If you just need the energy for the pool, a small setup without battery is all you need. Saves you half the price. Panels and inverters are around 900€ in Germany. Putting a battery on it makes another 1,200€ and it makes sense only, if you need power in the evening.

One of the few countries that never have been colonized by the West.

Fck, he‘s a bot!?! Right, last video he had just 2 fingers. Oh man.

Food for another white-male-techy-western-biased AI

Don’t think labor costs is a big factor. Car production is the sector that is most automated. Just think of this endless bands of hanging cars with robot arms working on it. Tesla even topped this.

It’s mainly the unwillingness to design and sell cheap cars due to less profits. In Germany we had electric cars for 20k€ or even combustion cars under 15k€. But they stopped building it. Although it was sold out in weeks.

In my region there was a Startup by the Aachen University RWTH (which is an elite university in Germany) bulding small EVs for around 20k€. They simply bought all parts from suppliers and just assembled it. And engineered and designed it first. Unionized and still competitive. Unfortunately, they didn’t fly.

EV building is rather simple. The software is key. And this is the missing part at car makers capabilities.

I second your thoughts on trade war. However, I guess it will be much simpler with high taxes, high quality regulations, and may be less support by car workshops. We will see…

There‘s a word for that „Greedflation.“ This is what western car makers do. Luckily, the Cinese car makers grasp their chance and disrupt the market

Just watched on tv a documentary about strikes a hundred years ago in the US. Facing the Rockefellers, Carnegies and alike. Police was shooting them down. That’s the US. Railroaders are on strike just today in Germany.

Both sides Israeli and Palestini have blood on their hands. There is no good one and there is no one who has the natural right for the land. It’s probably both.

So, you say something like terrorists take hostages and kill innocent people. Run away and hide between innocent people - use them as shields. If some reaction of the attacked side happen, those attackers are to blame? That’s too black/white for my opinion.

Anyway, social media isn’t good for nuanced discussions, it’s build for emotional reactions. It’s too complex. I‘m out of this thread.

Okay understood. You might have read that I excluded those with an agenda.

I guess it doesn’t fit in a yes/no thinking if there‘s a third option.

People need to point on who’s good and who’s the bad, don’t they? Makes life easier.

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True. Accounting is the best friend of digitization.

However, it’s not always bad to look what makes sense or drive profit and what not. It’s rather a matter of how religious one is about it.

Take the second wave of computerism for example. What we call Digitalization. This is mainly driven by opportunities and chances of new business not so much about squeezing out the last percent of profit. This all is accounted as well, but management doesn’t care.

Oh, it‘s no better over the ocean. A German colleague of mine just settled in the US and civil servants attitude and bureaucracy is the same shit. Bureaucracy seems to be an international culture.

Interesting point of view - your accounting thing.

However, that doesn’t really fit to Deutsche Bahn, I think. Your point is rather about a Monopoly but an accounting exercise.

It’s a bit my car is bigger than yours.

Or better: my next car is going to be bigger than yours.

Chatgtp summarized it in 6 sentences :

• The author argues that the discussion around immigration in Germany is not actually about fixing issues with refugees, but rather a cover for xenophobia.
• They claim that politicians and media outlets conflate asylum seekers and refugees with illegal immigrants to fuel their narratives.
• The author acknowledges that there are actual issues with integration and temporary permissions to stay, but argues that these issues are not being addressed in the current discussion. - They believe that the discussion should focus on better integration for some and quicker deportation for others, without violating human rights. - The author concludes that until the discussion shifts to these sensible measures, they will not acknowledge it as a discussion about “problems with refugees”

Sorry it was just too much to read

Nope, only struggling against being >drowned in that same right narrative >pushed here…

Don’t think so. If majors of every small and big city say in media, that they can’t cope it, then this seems a fact. Not right wing propaganda.

They already started to build beds in sport halls as we‘d seen in Syria war. Despite that it isn’t a war responsible for the situation now. This people aren’t Ukraineans.

Got your point but the direction of result isn’t right imho. Why should WFH employees accept lower compensation? In theory and in now in practice, they can start working anywhere in the country. If they face a reduction because of WFH, they will move to another company for sure. The remote work situation together with aging society massively shifted the power to employees. You aren’t bound to an area for work anymore.

I think employees that must go to offices should get an extra raise to compensate for the fuel, time, and clothing.

Same in Germany. Starting to become a painful competition for refugees, asylum seekers, and low wage Germans. Not as bad as in Netherlands though.