Repulsive would be the opposite of attractive. For addictive the opposite could be boring.

In the early days you could go on Facebook, scroll thru new posts for a few minutes until you reached where you got to last time you visited then leave the site. That meant you only need to spend a modest time on the site each day to keep up to date with what was happening with your friends. Then they changed it and I found I could never reach where I was up to last visit and was spending a lot of time on the site for no good reason. That was the start of the endless scrolling implementation designed to keep you on their site for as long as possible and was when I stopped using Facebook.

One of the reasons I still use Slashdot decades after finding it is the lack of infinite scrolling, it is not an attention whore. I can spend a few minutes here several times a day without felling like I have wasted a whole lot of my day for nothing.

Who cares?

Interestingly I do often have free power as often the rural grid can't handle the surplus solar power I have and the inverters simply go into a power output limiting mode so the house voltage does not get to high. The catch is I sold my last thing that I routinely used that ran on gas, so I have no use for gas anymore. That last thing was a ride on mower which didn't cost much in gas but was always needing something fixed, typically belts, which my new electric ride on doesn't have. Shortly after I sold it the friend who brought it had to replace head gasket. Free gas isn't going to make the long term running of an ICE any less of a hassle.

Well now the USA is using AI to write the laws there I think the meat bags there remember the correct way to talk. The phrase you guys need to learn is "I for one welcome our AI overlords".

Regional limits was main reason I never subscribed to Netflix and the reason I will never subscribe to a streaming service that limits content in some region. They are really doing pirates a favor with that crap.

My point is that doesn't matter as much because once they are installed it doesn't matter much where solar panels came from. Regardless there would be merit in the EU promoting the production of solar panel within the EU. For energy security they should probably focus on EU made inverters for those solar panels to reduce the risk of a remote kill switch in ones from China or the USA.

I don't see much market for windmills as most milling is done using electric motors. They can be a good tourist attraction. On the other hand wind turbines are a good idea for the EU to focus on and I think they already do quite a few, it is tech which they are good at.

Nitpicking accepted. I had wondered about the term turbine too, but had no better word and turbine was the word being used by the people deploying them.

I guess my issue with trump is windmill and the those wind power generation devices, that I will refer to for convince sake as as wind turbines, is the juxtaposition of them. Here in New Zealand we have hundreds of wind turbines and only one operational windmill I know of. The wind turbines have a very industrial feel to them but the windmill gives off a very different vibe. If you are ever in New Zealand and passing thru Foxton on SH1 take break and checkout the De Molen windmill there, an exact replica of 17th century Dutch flour mill. See https://www.foxtonwindmill.co..... It only cost about $2 to explore the interior and is cool to watch in operation from the inside. The milliner will even sell you flour milled by the windmill. Contrary to what trump claims I saw no dead birds at the base of it.

I would pay to watch trump on a horse attacking a wind turbine and falling off.

This statement by the US Commerce Secretary was the most interesting. The choices being:

1. The US controls fossil fuels, a consumable and lifetime system dependence.
2. China controls supply chains need for new deployments.

However China does not control the sun or wind. So go with fossil fuels and have an untrustworthy partner who could turn off your energy supply anytime for any reason, or go with a renewables system supplier who could delay the role out of new generation. A pretty easy choice, even before you look at the economics of the two options.

<rant>Is it just me or do other people get pissed off with trump calling wind turbines windmills? Does he really not know what a mill does? And his FUD around them is so outrageously wrong it makes my brain hurt. The sooner that loser's speeches stop being 'news' the better.</rant>

Maybe I should have said don't get your panties in a bunch?

Not sure why you would think I will die dreaming of free healthcare when I have had that from since before I was born?

To give trump credit he is making very good progress on that effort, next step is to find a pretext to cancel the next elections, like maybe starting a war with someone.

Given the derogatory background to the term ham I prefer amateur radio, but admit it is easier to spell ham without the help of spell checker...

It is the mesh networks that these types of governments should fear given they open the potential for encrypted and anyonumos communications across a country, and it's borders, even using stock smartphones.

Woo big boy, don't get your knickers in a knot!

As I saw it there were two possible situations:

1. They though these guys were actual spying for some unclear reason, and charged them accordingly.
2. They had some other issue with these guys and charging them with spying was simply a pretext to punish them.

I believe it is the second case but have no way to prove that, hence my comment "There is probably more to this that the allegations". It sounds like you are reading something else into my comment, hopefully this clears things and you can chill a bit? Also just to be 100% clear, what is happen to the general population in Belarus, and these guys in particular is terrible and can not be justified.