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The left party in Berlin won with messaging about expropriating commercial landlords to provide affordable housing. That’s pretty close I would say.

“Lasting values” are by definition conservative. You are asking progressives to become conservatives 😵‍💫

Progressive thinking is about always finding new ways to improve living conditions.

A water cooling block will fit 1U, but you will need to attach the other side of the water cooler outside of the rack most likely. Furthermore, it is unlikely that other people using the same rack space will appreciate you adding water cooling due to spillage risks.

No thanks.

We don’t want to build the setup for fascists to take over like in the US.

Has a bit of a cronyism smell to it to be honest. The company barely exists and is far from having a functional rocket or transport ship. It basically consists of a bunch of former ESA/Ariane engineers and some politically well connected private venture capital funders and that’s it.

Sure, not much other choice for ESA right now and Nasa has shown that the model of early fixed price contracts can be sucessful to jumpstart a private launch company, but it is still smelly.

I believe raised beds for kids have a lot of space beneath them for putting servers. Just make sure they can’t pull the plugs 😜

Then I guess the topic of them financially and materially supporting the atrocities of the RSF in Sudan will not be discussed 😑

No, it doesn’t “need” corn. It wants cheap corn as animal food, so that consumers can buy cheap meat etc. This is not necessary at all, and if we reduce the amount of factory farmed animals it will be actually beneficial.

Yes, that is the normal court process 🤷

No, but the federal constitutional court is 🙄

Not every vote is public and kicking someone out of the party against their will takes time and doesn’t make them lose their seat in the parliment.

A minority AfD government that sometimes depends on 3 CDU members and sometimes 3 BSW members can pretty much do what it wants because those two parties have different red lines and can be played against each other.

That election recount was decided by a court, not “other parties”, and the BSW leadership is openly advocating for cooperation with the AfD, so your argument about them preventing an AfD government holds little water.

Not yet, but planned.

But the launchpad on Santa Maria island isn’t in continental Europe, and technically that island specifically is on the African tectonic plate.

I would like a response to my specific points though about trouble the EU is running into

I would first like to have some solid evidence that these are caused by the confederal structure of the EU, and that they would be indeed solved by moving to a federal system. So far that seems to me like pure conjecture and also a huge gamble that could destroy the EU in the process.

That kind of abuse of power can happen under literally any system from fascist to socialist.

In a centralized state, yes. But that is exactly what a confederacy isn’t. And the concrete example is that people in other states voted for Trump and thus directly interefered with the affairs of a state that didn’t. That isn’t at all comparable to a state internal problem.

The US was at most very briefly a confederacy, and the US civil war had little to do with that despite one side calling itself such.

The EU is an obvious successful modern example, and if you want historical examples, then the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nations lasted a millenium and despite sometimes nominally having an emporer it was practically a confederation.

And besides, ask some person living in a Democrat majority US state how they feel about the current Trump administration of their federal government interfering with their life and sending a militarized police occupation force into their cities?

Confederacies just don’t last very long historically. They either break or become more centralised eventually.

[citation needed]

(And they often break apart after briefly becoming more centralized, in an misguided attempt to force unity where there isn’t any anylonger)

You are making the mistake to believe the EU can only compete by becoming what it despises. This will have the opposite effect in reality, with the EU breaking apart.

Yes, I am aware. But that is not very helpful if you want to host something publicly or even just want it accessible from the random wifi hotspot you might use that more likely than not is IPv4 only.

Like literally all mobile (4/5G) internet connections are behind CGNAT, as is Starlink for example.

For landline internet connections it is indeed uncommon.

If it is really only a private server for your friends, and they are not completely computer illiterate, then a Wireguard VPN or similar seems like the safest option.

But generally speaking it isn’t that big of a deal to temporarily open a port and forward it to a game server if you want to play a round online.

A VPS is not really cost effective for that kind of usage. Maybe one with hourly billing like this: tierhive.com

Not sure how that contradics what I wrote 🤔

This tells you that about a third of Germans are pedantic sticklers (big surprise 🙄) that tried to interpret the ambigious question litterally and concluded that the US always had a big influence, and how visible or negative it is technically doesn’t matter for answering this question.

That is a strangely ambigiously worded survey question, that no doubt most people interpreted as “negative influence”.

Is it really cuts when the previous budget was much smaller? I would rather call it a smaller increase 🤷

I am locking this because it id basically off topic and the endless brickering between Canadians and Usonians here in the comments is BS.

This is a Europe community, your inter-north American brickering about BS like the costs of cigs is off-topic and I will moderate it if you continue.

The exact issue that was finally fixed in the above release caused Conduwuinity to fail federation all the time. Synapse never had that issue. Yes, Synapse sucks in other ways, but be careful to think the grass is greener on the other side.

I mean yes, Microsoft and slopcode probably plays a role, but it only got really bad once the LLM mass scraping started, for which I assume Github is also a major target.

And running your own public git forge is a real PITA these days for similar reasons.