I'm not above tinkering with stuff endlessly. But neither can I totally stomach having stuff broken for long periods. It has been know to happen that I come home drunk and just want to the browser to work for steaming.
Gaming ebbs and flows and the most motivation I've gotten is from trying to get a game to work. I would want a decent chance of not being severely restricted in my gaming choices however. Is SteamOS even a viable choice or should I just order a new HD, install Mint and run that unless I know what I'm using widows for?

OK now I'm curious. What veryfibly false lieftist stuff is there?
Stuff on the scale of Obamacare Deathcamps, QAnon, rightwing counter-BLM actions and Pizza/Climategate. You know things that, if they came from a single entity, would punishable unter inciting to riot/disturbing the peace laws. Mind you I'm not saying it doesnt exist. I'm saying that it doesnt have near as much reach and scope as the latest foxnews_promoted_fotm_lefttist_outrage.
I'm talking about stuff from western democracies btw.

He did answer that with his Toyota vs Ford comparison tbh. And is it really a global standard in it's pure sense?
It would mean that products from certain countries wouldnt come with a certain reputation attached.
Japanese car, Indian car, British car, Chinese car, German car, Italian car. I would find it very odd indeed if you were to tell me that they all evoked the same image in your mind.

Napoleon, Hitler, various people tried this out, and it ends tragically. The EU is an attempt to do this by different methods.
-Boris Johnson The Telegraph May 15 2016

What happened to the confidence and ideals of the European dream? The EU was set up to protect freedom. It was the Soviet Union that stopped people leaving. The lesson from history is clear: if you turn the EU club into a prison, the desire to get out won't diminish it will grow — and we won't be the only prisoner that will want to escape
-Jeremy Hunt Conservative Party Birmingham

There were many more but those were easiest to find. insult(s) + eu + [name of any of (brexiteer) ministers that have resigned under may] should yield more if you are willing to search a bit. Somehow I didnt feel like going through their twitter feeds....

That's something the German attempts at data retention laws have taught me. Politicians will always try to pass some BS w/o thinking the implications through. It usually comes crashing down. In my experience Supreme Courts have a habit of wanting reasoning, procedures, redress procedures, limitations and implementations explained to them. Then the inconsistencies come to light in a forum they cant bullshit their way out of. I've seen numerous instances were courts asked the government if they had a severe case teh dumb.
Panic and autocratic name calling should be reserved for when the supreme court says a law is OK. Until then keep talking about the BS inconsistencies.

This was the very first prototype went out into the world.

The links in included in my submission have several pictures that highly suggest that each full scale 30m sphere would have its own pump. There is also the wording of the write-up the Fraunhofer Institute posted when the test started in November. My translation of what was supposed to be tested was:

The power train part together with the cross section images highly suggests, to me, a pump for each sphere. To me there is also the question of practicality. I'd think it would be easier construct the whole thing on land then having to attach the spheres to the pump on the ocean floor. If that pump where to malfunction it would knock out a whole bank of spheres that would then have to be de- and reconnected.

I read /. quite a lot but seldom participate in discussions. Main reason being that with my initial score(1) I can seldom contribute in a meaningful way. A couple of decent comments and one submitted story have gotten me mod points from time to time. The difficult thing here is that most of the time I don't notice that I have mod points. I just dont look at the area of my screen that tells me so that much when reading /.. That's why I would like mail notifications for mod points when I get them.
At times I use /. as a knowledge/source base to back up my opinions with sources. That doesnt always work however. When trying to find a older story the /. search often returns to many result. For many clicks I cant be sure if I indeed searched for right words/phrases. This leads into the problem that the search parameters have to be quite narrowly defined to return good results. The biggest problem on that front is that related terms often dont get included in the search. E.g.: optical astronomy/telescopes/visible light [..] OR solving hunger/nutrition in the 21st century/using algae to reduce environmental footprint of food production. With those three queries I might look for the same story but I would expect results from such related search terms.

IANAL either but I know from frequent conversations with law students I know that intent plays a major role in a court's decision. A good example for this is theft. If I take your property it isnt automatically theft, unless the court is convinced that I didnt intent to return it. Under no circumstances do I see another court (and appeals courts) not paying attention to the intent of the ECHR. Especially because an actual censorship case could to make it back to the ECHR. They would most likely ask the lower court if they are off their rocker, because they explained their intent in the original ruling.
If anyone claims free speech impairment by the ECHR, that extra ordinary claim better have extra ordinary evidence. This doesnt.
I have been paying attention to the ECHR (and the German high courts) for over 10 years and NOT EVEN ONCE have I noticed a sliver of unreasonableness. More the complete opposite. Think of a law that could be part of a conservative wet dream and you will probably find high court decision against something similar.

I dont have issues with my ISP very often and if I do it usually isnt their fault. Trying to get them to understand that I realize that it isnt their fault was always the real issue. I usually start the conversation assuming that they know what they are doing. That inevitably fails and I talk to them as if I am the tech support.
I usually give them 2-3 minutes to see if they are knowledgeable enough to deal with my problem. After that I resort to my catch all phrase: "If you dont know what I am talking about then either connect me to someone that does or LET ME TALK TO YOUR BOSS." Either action has a good success rate. I also over emphasize the severity of my problem because otherwise they often think they know enough to deal with my problem.

How would you cook if all of humanity's food(/sugar/fuel) production had to be algae plus 3d printing because of environmental concerns and space requirements?

The solution seems to be to live on/near the line then. as far as I can make out the areas to live in would include Paris, Frankfurt, a sizable chuck of the Rhine, Stuttgard, Lake Constance, Vienna.
Just view the state religions as Europe's 2nd Amendment. A somewhat annoying relic from a bygone age where the (hardcore) adherents ruin the general climate for everyone. Assuming religion while be around for good while longer, having state religions in secular state isn't as bad as one might think. In my opinion it keeps the religions from going of the rails because they would lose their befits if they don't play nice.