You obviously havenâ(TM)t spent any substantial time with VR games. Flight and racing games with wheels and HOTAS? Whoa! FPS with a gunstock? Whoa! Any boxing, sword fighting etc.? Whoa!

Immersion is turned to 11 in VR. You can still use wheels, sticks, paddles, accessories⦠*and* there are some games with really interesting hand controls.

I cannot play racing and flight games in pancake any more.

Same here. I went to the gym three times a week when COVID struck. Now Iâ(TM)m lucky if I make it once a week.

Thatâ(TM)s diabetes medication, and it has significant side effects that lead 14% of study participants to cancel the therapy. And thatâ(TM)s the study they submitted to the German authorities, so you can assume that was the _best_ study they had.

Do you have first-hand experience with it? Metformin, which is usually prescribed together with it also helps to lose weight, but it also is for diabetics, and it also leads to nausea and diarrhea in a significant number of patients. Thatâ(TM)s not a way to lose weight that _I_ would recommend.

Why that recommendation? Seriously curious.

I donâ(TM)t know about the US, but here in Germany the 5-seat Office 365 Family subscription is on Amazon for 70 â a year. Thatâ(TM)s a *lot* of value, given it includes full Office for Windows and Mac and the TB of online storage per person.

German car makers are big into BEV's and hybrids, so I don't see how this hurts them at all.

Also, we have the Greens in the government who are aggressively driving an eco-friendly agenda, with support of the social democrats and only the liberals blocking environmentally friendly politics because MAH FREEDOM and BUT THE ECONOMY, but luckily they're only a minority partner and cannot do much but make people want to strangle them for their obvious short-sightedness and high bogon emissions.

Apart from the mad amount of energy required to produce hydrogen, the conversion processes in fuel cells lower the efficiency even more. Unless there is some revolutionial innovation lurking around the corner that makes hydrogen production *not* prohibitively inefficient and expensive, hydrogen's time will never really come.

Using ethanol in combustion engines doesn't solve their inherent problem that they have *abysmal* efficiency, turning most of the energy into heat, not movement.

You may not like it, but right now BEV's are the most efficient means of mobility that we have *right now* and can put into use. Fossil-fuel-driven ICE mobility needs to stop, and needs to stop *now*. There are some use cases where green fuels will be the way to go (ships, planes), but if we don't cut transportation emissions substantially, we'll be in deep shit. We probably already are.

Good question, and as a German, their preferred destination in Europe being Germany for some reason, I'd like to know, too, so I googled.

Apparently it's a mixture of not having the concept of a "refugee" in their code of laws and not wanting politicized muslims inside their borders who could stir opposition against the regime. Also in the Gulf states the native populations are a (sometimes tiny) minority with e.g. Qatar having had 90% foreigners in 2010, which doesn't help.

https://www.lejournalinternati...

Fun fact from the article is that Saudi Arabia offered to fund the building of 200 mosques all over Germany so the Syrian refugees would feel at home. If that is true, fuck you very much. The blood of lost life of every refugee killed trying to reach one of those mosques because SA didn't let them in is on their hands.

I find it priceless that these complaints about cheating come from people who have auto-aim built right into their version of the game from the start.

600 miles isnâ(TM)t wasted, itâ(TM)s basically what *everybody* wants. Not being able to go that far is the main argument I hear wielded against BEVâ(TM)s. (Apart from the trolls âoekid labour batteriesâ and âoerolling bombsâ and âoefuck Gretaâ.)

Iâ(TM)m in Germany and the range anxiety is real regardless. There are always at least 20 chargers at most 10 minutes away in my local area, yet coming from a Diesel that could literally go those 600 miles I can feel the range anxiety lurking as soon as I know I have to go further than I can go in a single charge. It will go away as I actually make such trips (Covid makes me stay safe at home), but range is a restriction compared to ICEâ(TM)s and restrictions always prompt resistance.

What? You donâ(TM)t need 20 A for a level 1 wall plug that takes forever to charge.

My 11 kW wallbox needs a measly 16 A and charges my Enyaq 80 from 20% to 80% in like 4 hours depending on temperature.

Maybe if thereâ(TM)s kind of peak VFX, movies can finally get back to telling good stories instead. Or provoke thought.

Amen. As a father of three, I wholeheartedly second everything you say - especially the part of making decisions for your children and being their parent, not their friend or partner. Being a parent is *not* symmetrical, nor should it be. Quite the opposite it's your duty to protect your children from things they can not or should not do (yet?).

To me, the essence of parenting is guidance, consequence, and, most of all love. Telling kids 'no' and sticking to it is more of a sign of love than most people (especially non-parents) understand.

Oh, and let me stress that explaining isn't negotiating. There *are* things you negotiate with your kids (how should they safely learn it otherwise?), but your decisions aren't among those.

Congrats. Does it feel better or are you ambivalent?