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Filesize itself usually isn’t relevant. A high resolution video in a very large file size will rarely cause playback issues on most devices. In my experience the bottleneck of a setup is almost always first encountered with highly compressed video with a large resolution.

Also, not everyone hoards. Some people look for 4k, watch once and delete. They don’t even seed.

Anyhow, the main thing to me is content quality. I can watch a solid movie in poor quality, but I couldn’t watch certain crappy movies in super duper high resolution quality even I would be paid for it

Depends on your TV, taste, budget.

A good movie at 480p can be watchable. A good movie at 720p is usually very fine for me.

1080p is my upper limit.

I have a small TV. Resolution doesn’t matter all that much if your TV isn’t 2 meters wide.

Small files with high resolution are very strongly compressed. Some devices might struggle with playing them causing lags or difficult to fast forward or backward etc. That would be more annoying to me than a lowish resolution.

Also depends who ripped it (did they know what they were doing?) and from which source. Webdl or DVD sourced are normally very watchable in lower resolutions if ripped by skilled people.

the social component to them is that they ‘control’ an enormous fleet of streaming listeners this way.

Inb4 “mind controlling tones” meets “who has a big pile of money for us?” Don’t forget music has a power to strongly influence or even set a humans’ moods, also on election days.

“driving”, they’re all just standing around

Please don’t strip, trump. Just don’t

It’s deceiving in multiple ways. Like of course more Romanians emigrate to Germany than to Belgium or Luxembourg, Germany is many times larger. They should add the to-country base population and/or surface to the equation.

They do feature a lot of exotic words I don’t understand

When people actually were literally dying during the unprecedented climate change induced heatwaves, they were all quiet and no-one got a single cent to buy airco

No one is dying and the 17 cent discount per litre is making no one who is dying, survive. There are not less cars on the roads, people are not driving less kilometres now than when fuel was 1,55 € per litre instead of 2,5 € now. Apparently many many people with valid alternatives like e-bikes still choose cars despite the price increase. One could for example support industries like agriculture or heavy transport where transitioning is harder and higher prices mean bankruptcy. They didn’t, they chose populist catch all at the pumps and the reason is not impending starvation of people or economic sense, the reason is Merz not wanting to give up power, Reiche being a gas industry employee and afd threatening them in regional elections.

Yes we do. I think it’s EU regulation. There is a “base company” responsible for the network in a region and they are often also a producer/supplier to consumers themselves. But then there are many (dozens per region) other suppliers you can buy your power from. And they both sell power to consumers and they build power plants. My supplier (and a few others in the region) only invest in solar, wind, water, and only in the own region. At times when they need to sell more electricity to consumers than they produce with their own plants, they of course are actually selling dirty electricity, but they will still only invest in clean renewables themselves for production so it’s still the better choice.

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Speed limit

Your choice of supplier influences which kinds of projects get financed more easily.

Giesskanne is the dumbest way possible to do this. Yes, some people need support now, I agree. Certain professions, certain kinds of cars. But the way they do this now I am de facto financing the gassing up of many very inefficient cars owned by people do not care about climate and do not need the discount because they have/earn plenty anyway. It would be a perfect time to introduces tempolimit on autobahn, that would save a large amount of petrol (and many other positive side effects) and as we know a lower demand lowers the price of scarce products. What they do now is quite the opposite of trying to reach 100 % renewable in 20 years… It is a very bad policy decision in every single way imaginable, for climate, for tax payers and the health of the public budget, for the future of the economy: on every single level this is a bad policy.

They just pumped another 2,5 billion euros into making petrol at the pump cheaper for everyone… Surely a government truly commited to this energy transition would have invested those 2,5 billions elsewhere ay

But you can switch to a 100 % renewables utility company tho and vote with your wallet

From a network perspective it wouldn’t make sense to build a Chicago - New York straight line with 0 stops… You’ld better link up Chicago to Cleveland, probably even do the Detroit detour and continue that in an expensive Appalachian tunnel to Washington DC. Then in a separate project build a high speed rail connecting the east coast cities: Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Washington…

The blind believe in 1 strong man at the top and a clear strict hierarchy are key ideas within far right ideology. It’s easier to organise the right, but it’s also easier for the right to en masse follow the crazy dumb ideas of that leader. Left organising from grassroots up is a lot harder, but in theory better.

A crossroads. It’s where the Rue Saint-Honoré meets the Rue de Valois… And I can imagine it’s a pretty nice place to grab a coffee because you can people-watch passersby, which is my favourite thing to do while drinking coffee. Tho the coffee is probably ridiculously overpriced so near the Louvre.

https://www.google.be/maps/place/Cafe+Palais+Royal/@48.8626946,2.3374101,3a,48.9y,67.56h,91.29t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sidfKQAFzz5sUNyzBnC9rSQ!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D-1.2895886130942955%26panoid%3DidfKQAFzz5sUNyzBnC9rSQ%26yaw%3D67.55713755025482!7i16384!8i8192!4m6!3m5!1s0x47e66e24411b25a3:0xda1f7ec2c0494999!8m2!3d48.862809!4d2.3377346!16s%2Fg%2F11c520tbyt?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDkxNi4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

In most of europe, until the 90s almost all media was state controlled by public broadcasters only. Only starting end 80s - early 90s radio and TV got flooded with commercial media.