In Rotterdam (Netherlands) they’re replacing the sewage system. People get a letter that they’re responsible for the bit on their ground. In practice the city also handled the line to the house.

I don’t understand why in your area they’d not take care of that bit. With everything mostly open it should be much easier anyway.

That the city doesn’t promise anything is likely for things like liability and unique/expensive exceptions. But not doing that in practice, so strange.

Wondering if you really meant that word or if it’s a typo.

A salary maximum (as per the article) of 79k USD per year seems low. This as the accident rate amongst longshoremen can be significantly higher than average. It’s often not reported on enough (at least in Europe) but significant injuries and deaths happen often enough. This partly because (obviously) a mistake has way more consequences on a terminal vs e.g. working in an office.

That’s a stupid way to eliminate efficiency

In case of port/terminal automation the workers usually do not benefit. So it seems pretty understandable that they’re against it.

In Europe there’s way more automation. Still, workers often tried to prevent it.

I’ve seen pro-life folks

Those people are NOT pro-life. They’re anti-abortion. It would be much better to use the correct term instead of pandering to the idea that it is about saving lives.

Pro life is not the right term. It’s much better to say you’re anti abortion than to pretend it’s about saving lives.

Only for certain people, likely based upon race. The usual rules for some, not for others.

The rich usually ensure that there are enough gigantic exceptions. And these exceptions often aren’t reported upon.

And maybe he believes the trickle down economy bs.

Your statement screams

…something that’s not similar/equivalent.

McDonald’s is not consistent though. A hamburger can often be flimsy thin. I don’t get why you’d go there. There are enough fast food options with lower prices. McDonald’s is often really terrible.

So instead of accepting that the driver should be GPL and part of the kernel, you turn things around and pretend the development of the kernel is the way that it is because of a conspiracy against Nvidia?

The bit regarding Wayland doesn’t make sense, no idea what you’re getting at. Though maybe you don’t follow Linux developments?

Up to now he has been able to get really rich by being this way.

Obviously, the EU hasn’t the spine to eject Hungary

There’s no way to remove a member. The EU could remove their voting rights, but Hungary used to be helped by Poland.

I wonder how many extra thousands of EU troops

There’s no EU army. There’s NATO, the EU countries have armies, but there aren’t any EU troops.

I can now get AS splits for less that 400 (500-600 installed)€ in Spain, where AC is common.

In Netherlands there’s a crazy markup on that. You need a local installer. Local installers get huge kickbacks from Dutch sellers. As a result pretty much all installers refuse to install anything bought yourself. Meaning, it costs thousands per AC instead of what it should be.

Interesting that Putin went to North Korea. Especially as he didn’t go there for 25 years. The meetings they had during this 25 years, NK had to go to Russia.

Anyway, more shells and do on for Russia is not good news. The support for Ukraine really needs to be stepped up.

Ah, so you can exclude gays. And that means:

Republicans don’t by default have anything against gays.

Because hey, every time they do everything against gays there’s an excuse! There’s been loads and loads of excuses over the years, but hey, they really don’t have anything against gays!

Jeez, done critical thinking would be good.

They say migrants, but mean asylum seekers. While actively encouraging as much as possible foreign workers for e.g. ASML. Asylum seekers only make up a tiny portion of the migrants. Knowledge workers however, …

Far right thrives on stuff like this.

Do more for the poor.

It’s really that simple.

Netherlands had a right wing government. They messed up greatly. People voted even more right because “obviously” the previous government was actually left wing.

Perception matters a lot for a large group of people.

And it’s funny because when certain parties make promises there interpretation differs depending if they like the party or not.

E.g. making promises to improve things: who will pay for it? E.g. left wing is spending money they don’t have, or they care too much about lazy people.

If a right wing party makes a promise to improve things and financially it is pretty much certain it’ll not work out: don’t be negative, just saying that because of x/y/z.

It’s too easy to blame left wing parties for what is happening. Pretty sure there’s various causes, and people often aren’t logical or rational.

Pretty sure that they tested those hydrogen tanks for safety and they really don’t cause issues. There’s loads of safety systems in there.

The biggest issue that I have with hydrogen tanks is that the hydrogen makes those tanks brittle over time. I recall that those tanks need replacing every 8 years. Again, that’s due to the hydrogen, it’s not due to how much it was driven.

There is often suggestions that an EV battery doesn’t last, see some comments here. Hydrogen tank issue is ignored for whatever reason.

Would we even notice if they followed through?

January 6th. Though that was massively helped by Trump preventing organizations from preparing beforehand and preventing action during.