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Thadrax

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  • Family of victim in Trump drug boat killings files first formal complaint

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  • That's too complicated and doesn't make for good entertainment. Blowing people up in a boat on video is a spectacle. It's a short propaganda bit you can broadcast in the news and on social media showing the people that you are strong and doing something against all the evil attacking the US in a way the target audience understands.

    This is not about really solving a problem, it's for show.

  • Gaming Pet Peeves

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  • Isn't this what the volume on your sound system is supposed to do? Master volume in a game should be pretty much maxed out by default and the volume on whatever you use to output the sound should be set so loud isn't blowing your ears out.

    Unless you are actually complaining about sound levels of stuff that shouldn't be loud (like menu clicking or background music) but that's relative sound levels of different categories in the game, not the master volume.

  • Do you agree?

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  • That's why independent news media is so important. And not just independent from state interference, but also financially. Consolidation into a few big players is really counterproductive.

    And lately there is the whole social media debacle that needs a solution, even more so with fakes and invented "news" becoming more and more easier. That's an unsolved problem that needs a solution.

    However an informed population really is the only way to keep a system from going downhill, everything else basically bets on some benevolent ruling class or dictator and history has plenty of examples how that goes.

  • Do you agree?

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  • The trick is to build a system with good checks and balances and an informed populace willing to uphold those rules.

  • Password to Louvre’s video surveillance system was 'Louvre', according to employee

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  • Not surprising tbh.,I've been in a security meeting before where the owner of the company just said outright his password was written in big letters on the outside of the building we were sitting in. Some people really have zero sense for security or just don't care.

  • Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever

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  • In my experience that has been extremely rare in recent years (or more like decades now).

  • EU parliament votes to ban meat names for plant-based foods

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  • Interestingly, those names carry different meanings in different languages. For example, a "Wurst" in Germany (which now has to be meat) is either the meat based food product or alternatively a sausage shaped object. So the whole EU ruling makes even less sense because it removes long established meanings from words or makes those illegal.

  • Bosch to cut 13,000 jobs in blow to Germany's auto industry

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  • Not sure that would help that much. A good amount of Bosch's business is in manufacturing parts for internal combustion engines, that's going away in any case.

  • Far-right populists top polls in Germany, France and Britain for the first time

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  • Don't ignore the media. A lot of money also means a lot of media attention which is skewed to the right and the whole social media, advertising industry and getting paid by clicks favors emotional content.

  • Far-right populists top polls in Germany, France and Britain for the first time

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  • Human nature seems to be a huge part of it. Blaming someone else for all your troubles is such a winning concept, it's really hard to fight against it. Plus actually having to acknowledge real issues and trying to fix them often comes with people having to change or sacrifice and that's a hard sell compared to someone just pretending to have perfect solutions and that everything will be fine.

    Sadly emotions win debates against facts almost every time.

  • Who pays for roads? Most US States require residents to subsidize cars

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  • Yes, roads are important. Attributing costs to who or what is causing those costs is still a good idea.

    Paying for roads is fine, paying for 10 lanes of roads that only exist because the real costs aren't included in all kinds of decision making is dumb.

  • Electric cars are to save the auto industry, not the environment.

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  • Sure, some places basically require personal transport. Some of it because it is really rural, some of it because it is build to require cars (which is something that can be changed, although it takes time). The problem with cars being the default for everything in everyones mind is just, that possible alternatives aren't even considered and thus even more car requirements are locked in for decades to come.

    You can't get rid of cars, not everywhere and in many places not right now. But you have to start and look for alternative ways to manage things so you can reduce the need over time.

  • German poll: Majority for return to nuclear energy

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  • No one is talking about building new coal plants or similar. Comparing good low carbon options, nuclear is still very expensive.

  • Germany is now deporting pro-Palestine EU citizens. This is a chilling new step | Hanno Hauenstein

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  • It wasn't just protesting though. It's hard to get details and it might very well be that Berlin "over reacted", so I'll be looking forward to see what the courts decide, the 4 already have sued against the order to leave.

  • Germany is now deporting pro-Palestine EU citizens. This is a chilling new step | Hanno Hauenstein

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  • None of that is true. There is due process, no hit squads. They will have the ability to bring this to court (a process which they already started). And deportation would happen to where they come from, so other EU countries and the US.

  • Germany is now deporting pro-Palestine EU citizens. This is a chilling new step | Hanno Hauenstein

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  • Not at all, nothing in the post you replied to is actually true.

  • German poll: Majority for return to nuclear energy

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  • Most people suggest nuclear baseload with renewables+battery for peaks.

    Except baseload doesn't really exist anymore in a power grid with lots of renewables. Those renewables already produce 100% of what is required at times and those times will become more common, and small gaps can be bridged with batteries etc. The real gap with renewables is going to be those times when there is no sun and wind for days, which apparently happens only a few times a year for a week or so at a time. And building a bunch of hugely expensive power plants and then have them sit idle for 95% of the time isn't a good plan.

  • EU law mandating universal chargers for devices comes into force

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  • It'll probably happen by the time, most of my devices will be USB-C.

  • Touchscreens Are Out, and Tactile Controls Are Back

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  • Interesting. I don't have a car any more and no kids, but my friends that do always tell me their kids need more breaks than the electric car. And I always found that I need breaks every 2-3 hours anyway to keep the alertness high. I can't imagine going 400 miles in one go.