France is now on the same track as Italy and others now, with birth rates taking a nose dive from 2015 and again another 13% drop just from 2020. Their immigration system is just as much a mess as the U.S. too. It’ll be interesting to see where they go from here. Sadly a good bet they move the same directly as Italy, into a population death spiral.

Ukraine would have sent them toward military targets. If they’re shot down they hit whatever they come down on. There’s a big difference there.

Now If you had said towel, I would have assumed it was the ultimate Douglas Adams reply, lol.

These devices were annoying a decade ago. Comical that people still buy these when Roku and Android TV are so much nicer.

I was rolling laughing at this, and then I had to try to explain it to my wife. It is basically unexplainable.

Israel perpetrates atrocities against Palestinians, creating terrorists, which Israel uses as an excuse to continue stealing land and killing Palestinians, creating more terrorists, which Israel… a few decades of that now. Would be quite happy to end that ancient war with nukes, and put up a monument on the green glowing glass - “This is what religion gets you”

Yes, expensive new car shiny. Right up until something or anything goes wrong with it and you get charged 10 times more than any other company and ripped off. I’m sure at that point your opinion about that car will change. perhaps you’ll be among the lucky owners that don’t encounter that kind of fun. Your solo experience means practically nothing.

So buy a hybrid, charge at home, and done. Is the environmental impact different enough from a fully electric vehicle vs hybrid, when you take into account the pollution from lithium mining and refinement? Not dramatically better, no. It’s idiotic to buy a Tesla that is a flaming piece of garbage, just because it’s the only option in a particular area or country. The simple solution is to wait until viable, good quality products are available. It won’t be long.

I have no sympathy at this point for anyone buying one of these pieces of garbage from a company led by a person who quite obviously a flaming piece of garbage, producing products that are quite obviously flaming pieces of garbage.

I mean, there are so many alternatives now, you really have to ignore how horrible Musk is to buy one of these, and you have to have your head stuck in the ground for a couple of years now to not know that Tesla quality control is diaper poo.

I was there at nearly the beginning with Redhat 1 and kernel series 1.1.x and 1.2.x series. Redhat died when IBM bought them. My company has finally completely moved away - I pushed very strongly to dump RHAT - all Debian and FreeBSD now.