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It’s more expensive than the alternatives, and comes with additional downsides. There is no good reason to be pro nuclear, unless you need a lot of power for a long time in a tight space. So a ship or a space station for example.

Which outlines why you don’t do majority-vote politics. There is zero interest by private entities to restart nuclear in Germany. Why? Because it makes zero sense.

No one wants to front the money, no one wants to buy overpriced nuclear power, no one wants the waste, no one wants a responsibility for decades and I bet you, if you asked the people on the poll whether they want to live near a plant or waste facility, almost everyone is going to say no.

The sole reason for (modern) nuclear power is high reliability at very low emissions and much energy per space. You know what can also do this? A battery.

If you want to install state-of-the-art molten salt SMRs as high-reliability baseline supply for network infrastructure and hospitals, go for it. But don’t try to sell me a super expensive water boiler as miracle technology.

If Axel Springer didn’t own a significant share of the company, I would give them a shot

…Except there are three players in that game already. Go by the names of Red Hat, SUSE and Ubuntu

The GDPR is definitely neither wits end, nor applied reasonably under all circumstances. I have my doubts that these “cutbacks” will be the adequate reforms however.

Electromagnetic catapults are a “least concern” technology I would say, but that aside, currently our defence industries are intertwined. Thinking the EU is fully dependent on the US is delusional.

People are about to find out that even when the US often leads the way, there are also EU companies critical to US weapon systems.

Sure, you can “DIY” everything, but massively altering your supply chain is rarely a good idea. Will Orangeman realise that? We will see.

Cotton topper / mattress protector. Helps to catch and distribute heat and moisture. In my experience also improves sleep quality

Good luck. If you don’t pass as a refugee, you just need money, a job, a place to live and to prove all that to the central bureaucracy

Casual reminder that the DMA is not about trade wars, but monopolies

In Germany, some conservative politician said quite literally that “weed is banned because it’s an illegal drug”.

These excuses are valid for people bound by a law, but not for the people making them.

To print and mail it maybe. Not that uncommon when signatures are legally required, although in that case I would expect clear instructions on the form. And also a “we don’t do that here” response shortly after handing it in via email, since it wouldn’t be hard to filter for that kind of stuff

1/3 of the Steam + Linux market, that accounted for an incredible 1.45% of Steam installs in February. This means there were roughly 67 Windows gamers for every Linux gamer (using Steam) that month.

So even if Linux gamers are 10 times more likely to care (and pay for) for game preservation, you are not even approaching the number of Windows users that might. Suppose 90% of Linux gamers care, while only 9% on Windows do, you still have roughly 9 Windows users for every Linux one. And this is a very generous assumption to make.

Maybe, eventually, at some point, this makes sense financially. But if your goal is to be profitable, you grab the low hanging fruits first, not invest in maybe 10% more potential users.

What if I told you that the intersection between people who care and the 5% of their potential audience that are Linux users is very small either way?

I’m not saying Linux isn’t a chance for them, but it’s also an investment and very like not a profitable one for quite a while.