough people don't have any basic politeness left any more, to the contrary, they're actively pissing someone off. &g
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by mschuster91 20d ago
> I don’t think we need to go into why one is less harming compared to another and that makes it okay to dismiss concerns. Well... one is a niche problem barely impacting anyone. The news reports surrounding the topic of trans youth in s
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by mschuster91 20d ago
At the very least, halve all service intervals, especially for engine and transmission oil. Go for an oil designed for heavy start-stop load, usually on the 5W or even 0W side, but be cautious, it must carry the manufacturer permit as well.
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by mschuster91 20d ago
> So Strix enumerated hosts, looked through certificate logs, mapped the full surface. If there is anything that you should do while setting up infrastructure... it is getting rid of single-host SSL certificates. If you're on Amazon
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by mschuster91 21d ago
> Adding a few thousand more pieces of debris would not be even remotely as bad as using a tactical nuclear weapon in war would be. The worst effect would be a nuclear weapon in space. The resulting EMP would probably fry more than enoug
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by mschuster91 21d ago
> HN does this constantly with the surveillance, bring up one case of police abusing it, it’s exactly the same thing. Because in this case, we're talking about maybe a few dozen (if that) relevant cases in trans youth [1]. With poli
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by mschuster91 21d ago
> A blanket ban is just pure bullying, especially for childrens' sports (which are primarily a social activity, not a consequential competition). That I think is the core issue. Way too many people try to live way too hard through t
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by mschuster91 21d ago
> Additionally, you have to realize that a major concern on the right is that academia itself has become ideological to the point where only politically acceptable studies can be 1) studied and more importantly 2) published. Quite the co
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by mschuster91 21d ago
> Yeah, I don't get this. If they're niche irrelevant issues that affect ~nobody, why not just concede them? Because there's about 1% of people who are trans in the US [1] and most other populations, on top of that come a
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by mschuster91 21d ago
but... but the bathrooms! and the children's sports! /s it's still baffling to me how incredibly irrelevant niche cases dominate the entire discourse.
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by mschuster91 21d ago
lol come on, I'm German. Of course a lot of the terrorism was probably (Vulkangruppe) or proven (the DHL and airport incidents, Tiergartenmord, SUV Bauschaum) Russian. The only thing that is probably something else is that guy from the
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by mschuster91 21d ago
well, if you religiously maintain the car, it was easy even back then. The dirty secret is keeping rust out of the car - in the winter, regularly wash it to avoid salt ingress, and generally store it in a dry (both physical and humidity) ga
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by mschuster91 21d ago
if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck... Russia started with the hybrid war psyops shit, they don't get to complain about false accusations.
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by mschuster91 22d ago
Won't happen. Trump is already busy threatening us for DSA - if we open up the can of worms that is tax evasion by global megacorps, it might not just invite further childish tariff wars, it might threaten our own global megacorps (e

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