The actual leader is Bernd das Brot.

The EU is plenty strong enough to defend itself -- and Ukraine -- against Russia. Several times over. Without switching to a war economy. Your maths fall flat once you realise that much of those 70% are aircraft carries in the Pacific and random research projects into fusion or whatever, utterly irrelevant to the question at hand.

On the contrary without the US in the game expect Poland to put boots on Ukrainian soil pretty much instantly, and that's after the rest of the EU convinced them to not march straight on Moscow.

OMG yes I said "blast furnace to reduce steel". I meant "to reduce iron [to produce steel]". Obviously: What else would you use hydrogen for in a blast furnace?

But "reduce steel" is still, at least colloquially, correct for recycling steel: Scrap has rust on it so it also needs to be reduced. Which you would've realised instead of trying to turn this into a silly gotcha if you knew what you were talking about.

Go ahead, do tell me about your plan on how to produce steel, from ore, without getting fossil fuels or hydrogen involved. Charcoal? Could work, but I don't think the economics make sense.

What makes iron is the lack of O in Fe₃O₄ (that's magnetite, other ores are similar). Carbon for alloying is not an issue it can be easily covered by biomass, you smelt the magnetite by combining it with hydrogen resulting in iron and (very hot) water, no carbon involved, then you add carbon, something like 2% thereabouts, to get steel. Add too much and you get cast iron. The overwhelming majority of coke used in the coke process is not used for alloying, but smelting and reducing the iron. That part of the steel making process is completely decarbonised in the hydrogen process, and the carbon that's used in alloying, well, it's not in the atmosphere is it.

You can rip the oxygen off iron ore with electricity but that's less energy-efficient than taking a detour via electrolysis. It's different with aluminium, there using electricity directly is more efficient.

Sad to day I now understand your point of view. Natural gas wins.

If you think that's what I'm saying then no, you don't understand my POV.

In essence, yes. And we need the hydrogen/ammonia/methane/methanol/whatever anyway to do chemistry with, so we'll have to produce them in some renewable way anyway, and at scale. Using them in peaker plants is only a fraction of the total use.

Even with fusion up and running we're going to do hydrolysis. You can run a car on electricity, or domestic heating, also aluminium smelting, but not a blast furnace to reduce steel nor a chemical industry. Hydrogen, in one form or another, is the answer to all of those things. As things currently stand the market is in its infancy but the first pipelines are getting dedicated to hydrogen, the first blast furnaces made for operation with hydrogen are up and running... and the hydrogen mostly comes from fossil gas. It's a bit of a chicken and egg problem you need demand to have supply but you need supply to have demand, so kick-starting the demand side by supplying it fossil hydrogen makes a lot of economical sense, that means that the supply investments can go big and be sure that they'll have customers from day one.

Yes it's a good thing and it's more locally-running stuff that they're investigating. Things like fuzzy search on your history, tl;dr bot, etc.

Malware site detection would be another idea, though they of course already have a non-local solution for that. Maybe, we do have to come full circle after all don't we, a model that can give you an estimation of how likely it is that the page you're looking at is AI slop.

Oh, wait, no: Total temp occupied = occupied after + occupied before makes more sense. It's liberated which is not included in any equation and no bar shows currently occupied. which should be temp occupied - liberated.

No, it isn't. It's integrated into the browser, and running locally.

I'm just saying that if you a) want translation and b) privacy then you want c) AI in firefox. Because, you know, translation models are AI tech, figures that natural language is too fuzzy to do in other ways.

It isn't, and has not been, illegal to carry knives out in the open in a public area. You don't usually see people running around with 12cm Fahrtenmesser but it's completely legal. That's blade length, to be clear, not total length. This kind of thing. Or things like an Opinel, completely legal to EDC.

And mass gatherings aren't the same thing as a random public place.

EDCing swords was outlawed in 2008 IIRC, now it's aforementioned 12cm max, only a single edge etc.

Not just building it's shipping by default. That is, language detection and code that displays a popup asking you whether you want to download the actual translation model is shipping by default. About twelve megs per model, so 24 for a language pair.

The result of the whole thing was project quantum. Firefox includes lots of Rust code. Servo was never intended to be a product, it always was a research platform.

You're free to send your data to google or deepl instead of using Firefox's included AI translate. You know, privacy, no AI in the browser, choose one.

Not in general I don't think so. Probably depends on whether you're talking about Frankfurt HBf or some forgotten platform at the arse end of the heath.

Courts are generally quite on top of making sure that those zones are very specific. All four of duration, time of day, space, and cause.

And, of course, over-regional train station are federal police jurisdiction. In SH that's a downgrade when it comes to the quality of officers, in Bavaria an upgrade. Also in Hamburg which yes is still a police state. You get some, you lose some.

Nah it's Occupied after = Total temporary occupied - liberated. At least approximately. Occupied before seems to be included in occupied after, that is, both numbers count Crimea and the "people's republics".

When’s that going to happen? Right after the green hydrogen revolution?

Already happening, on a small (but industrial) scale. You can buy that stuff off the shelf, but it's still on the lower end of the sigmoid. Most new installations right now will be going to Canada and Namibia, we'll be buying massive amounts of ammonia from both.

Sorry, I didn’t think someone would deny the existance of dunkelflautes. It’s currently happening in Germany.

Yes and elsewhere in Europe the wind is blowing. Differences in solar yields are seasonal (that's what those three months storage are for, according to Fraunhofer's initial plans), but reversed on the other side of the globe, and Germany would be better situated to tank differences in local wind production all by itself if e.g. Bavaria didn't hinder wind projects in their state. The total energy the sun infuses into the earth does change a bit over time, but that's negligible. In principle pretty much zero storage is needed as long as there's good enough interconnectivity.

...meanwhile, we'll probably have the first commercial fusion plant in just about the mean construction time of a fission plant.

The declaration of a weapons-free zone makes searches legal. If you don't want to be searched, you're free to not enter.

You must be confusing us with the UK or France. You can carry (concealed or otherwise) knives up to 12 cm or folder that are not designed to be openable with one hand. If you want to transport a Chef's knife on the metro, do it in your backpack, that is, you're not supposed to have it at hand. Some types of knives (e.g. butterflies) are right-out outlawed, you're not allowed to have them even in your own home.

Mostly though these weapon-free zones are a way to allow police to do searches.

Wouldn’t it be better to go fossil free. Given, you know, climate change.

Gas can be synthesised and we're going to have to do that anyway for chemical feedstock. Maintaining backup gas plant capacity is cheaper than you think, they don't need much maintenance if they're not actually running.

That’s physically impossible for a place the size of Germany, much less Europe.

Unless we use a different technology, that is not renewables + storage?

It's not technology it's physics. It is impossible for there to be no wind anywhere, at least as long as the sun doesn't explode and the earth continues to rotate and an atmosphere exists. If any of those ever fail electricity production will be the least of our worries.

Technology comes into play when it comes to shovelling electricity from one end of the continent to the other and yes we need more interconnects and beefier interconnects but it's not like we don't know how to do that, or don't already have a Europe-wide electricity grid. The issues are somewhere in between NIMBYism regarding pylons and "but we don't want to pay for burying the cable earthworks are expensive".

Die Tendenz ist eine Konsequenz, es geht darum gesellschaftlich mangelnde Achtung und Wahrnehmung auszugleichen indem man auf dicke Hose macht. Das ist alles etwas kindlich, ja, aber was erwartest du von jungen Menschen. Da eine kulturelle Strömung zu sehen ist psychologisch naiv, die Psychologie erschafft die Strömung.

Frauen sind eine Mehrheit im Middle Management, tut man nicht so als ob das keine Machtbasis wäre, kümmert euch mal darum dass man als Bäcker angemessen entlohnt wird, sowohl was Anerkennung als auch Lebensplanung angeht, will sagen macht endlich Ende mit Kapitalismus, und die ganzen Kevins werden ganz schnell lieber dicke Brote backen.

Ich kann mich noch gut daran erinnern wie hier in SH damals gegen die Abschaffung des dreigliedrigen Systems gewettert wurde -- von, absolut überwiegend, Frauen aus dem Mittelstand, mien Moddern inklusive. Abgeschafft hat man dann nur die Hauptschule und ersetzt mit Gesamtschulen, was natürlich ziemlich blödsinnig ist. Zwanzig, dreißig Jahre später konnte man dann den nächsten Schritt gehen denn der Gegenwind flaute nicht, diesmal wurden die Realschulen abgeschafft und einige (aber längst nicht alle) Gymnasien umgewandelt. Mit Salamitaktik entgegen den Willen von Frauen soziale Mobilität einführen, erstmal Hut ab vor den SH'schen Pädagogen, sowohl Uni Kiel als auch im Ministerium.

Kann ja nicht sein dass der eigene Spross mit Lumpen in einer Klasse sitzt. Ne die kommen schon auf's Gymnasium, auch wenn's zwanzig Nachhilfestunden in der Woche sein müssen. Die machen auch G12 denn die sollen ja einen Vorsprung haben. Vater sagt man kann auch als Bäcker glücklich werden? Gleich mal lieber scheiden lassen. Wer Polemik findet darf sie behalten.

Ich will jetzt aber auch nicht alles schlecht reden. Der Anteil von männlichen Kindergärtnern ist immer noch gering aber es geht (IIRC in ganz .de) gut aufwärts, mit bis zu 40% Männern unter jüngeren Kollegen. Vergleicht das mal mit den USA wo es in der frühkindlichen Bildung genauso viele Männer gibt wie hierzulande in Arztpraxen männliche Sprechstundenhelfer (will sagen: Null, +-1%) und absolut kein Impuls besteht das irgendwie zu verändern. Hierzulande wurde das Ungleichgewicht fachlich als Problem erkannt und es wird aktiv dagegen gesteuert. In der frühkindlichen Bildung isses halt extrem wichtig, bei Sprechstundenhelfern ist die Geschlechtermischung weniger systemrelevant.

Und da geht's auch nicht um viel. Da geht's darum dass es ein Erwachsener mal toll findet (und nicht nur "toll" sagt) wenn man im Holzklotzbau geteilte Fensterstürze erfindet und jetzt selbst wissen will wie groß man die machen kann bevor alles einstürzt. Das ist Achtung, das ist Wahrnehmung und da hilft keine gespielte Begeisterung das merken die Kinder.

Und bevor hier jetzt jemand mit "Aber das ist doch alles Aufgabe der Eltern" ankommt: Ihr hört euch an wie meine Mutter. Ihr seit die die sich Nachhilfe leisten können, die Besitzstandswahrer. Gesellschaftlich wird dan ganze nur gelöst wenn jedes Kind in den Genuss kommt.

EDIT: So ganz ohne Antworten gehe mal davon aus die Runterwähls kommen von Männern die Ghetto-mäßig auf dicke Hose machen und sich nicht eingestehen wollen warum, sowie Radfems aus dem Dunstkreis Alice Schwarzer mit genügend Geld um Steuern zu hinterziehen.

Tankies gonna tank.