About 40-50% culling of management would hopefully lead to a more sustainable system.

Their relentless hunt for profits is damaging every ecosystem they enter.

And they are being built and encouraged in Europe. I’d recommend anyone travelling within Europe first check for train routes before booking a flight.

That said, while they are improving the situation, building new rail lines, tunnels, bridges, etc., and changing the regulatory environment to allow more competition, these are slow improvements to make.

I checked and Zurich-Bilbao has few high-speed sections. They’re building new high speed lines near Bilbao, but infrastructure takes time…

While they definitely have many products in the cheap junk category, but I think they have pretty good hardware in the mid-upper range.
Software is the real junk in Samsung products; their high-end TVs would be great if it wasn’t for the crappy software and updates.

I mean, this kinda only applies to devices that need the highest energy density.

For situations where space isn’t much of an issue, it can make more sense to use other forms of batteries that are cheaper per MWh. I agree Li-ion won’t be replaced in phones etc. but for some applications that are stationary, it can make commercial sense to use something else.

While I’d like to believe this, if Putin comes to some peaceful agreement with Ukraine, the international community will just wait until people are distracted by the next big news story and then let Putin back in.

I’d rather be cynical and happily surprised than optimistic and disappointed.

Same here. Do you also use pi-hole or another ad-blocker?

But that would require caring enough to put the effort into deleting the account.

I’d rather just leave my account unused and taking up space. Then I don’t have to visit the site.

Considering any new electric cars you buy would have to be made from materials mined and processed, manufactured into a vehicle and then shipped long distances before it even gets to you, keeping your existing car and maintaining it well is possibly better for the environment when the entire life cycle is considered.

There’s only so much you can say in a chant. Not a lot of room for nuance…

If they don’t have a good internet connection available for free for customers with a good mobile website, why would anyone visit and actually struggle through the ordering process?

If they start bleeding unexpectedly just send them to the waiting room while you look it up on YouTube!

Probably got some fancy education like primary school.

I’m going to guess you did more than just watch videos… If you also applied that knowledge in practical work, you did educate yourself on how to use those tools.

Whatever you made is the validation/grading of your education. IMO that’s a perfectly valid way to get an education, for those kinds of topics. It’s much more risky to grade yourself on abstract knowledge where you can’t directly make something and see if it works or not.

In a society with an ageing population mobility assistance is a growing market.

Another commenter summarized the nature article linked in comments… Yes, the salt is left in the pipes, so they are flushed out at night to prevent buildup.

Which article? Was there meant to be a link?

Also, and I must say I haven’t kept updated on the topic, I thought the idea of a carbon tax is to tax the emitters of greenhouse gases? Tax the companies responsible for most of the emissions. If they can’t find a cheap way to do it they will increase prices of their products and lose out to competitors who can cheaply limit emissions?

I sometimes like to subscribe to the YT channel of some creators for a few months. Get some bonus content and no ads (if no ad blocker).

AFAIK the changing thumbnails are not made by YouTube. The creator uploads a number of options for thumbnails and video titles, then YouTube randomly? shows those options to users and provides statistics to the creator so they can apply the best performing (in terms of click through and watch time) option to improve video performance. It’s all of course linked to how the algorithm works, so is indirectly influenced by YouTube.

Source: a video I watched a while ago but I don’t even remember who made the video, so take what I say with a grain of salt.

Until earlier this year I just watched the ads because in some small way it supports creators and I could deal with it. Then they increased the number of ads per watch-time to egregious levels.

I certainly wasn’t going to reward a company for making the existing service worse by subscribing. Started using the apps people mention immediately and also setup pihole to block more ads.

Sure, you can get to a utopia by first destroying the old system, just look at how nice the world is in Star Trek.

It’s going to suuuuuck for you though, living through the apocalypse needed to clean out the old system. It might be quicker overall, but I wouldn’t wish that pain on the current generations of people living in the US.