Do you apply the same scrutiny to the food you eat?

Some trust has to be created through testing standards and the law, but generally we do believe what the label says in day to day life.

In so far as I cook myself? Yes

So you personally test your produce to ensure it's safe to eat, has no pesticides embedded in it that could harm you, etc.? You do that after every single trip to the grocery store or farmer's market? Every trip? You don't spot check, and assume/hope/trust that the ones you don't test are safe?

They are not even in the same ballpark size wise

https://www.carsized.com/en-us/cars/compare/porsche-cayenne-...

But or course you are correct this is not only about American cars. Europeans can build big cars as well.

Cars are taxed by engine displacement in Germany. It's rather low compared to insurance and gas cost though. Indirectly larger cars are taxed through high gas tax.

A lot of German SUVs are heavier than full sized American pickup trucks, even when they look much smaller.

At least you can see the ground ahead of you, weight is not the only thing affecting safety.

Yes, large heavy unibody SUVs like the Q7/Touareg/Cayenne with all of the safety tech of a high end German luxury car are likely the safest cars possible- for the passengers at least.

It's already happening. Coal use in the US was up 15% in H1/25 compared to the previous year. Partially due to a shift from higher prices gas.

Coal retirement in the US is almost entirely driven by economics. If someone needs the power, coal plants will stay open and capacity factor go up.

https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/steo/report/elec_coal_renew.php

The money was already granted without being tied to 10% equity. This looks like the government retroactively changing the deal.

There is a PR open since June. It's currently blocked by a MacOS CI issue.

https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/58491

Just last week a report about election interference by foreign entities on a Twitter was released.

Twitter does not seem very interested in transparency or stopping behavior favoring certain views

https://www.canva.com/design/DAGesRcirKQ/4-mOPKQEfWtozFtO_jU...

Just today, my think tank released a report also. Helps me to get tax payer funded grants

Germany also requires an imprint with name and address on any non-personal website. Non-Personal can basically mean anything beyond a purely personal blog without comments or anything.

Both Apple Music and Tidal (and Google Music, Amazon) can afford to lose money as long as leadership want the service to stay online.

I don't think it's sustainable for musicians to rely on cross financing via other services or VC money. Further consolidation under under big tech conpanies would be a negative IMO

Might want to take a look in the mirror with regard to tech...

Germans cycle more than 4 times as much per capita than Brits. Absolute numbers are meaningless, you have to look at deaths per km. Germanies bike infrastructure is not great and there is lots to criticize, but that's true for most places in Europe.

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Kilometres-cycled-per-in...

Here's a paper that attempts to do it right: Castro, A., S. Kahlmeier and T. Gotschi (2018), “Exposure-adjusted Road Fatality Rates for Cycling and Walking in European Countries”, Discussion Paper, International Transport Forum, Paris.

https://www.itf-oecd.org/sites/default/files/docs/exposure-a...

Germany does rather well. Though the paper is 6 years old (and based on numbers even older) and the number of bike accidents in Germany have gone up since then.

This data is from 15 to 20 years ago. I think the usage of bike has probably increased in the UK in the meantime. That may not change your point, but this 4 times figure is probably inacurate now.

Even Chinese panels in Canada have a energy payback of less than 2 years

PDF link to a study comparing different installation countries: https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/content/dam/ise/de/documents/p...

Thanks for sharing!