Had quite a few arguments with climate change trivialising friends/relatives. The classic "the climate is always changing" and "earth has been warmer"... The one point that seems to stop at least some in their tracks was this:
You know I studied geosciences? Do you know what we call the periods in earths history where climate was changing as fast as it currently does? We call them global catastrophes and extinction events!
Sounds like how digitalisation works in Germany. Put the form online as PDF, then either require the other side to print and send in or recive via email then print it yourself and file it into a cabinet...
Why do I have the feeling that I will end up in that nightmare with my privacy focused and ad-free Browser setup. I already end up in captcha hell too often because of it.
But with Graphene&Co you can make full backups, store them externally (e.g. selfhosted cloud) and then just apply before/after crossing borders as needed. Plus doing that makes a duress wipe way less painful if you ever need to. Tho, if you're somewhere where they're likely to just keep it instead of forcing an unlock or copying data, a cheap burner that doesn't hurt to loose is still the better idea...
Blocking ads everywhere, avoiding social media and not browsing online market places helps a lot. If I don't know something exists I can't desire it.
Rip & Tear!
I was always admiring (and a bit envious of) pros handling dough with complete confidence, then one day I realized it is literally the way you have to handle the dough if you don't want it to stick everywhere.
Makes sense though if you really think about it... just remember those "pool full of custard" videos. Starch and water mixtures are essentially non-newtonian fluids.
A well seasoned carbon steel is pretty much non-stick while in a stainless you usually want some sticking to have something to deglaze for sauces.
Exactly! I just don't want constantly have to fight my devices. It tires me out and sucks the fun out of them.
I'm still agonizing over it. However, I stopped caring as much and decided to focus on picture and capabilities. I'll use it as dumb tv and try to beat whatever streamer will follow my shield into submission. Saves me getting a new dac for my hifi as well as none of my possible choices seem to support usb audio passthrough.
My biggest problem right now is that I always end up in the premium oled section ;)
I think it is a drama, because it's not just the tvs doing that. Almost everything is getting more and more annoying and restricting. Things are starting to constantly nag you one way or another, shove things into your face you don't care about, take away functionality and generally worsen user experience... It's just mentally exhausting.
And yes I know you can reliably turn that data collection stuff off (at least in the EU) but hopping through those hoops each and every time for each and every device and service can and will hollow out your resolve (and you have to find all the buried options every time...). Thats how you get masses that just don't care anymore.
Considering the current political climate I don't think the world would look at Germany building breeder reactors (thats what these are, even if they desperately try to avoid that term) and just say "Great idea!" ;).
Jokes aside, breeders need at least one more generation of research/demo plants to be really commercially viable. Afaik all breeders so far had less than 50% uptime and none could avoid sodium fires. They would solve quite a few fuel problems tho conisering you can "burn" recycled U238 in them.
Personally I would prefer Thorium cycle plants, but those are even further off.
For Germany right now I don't see much sense in building new current tech reactors. For the same tax money we would need to subsidize these plants, we could build so much more renewable (and storage) capacity which would result in a faster reduction of ghg emissions.