Keep your cards close with strangers, show your hand to allies, and let your enemies glimpse the deck you want them to see.

For me the point for vegan food isn’t animals not being killed but the whole the agriculture around it being more sustainable. Eating plant stuff more or less directly just gives more bang per buck.

distrobox create… done

As with everything climate and environment related - as soon as the slightest inconvenience might occur, all hard fought for regulation goes out the window.

The end result will be lots of billable hours for consulting companies and half a cargo coil of 5mm lead sheet, probably.

I think with the Nazi AfD government coming up in 2029 all of the progress will come to a screeching halt with the then renewed relationship with Russia pushing cheap fossil fuels into the market. I’ve pretty much given up at this point.

After a few years of homeownership you usually have everything for stuff around the house in the tool room.

I’m just noticing that having a tool room sounds unusual, seeing it written down.

Yep. There were like 15 years of half assed trying and as soon as the smallest bit off difficulty occurs, everybody just gives up. Climate protection is over, fuck the future.

That’s because the average IT auditor is a bunch of if then statements wrapped in human skin.

Yes, the ton of elaborate Excel macros alone that keep small and medium business running at all tells me: not going to happen.

I’m somewhat hopeful, in the last ten years, new and renovated country roads have been getting dedicated bike lanes behind the guardrails. Miles away from the excellent, completely separate infrastructure the dutch have, but its a start.

Living in the boonies, I’m never going to get a bus going by every ten minutes so a solid market for good EVs is still what I root for.

Eh, ID7 and A6 are getting there. BMW i4 ain’t bad either.

Yep. I archive channels I like locally.

I have never understood the concept of paying loads of money to go somewhere chock full of other people on my precious spare time. So, they want no tourists? Alright then, I’ll support their cause by continuing with my policy of spending my vacations around home.

The only low nose electric station wagon you can buy today is a Porsche Taycan

No, id7? MG5?

I’d assume that’s exactly what he meant. Europe comes with a set of ideals and it seems that Canada by and large aligns with those closer than ex Soviet block countries, even after all the years.

If you just want a local network with DHCP and WPA to do whatever, no uplink is necessary.

“Rapid” in Germany would mean “planned for finishing within 10 years, actually done in 20 for double the price and with half of the capacity”.

Dude found something he could put a price on and announced it. Now he’ll wait for offers.