I am not so sure of that assertion. For one batteries are astonishingly efficient, so a big pile of them in one place versus a lot of them distributed out does not seem to make a lot of difference for efficiency. Add the grid losses and the losses needed because grid storage always feeds into high voltage nets and it is not so clear, if the efficiency of grid or personal batteries are better.

When you look at prices, grid storage is quite a lot cheaper, but the assumptions behind grid storage and personal storage are different. While a grid operator wants to make money by loading the batteries when price is low and discharge when it is high, a personal battery storage system is used to store the energy from own generation. As prices for power being fed in are falling while prices for power consumed from the grid are mostly stable or rising, local battery storage is used to change low paying power into saved grid power and so the economics of local storage are very different from grid storage.

I can only speak of German law, but taking photos in public places is allowed only if either the people agree or they are mere decoration. If that is not the case you could sue them. If the photo or video is published, then the situation gets much more interesting, because now you can use copyright law and that can get expensive, especially as in Germany the looser of a court battle pays the expenses of the winning party and the looser must make sure, that all of the pictures are taken down, not only his but all of those which were shared by others or he can sued again which generally makes it even more expensive.

In places, where you expect some form of privacy, you are generally not allowed to take pictures without the explicit consent of owner and people.

Those are illegal in the EU by the exact same law that Hate Aid is citing. Any object intended to take pictures which is disguised as an everyday object is simply illegal and they say, that is also true of those smart glasses, especially as they are nearly identical to the base models.

I am personally of the opinion, that a big sign has to be attached to the top of the glasses saying "Warning: Video Device" so that it makes the people wearing them look like the idiots they are.

You are wrong. I am German so I checked a bit around for the counts in Germany and as far as I see, in 2025 the number of individual pumps fell to 14.376 (some press report, so take with grain of salt), while there are nearly 200000 public charging points and about 50000 of those are high speed chargers.

Yes, you can, but those pages need a license or GEMA will go after them and has done so in the past.

And for the snippets Google search presents there is an explicit exception in the law. As ChatGPT is no search engine as it does not by default link the origin which is licensed and does not only produce a short snippet but quotes it in full, it has to be licensed.

Actually you are wrong and the judge did address this in his ruling. The lyrics were reproduced fully or with very minor changes and the judge argued, that it cannot be by chance, that lyrics of seven songs were fully or mostly reproduced if they are not stored in some way.

The idea, that the weights cannot store data is just wrong, it obviously can or how else could it produce names or places when asked? It is not able to store long data sets, but short ones are stored and as lyrics are often rather short and use a kind of a language of their own they probably are stored in a form that makes perfect reproduction possible.

Also the law was not written in a way, that the data has to be stored in a certain way, but that the system has to be able to reproduce it. And it was shown, that ChatGPT did exactly that.

The AI generated snake oil is easier to read and better written?

No, there was no Xe-100 tested in Germany.

You are probably meaning the THTR-300, but the concepts are quite different and hopefully so, THTR-300 was a complete mess and is still lingering around, costing money.

Is there any justification for that assumption, the hard part is identifying the problem, the input only gives you hints, the arguments the AI makes can be highly deceiving, but it can indeed have found a bug. Remember, AI is very poor in explaining what it is doing.

So basically you only want to find the easy to see bugs, not the hard ones. This assumption is also on shaky ground, as often the subtle, hard to identify problems are the important ones and limiting time spent on each candidate can exclude important problems.

German police is not armed like the US counter part. They usually have rifles at most, though there are some assault rifles. So they will definitely not be able to reach a plane flying at some altitude and they probable recognise a starting or landing plane, as those appear most often around airports and you can phone them and ask. Also they are not that trigger happy to shoot at first sight.

Additionally consider that this is just some politicians doing a publicity stunt, because law experts are of the opinion, that the new law is not really necessary, but that the real problem is, how to get the drones down safely.

Those are not inconvenient questions, they are dumb.

One: does more production from solar and wind reduce the demand for coal and gas? If so it means less emissions.

Two: do coal and gas fired plants vanish when solar or wind provide power? If not, then they are available when necessary and there obviously will be some subsidies and regulation necessary to keep it that way.

Yes and no. The idea behind WIMP is, that it very, very rarely interacts with normal matter. So it doesn't really matter where you place the detector and can place it, where you have less background noise. A simple number example, if 99,99% of all WIMPs would pass earth without interaction, it simply doesn't matter, how much rock is above and under the detector, as less than 0,01% of the particles would be eliminated until they could reach the detector. And the true percentage is probably orders of magnitude higher, so most of the particles would reach the detector.

So you say a company has to abide the rule of the law, where it does business. I wonder what selling ads is in your world, presents for guests? No, well then those businesses better abide the law, no?

But your grandma is probably able to read full sentences and would have noticed, that it is not the number of users, but the subscribers of public channels which surpasses 45 million.

Could you please cite the international law allowing you to inspect a vessel as long as it is not in your territorial waters? And they are all legit, they are not registered as Russian ships, but for example are registered in Panama, as is most of the fleet of western countries. Russia is doing what it can to make it as hard as possible to know, if a ship is owned by them for obvious reasons, so just because you see some ship leaving a Russian port does not mean, that is part of the shadow fleet, it could be from one of the countless countries not imposing sanctions, like Greece.

The best solution would be disallowing ships in that bad shape from all your territorial waters and ports, but that is something most countries don't want to do, as they also have a lot of ships in bad shape.