“🙃” works well for that, too.

The real question is who those 236,357 cars were sold to. Which European buys a car from a guy who did a Hitler salute live on stage, twice?

Currently doing a DIS rewatch. Not a big fan but not on the hate train either. But man, my intestines cramped from the cringe when that scene popped up.

DIS S01E04

How do you wanna be remembered in history? Alongside the Wright Brothers, Elon Musk, Zefram Cochrane? Or as a failed fungus expert? A selfish little man who put the survival of his own ego before the lives of others.

Well, he got his mention in Star Trek as one of the great people to will have advanced humanity, so I guess after having that had crossed off his list he could just do something different next.

I use an older Tolino Epos.

What do you mean by “sideload”? Just the books? You can just copy book files to the reader via USB easily. You can also upload books you bought anywhere to the Tolino cloud system, so that’s all open. Apps or the system? Dunno, tbh. Never looked into that.

I’ve had a Tolino for years and was always quite happy. It’s just a rebranded Kobo though, running their own software (which is an adapted android).

Is that the bubble beginning to pop?

Sounds manageable. 🤷

Your point being?

French Guyana isn’t in Europe either and nobody cares, so there’s precedent.

We really shouldn’t. For every watt of electricity you produce, you’ll get a hydrogen-powered car only a fraction of the distance of a battery-powered car. People are already lamenting how all those batteries should be charged, adding another factor (that’s >1) to that equation will only make the transition even harder.

Just build batteries in Europe.

Not always.

Das kapitalistische Wirtschaftssystem ist den staatlichen und sozialen Lebensinteressen des deutschen Volkes nicht gerecht geworden.

Inhalt und Ziel dieser sozialen und wirtschaftlichen Neuordnung kann nicht mehr das kapitalistische Gewinn- und Machtstreben, sondern nur das Wohlergehen unseres Volkes sein.

CDU, 1947.

But yeah, that was some time ago.

It’s really not. I get that the US have a lot of problems, especially when it comes to training people to deescalate, not use force when it’s not absolutely required etc, but it’s not the same on all countries.

Like… I’m from Germany. Police here are trained for years, with a focus on values and deescalation, before they commence their service. This really results in a relationship of trust between them and the citizens, like when they e.g. arrest people and tie them down to burn them alive in their cells instead of shooting them. Or when they don’t run rampant in the streets to kill or citizens (duh) but instead finance right wing terrorist groups that then kill citizens. You see?