2-3, sometimes 17-18

The US could indeed become the next italy, politically

a once great empire that crumbled

OP is the femboy in the picture

as a debian user, i can confirm :)

insert femboys can be exchanged for goods and services meme

why is it called “fun” sized?

You can’t say bad things about the government in China.

This might sound like an absurd restriction of free speech, but consider that it’s also considered highly illegal in germany to ask for the abolishment of democracy. Many far-right groups do this, and the Verfassungsschutz (basically a kind of special police force) keeps a close eye on them because of that, calls them “verfassungsgefährdend” (going against the constitution). Monarchies like england had similar laws around 1900, where you could say everything except talk badly about the monarchy in power. That was known as the “english liberalism” because in many other countries, you could say even less. China does the same today, just that instead of the german constitution or the english monarchy it’s the Communist Party.

classical elements refers to mechanical properties (solid, liquid, gaseous), it does not refer to chemical elements.

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For years the plan was to make this scanning mandatory. In early November 2025, however, the Danish government amended the text: scanning is now “voluntary” for individual EU states to decide upon. That small word change was enough for the 27 EU countries to agree on November 26.

If chat control would have been made mandatory, you can bet (and i’d be willing to bet a lot of money on it) that you’re going to have AfD in germany and FPÖ in austria (since they’re already pretty anti-EU) making a lot of noise about how evil the EU is for infringing on people’s privacy. (And they would be right about this, as much as i don’t like to agree with them.) This would give them more votes, than they already have.

Making it voluntary is a clever trick of the EU to not make yourself extremely unpopular among the population. Well done, i’d say.

“everyone i don’t agree with is a bot”

slightly more equal

all animals are equal but some are more equal than others (/s)

with the revenues to be used to fight the impact of climate change and help Switzerland meet its ambitions to have net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

Maybe the people wanted to have actual social services provided to them instead of climate action.

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building a pipe all the way to space would mean the pipe would have to sustain its own weight, which is the same problem as a space elevator. that doesn’t work either because there’s no material on earth strong enough to support its own weight over that distance.

gas generators based on internal combustion

they heat air, afaik. hot gas expands -> mechanical movement moves magnets -> electromagnetism -> electric power.

fun fact: chloroplasts generate an electric potential across the cell membrane during photosynthesis. essentially, they have membrane proteins in their chloroplast membranes that push electrons from one side of the membrane to the other side whenever a photon hits the protein. It’s essentially a natural photovoltaic cell.

That electric potential is then used to create ATP in nature, while we just directly extract the electrical power through cables.

you forgot the electrochemical battery

that’s why IMHO it’s more important to classify the core coupling mechanism (e.g. photoelectric effect, electromagnetic effect) instead of classifying the total energy in -> energy out types.

and we found it very early on

just FYI, the electrochemical battery was invented in 1800, while electromechanical generator was invented in around 1866.