Learned the most conflicted word today - milometer 🧐

The thing that measures how many miles you drove. Combining "miles" with "meter".

"It’s not about security, it’s about control" – How EU governments want to encrypt their own comms, but break our private chats I asked experts what's behind this dual vision on encryption

What a shame!
One of the few #EU policies that I disagree with:

www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-priv...

Vote for your continent with your money! Invest in companies and indexes in #Europe!
Keep your money in the #EU!

Our industry, defence, and energy sector need to be revitalized, and the EU is finally starting to act. Be a patriot and help us do this together.

Opinion.

#stocks #ETFs #investing

Why do I have to learn about an out of service tram line by word of mouth? What are all those expensive information displays for?

Why isn't there a beep and an announcement?

#GVB really makes it hard to be loved. Hundreds of people are now late for work, left without help, apology, reimbursement

How is it ok for public transportation in Amsterdam to just say "go figure it out"??

Aren't they supposed to have a backup bus to cover failed tram lines?

#GVB Failed me once again. I waited for my tram, it didn't come, and then by chance a tram driver was there and said:

"oh, by the way, the tram is stuck, it's not coming. Take a bus or something".

MAGA maturing.

Nuclear fusion, the 'holy grail' of power, was always 30 years away—now it’s a matter of when, not if, fusion comes online to power AI | Fortune Fusion has the potential to solve the world's energy demand and climate goals, but questions remain about crossing the technology finish line and scaling up economically.

The final energy source
fortune.com/2025/10/02/n...

European strategic autonomy is in German hands As Berlin inevitably becomes the EU’s dominant military power, its billions could either build or blur Macron’s vision of European defense.

Will the German military build-up help forge a strategically autonomous European defense industry and strengthen European economic power?

Or, will it pour money into U.S. military hardware and favor industrial alliances with American defense giants?
#defence

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The perfectly fine, already-paid-for satellites Trump wants to destroy in a fiery atmospheric reentry | CNN NASA is planning to decommission premier satellite missions that gather information on planet-warming pollution and other climate vital signs beginning as soon as October, sources inside and outside o...

The purposeful destruction of multimillion-dollar satellites and instruments is unprecedented. ... it has enough fuel to last through 2040.

This is consistent with the perception that the Trump administration “doesn’t want to do anything related to climate science."

www.cnn.com/2025/08/13/c...

YouTube video by carlsagandotcom Carl Sagan testifying before Congress in 1985 on climate change

1985
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One of the biggest microplastic pollution sources isn’t straws or grocery bags – it’s your tires Rain storms wash those tire shards into streams and ultimately into lakes and oceans. That’s bad news for fish and other aquatic life.

One of the biggest microplastic pollution sources isn’t straws or grocery bags – it’s your tires share.google/Q3nSZduUkEtu...