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  • Trump says he'd have final say on money he seeks over past federal investigations into his conduct

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  • "You are all going to pay me a lot but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make"

  • terrified of rising christian/religious fascism, don't expect to make it to 2035 as a disabled leftist person

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  • I'm not in the US and I've never been there, but I certainly won't go there ever (well, for the foreseeable future at least). I'm pretty LGBT-aligned (and atheist) so nope. I'm really sorry for people like yourself in this situation.

    The problem is all the twisted narratives are reaching conservatives here in Europe too. And extreme right is booming.

  • terrified of rising christian/religious fascism, don't expect to make it to 2035 as a disabled leftist person

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  • True, we have enough made-up stories to fight these days. Like all the anti-trans narratives where they get themselves worked up about things that never actually happen.

  • Ukraine to buy 100-150 Swedish Gripen planes. Hope to start using them next year.

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  • We do have rolls royce of course.. They should be able to cook something up. And CFM is half French.

  • Why do so many boomers and even some gen x believe so peristently that if you dressup and show up in person anywhere you will get whatever you went there for?

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  • Well yes I thought Zelenskyy looked great in that thing he was wearing. I thought it looked pretty kick-ass. To me personally pissing Trump off would be a feature, not a bug 🤭 But I don't have any responsibility to save a war-torn country of course. There's that. I do agree with Zelenskyy's reasoning, he's not a president who just sits behind a desk to sign papers.

    But yes establishment, that's what I associate suits with. That's a better description than "old money" which I said.

    For me it tends to have the opposite effect. I remember when my boss always wore this formal stuff and one time we had an issue and she came from home in a hurry to look at it. She was just wearing jeans and a T-shirt and I remember thinking "wow she is actually a nice person" 😆 . But yeah I'm not very (neuro) typical. Though a very typical thing of autistic people is that they love rules and I personally hate them with a passion.

    I like the big capes, I sometimes wear them as part of a gothic/alternative outfit, though no suit under it but more like some mesh top. But I wouldn't wear a suit at university if I had to.

    And no I do think that last one is very different because the fabric is very fluffy on that one.

  • Windows 10 refugees flock to Linux in what devs call their "biggest launch ever"

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  • I think it will. I agree about Meta, though I'm too much of a VR fan to not have one 😳 And Pico isn't any better (owned by bytedance). Vive is very focused on business (like large events with multiple people running around with headsets) these days.

  • Pretty much every day someone parks their car on the tram tracks and blocks our city's tram network from operating

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  • Thanks!! I have seen those signs but I never realised what they were about. I thought it was rather some kind of tag for those people that do street measurements with those sextant-like things on a tripod. We have those big crosses on the ground for that too, that can be viewed from the air.

    I think I've seen these signs in Holland too. Huh.

    But I don't think it's an issue to park near such a hydrant, otherwise they'd make it more clear in the driving education. The only reason I knew the ground hydrants even existed was because once I called about a trash bin fire and I saw them using it.

  • Passenger trains in the United States vs Europe

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  • I agree completely. I wish more people did :( In Holland in particular, neoliberalism is like a religion and nobody even questions it anymore.

  • Passenger trains in the United States vs Europe

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  • I think 12h is a big deal, for business travelers it makes the whole trip pointless. And for leasure travelers it means paying for a really expensive sleeping cabin or "sleep" in an uncomfortable seat.

    I agree the privatisation was a big mistake, also in healthcare, energy etc.

  • Pretty much every day someone parks their car on the tram tracks and blocks our city's tram network from operating

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  • It's also better really.

    I used to live in a place where I needed a car to go anywhere because the buses were so unreliable, infrequent and useless (all going through the town centre with lots of delays). I hated it, because everyone drove and was stuck in traffic. Driving is very stressful too.

    And now I live in a big city, have really dense public transport for 20 bucks a month flat. No more finding and paying for parking spaces. Being able to go back from a different place than I arrived. No more parking meters timing out. No more maintenance. No more fuel costs. No more insurance. No more traffic fines. No more yearly inspections. No more people damaging my ride with shopping carts. I love it honestly. And to top it all off I can ride while playing with my phone and not having to pay any attention to the road. No need to be sober either for that matter.

    Quality quickly drops off leaving the city unfortunately but that's the thing with cities, you rarely need to leave them anyway.

  • Pretty much every day someone parks their car on the tram tracks and blocks our city's tram network from operating

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  • Here in Europe it's very hard to see hydrants though. There are no signs and they're just little panel-covered holes.

  • Pretty much every day someone parks their car on the tram tracks and blocks our city's tram network from operating

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  • It's because your country makes so many cars. Same in the US. Cars are holy because so much money is made off them.

    Where I'm from in Holland they are sacred also but it's kinda a different reason, car ownership was a big symbol of economic progress in the 60s and people have become addicted to them.

  • Pretty much every day someone parks their car on the tram tracks and blocks our city's tram network from operating

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  • Eh so these are official parking spots? That's a bit weird yeah.

  • Pretty much every day someone parks their car on the tram tracks and blocks our city's tram network from operating

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  • Whoa and that in Germany where people are pretty law-abiding.

  • Windows 10 refugees flock to Linux in what devs call their "biggest launch ever"

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  • Yeah that search bar, so useless because the start menu itself is a search bar if you simply start typing.

  • Windows 10 refugees flock to Linux in what devs call their "biggest launch ever"

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  • Yeah and also, many of the drawbacks of windows don't really apply to companies. All the AI and MS account crap? Just switch it off in intune and M365 portal. Telemetry you can minimise with group policies. Crapware you can simply not install. It costs money? Sure but at a corp level so does Linux because they always want to pay a vendor so they can blame them when something goes wrong.

  • Passenger trains in the United States vs Europe

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  • In Holland it seems to show them all but it probably differs by country.

    One thing we are really really bad at in Europe is homogenising rail systems. Every country does its own thing, like voltage, signalling systems, sometimes even with their own gauge (e.g. spain). Only the high speed lines are fairly commonised.

    There's some projects going on like the ETCS safety system but they go at a snail's pace because there's so much installed base and design by a 25-country committee that are all trying to rope in their own industry ties is a slow process.

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  • Also I read that in the US Amtrak gives priority to cargo trains even though laws exist expressly forbidding that, so that a 200km trip with no stops ends up taking 4 hours.

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  • And still here in Europe they are not a meaningful alternative to the plane. Taking for example an Amsterdam to Barcelona is an exhausting 12-14h deal (almost 10x as long) and 5x more expensive.

    What we need is express trains that go from A to B without stopping anywhere, avoiding city centres and constantly running max speed. If I'm going to Barcelona I don't want to stop in Schiphol, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Antwerp, Brussels, and various cities in France. There should just be a dedicated departure just for that (and judging by how many planes go back & forth daily these trains could certainly be filled). This would cut down on that exhausting travel time a lot. But we lack the high-speed network capacity for that. And won't have it for at least 15 years even if they decided to build them now :( So planes it is.