Actually I just got data in from Swizerland which basically never really closed anything after the initial lockdown and from Japan, which still masks, guess which country does not have RSV overflooding childrens hospitals. Answer Swizerland is full and overflowing, while Japan is pretty much like the years before the pandemic, yes RSV cases are there, but the system can handle it the usual way.
This basically just is another small stone which proofs Dr. Leonardis theory, that we run into a widespread immune damage by infecting tons of people, among tons of research papers looking into T-Cells recently!

Also Sweden never imposed masks in schools, heck they only had mask recommendations for public transport thats all there is to it.
But yet again Japan fares better with deaths etc.. than the west because they use mask and they did not have rising RSV numbers in the past because they were masking up.
The immune debt mumbo jumbo does not add up if you look on a worldwide scale, the immunity destruction by a virus holds up way more likely than anything else!
Especially given that kids are affected which should have been base immune to RSV for almost 10 years and actually were until recently.

Yeah but schools were never closed and generally spoken this is a lame exuse because people did not lock themselves in without any contacts.

On the other hand there has been research coming out which shows how a covid infection among other things really can mess up your bodies T-Cells and that can be proven be numbers.

The only thing all those countries have in common is a mass infection of mostly unvaccinated kids, several times several waves with a potentially organ and immune system damaging virus.

So here we are again like so many times with a convenient lie and a hard numbers inconvenient truth truth (although the final verdict is still open), People automatically will flock again towards the convenient lie like so many other times.

GM even stated, that the connector can be a problem in end users hands, because it is too hard to get the full contact in, and many users wont even notice or with cable bending reach a critical distance because it is not 100% plugged in. This is definitely a broken design!

You mean worst affected group being children who could not get a covid jab?
Yes there is a correllation getting covid unprotected raises your chances to fuck up your immune system.

Not really, Sweden has the same problem but no mass quarantine, same for swizerland, but there are theories, that Covid fucks up your immune system for longer periods of time, which seem to get more and more attention and research results proving that.

France had the problem this summer that they did not have enough water to cool their nuclear power plants...
Germany with its extensive solar panel installations literally saved France from a total blackout!

Mhh alll the automatics I have driven here in Europe except for e-cars have this manual shifting mode.. basically you flip a switch and can shift on the fly but you dont have to couple/decouple the gears anymore. Fun stuff is, they build it in, but literally no one uses it absolutely no one.

In E-cars as I said it does not make sense to have a gear system underneath.

Hello from Europe
I have been growing up with manual transition, but I do not buy it anymore. (most people here still drive shift gears btw... I simply stopped it decades ago)

The security and comfort you get from automatic shifting is so much better than any perceived control gain.

Fun fact is that F1 racing cars use nowadays semi automatic shifting and have been for a long time, its only the end customers who still demand it because they think it is so sporty.

Also fun fact manual transition is cheaper or used to be thats one of the major reasons why car manufacturers loved it and told everyone that it is so sporty while in fact real race cars used various methods of auto shifting or semi auto shifting since the 90s

Next fact is that in E-Cars it makes absolutely no sense, because most E-Cars are not shifted but controlled via the e-motor alone who can cover a way bigger ground of rotation speed in optimal efficiency (10% to almost 100% of the rotation speed).

So adding a shifting gear to that mix would make control even way worse and you would lose efficiency big time. There are some cars which have exactly 2 gear stages to get more efficiency out but I am not sure if that works out because by adding another gear layer on top you lose efficiency and acceleration efficiency.

Longer than Truss... not sure how long though.

Well Central europe has a different view on this, we were hit relatively hard in 86 by tschernobyl and we do not have the place to relocate in case of desaster in the size of it.
Germany for that reason has been investing the last 10 years into renewable energy big time and basically kept France and Spain afloat this summer when they had a severe problem with their nuclar plants due to extreme drought (they did not have enough water anymore to cool the reactors)
So YMMV on where you live.

I am going to decouple myself for 8 months of the year from this insanity by going solar/pv next year, a ton of people here in Europe are doing the same with. Germany being the leader. But this year a set of factors caused this.
Russian gas games which will work only this winter, then literally all countries of Europe have rerouted their gas supplies although for higher cost. A short term win for the USA and Canada but there is a bigger picture and long term plan, but later to that.
Then France had a water problem so they were forced to shut down a ton of their nuclear reactors others have been in maintenance for months. Italy also had severe water problems which caused a ton less of electrical production in the north etc..
  etc...
in the end Germany with their almost insane private and public PV infrastructure saved Europe from a blackout, because at the time France simply almost went offline from the grid, they kept everything afloat with their PV surplus they could export.
I dont live in Germany, but it is striking, literally every third one family house has solar panels on their roof, bigger houses less so. I will go the same way next spring and a ton of people here are planning to do it as well, atm mostly labor shortage slows down the adoption. And there is even more untapped potential in the south where the solar rooftops are almost non existent, although the weather and climate there would lead to it heavily and they probably could even be self sufficient 11 months per year if not the entire year.

In 5-10 years we will have the problem that we will need better storage infrastructure to reroute the insane summer surplusses which will be there until november into the cold months.
it is very likely those surplusses will be used to produce cheap hydrogen for winter or for desalination in the south.
But gas definitely is on its way out and whatever is needed wont be consumed anymore from Russia unless they stop their games and become a reliable partner again. This year basically was a wakeup call for many countries which were relying on russia being a reliable business partner independent of the politics (a scheme which worked with them for many decades even in the sovjet era)
Either way this winter will be difficult, people for the first time in decades really will have to slash down their energy consumption, which is not that easy in winter (lots of people have bunkered wood here just in case)
Add on top that almost all of europe is now sticking their head into the sand regarding covid which will give us another heavy slap around end of october mid november.
So this will be "interesting" times.

Add to that a ton of driver problems in games, since gaming never was a market for their iGPU, that even shines until today with the handheld pc based consoles. The amd based ones simply work better!

Not quite true, the Next design and also the OS UI design was considered to be the design pinnacle of its time. Btw. the Next Design was not done by Jobs, but by Frog Design a design company also used by Apple.
But I agree in the aspect that Jobs was the corrective factor who made Ives designs working by stopping him at the right point.

The products become usable again instead of being a fashion item only.