A lot, but not that much.

For example, in the european car industry, a lot of parts are still manufactured locally by relatively small specialist suppliers. Many of the precision machining tools I've seen in factories are not made in China.

Yes, most consumer electronics and stuff is. Agree on that.

We should if we don't want Putler to eventually rampage across Europe

Solar with battery storage. The batteries are what allow you to store all that excess power generated during the sunny day so you can use it at night, instead of paying astronomical prices.

Or make bank on arbitrage and sell high from your batteries that were filled for the cheap.

They're not keeping the four teams, either. They bought at least 1 of those companies solely to destroy the competition.

Too bad we don't enforce antitrust in this country.

For people who want to exist in the future, also known as humanity.

If you spend your mod points on me you can't spend them on someone who gets less karma than I do.

I've been working with Linux for many years and Windows even longer ofc, and Windows is a massive PITA all day every day.

Same question for you, but about Windows.

People are always whining about how you have to tweak stuff to make Linux work. I have never ever had a Windows system where I didn't have to tweak registry values, manually edit config files, etc. So it's a valid complaint, but not about Linux, only about computers in general. The only place I didn't do a ton of that was the classic MacOS, and that only because there was less tweaking available and you just lived with it being terribly limited.

Those young people need income as much as anyone else, so what happened there was that your employment was so terrible that they were able to find something better and it was worth doing it even though they were already hired by you.

They also don't owe you notice by any reasonable measurement, since you don't have to give them any. That's what at will employment means. Employers have set the standard amount of notice at or near 0 days by terminating people with that little notice as their SOP, and buying laws that permit them to do that. You got what you wanted, now you don't want it? Bummer for you, but you created this.

Frankly, it is both. Blackstone notably bought up the starter homes, but a lot of the bigger ones have been purchased by boomers to run as unlicensed hotels through airbnb. I know one woman who lives in Eureka who owns four or five homes which are exclusively used in this manner. With the vulture capitalists buying up the starter homes, and boomers buying up the bigger ones, there's only apartments and mobile homes left...

For a percentage of people this would not be harmful. You could identify those people because they would reject it as fake.

For the people who fall for it, it will be immensely harmful to their emotional development. It will confuse their whole concept of life and death. Death is part of life, and so is learning to accept it. Fucking with your mind with charlatan's tricks will only have negative outcomes. This is the waifu pillow equivalent of dealing with death.

This is becoming increasingly common in the USA too, and we also have a social credit score. It's called your credit score, and if it's not good you will have difficulty getting a job, renting an apartment... Except here it's more of an antisocial credit score since the only thing it cares about is whether you've been a good economic citizen.