Denke ich auch. Und ich könnte mir auch vorstellen, dass genau deswegen 50% genommen wurden anstatt irgendeinem niedrigeren Betrag bzw. einem etwas komplexeren Modell. Jetzt kann man einfach sagen, dass das Thema entschieden ist und es kann wieder für die nächsten X Jahre bzw Jahrzente ignoriert werden.

Ich denke das würde 100% auch in Deutschland scheitern, vllt etwas knapper, aber vermutlich auch deutlich. Argumentation wäre dann mit Familienunternehmen die verkauft werden müssten, was vielleicht sogar einen Funken Warheit hat. Man müsste dann halt ein System machen, in dem der Staat z.B. stille Teilhaben erhält die über einen gewissen Zeitraum für fixe Beträge wieder abgelöst werden können.

I would even go as far and say that the EA purchase (price aside) is one that kind of makes sense compared to some other projects like the line or the absurd sums they are paying to individual athletes.

With all their sports washing and involvement in that area there might be synergies with all the sport game franchises EA has that can be leveraged.

And with them being focused quite a bit on tourism and hosting events having EA also helps on the esports side. Buying the publisher is basically buying the sports federation. Usually they can just bribe those, not straight up buy them outright.

Ich trauere immernoch den Einheitsgrößen von Verpackungen hinterher. Es gibt vieles das durch die EU besser geworden ist, aber dass die 2009 wegen einer Verordnung abgeschafft wurden war ein Rückschritt.

The Slow Horses seasons might be on the short side, but man do they have a fast production schedule compared to pretty much everything else nowadays. Looking at the release dates here it seems like for all 5 seasons there were less than a year gap between the last episode of one and the first episode of the next season. We got 4 seasons of Slow horses in a shorter time period than between the first and second Severance seasons.

Second season went the same way as The Boys. Same shit different day or maybe better said, same exploding dick different day.

Yeah, they definitely went overboard adding grapic explicit scenes in basically every episode just for the sake of it.

It’s fascinating to see how the service choice influences things. On more niche, tech heavy parts of the internet like Lemmy it is somewhat of a rarity, as most will watch through a variety of legal and not legal sources, but i imagine this is a lot more common overall.

I didn’t have a clear list before i sat down to make one a while ago either, but it was an interesting thing to do. Not sure how it was for you, but the first few series were rather easy to pick (maybe not the specific rank, but that they’d be included in the top 10), but filling the last few spots was harder.

I am also a bit suprised to not see Stranger Things, since that seems like one of the most popular Netflix shows in general. Personally only watched the first season a long time ago, but never had the itch to check out the rest.

Now that is a surprising list of shows to pick for a top 10 of all times.

If i see this right those seem to be mostly Netflix series, with the exception of the 100, which in itself seems like an unusual choice. I have to say i am a bit curious how one ends up with a list like this. Especially since I can’t quite see an otherwise obvious pattern.

In early August, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz announced a suspension of exports of arms to Israel that could be used in the Gaza Strip “until further notice,” marking a major shift in German foreign policy.

Regardless of how arms exports should be handled (i’d be on the side of banning them until there is actual change), this just seems like bad politics. Why even bother to first suspend them completely after such a long time and then immediately revert back?

Seems to me like this achieves literally nothing, but is the worst option in regard to public perception. Like they could have just kept the status quo, since there all the bad publicity was already “priced in” so to speak. Or they could do a move like in August and change their stance, but then you got to keep it up for it to actually matter and intend to do so from the start. If you revert this fast you get the backlash again for your original stance AND you look weak to the counterparty.

And yet another issue is that the height doesn’t just matter while driving, but also when cars are parked. Being able to anticipate dangerous situations is a key aspect for safety, but if tall cars on the side of the road block your visibility that becomes much harder.

Ich auch. So gern ich z.B. Habeck sonst mag war das für mich ein wirklich offensichtlicher und naiver Fehler.

I don’t watch them much anymore, but imo LTT was always best when they did stuff similar to Top Gear.

For actual reviews others like Gamers nexus, hardware unboxed, rtings and others imo were always better. What I found frustrating in this regard is that LTT seemingly made a big push into the more serious review space with their labs, but at least from what I can tell that so far hasn’t materialized.

Und es war halt auch von anfang an absolut klar, dass es so kommen wird. Ein offensichtliches zeichen dafür war z.B. dass alle Verteidigungsausgaben über 1% in das Sondervermögen geschoben wurden. Der einzige Grund hierfür konnte nur sein mehr Platz im allgemeinen Haushalt für Steuergeschenke zu schaffen, ansonsten hätte man die Grenze auch bei 2% oder so setzen können.

Ich wette anstatt irgendwelche sinnvollen Änderungen anzustoßen wird das Ziel sein einfach ähnlich wie bei Datenträgern einfach eine Pauschalgebühr durchzusetzen.

I’d like to know how long the lifecycles of those charging stations are. Because you are right that Maximum speed and break times put a hard cap on distance needed, but at least some form of self driving will eventually come and i’d imagine long distance highway trucking would be the prime target for deployment.

With iPhones i think it’s less about durability (and especially in the software department they were always great in terms of longevity), but more about repairability in case something does happen.

As far as lightbulbs go the issue with potential planned obsolescence doesn’t go way just because of the swap to LEDs. First there are a type of bulb even today that use some form of filament and second the part that gets damaged is usually some kind of capacitor or other electronic part that gets run with too much voltage and too hot. Don’t have time to watch it again, but i remember finding this video from a few years ago interesting.

I do agree with the notion that phones in todays society are hugely important and spending money on what for most people might be their most important computing device is valid.

But the thing is that you really don’t need to spend this kind of money to get all the performance 95% of people need. Unless you want a foldable phone or NEED the telefoto-lense that is often reserved for higher end models (but I assume even then there are cheap options),

As an example here in Germany you can get a pixel 9 for under 500€, if you get a cheap mobile contract even cheaper (I pay 15€/month over 2 years and got a free pixel 9 with the mobile plan). All the performance you need and makes great photos. And for anyone who wants lots of storage there are still phones with sd card readers

How should Germany have reacted? As I see it there were two possible culprits: Russia or Ukraine. If we make a big deal out of it we have to act.

• Say it turns out to be Russia, then we have a direct attack on the infrastructure of a NATO member. If we don’t react to that it sends a desastrous message. If we do we and the rest of NATO have to react with force, something everyone has tried to avoid at all cost so far.

• If links to Ukraine turn out to be true (which seems more likely atm) this will give a massive boost to anti Ukrainian sentiment, with a good chance of complete collapse of public support for Ukraine. So what are we supposed to do then? Considering how Germany got bashed by everyone already for seemingly not doing enough (unfairly imo).

Now even getting into a position like that is the result of long-term strategic failure. But in my limited view keeping this topic comparatively small is a favor to everyone involved. Because in the end world goes on without the pipeline as well.

This definitely seems like a good idea. It’s a big issue that most promising European companies go to the US for their listings in search for access to capital.

Seems to me that this would already have been the obvious move after Brexit.

However I feel like this is doomed to fail for the same reason as many other issues. Clashing interests of different member states within the EU. I assume this would still need to have a primary location somewhere, so Frankfurt or Paris would be the most likely location to build this up. Merz bringing this up presumably would like it to be Frankfurt, but I very much doubt that Macron would feel similarly.

For me the question is whether or not one should include unfinished series at all. With my list I made the decision to include some like e.g. Futurama, which technically isn’t finished as it was recently rebooted, however is a bit more open-ended (similar to simpsons), but exclude others like Severance.

The likes of game of thrones and Westworld have taught me to not rank shows until they have concluded. Westworld season 1 is goated and would probably make my top 10, but it just fell off after. Right now Severance is amazing, but if they don’t manage to tie up the mystery nicely the whole show might not hold up after all, just as rewatching got just feels wrong knowing where it eventually leads to.

Fun fact: in Thuringia the afd is blocking the confirmation of judges and prosecutors (needs 2/3 majority) in an attempt to use this as leverage to gain a seat on the control committee that oversees the domestic intelligence agency of Thuringia. The very same that has classified them as proven right extremist and is thus investigating them.

What I find particularly problematic is the conflict of interest between Tesla and xAI, especially because Elon has a higher percentage of ownership of the latter.

It’s clear that Tesla is priced not as a car manufacturer, but as a technology company with high (arguably delusional) hopes towards self driving, compute and robotics. However that kind of seems like a natural area to expand into for xAI as well. So why should Elon do it at Tesla where he has less ownership?

Btw xAI acquired X, so one less company. From what I remember at the time the purchase felt like Elon taking advantage of other investors and getting a very favorable deal for himself due to the company evaluations, which increased his ownership stake in the combined company.