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If you were paying attention it shouldn't be surprising. Privacy is the sort of thing that Germans generally get very worked up about.

Finally. I really hope Germany does this soon. The social stigma against smokers and their inconsiderate habits is one of the biggest things I miss from Canada.

They have an app and website too where you can stream all their programs!

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For example, only a quota of beef imports from Mercosur, equal to 1.5 percent of EU production, will be subject to a preferential 7.5-percent levy. [...] Additional imports will face tariffs of up to 50 percent, he added.

This may drive more demand for meat production South America, but those quotas will limit that impact by quite a bit.

I'm cautiously hopeful about this. I think a lot of the agricultural concerns in both directions are quite valid (i.e. impact on Europe's ability to domestically feed itself, and impact on the amazon and other South American forests), but there'd also be a lot of major benefits on both sides, so I hope we can find a way to make it happen while lessening the negative impacts.

France is already in such a tumultuous political situation right now, I wonder if this'll fly under the radar there, or be more fuel on the fire.

VW has their own rapidly maturing battery cell production, so I suspect they just decided they didn't need to buy Northvolt. They probably already got all the IP they needed anyways.

First of all, it's not for sure that there'll "always" be enough wind, especially in a changing climate. That said, the UK is blessed with extremely plentiful wind resources, and it's great that the UK is continuing to take advantage of that resource, but it also makes a lot of sense to keep the domestic nuclear industry alive.

The UK is building out more HVDC connections to neighbouring countries, including one to to Germany, and there there will continue to be strong demand in Germany for imported electricity. Having more domestic electricity production means cheaper electricity at home, and more opportunities to trade electricity with the continent.

Also, by keeping nuclear power expertise alive and developing it further in the UK, the UK will be better positioned to help build nuclear power plants in friendly countries who don't have as stable wind resources as the UK.

This investment is not necessarily in conflict with the UK's investments in wind power.

I recently switched of Dropbox in favour of Hetzner's hosted Nextcloud deployment and I'm very happy. One step at a time, I'll work towards being rid of corporate US tech.

Also, if anyone here is using Notion, you should check out Suite Numerque's Docs which is an open source competitor being developed by the French, German, and Netherlands governments. It's looking very promising. There's scratchpad here you can use to try it out.

Buying Rheinmetall stock on the day of the US election continues to be the best investment I've ever made.

Probably not. There's a lot of reasons to be skeptical of those claimed numbers.

Good!