Nuclear or batteries come with their own kind of logistical problems.

Edit: It might sound that I’m being a contrarian, but I’m with you. Europe has dug itself in a deep hole, and I’m not sure how it will manage its way out without depending on dictatorships.

Sharing the non-paywalled version from the original post: https://archive.is/2025.05.29-170356/https://www.ft.com/content/39d4678d-a7e1-4fce-b8d8-eb799cfed3e6

So American LNG imports? Doesn’t sound too attractive an option nowadays, although a great bargaining chip in the tariff deals.

High school teacher in my case. I knew a bit of BASIC before his lessons, but nothing major. I couldn’t really see how to use it to make a whole program.

Then his TurboPascal lessons opened up a whole world of possibilities. Not only did I take in the basics of any programming language, I also saw how these little blocks could lead to whole applications. Then I applied what I learned to PHP for some class websites, and am happy to say I’m still coding PHP to this day. I’ll be forever grateful to that teacher.

I did not expect a mention of Dries Van Langenhove in the article. Convicted in Belgium for sowing hatred and denying the holocaust, so now he fled to the rest of Europe to spread his filth.

History might not repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme!

Well put! :)

There might indeed be ways around the filter, e.g. a stable, non-exploitative society but they would never reach space. The filter might indeed not even exist, space could indeed still be young but I’m not very convinced. If space were young, and if it were to expand as it currently does, civilizations would have fewer opportunities as there would be fewer visible stars to explore. As time grows, chances get smaller still.

Let’s say humans do cling on. I believe they will face challenges that are too steep to make long-term survival probable. Not only the heavily pollution and the unlivable climate, but the depletion of basic minerals will probably prove too great an obstacle. That band of humans must have held on and maintained all current technology, and have sufficient power sources, to be able to do some deep underground mining, as all easy-to-reach minerals have already gone. Without technology or those minerals, I’m not sure how we’ll be growing food or cleaning the air to breathe.

Increasing the reach of their power by risking internal cohesion. Brexiteers railing against Poles did not wake up the EU, apparently.

I believe we’re seeing a universal law in action: any technologically advanced civilization will end up destroying itself. Whether it’s the warming due to extracted fossil fuels, or a nuclear war, or AI, …, there is, and must be, a seed of destruction in every advanced civilization. I purposefully say ‘must be’ because of the Fermi paradox, which should indicate to us all how any sci-fi future is forever beyond our grasp.

Not only last year. The trend should break this year, but with the EU still faffing around with these new sanctions, I’m not sure whether it will.

The Office when Michael left.

Terminator 3 is the last of that series in my eyes. The others - although not too shabby (excluding Salvation of course) - I regard as fan fiction.

Arrested Development - that last season just did not agree with me.

Community - things dropped off quickly when Troy left.

Party of a balanced budget cannot balance the budget after years of not being able to balance the budget. Shocker!

The plastics factory still irks me. 750 million given to a UK billionaire in return for 300 local jobs. If this were a government program, it would quickly be labelled as inefficient. In comparison, for that amount, we could’ve given those 300 workers unemployment benefits of 2000 a month for 104 years, and not have our earth and air polluted.

Rather than right vs left, I reckon this is caused by the other axis, authoritarian vs liberty.

Filen is one of those under consideration, along with Seafile. I hadn’t heard about koofr, I’ll check that out as well, thanks!

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Now I’m intrigued. In what way did they modify the engineer? :)

Aurora is a thing of beauty when you really need a specific app on the Play Store.

I do notice however that a local public transport app is malfunctioning since a few weeks, I suspect because of a Play Store update enforcing some dependency or integrity check, causing some apps to fail. For now, it’s just one or two, but I’m anxiously bracing for the next app to fail.

Very cool! And also very handy. If you get tired of them, just reverse the current to some ocean wind turbines, and they’ll never make it back 😀

Hahaha yes I would be more supportive of a royal sailing family 😄

What country is it that has these sailing royals?