Just goes to show how you can change your public image with shit loads of money. He just laundered his image real good and you just ate it up.
He has not "awakened" to anything. He's just very good at selling his BS. What's even worse is that now if you bring up his shitty ways, you are associated with the anti vax idiots.
They are very different "vehicles". The class which allows Ami to operate in most European countries does not exist in most North American jurisdictions. A Smart is classified as a car and is road legal but an Ami is considered a quadricycle and as such is usually not considered road legal in most of North America.
Where I live it's not considered as any type of valid vehicle. If it sticks to quadricycle, the law is going to require pedals, limit it to 25 kph and a helmet for the passengers.
There are places in the US that have some "neighbourhood EV" laws that make these legal on local roads, but it's far from being common.
So if you are successful in importing one, you will most likely only be able to use it on private land.
Also, no insurance company is going to want to insure it.
And, to top ot all, the dealer, Stellantis, is apparently much more interested in selling pick-ups to North Americans.
...don’t expect to get one through Canadian or USA Stellantis dealer networks. They are 100% obsessed on moving EV versions of Jeeps, RAM pick-ups, the new Airflow crossover and their ProMaster truck offerings.
As long as you're in Europe. Those things could be useful in North America but I can't see how they will ever get approved in Canada or in the US. I don't know about micro cars in Mexico and their laws but in Canada, everything between a full fledged car and an e-bike is considered "too dangerous, unsafe, not serious, toy-like" and is generally forbidden to go on roads and/or bike paths.
For example, in Quebec, it's illegal to use an e-bike under 18 years old without a scooter licence. So the Ami has no chance at all here, unfortunately.
There are some data centers that are water cooled though. I know OVH uses water cooling for some of its servers, and also seems to be developing immersion cooling.
Yes it is also true of Chromium which is why it's not a matter of finance or money. Brave is simply Chromium based, like Chrome, while Firefox is using its own engine.
I work in the tech support field and Microsoft is making me want to quit and find a work that doesn't involve using Teams. I've never liked them very much and been a Linux user for over 20 years, but I still have to deal with them for work. However they're becoming increasingly difficult to tolerate.
They really really want Windows users to have a Microsoft account. I avoid that and prefer local accounts. But Microsoft likes to link my local account with my Microsoft account anyway, because I need to give it to them to play Minecraft on Windows. So now even if I didn't want to, my Windows account is showing the picture of my Microsoft/Windows Gaming account profile because I must have passed over a box to uncheck somewhere while logging into Windows Gaming to play Minecraft... mildly infuriating Microsoft.
I used a personal laptop for work a few times and accidentally connected my OneDrive to my corporate account. Again, I must have misunderstood the configuration and login process because it synced (more like moved) all my personal files on my work's OneDrive. Mildly infuriating Microsoft.
Same personal laptop used for work sometimes. I use Edge specifically to separate work from personal browsing and somehow, again, I logged in somewhere with my work account and it synced all my personal browsing history and saved passwords from a different browser, into my "Edge for business" online thigny. So when I was using Edge at work, on my work computer, it was suggesting me logins and passwords from my personal browser that I use on different computers. Mildly infuriating Microsoft.
Teams, OneDrive, Edge for business, their subscription model, forcing Microsoft accounts... individually they are mildly infuriating but combined together, let's say it's a powerful generator of rolling eyes.
I'm like this for social situations but not vacation. When I'm home I wish I would be doing something woth friends and family but whem i'm with them I wish I could be home.
But whenever I'm on vacation, I never want to come back to work or my "slave" life. Then again, "roasting" on a beach is not my idea of vacation. Maybe this is overrated. I personally love going on bike touring and camping trips on rail trails and dedicated bike paths and always wish I had more time.
Israeli generals hold themselves responsible for the failure to protect Israelis from a slaughter like the one inflicted by Hamas on 7 October. The security establishment feels it has to redeem itself in the eyes of the nation.
By slaughtering innocent people "animals". They will redeem themselves, obviously.
The article doesn't mention the supposed alternative but by the tone of the interview and what's said, I'm surprised they just don't flat out say that their alternative to invasion is just bombing it all to rubble. They really seem keen on killing more people and finishing up the genocide they started 60 years ago.
For me it was TV. I stopped watching TV when I became aware of the amount of ads for cars. There's at least one ad for a car in every "commercial break". So I just stopped about 15 years ago.
I filled the entertainment gap with internet and lately I've been using YouTube a lot. However it's also becoming annoying with the sponsors inside the videos as well. I was not using SponsorBlock before but I installed it a few days ago.
If I'm ever forced to watch the awful ads on YouTube, I'll quit too. My life is just gonna be better for it.
I don't drive a car, so where's my money for saving the planet? Where are my rebates for shoes and bikes?
Subsidizing the car industry is indeed dumb. I don't think it's hurting the economy though, as the goal is to continue to sell and replace millions of cars. Still, the infrastructure for cars is probably costing us much more on the long term though. Maintenance of expressways, space for parkings, and other infra for cars costs billions.
Just replacing a single expressway interchange in my city cost 4.3 billion! For ONE interchange.
So again, where are the rebates for people taking public transit? Where are the investments in public transit? Why is it only on the condition of BUYING A CAR?
I go camping and do touring on my bike and just as the article says, you are in a better position to sadly observe the carnage. It's also sad when looking at all those cars and trailers on camp sites.
As someone that's aware that my passage in nature will be destructive, I can never comprehend how some people can choose to "be part of nature" by driving to a camp site with an SUV. I already kill snails, caterpillars, snakes and frogs while cycling on my bike. At least I can see them and it makes me aware that it happens. I don't drive a car so I can only imagine that nobody will notice running over a frog. Drivers are "sealed away from their sins". And that may be part of the issue, as I know plenty of vegans that will drive a car and forget about the innocent raccoons and deer.
As a pedantic French speaker I'll point out that "je l'aime" is neutral and doesn't specify a gender. It could also be "I love him" depending on the context.
It's Garak's sentence so he can decide what it means, but knowing it could mean either her or him is an additional layer of subtlety.
I'm a tech and not a serious programmer but I really like scripting with bash. It's an easy way to automate and program tasks while also manipulating data.
For example, I've automated reports for my work and made lots of screen scraping scripts.
It's my go to for anything. I've recently started to learn python but often catch myself thinking it would be easier to accomplish most of what I want with a bash script.
And my least favorite has to be Tcl. It's one of the first serious languages I "learned", because eggdrops in the 90ies, and I still don't like it.
AFAIK that's one of the goals of the ARM (and maybe eventually RISC-V) architecture. It's doing well on mobile and the low consumption is needed for a future that will require less energy. Or at least, do more with less. Having ARM desktops would also merge the mobile and the desktop environments.
Apple has moved to this architecture, and software wise, Linux is very compatible too. Even Microsoft knows and is trying (clumsily) to move to ARM.
The Pi5 will indeed open new possibilities on that front.
But then you use Debian and what's preinstalled is Firefox ESR, so you have to install Firefox anyway.