Exactly this, most people these days lack any capacity for critical thought and will just straight up take the propaganda at face value.

Netherlands, Rotterdam. 4 supermarkets within walking distance. 1 less than 10 minutes, 3 less than 5.

The signs you need to look for is what happens next. Sure, they knew the optics would be really bad if the police had started slaying into 300/500K people. But tomorrow or next week it’ll only be a few hundred. Or just individuals that wear a rainbow item. Will they ‘disappear’ such as is now happening with darker skinned people in the US?

Fossil fuels are the primary reason we continue to be in this mess.

I’m 100% certain the rise of the extreme right is fuelled by the oil and gas industry. Hell, the extreme political islam has been pushed by Saudi Arabia for decades. We’ve been paying for our own downfall.

Vance was placed there with the objective to replace Trump eventually. These guys don’t need Trump any more, but like the industrials underestimated Hitler when they put him into power, Thiel and co are probably underestimating Trump’s shrewdness. He will burn everything down before he’ll be put out of power.

Sadly enough, this will become the new normal. We, as a society, really need to look at the role oil and gas companies are playing and stop talking with them.

They are the problem, not part of any solution.

It’s actually insane how the oil and gas industry has hijacked the climate conferences and is controlling the narrative.

CO2 capture, hydrogen and a whole array of ‘solutions’ which are nothing but a distraction from the core issue; this is a criminal enterprise that’s a full-blown threat to humanity.

Great, more power at unrealistic prices in… 2045.

It’s probably better for the climate and the environment to grill veggies on a gas or coal-fired grill than to grill meat on an electric grill.

The law doesn’t apply anymore. Who’s going to enforce it?

Economy is something else than the stockmarket. In fact, I’d say the two have absolutely nothing in common anymore. The stockmarket is a casino, with Joe Average losing everything once in a while.

I guess we need to find a word to capture the atrocities that are being done to people of a certain belief system in the world.

Or should be just call it ‘g3n0c1d3’?

For decades Republicans wanted to ‘starve the beast’, and they are now close to actually succeeding. It’ll be interesting once the dimmed bulbs in the red stats discover that their life style was basically possible by government policies transferring wealth from the blue coastal states to their backward ass states.

Relevant: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/ending-the-weaponization-of-the-federal-government/

It’s an unpopular opinion here, but I agree with you. I’ve been running a single disk Synology for a decade or so, replaced the original one about 4 years ago.

The software is pretty sleek and it would fit OPs requirements perfectly. I don’t care for some power hungty Intel based PC sucking kWhs of power each day, just to host some media.

Mine boots up at 19:00 and shuts down at 01:00. It has a built in Torrent client that even my partner can use.

True they abused the system. That wasn’t my point, which is that these high property taxes have a tendency to give high quality services to affluent neighbourhoods and low cost housing get low quality services.

It’s always funny when looking at the tax-system in the US from an EU perspective. Americans looking at any receipt they get in an EU country and immediately pointing out the huge VAT tariff.

Then one only needs to point to the property tax in the US.

https://www.cencepower.com/blog-posts/line-losses-power-transmission-3-types

2 to 3 percent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNTg9EX7MLw

Building way more renewable generation than needed at peak, plus elasticity brought by batteries (hello V2G cars) plus HVDC lines to transport power between regions will be faster and cheaper than deploying the most expensive form of power generation.

Yet, it’s the power companies that don’t want this. As it’s threatening their business model of central generation and metering every kWh going to the consumer.

This is the reason why these discussions keep popping up. Right wing parties are fully aligned with the centralised thinking of traditional power companies.

It reads like the Trump regime…