Yup, but hardly anyone in the US decides to do Atlantic to Pacific road trips either.

Lisbon to Helsinki takes 47 hours of driving btw.

And you haven’t even reached far North yet, there’s still 1000+ km of Finland remaining.

Having a SIM card is one of these more pressing problems! Government age verification is very much not one of these when you can’t even access the government sites.

No ID = No SIM = No bank account = No insurance = No (legal) job = No housing

All of those require an ID already. Same with your examples - applying for social housing is dependant on you proving your identity via an ID.

This petition isn’t about eIDs though, it’s about the requirement to use eIDs to access the internet. The eIDs already exist in every single EU member state in case you don’t know.

You can’t even get a SIM card without ID here. It is mandatory to have one or you can and will be fined.

Seriously, those without ID have much more pressing problems than age verification. Proving citizenship for one.

So? We’re already consuming way too much.

Making shit like ultra fast fashion more expensive is the easiest way to reduce consumption.i

I think Wildberries is currently having problems with a bombardment of negative reviews, you may want to hold out on purchases until the dust settles.

Right, but even then, a significant portion of the cul-de-sacs homes can still be serviced. Just those close to the entry/exit.

There are also recommendations that bus stops should only be about 200 meters apart. That seems to match my experience when living in a small-ish town. Some parts were inevitable underserved, but that’s hardly avoidable I think.

Depends on the length of the cul-de-sac to be honest. It’s not unreasonable to have a bus stop at the entry, if it’s less than 200ish meters away from the furthest home.

Yup, I have goodram as my RAM. Works just as well as any other RAM.

I’m pretty sure there are actual manufacturing steps going on in Poland and it’s not just some labelling. Sure, not the silicone but there’s more to RAM than just the chips.

Keep in mind Kagi is US-American though.

There’s the Ubisoft store too.

Not that I would ever use it. But it is European.

Audio seems to also be part of TP Vision.

https://www.tpvision.com/about-us

blablabla Philips TV and Audio brands.

Ah sorry, a couple errors on my part.

“Venture capitalist” was supposed to be “private equity”.

“Consumer electronics” is apparently only referring to the audiovisual (TV, speakers etc) line of Philips. That was sold to the Chinese but not private equity firm TPV Technology.

Philips Domestic Appliances which contains e.g. vacuums, blenders, and coffee machines was sold to the Chinese private equity firm Hillhouse Capital Group.

And the lightbulbs (Philips Hue etc.) were spun off into the still Dutch Signify.

Still part of Philips seem to be products in the categories:

• Body care and shaving
• Baby care
• Apparently car headlights?
• Healthcare

Philips consumer electronics¹ (as a brand only) was acquired by Chinese venture capitalist² firm.

EDITS:

¹ actually Philips Domestic Appliances (but the consumer electronics division was also sold to a Chinese company)

² private equity

Maybe it’s 5 Muscovites worth of Russians.

I wonder what the exchange rate is.

I mean, it’s certainly not officially an infrastructure canary but if I lived in a Dutch region dependent on dams and pumps working, I’d be quite concerned if this bridge were to flood.

It shouldn’t take too much effort to keep the bridge in working condition (I assume - it wouldn’t have been built if it was prohibitively expensive to maintain) so if it does get flooded there is something going very wrong.

I mean nearly the entire Netherlands is dependent on dams and pumps working. If this bridge were ever to overflow I would not be confident in the rest of the country staying above water for long. The bridge is like an infrastructure canary.

In Germany it’s Jesus-Did-Something-Again-Day (at least here in the South. The North has significantly fewer public holidays because they aren’t aware of all those amazing, holiday-worthy things Jesus did around the year).

To be more precise, it’s Feast of the Ascension of Jesus Christ - or in German, Christ’s Heaven Trip (Christi Himmelfahrt).

Eh, try smaller shops.

For example, all local book shops around my area with an online presence - except for thalia but they’re not locally owned - support paying through invoice.

I haven’t had any negative experience yet, although admittedly, my sample size is limited to three since I only started doing it recently. That might be because my orders were relatively small in price though.

Paying online, especially to small vendors

What I have recently been fond of is paying by invoice. I will pay only once I open the package and find the invoice inside via bank transfer. Zero American companies (Paypal, Visa, Mastercard…) are involved this way.

The only drawback is that you have to remember paying and that some online stores - though usually the larger one’s - don’t support it.