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It's called a parliament, but it never was.

Hurr durr prices go high, stop paying for arms for Ukraine.

There is something in between flashlights and a grid scale battery that van power your full electric home.

I just have a plugin battery that I can run the lights, fridges, phone chargers off of for 24 hrs. That is good enough for me, and I think most people. Anything shorter, and it's not necessary to run the rest, much longer, there also isn't because apparently shit hit the fan and we're not necessarily assuming the power comes back on in the next weeks or ever.

1969 is a big year due to man landing on the moon. Cars becoming ubiquitous (they certainly were a luxury item well into the sixties here). 1970s gave us the integrated circuit and arguably the start of modern computing. 1980s the collapse of the Soviet Union, genetic research. 1990s: well, I can go on :P

My late grandmother once told me this is how she travelled longer distances on occasion as a youth/young woman. Was a good lesson for me in understanding exactly how much she had seen the world change in her lifetime.

> PHP-Nuke

There's a name I haven't heard in a while!

Luxemburg. Was there the other day: public transport was great!

Of course you need to help them to alternatives, if they are not that tech-illiterate that they have very specific wishes for software.

It's been a while since I experienced people sharing software one discs by the way, it's been a while since I saw discs at all ;)

> Linux is the opposite of fire-and-forget. Eventually a papercut always turns up that will require the terminal.

When I say it's been fire-and-forget, I mean that for at least two decades.

If papercuts turn up, you are running the wrong distro or secretly a power user that naturally causes problems for themselves every now and then. This won't happen with normal users on a long term stable distro.

Macbooks are great devices, but Linux is a great "fire-and-forget" OS for situations tech-illiterate loved ones. I've done it many times, with much succes and satisfaction (on both ends) without barely any aftercare. All you really need to do is teach them to install those updates and install a major upgrade every few years (or not, Ubuntu will run fine for a decade).

That's what I thought. Rockfall galleries are a staple in the Alps. If you haven't driven in Switzerland, you are in for a treat.

Just like with chimpanzees and us: it's an important 5%! No shade on chimps by the way.

This so-called rationalist movement is better described as rationalisationist movement.

> I doubt a sub-1 tonne car is going to be pleasant to drive at highway speeds

I exclusively drive (sub) 1-tonne cars at highway speeds (and more, because Germany). No problem. Why would that be an issue? Sure, depending on the vehicle, it handles a certain way when I go over 150kph and I am alone without luggage, but I know how to drive, not just press 'go' on a train, don't I?

Fuck Play Integrity, which is what Google implements, with these drawbacks very much intentionally in place, and 'recommended' banks implement for security. Fuck Google for doing everything they can to make custom roms fail these API's ever more.

There is an alternative* of which I haven't heard in a while.

* https://uattest.net

> But it would be really cool if I could spend my days writing code instead of dealing with lawyers and stuff.

I think anybody in any line of work or life would like that. It's however unlikely to never run into an issue where a lawyer is really needed, so don't hesitate when you realize you need one.

Do we really need two Ellisons?

Or Ukraine, because they are not above biological warfare and will send the poor sods over the border.

Went there last year, pretty good! It's quite arcade focused.

Hey now, it's not about size but about how you use it.

Why does it need to be bad or good? It's what separates animals from plants: locomotion. You might as well think breathing air is too pleistocene for you?

Er, yes, if your entire defense is pointing at someone else.

For some reference, an earlier post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49737985

Ah, OG whataboutism!

> In some places the sovereign literally owned all the land and people on it.

Russia was like this till 1861! And arguably practically for much longer so, perhaps still.

The Netherlands does not have areas sufficiently far removed from urban areas for this to matter. In fact the entire country has a managed water table, the bodies which govern it are the oldest demicratic institutions in the world (over a millenium), and survived any change in ruler country and government in the meantime.

There's no river or creek not used for drinkwater consumption or management, and they are all connected to agricultural use and transportation (canal water levels) as well. It's one big system, and farmers cheating on how much they pump up is already too big of a proboem for this to not matter.

Well, until the tail of the bathtub, which still seems to be there, but more of a wide dyke rather then a sharp and tall bathtub-edge. Which is father away than it used to be.

Drives still have a meaningful average working life is what I see in te data. There's just barely any infant mortality left.

To mobility? There is none. It's a basic human trait. Animal trait. Living in the same place is the abberation.

> mobility is a privilege

We made it a priviledge, but for a biological being, it's the most natural thing to do when you find yourself in a place that is shitty. There is a reason so many risk truly awful things to get a chance (chance!) at a better life: going to where food and safety is, is just what living beings do.