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Yup, our everybody’s dear Ursula. I realize that Europe has many institutes and multiple unions, but I feel that the EU best represents Europe as a whole. And, of the multiple bodies the EU is made of, the European Commission often lays face to news and is said to hold the most “power”.

Yes, the USA is a master of making itself seem much more powerful and important than it really is, and what do news outlets love more than painting the devil onto the walls? Denmark living in the USA’s pocket doesn’t help much either.

At this point I wouldn’t be surprised if more Europeans know the presidents of China, Russia, and the USA than know the name of our own European prime minister, which would be pretty sad if actually true.

Of course it’s important to know what other countries are up to, and the EU is currently reliant on the USA for conflict handling (please make a joint European army), but unless you plan to intervene then I see no reason to fanatically follow their politics. Just tell me whether we’ll have to deal with some ancient inept dude, or another ancient inept dude who has managed to weaponize incompetence.

Welcome to my rock, i guess.

I’m vaguely aware that the USA is gearing up for another political tragedy, but who, living outside of the USA, actually follows that stuff? Can’t influence the outcome much either way if you can’t vote, except perhaps by spreading propaganda.

Hope the preview works right.

The Baltic sea just had a once-in-a-century storm surge this fall. There was little danger since the baltic sea is rather well protected, but many local dikes weren’t up for the job, resulting in quite some damage (in general, the houses on my island were mostly unscathered).

Took us the better of two months to drain the water from the island, and in the meantime we had to hike along the more robust dikes to get to the harbor.

We also had to empty our lakes of saltwater to attempt and save our fire-bellied toads, as the Copenhagen Zoo is trying to preserve the species on the island.

When it comes to hobby we tend to ask each other to send a link to the product in advance of the gifting occasion. It takes the surprise out of the event, but you get something which you can actually use.

For other gifts, try to keep a log or notes. And yes, gift cards are also very nice.

The “language” setting would be vastly more useful if you could select a default post language, as well as apps implementing language as a choice when making a comment.

You’ll never be in doubt whether I posted something from app or web, as I actually have the possibility to specify the language when using the web interface, which otherwise is “undefined” by default.

Go to your profile settings and unselected “undefined” under your languages. Make sure that “English” is still selected.

You’ll be unable to see the majority of content, but this is the easiest method if you really don’t want to see any content from non-English speaking countries.

That’s one of my favorite theories as to what “sentience” is.

We humans might just be so riddled with mutations and barely functional genetic traits, which tend to be more in our way than help, that we just might have succeeded in banging together a “mundane sentience” by sheer amount of error processing alone.

Whether this is true is of course up for debate, but it would mean that we can achieve AGI just by feeding it enough trash and giving it enough processing power. Bonus if the head engineer sometimes takes a hammer to the mainframe.

At least a bad votes/karma count doesn’t mean that you loose rights/access to stuff, though you can still get banned.

I held back some opinions on Reddit, as the hive mind would have disagreed and thereby hurting my ability to post on other, unrelated, subreddits.

But yes, the hive ind is alive here too.

Thank you for the elaboration.

I ended up mixing two definitions of “control” in my tiredness, whoops.

I intended to refer to OPs “control”, which I imagine is supposed to be the ability to use low/high gears as the situation requires, such as going a gear lower when overtaking, or using a high gear when cruise on the common roads for better fuel efficiency. Automatic often (always?) allows or perhaps even forces these modi, but it doesn’t always feel satisfactory when you’re used to stick, at least not the older models.

I guess I ended up using “control” as “ability to handle varying power and speed (aka. torque) requirements”, which gives the EV a clear advantage as it can change speed and power while maintaining a constant torque.

Isn’t there a large difference between automatic and electric?

The automatic still has gears, they’re just… Automatic. The EV doesn’t have any kind of traditional gears. Unless, perhaps, if they have a variable frequency drive or something similar.

Either way, I haven’t driven much automatic nor electric, but I’ve heard that the control of an electric should be unparalleled.

If anyone knows more, then please feel free to correct me.

They didn’t even use pictures of the cases, they just write about gardening with a picture of proper gardening tools.

Telekinesis: train powers on people’s wallets, go “Window shopping” at local museum, go scuba walking, play badminton with cops, win every coin flip (damned be computers). Sell “proven perpetual power source” to musk and make bank before flying away in your car (depends on exact wording).

Oh yea, and grab remote when too lazy to move over.

Same way alcohol is legal I imagine, we’ve been doing it for enough time that it has become culture, and it’s not like THAT many people die of it anyway.

Luckily smoking (hopefully including e-smokes) appears to still be declining.