smeg

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[–] smeg 1 points 1 week ago

Private flights make up roughly 1/6 of all flights, and from my experience those making private flights at their regional airports are usually flying to and from the big cities. I think it would make a huge difference and inconvenience the fewest people.

[–] smeg 19 points 1 week ago (3 children)

If the problem is the total number of planes in the air relative to ATC capacity, shouldn't low-volume planes be grounded first? Prioritize large commercial flights and ground private planes, right?

[–] smeg 23 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Developers won't be offering lower prices. They'll be pocketing more.

It doesn't mean that it's a bad outcome, but let's be careful about saying this actually benefits the consumer.

[–] smeg 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Maybe he should say, "let them eat cake"

[–] smeg 4 points 2 weeks ago
[–] smeg 25 points 2 weeks ago

Hold strong, Democrats. Nothing you authorize will be respected by this administration, so you might as well let Republicans rewrite Senate rules (which they have in the past and can do on a whim) and pass their own priorities, instead of handing them legitimacy by signing onto the Trump agenda of not following the law.

[–] smeg 13 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

I don't accept the premise of the question.

[–] smeg 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Coalition options are complicated.

D66 + GL/PvdA + VVD + CDA is ideally what they want, very broad and centrist, but VVD said they won't partner with anyone left, and especially not PvdA. Since VVD had better than expected results, they're keeping their leader, so I expect that promise to stick.

Another route is D66 + all of the left wing parties combined, but getting them all to agree on an agenda led by a centre-left party seems fraught. Also, some of these small left parties have never been in government before and probably don't have the chops for compromise.

A possibility is D66 + CDA + VVD + JA21, centrists partnering with the right to keep out the left. A tale as old as time! JA21 makes me nervous, basically a more polite version of FvD.

The most likely outcome is a centrist minority government of D66 + CDA + GL/PvdA, and then relying on the left parties or right parties separately to pass the legislation they want based on the topic.

Of course, trying to address the far right with centrism is how basically every county eventually falls to fascism. This election outcome isn't great.

I'm a little scared of D66 leadership, too, because they want the Netherlands to have more direct democracy and first past the post - basically emulating the American system; we see where that leads. And they want to solve the housing problem with massive deregulation and hand-outs to developers, basically leading to rampant suburban sprawl and car dependence.

[–] smeg 2 points 3 weeks ago

GigSky allows you to buy data on Egypt in 10GB intervals. You can continuously top up your plan once it runs out.

€52.49 for 10GB so it's fairly expensive.

I used GigSky for work in the EU, and at least one day used 10GB+ without a problem.

[–] smeg 36 points 3 weeks ago

There's a huge difference between a piece of data being recorded in a SIEM somewhere and the data being displayed up front all of the time for micro managers to pounce on.

[–] smeg 35 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

They aren't sending their best.

[–] smeg 12 points 1 month ago

My Mastodon instance is working just fine.

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