Thanx, very interesting.
Raises the question: what took them so long?

Now lets see when I finally can write an "App" on a "PC" and just "move it" onto _my_ tablet, and launch it there.

Why are you citing fake news sites, when you can simply link the correct site?
This: https://www.energy-charts.info... is the official EU portal for all about electricity (and other energy) in the EU.

Germany decided 2000 to shut down nuclear.
Not 2022.

2022 was 3 years ago. Are you fucking stupid? Or is that a stupid typo? Has nothing to do with Fukushima.

The exit was set to stone LONG before Fukushima.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Higher GDP doesn't translate to better standard of living,
Of course not.
Just double all prices in your country, and you have doubled (actually much more) your GPD. Simple.
And? No one has any benefit from that inside of your country ... and quickly the exchange rate versus any "world currency" will adjust ...

It is easy to have a high GPD, if a lot of it is selling and buying fictional assets on a stock market. As in futures, sell and buy options, and however all the "derivates" are called.

Just move the London stock exchange or the New York one to lets say Bangkok ... or Kuala Lumpur. And their GPD will explode over night. And if you move the NYC stock exchange: it collapses in the USA.

Well,
as much as you are right ... there is still some funny dampener on the European potential crash :D

The idiotic taxes US imposed on _everyone_ including Europe, let many mid sized companies bail out of the US market.

So the US themselves helped us to decouple our market a bit from our former biggest customer.

It does not shield us from any catastrophe happening over there (e.g. oil prices are still super important for the EU), but 10 years ago a sudden crash would have had more drastic effects on Europe.

The problem is that the current world crisis (es?) look so damn orchestrated. War in Ukraine, Syria, now Iran, and US at the verge of a civil war. South America struggling ...

Disruptive AI ... cloud and data centers in general, crypto miners. I mean seriously: we have two IT/computer driven energy hungry "technologies" that hardly benefit mankind in any way. Sure, I can now ask my photo gallery to automatically create folders for every picture containing cats and or humans, and name them by date or place or face recognition via my contacts (or even scrap some social media sites for the names of the people on my photos). However: I never use such features.

There are simply to many people on the planet that have way to much money, and use it for bullshit, instead for something reasonable.

Look, father, that other guy there, they say "he is worth 100billion", just founded a space travel company!!
Oh, son, yeah, wow, that is a good idea. Let's do it, too!

The problem is basically the fixed costs of the grid and all the other infrastructure, and the employees.
Strictly speaking: half of the cost on a household energy bill are grid costs.
If the energy costs ZERO ... the grid is still there to be paid.

Regarding Greta, some moron claimed I was "faithful follower" and had no clue about science.

He obviously did not grasp her simple 4 words :D alas, such is the world.

In most languages power and energy are synonyms.

Without using the correct unit, English is pretty difficult to understand in that regard.

For example, in German one would not use the term "Energy", but "Work". Then you have Power and Work as terms to deal with, which makes mix ups less likely.

However: in RL you need the unit anyway. So in tech we just write number + unit, and do not even use Power, Work or Energy, unless it is necessary.

That are good points.

I did not dig deep into rust.

I liked some of the syntax, but if I have to use a rusty language, I prefer C++ :P

There is not really much difference in the UI - except for niche Apps like the current Safari, which is close to unusable in my opinion.

When I used iPhones and iPads simultaneously they were more or less the same, never used an iPad with "iPad-OS" ... perhaps I should fool around with one in a mall, haha.

To say that is a misunderstanding of what it means to be "too cheap to meter".

No there is no misunderstand.

You say the same as I do, you just draw different conclusions.

As soon as you have your mobile BC miner and/or AI trainer in your laptop, the hotel rooms will shift from "electricity included" to: you have 10kWh free, the rest is metered.

Of course you could further nitpick about meaning of words and just bill/tax every household $1000 per month, and put the house holds on a 20Amps breaker ... and call it a day. Or night!

What has month of warning to do with putting napalm on a convoy of trucks and tanks, for no reason except: you can do it and get a away with it?

Firstly, in English, it's called the Chinese Communist Party, or CCP.
  No it is not.
Just look at Wikipedia :P

It is a purely american thing to pronounce what ever they want wrong.

but in English, that's the order the adjectives have to be.
Yes, if there would be an adjective in: "The Communist Party of China", then you had a point, but there is none.

And then you could blame China to speak bad English: because they define how their party is named in English, not you.

Because that obviously does not work.

You have to fact check yourself or ask one who trustworthy does it

Stupid rant.
It's possible to have a high information society without the written word. Other traditions and methods of dissemination work just as well.

You do not have any of those traditions.

So learn to read.
And do read.

There is nothing elitist to be able what every 5 year child on the rest of the planet can do.

If you live healthy, aka normal, there are no strange effects after 50. No idea about 60 yet.
I doubt, I will feel "aging" before 70/75.