Assuming someone to develop a sufficient consciousness of their time starting with age 10 that would mean anything before 2010.

In all practical matter, people who are 25 now, cannot have any practical recollection of the US invasion of Iraq and are only having broad ideas of the 2007 financial crisis.

That is indeed scary.

Rovers as opposed to humans. Humans need food, a pressurized, temperated air environment, a discharge for their excrements, a higher level of safety and return mechanisms, much stronger radiation protection…

So a big event without any practical relevance because there is more cheaper, reliable and safer alternatives available?

Not sure if land mass is exactly prevalent in this, as most of Russia is just colonized portions of Asia.

Well, the Area of the Russian Federation in Europe is 39% of the European landmass. This has nothing to do with the Asian part of Russia. The Russian Federation is about 1.7-1.8x the landmass of the European continent.

And with a hundred million Russians living in the European part, that makes the largest ethnical group, considering the differences between the slavic ethnicities. You are right about there being more than just a slavic “monoculture”. Still until the fall of the Soviet Union, public perception in the Western European side mostly lumped them together as “The Russians”. And Ukraine and Belarus were part of that lump, well past that. Seeing Ukraine as part of “Europe” in that Western European sense only became more commonplace over the past decade. And of course there have been incidents in Western European countries like Germany, where Ukrainian refugees were assaulted in public, because their attackers thought them to be Russians…

Either way it shows that Ethnical, Cultural and Historical divides are a poor and often arbitrary metric to justify modern Nations borders, both in joining or separating areas.

I am also for more European integration. There needs to be a vision though that Russia is part of Europe and when we are past Putin, we need to be able to integrate Russia, if they want to, rather than going for the next confrontation.

Also Russian in its legitimate borders makes up almost half of the European continent. There is multiple different “geographic midpoints of Europe” based on calculation methods. Most of them are in the Baltic states, Belarus or Ukraine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographical_midpoint_of_Europe

When we are past this whole mess we need to stop thinking of the EU as “Europe” and the other half of the European continent as “not Europe”.

Also ethnically speaking Slavs are the largest ethnic group in Europe with about 300 Million people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_groups_in_Europe

There is only so much mentoring can do though. You can have the best math prof. You still need to put in the exercise to solve your differential equations to get good at it.

My impression is that people will be eager to tell in the comments that a news source is bad or biased, or that the specific article is misinformation.

At the end of the day, if you just trust some rank value that someone tossed in, w.o. knowing who is behind it exactly and how they reached that conclusion, it can be an easy source for disinformation.

Also some news outlets are providing reliable coverage on some issues, while being biased on others. Often they just repeat texts from Reuters, AP or other agencies. So any single value rating can warn you that the same message is “biased” in one case and in another case it cheers it on as “reliable”.

In other words: You can keep jumping out of the window in different ways, trying to find a way for humans to fly w.o. mechanical help, or you can just accept taking the stairs.

Seriously, my first thought was looking forward to the ADL explaining why smiling Hitler denying the Holocaust is not antisemitic since it isnt against Israel or something.

Well the only way to change that is to engage with those communities and provide content. Ofc. community building isnt easy.

I am sorry, but your ideas about how these things work are ignoring a lot of issues.

First of all you have significant losses in the distribution grid. This is minimized the higher your voltage is, which is why longer range grids run on 110 kV and more. Then you have an intermediate level, typically 20 kV. Finally you get your local distribution with 220/230V. Also “current flowing the other way” does not exist in AC, because the “direction” changes 50x per second.

Then you only have a limited transportation capacity, so moving a lot of electricity from a central plant of course costs a lot of investment and maintenance. The idea that “Transporting it is for all intents and purposes free” is completely out of touch with the reality of the electrical grid.

But it gets worse. The more producers and consumers you have, the more you will need to balance fluctuations in production and consumption. This is why traditional grids were built around having a high baseload, with incentivizing high demand industries to connect, stabilizing demand. For renewables this is completely different, because renewabls will fluctuate. So the more energy you run through the centralized grid, the more short and medium term storages you will need to provide and the more investment and running costs you will have.

You mention this with there being too much production on the local grid and then in another place also needing to react to this. This is not a problem exclusive to local grids. It is a problem for any level of the grid with integrating renewables. Note how the article also mentions the limit of 800W without requiring a permit.

Finally in the long term we need to make the demand more flexible to production. So if the sun shines and the wind blows, household appliances should run, the fridge should cool a bit stronger, and the water heater heats up for the evening shower… Having a responsive demand with millions of agents can easily lead to overshooting, so that the demand spikes up far beyond supply, because every consumer reacts at the same time and it doesn’t temper out.

This problem is much smaller, if every household can directly see their own production and consumption and already limit how much excess goes into, or is demanded.

So microgeneration is part of the solution and not a problem like you make it out to be.

Hard to justify costs? The article quotes 6 years of amortization. I know numbers around 8-10 years in Germany.

Show me any consumer investment, that gives such a good ROI.

Balcony solar is not unsafe though. At least it is not more unsafe than say putting a plant pot on your balcony, or operating power appliances like fridges, stoves, washing machines…

Why are you cooking for yourself at home? It would be more efficient, if you organize a shared kitchen in the house and each evening a different party cooks for everyone in the house.

Upon being awarded the prize of A$10,000 (equivalent to $36,011 in 2022), Young said that he did not know there was a prize and that he felt bad accepting it, as each of the other five runners who finished had worked as hard as he did—so he gave A$3,000 to 41-year-old Joe Record and A$4,000 to the other runners, keeping only A$3,000 for himself.[2] Despite attempting the event again in later years, Young was unable to repeat this performance or claim victory again.[8]

Turns out regulations are good for businesses.

This is not about kill bots. This is about defining you as a terrorist threat to the US empire because you are friends with someone who criticised them on the internet. And they will wait to bomb you until you are home, so your family is also murdered along side you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI-assisted_targeting_in_the_Gaza_Strip
https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/

I wonder how they communicated GUI colors then.

draw.set_color(r=0,g=0,b=0) # Adjust text color to very very dark grey

Active users does not say how active. E.g. your active users could be less and less, but if 10% leave and the remaining 90% increase their activity by 20%, you end up with an 8% overall increase.

And in winter people stay inside more, so with all these metrics we should probably adjust for seasons.

Singling out events without looking what happened before and after. Seems familiar in the context of Israel…