It was a very hard landing.

I dislike how the stories end. The buildup is alright, the setting’s the same. But then the ending is terrible. The Doctor isn’t being clever or smart or witty or whatever, a solution randomly presents itself and that’s it.

It’s like, great you can move the space station by causing a burst of baby farts, but you have a TARDIS. You can take the babies yourself. You even talked about that with the only adult there! He then was soundly defeated by the Maestro, only for the Beatles to randomly show up and play a random chord? They even had a clever way to defeat the Maestro (the bubble of silence that the sonic could create), and then did nothing with it.

It’s just so… Meh. If only they could write the Doctor to be clever again, I’d enjoy it so much more!

The polls were accurate, but right near the end Yesilgöz made the critical mistake of publicly stating she’d be willing to work with the PVV. This catapulted the PVV to the top, as he was suddenly a viable alternative to VVD/NSC/BBB for a lot of voters.

We saw this sudden rise in the polls as well, with the PVV suddenly in first right before the election. And that prospect, the PVV being the largest, drew in some more voters to them.

Polls are projections, but they can’t factor in unforeseen events between the poll and the election.

Their win is not that huge as far as current projections go. They’ll grow, but the likely coalition is the current one.

Well, the numbers show otherwise.

https://hackaday.com/2024/05/03/google-removes-risc-v-support-from-android/

He’s fairly authoritarian. A little bit more hands-off, but still pretty squarely in the “my-will-is-law” corner.

You’re in a 2 party FPTP system, it doesn’t give you reasonable representation by design.

You get someone you dislike and someone you dislike even more. Voting 3rd party is literally voting against your interests. That’s not an ideological choice, or a political choice, it’s a deeply saddening mathematical reality.

The only way you get your position heard is by fighting candidates for your least-disliked party during the primaries. Get someone you like as the congressional or senatorial candidate. Help them get elected. Even a small number of senators or congressmen can make the difference (see Synema and Manchin for example, or hell even Boebert and MTG who all wield(ed) significant political power well beyond what their voteshare should give them).

By fighting the fight you can’t win (e.g. the vote for president), you only weaken your least-disliked choice. So whoever you really don’t want ends up getting elected. Why? Because the US election system sucks balls.

Voting for the Green party makes it less likely that climate change legislation goes through. That is the sad, paradoxical reality. Being an ideological crusador in this matter doesn’t help anyone and is due to the reality of the shit voting system, despite the best intentions, immoral.

Clearly says Walt Gisnep.

The financial sector offers a magnitude more services than just “transactions”. It’s a stupid comparison.

That’s a misnamed quiche.

I hope so, yes.

Merkel and Schroeder gambled on Russian gas imports as a holdover to transition from the aging nuclear plants and coal plants towards renewables. They did so because according to Merkel “it made sense at the time” and she did not really see the larger geopolitical picture. When Russian gas suddenly dried up due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, they had to delay the closure of several coal plants to keep the power on.

So they’re trying to replace nuclear and coal with gas.

Bombing a house in the middle of a residential area seems “reasonable”?

A judge and jury found the police department used unnecessary excessive violence and violated constitutional protections against unlawful searches.

The nuclear plants in Germany were too old and too expensive to maintain. At some point a reactor is just end-of-life. They get operational issues causing semi-frequent shutdowns. The reliability issues become a problem that skyrockets the costs further.

Closing a nuclear plant like that puts enough money back in the budget to afford a faster transition to renewables, which ultimately closes down the coal plants faster too. It’s about the big picture, it’s not as simple as simply saying “we’ll do less coal” or “we’ll do less nuclear”.

If you close a nuclear power plant before closing a coal one, you are effectively replacing the nuclear with coal.

That’s not how words work.

And coal use has been going up in Germany. So I don’t know where you are getting these ideas from.

Your data source is outdated. You’re looking at data up to 2022, whilst his data shows 2023-2024, which is more recent.

2022 also saw problems like the Ukraine war frustrating gas supply, forcing the use of more coal. And there was covid throwing a wrench into things as well.

Nuclear powerplants in Germany were beyond their lifespan and fixing and modernizing them was not economically feasible. Just too expensive compared to other forms of energy.

Germany certainly hasn’t been “replacing nuclear with coal”.

What the fuck are these pedophiles up to?

XD is Dubai (separate from the United Arab Emirates).

Ah, that may be true indeed.

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