Not that I disagree with you, but mentioning Intel and reliability in the same sentence with what's currently going on seems slightly ironic.

I am currently using Openmediavault for my NAS and can confirm that with an official plugin so far I havent had any issue with my ZFS pool (that I migrated from trueNAS scale since I didn't like their kubernetes use and truecharts, but as someone mentions they seem to switch to docker).

Otherwise I am happy as well, but I am far from a poweruser.

I had the exact same thought. I think the map would work way better if states without ban had a significantly lighter shade of grey (or even white)

As is the ones with 1-10 bans stand out by far the most due to the red being so bright (would need to be a bit more desaturated like the others). And the worse offenders are harder to see against the dark grey.

Yeah i guess that might be the most likely candidate for an opportunistic takeover.

Although their navy is the one thing Russia might not bother (or be able to) send to Ukraine. So that would still stay in the area, making it less likely.

Compact ist soweit ich weiß noch nie für irgendwas verurteilt worden

Definitiv ein fairer Punkt, wüsste auch nicht ob die schonmal für etwas verurteilt wurden.

"Das sind meiner Meinung nach Nazis” reicht da nicht.

Wäre nicht nur meine Meinung. Aus dem Artikel:

Weil "Compact" bereits Verdachtsfall war und als "gesichert rechtsextrem" galt, durfte seit Jahren mit geheimdienstlichen Methoden gearbeitet werden.

Bevor das geschehen ist und seitdem werden vermutlich Untersuchungen stattgefunden haben. In Verbindung mit dem Lebenslauf und Handlungen der betroffenen Personen, kann man die Einstufung als Nazis finde ich schon als Fakt und nicht nur Meinung akzeptieren. Oder was würde dir dafür fehlen?

Deshalb ist es finde ich nicht die Frage ob das Nazis sind, sondern eben ob ihre Handlungen ausreichen für ein Verbot und natürlich ob das Verfahren korrekt war.

Well i aswell hope that this isn't just my bias speaking :)

Unlike France or GB, which recently had elections substantially changing majorities, here in Germany it's still the exact same people in charge since the start of this war. With the only major change being the defense minister, and that was for the better. So the people deciding here are the same that (based on this article) doubled this years support budget. And as far as i am aware there really hasn't been any major event that would have shifted the sentiment in foreign politics from what we've experienced until now.

On the side of internal politics as mentioned it is basically a self-inflicted struggle to balance the budget and limit new debt. Because for some reason we chose to write that into our constitution, restraining our options. So everyone is fighting for their share and by the looks the winners are the usual: more money to secure pensions for old people and the automotive industry. While not only the budget for Ukraine is on the chopping block, but also other stuff like a reform of welfare for children or infrastructure projects for railroads.

Might sound bad, but it's nothing really new and so far lack of funds hasn't been an issue delaying German support. So i don't expect it to be going forward either. We'll just keep moving in lockstep with what others provide, slowly build out capacity and react to new developments. Which would be no change to how we've seem to have handled it so far, and not like "the slashing the budget by half" would imply.

And as mentioned above i am sure there are plenty of additional ways to support Ukraine that don't hinge on the budget. Like telling Ukraine to direcly purchase through the manufacturers and giving security assurances for loans. Might be a worse deal on paper for Ukraine, but in the short/medium term wouldn't make a practical difference. And things can get sorted later.

But regardless of how this plays out we won't have any type of deadlock like the one delaying US aid until recently. And the largest party in the opposition is also in favor of supporting Ukraine, despite taking any opportunity to take shots at whatever the governing parties decide.

Personally as a German. while disappointing at facevalue, i wouldn't read too much into it in respect to any shifts in the commitment to supporting Ukraine (but i might also be wrong here).

To me this very much is an internal self-inflicted struggle about balancing budgets and we'll only be able to tell whether it actually affected things in retrospect (if it's even possible).

In the end maybe more purchases will be directed through EU funds (of which Germany pays a substantial share) or instead of direct aid things are financed through low interest rate loans (that later might even get forgiven). Or you have some other kind of schemes where aid indirectly goes towards Ukraine.

And who knows how the conflict will change, promting adjustments in deliveries. Like the recent airstrikes probably leading towards more air defense systems being delivered than originally anticipated (with a single Patriot system being worth as much as 1 billion if i understand it correctly)

Yeah and that would be dragging the whole army to be killed in Ukraine, leaving russia undefended lol.

But the irony imo is that this wouldn't actually be a huge problem. Who would actively want to attack Russia?

Despite what they constantly claim, Nato really isn't interested in a conflict. And China already gets the resources they want at huge discounts, so why bother with another front when they have set their sights on Taiwan? That only leaves some internal minorities acting up, but it seems to me that those are the same people they are throwing into the meatgrinder that is the current conflict in Ukraine.

Ja, Pressefreiheit ist zurecht ein hohes Gut, aber irgendwo muss man halt Grenzen ziehen. Ich persönlich finde hier kann man diese Grenzen ohne schlechtes Gewissen ziehen. Demokratie muss sich verteidigen können. Und wenn man hier keine Konsequenzen zieht, wann dann, bevor es zuspät ist?

Well, I think it's safe to assume that the number won't be zero.

Nachdem die FDP in den Umfragen derzeit an der 5% Hürde kratzt ist sein nächster Job vermutlich eh nicht in der Politik, sondern der Wirtschaft. Da ist Käuflichkeit ein positives Einstellkriterium, vor allem wenn man so billig zu haben ist.

Zumindest kommen mir 10.000€ relativ günstig vor für die potentielle Einflussnahme auf einen Minister der ein vielfaches an Budget verteilt. Und auch sonst sind die Auftrittsgagen als Redner auf irgendwelchen Veranstaltungen von denen man oft hört doch in der Regel deutlich höher

Ich bin jetzt glücklich verheiratet mit zwei Kindern. Insofern glaube ich, ist auch medial dieser Drops gelutscht." 2020 heiratete er seine heute 23-jährige Frau Sarah, mit der er zweijährige Zwillinge hat.

heute 23-Jährige...

Man könnte auch sagen "damals 18/19-Jährige"

Vermutlich hat man sich sorgar schon vorher gekannt und nicht direkt geheiratet? Davon abgesehen ist bei seiner jetztigen Frau der Altersunterschied sogar noch größer als bei der "Affäre mit einer 16-Jährigen"

I am actually not sure about that.

The USA are a huge country and Trump does have substantial following of fanatic fans. I can definitely see plenty of people wasting their money on this. And some more that buy them to speculate on an increase in value.

F

Not just people, but importantly also corporations running their services on Microsoft azure or Google cloud.

Sehe ich ähnlich. Ein paar höhere Politiker will man wahrscheinlich schon in den Rängen haben. Da geht es dann auch um Image Pflege, Präsenz und vielleicht sogar bisschen Diplomatie (sind ja auch ab und zu andere Staatschefs da).

Für mich eindeutiger ist es eher bei den hier nicht erwähnten Kontingenten für Behörden. Siehe hier. Und auch wenn sie das teilweise zahlen mussten hat alleine schon das garantierte Vorverkaufsrecht einen Wert.

Wenn man bedenkt, dass oft selbst schon die Annahme einer Schachtel Pralinen verboten ist, dann sollten Ticketkontingente auch nicht erlaubt sein. Und beim random Verwaltungsangestellten kann man auch nicht mit den oben genannten Argumenten kommen.

Interesting. Now that you mention it, i remember listening to a podcast that mentioned financing being a big obstacle for wind turbines, particularly the offshore projects, due to exactly that upfront cost. And i can imagine that for developing countries that is even worse.

Still i'd have thought that solar wouldn't quite have this same kind of problem, but i guess as the article suggests fossil fuels were cheaper, there's a political angle, and things are slowly improving.

Gas, oil and coal demand is reducing globally; however global investment in fossil fuels is increasing, albeit at a far lower rate than renewables.

For coal the summary definitely seems to support the reduction in themand, but at least for the next few years gas and oil still seem quite stable to me.

I suspect this is driven by third world countries, where the initial cost can put off investment in renewable infrastructure;

Shouldn't it be the other way around, particularly for solar? Easy to set up, cheaper, flexible to scale, and the more decentralized setup might even help with poor electricity grid, since you can just set them up whereever needed and even have them work insular without connection the the network.

Also this report suggests that energy production from coal, gas, oil, hydro and nuclear have starting to plateau from 2021, with solar still showing an marginal increase alongside wind, bio energy and ‘other’: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/electricity-prod-source-stacked

Imo the recent events have made it a bit hard to judge trends just from a few years. 2021 you are right in the middle of covid screwing over global trade, following that you have russia invading ukraine and the subsequent shift in europe (will be interesting how that plays out once the conflict ends), and as the main article of this thread suggests hydro was heavily affected by recent droughts (although those might become the norm). Only nuclear might be somewhat easier to extrapolate, since new capacity doesn't just magically appear, but involves long term planning.

One thing to keep mind is that while the percentage share of renewables is growing, in absolute terms electricity production from coal and gas still increased. Looking at this data, which I assume to be the base of this article.

Ja, wobei ich das gar nicht Mal unbedingt kreativ nennen würde. Es ist absolut abzusehen, dass ein solches System anderweitige Verwendung nicht verhindern wird, es änder ja nichts an den Beweggründen, nur am Prozess.

Der Unterschied hier ist nur, dass der Mittelsmann die Umtauschleistung gratis durchführt anstatt einen Anteil zu verlangen.

Und Gutscheine sind halt nur das bequemste Produkt mit den geringsten Reibungsverlusten. Sollte das unterbunden werden, würde es einfach irgendwie anders substituiert.

Worst Case kaufen die Flüchtlinge Wasserflaschen, schütten sie aus und holen sich den Pfand wieder