The trick in many genres seems the market border crossing. Country might sell low priced in USA, where it originated, but might sell higher priced in Europe or Asia. In Brazil many vinyl records that in Europe easily sell for double or triple digits can still be found for silly prices by crate diggers. Similar until a decade ago with classical music: super common garage sale 1 € records could sell to China for 15 € or more if they were NM…

I just really found the flamingo resembles it. I’m no current rocketry expert, so in my brain seeing pictures of a Flamingo referenced to something historical I do know and which I think is very widely known. There’s nothing more to it than that.

How many years does it take to build a refinery from scratch? 3? 8? And perhaps a new refinery elsewhere will be a tad cleaner?

The real outcome however, could be that Russia tries to quickly apply bandaids to their broken infrastructure to get it up and running again fast. And that way their oil refining could become more polluting than ever.

I think on the global scale, Hormuz has a way bigger influence on helping many countries move towards renewables faster.

Where I’m from, they are the measuring stick for “authoritarian state goes total war over ideology and fucks up” in a modern/mechanised way.

Look at the v1. Then look at the flamingo. It’s almost like they pulled an 80 year old drawing out of a drawer for their design! And the Russian tactic of causing panic and terror is exactly what Nazi’s did with bombing London! I do it because it makes sense. This special military operation got so out of hand the world wars are almost the only historic wars worth comparing it too. Just hope he gets hanged by a mob like Mussolini or shoots himself in his bunker soon…

They basically reinvented the Nazi V1 with their Flamingo, and although only small % get through, it’s devastatingly accurate against refineries.

Meanwhile, Russia uses the old Nazi strategy of launching very expensive rockets at apartments with civilians in cities, doing 0 strategic damage to Ukraine war capabilities, just like the Nazi V1 and later V2 was used and was relatively useless despite its high price.

Oh, and Ukraine can shoot at almost all Russia’s refineries and weapons factories, but Russia can’t do it back because Ukrainian can always import from refineries and factories in France, Germany, etc, beyond the NATO border…

How?

The contribution from bicycle tires is peanuts by comparison. The weight of the vehicle is a fraction, the forces starting and braking are a fraction. It’s not zero, but compared to that from a 2000kg EV: that from a ±28kg EV bicycle or <15kg non-electric bicycle is pretty dang close to zero, especially when adding to the equation a regular speed of 50-120kmh <> 10-25kmh…

If you buy bootlegs, you won’t easily be able to resell online. I got at least one bootleg, didn’t know it when I bought it, but now it’s forbidden to sell it on a well known international vinyl sales website… Record sounds great tho, so it’s fine.

It’s a copy of Marc Moulin - Sam Suffy by the way.

I have the feeling so many people are super enthusiastic about it, it will be a matter of months after it’s included in regular KDE that someone will make a “Linux TV” distro centered around plasma bigscreen while minimizing setup complexity, aimed at using it for TV only… And there’s some (quiet) rumours that steam might be interested in using KDE bigscreen on the steam machine…

Yes the ones that stand a chance are higher segment, turn to biological wine only and to “luxury experience at our vineyard”. But no way French, Italian, Spanish or German wine can continue to compete in lower segments on world market flooded by cheap mass produced wine from South America, South Africa etc while demand declines. Of course it will not disappear completely from Europe, but the risk for certain villages and regions is very real because wine from other continents is silly cheap. If you do drink wine once in a while: buy regional if possible! (That goes for all agricultural products that are available from your own region)

I agree there are few advantages to alcohol.

But for some regions in Europe it means traditions older than the Roman empire, related to wine growing, can disappear. On steep sunny rocky slopes where little else will grow well, and it’s often really deeply embedded in almost everything in such a region: restaurants, tourism, landscape… 80% inhabitants are somehow linked to the winery. Then it’s not anonymous capitalist sounding “industry” but just some guy in a small village whose father’s father’s father … once started an Inn with winegrowing on the side and when all 4 of such businesses in a village go bankrupt the entire village can become an abandoned wasteland in just a few years.

Newpipe, very happy with it!

Cheap enormous Bluetooth speakers enter the chat

Imo it’s mainly the low key developers using some free API and dreaming it will always stay free. This kind of developing is often basically volunteering for big private companies. Users just use whatever is big, easy available. They have less choice. Developers know what they are putting their effort into, re-enforcing it even more while gaining little from it.

They wanna gentle into it somewhat because they know there are many server managing people on the line already, doubting going jellyfin but scared of the hassle of transferring users, incompatibility (or too difficult for user) with some users devices.

They wanna move fast because money line needs to go up, boss said.

So currently, tripling lifetime prices seems to be the middle way for them. After a while monthly and yearly prices will rise too (but slower than tripling).

I think their idea behind it is to convince relatively tech savvy people how great it works (it does) so they talk about it in their relatively tech savvy professional role at small and medium companies.

And at some point they will either start charging money for the small time user, or it will turn to shit, or both. You just know it will happen, the question is when not if. It isn’t free, it’s corporate.

A fine is brushed off in a quarter. They should be forced to split into seperate companies.

It’s not 2007. Devices are everywhere now, smartphones, TV’s etc. The social dimension (social pressure) and implications are very different now. Their power increases, amount of people caught in the loop is immense now. 2007 was all still fun and games.

New records are ridiculously priced! There are jewels hidden in thrift store bins or in some of the more “messy” looking record stores for very reasonable prices. Digging through the pictures and the names you may or may not know, to select albums based on their title and cover: there’s an incredible charm to that. I visit a lot of record stores, the ones that look too neatly organised and every single record is in a sealed shrink wrap, are the ones I leave rather quickly. I want my record store to look and feel like an old attic :)