Interesting that Putin went to North Korea. Especially as he didn’t go there for 25 years. The meetings they had during this 25 years, NK had to go to Russia.

Anyway, more shells and do on for Russia is not good news. The support for Ukraine really needs to be stepped up.

Ah, so you can exclude gays. And that means:

Republicans don’t by default have anything against gays.

Because hey, every time they do everything against gays there’s an excuse! There’s been loads and loads of excuses over the years, but hey, they really don’t have anything against gays!

Jeez, done critical thinking would be good.

They say migrants, but mean asylum seekers. While actively encouraging as much as possible foreign workers for e.g. ASML. Asylum seekers only make up a tiny portion of the migrants. Knowledge workers however, …

Far right thrives on stuff like this.

Do more for the poor.

It’s really that simple.

Netherlands had a right wing government. They messed up greatly. People voted even more right because “obviously” the previous government was actually left wing.

Perception matters a lot for a large group of people.

And it’s funny because when certain parties make promises there interpretation differs depending if they like the party or not.

E.g. making promises to improve things: who will pay for it? E.g. left wing is spending money they don’t have, or they care too much about lazy people.

If a right wing party makes a promise to improve things and financially it is pretty much certain it’ll not work out: don’t be negative, just saying that because of x/y/z.

It’s too easy to blame left wing parties for what is happening. Pretty sure there’s various causes, and people often aren’t logical or rational.

I would know, my country (Belgium) did the same

Didn’t various of your nuclear reactors need huge maintenance? As nuclear reactors get older the maintenance cost get crazy high. I remember seeing reports that said electrical grid problems could likely happen due to the age.

Though it seems you mean more nuclear had to be built a few decades ago? That likely would be good at that time.

But in this age, nuclear is costly if built now. Resulting in high electricity prices. That’ll make a country uncompetitive.

Not Gen II reactors, which could be [built and running only 4-5 years after the beginning of the construction

Pretty much every nuclear reactor that’s recently been built has been crazily over budget and significantly late. It seems it is usually a decade later than planned.

Anyway, the beginning of construction is a highly misleading timeframe. There’s a long process before construction even starts. Not unique to nuclear reactors.

I dislike nuclear reactor discussions because of similar arguments. E.g. “new technology” fixes some problem, while ignoring the drawbacks. Or when it is pointed out that the approval process can take ages there’s often the “just force it through”. For years I’ve seen people advocate for SMRs. Which turn out to be to have loads of drawbacks, yet again.

If someone says that it’ll take 15 years then the person didn’t solely mean the actual construction. They mean from wanting it to having it working.

If a city decides on a new area for homes the actual construction of those homes is just a tiny part of the whole process. If you buy such a new home there can be a huge difference to when you signed for it and when construction starts. The contract is about start until end of construction, the mortgage around it is not, at least in Netherlands.

I also don’t see why any content generated by an LLM could or should be illegal.

Cannot see how it could be illegal? If it does something against a law it’ll be illegal. Just because there’s some technology involved doesn’t absolve that from laws.

I remember a case where someone complained about the incorrect statement an LLM produced about some public figure. The judge ruled it had to be corrected.

Like I said, that’s literally how a child sees the world.

Insulting people and implying people do not think things through. While most of your replies consist of giving insults. With some weird suggestion that free can only mean the amount of people in prison.

Egg on your face, no?

Russia performed genocide in those regions. There’s no possibility of referendums. Things have have been changed, forcefully by Russia.

We all know that’s not going to happen.

Russia will not leave on its own no.

It’s time to do something about it.

The first commenter repeated Russian bs about giving land. This while I’m the past Russia already took land, then greatly expanded and were attacking all of Ukraine.

So wondering if you’re trying to repeat Russian bs or intend that Ukraine should get enough to get rid of Russia.

I guess it is helped that nobody will call out their lies (and lives).

Republicans blocked it. There’s no “both sides” to this.

That wasn’t said. Pretending a crazy summary was said is a common fallacy.

According to the French road safety observatory 84% of fatal car accidents in 2022-2023 were caused by men.

How many kms do men drive vs women? And does it differ across the type of road? And what about age?

In Netherlands if there’s a couple often the man drives, not the woman. It used to be way more expensive to insure yourself as a man. That until they said it wasn’t allowed anymore. Then suddenly insurance rates were dropped quite a bit for men, hardly went up for women.

I’m guessing/wondering if there’s a difference on how often a man drives vs a woman. Coupled with testosterone effects for men under 25 or so. In Netherlands men under 25 aren’t known to dive safely.

84% is still huge, but seems they aren’t looking at the right figure.

It took like 10-15 years to go from anyone can afford a flat to almost nobody can.

It’s as if nothing could be done about it. One country blames tourists, others immigrants. In Netherlands the most popular party said for ages that it’s useless to plan ahead. Such remarks are ignored. People go for the populist remarks. Blame some group of people.

My partner and I use 4.5 gallons PPPD.

Do you really count everything? This seems awfully low.

Here’s a question: why now?

There have been many previous attempts. Why now? It takes time to go for a new plan. They’re likely working on a new attempt.

“just asking questions”

Sending people to Rwanda is part of blaming a certain group for everything that is going wrong. Housing crisis? Caused by this group, then take some terrible action against them. Meaning, they’ll keep sending them to Rwanda.

There’s various nuclear reactors that have been built in Europe in the last 10-20 years. They’ve all gone crazily over budget. Yet every time the answer is that it was the wrong technology and other excuses. Nuclear is NOT cheap.