Yeah, looking at all the people around me I really doubt any of them evolved over multiple lifetimes.

I only know some friends of mine had this elf thing and would move it every morning before the kids wake up and make him do funny things. Like make him read a book or climb something or whatever. Never heard about the "it will ruin Christmas" thing. I think it's fairly new invention, based on some children books. Most non-parents don't know it.

It's quite funny if you don't think too much about it.

I was joking about the vandalized part but sadly looks like the arrests are real.

Wasted?

Why do we have to evolve? Why not just create people good by nature so they don't have to suffer to get better?

Maybe he really hates genies and that's the only way to kill one?

I don't believe it was vandalized but it's possible they arrested people for it.

I can excuse pedophile rings and genocides but I draw the line at dead ducklings.

Fucking Merz...

I was at a mountain equipment store a week ago and started talking with the owner about how shoes have completely random durability. Even same model from same brand can last years or fall apart in couple of months. She said that very often this will depend on how long the shoe was in a box as the rubber and glue don't last forever.

Didn't Germany add shitload of renewable capacity recently?

https://www.theguardian.com/...

In other European countries that also expanded renewables at great speed – such as Germany, which increased its share of wind and solar in power generation from 28% to 45% in the last five years

45% of wind and solar is impressive.

So since the alternatives are already here and very often they are free the real questions is what % is willing to make any effort to stop using American providers. Talk is cheap...

Sometimes I imagine what the world would look like if it was designed and created by a good, intelligent being and it's definitely not what we have here.

The "popular resentment" is only mentioned in the headline and there's no proof for it in the article. They just talk about lawsuits which are lead by individual users or consumer groups. People are not actually leaving those services. Kids are as addicted to them as before and any plans to change this are met with opposition, even here on lemmy. If this is in any way "big tobacco moment" it's the very beginning when everyone was still addicted, everything smelled like cigarettes and governments struggled to pass even the basic regulation like non-smoking areas in bars and restaurants. But I guess it is possible we will slowly get to the point where big tech is in the same place as big tobacco today: making more money then ever, still having big chunks of society addicted and operating with no oversight in developing countries.

In Spain people tend to install separate units for each room instead of one big unit for the whole apartment. Central units that let you control each room separately are quite expensive. It's cheaper to install few small units and just turn on the ones you need: usually the one in salon during the day and the one in bedroom for the night. But that's for AC because you can just let empty rooms to sit at 30 degree without issues. With heating it's different, you can't just let parts of your house to freeze. In southern Spain we don't have freezing temperatures and I don't know what people in other parts of Spain do for heating.

We are all paying for it one way or the other. More expensive computer parts, lower wages, environmental impact...

Sorry, won't happen again.

What are we talking about here? The machine itself + installation? How many square meters are we talking about? I've checked recently and two splits for 30m^2 each (so 60m^2 total) would cost me about 1.5k and that's with the top, most efficient model.

I think this article is more about consumer products like Windows and Gmail where people decide what to use, not infrastructure which can be steered by EU.