That was a rhetorical question. Why anyone would watch these on Youtube for example is beyond me.

That's what GOVSATCOM and IRIS2 are about. The former being the already operational patched together service the latter is an actually new satellite constellation for this very purpose, going operational in 2030: Sovereign satellite communication independent from US or others, especially for crises and defense purpose.

GOVSATCOM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghZVUQ3i7nw

IRIS2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJoxviNWRdM

Late, yes, but I think the message was recieved already a few years ago.

I don't know, Patrick Boyle has also spread a lot of half truths about electric cars and made predictions that did not turn out to be correct. That should not mean that he is necessarily wrong on this though.

Oh look, it's corruption, that the betrayal of the US and its allies is built on. Who would have thought.

What are "unskippable ads"?

Anthropic and OpenAI are a scam... but so is the NYP.

Yes, that's probably it. However, I have real problems with the attitude of some that it is totally ok to listen to music and deafening volume levels that you can't hear anything at all from outside, not even honking. That is making driving considerably more dangerous, to everyone else.

Maybe viable, but it doesn't exist. In the end when PT is getting disfunded it makes no difference what would be theoretically viable. I am all for taxing billionares, that can also replace other fundings anytime but until then it is like shooting yourself in the foot to disfund such critical infrastructure.

Because it is built on earth shatteringly large corruption of the President of the common country that influences Iowan lives quite substantially ... oh you meant why someone in Iowa should think it is important to construct that monument to corruption? What do I know, watch some Republican ads, maybe they can tell us.

Damn selfcensorship.

It is not trivial. Of course a precondition is that term limits are absolute, that means no interruption nonsense. You can still have a sock puppet but legally that sock puppet is in power then. That is super dangerous for a fascist regime because betrayal is a real risk then. Putin was also super nervous about it, even if it worked out for him.

The main thing about those absolute term limits is however to add friction to the perversion of a democratic constitution. If voters are ready to accept it, it is too late anyway, but it makes it just a bit harder to justify the actions, while the constitution is not completely overthrown yet.

Wow, keep it together please, no reason to start posting hard horror like this just because its the season.

In the US you can hide that opt-in in unreadable terms, can't you? In the EU that will be harder though as there the opt-in has to be easily readable and obvious to the regular user, as well as feature an option to decline without making things non-functional that do not need that for their very functioning.

In any case, people will be surprised how inshittified AI will be able to become once they have done the same they have done to regular search.

The 37kWh ID.Polo is 25000 EUR. If they really offer those 37kWh at 20000 EUR, with similar efficiency and therefore range, that would make a good offer, especially as the Twingo can be also had for 20000 EUR, as a comparable type of car, but it has only 27.5 kWh. The Twingo is fairly energy efficient though, with a slight edge over the ID.Polo.

There should be criminal investigations over that and prosecution of Google employees or their contractors, whoever was operating in Finland (and someone had to). If that was indeed all legal, than laws need to be changed.

I think he had more in mind than that, also pull fubding away and prevent decisions aand he chose the Wiss Metro conceot to that end because it made HSR look bad in comparison while had tero chance of ever getting built. After that went the way it was alqays going to go, ... south, he "invented" taxis in sewer tunnels. Las Vegas was corrupt enough to shelf plans fir some proper light rail in favour of that. Luckily noone else was.

The one in front is the more useful and better pickup truck, isn't it? Same bed size, much lower to the ground, ie easier to load and unload, potentially also from the side. It surely is also easier to navigate. But then, most of those huge pickup trucks (driven by end consumers) never carry more than some groceries.

It is hard to say from the images. It is certainly pushing the limit, but do the tires really extend beyond the car? They might slightly, but not all perspectives look like it. Anyhow, if they do, I would assume that this is either not street legal or some grey import with indivdual license. Honestly I don't know if Lithuanian and/or Italian authorities let stuff like that slide. Where I live, stuff like that would be fished out of traffic and grounded. I have never seen anything like that on the road, ever.

The 2nd link does not show tires going beyond the fenders, even though it looks like a poser car for assholes, that has never even gotten close to anything off-road.

And you are taking the Russian approach to news on Europe with your comment. The EU had nothing to do with it.

Well, the Cybertruck isn't street legal in the EU to this day and I don't foresee that to change.