Well, if the government heavily taxed everything above like 100 million $$$, then the money would flow back into the economy, which it obviously doesn't while being sat on by pathologic hoarders.

Grüne sind die "sichere" Wahl, aber gerade weil sie relativ populär sind traue ich denen auch (von diesen dreien) am wenigsten zu, besonders dann, wenn keine Parteien im Parlament sind, die für extremere Klimaschutzmaßnahmen sind.

Letzte Generation ist die Backpfeife für die Weichspülpolitik der letzten Jahrzehnte, was die tatsächlich erreichen werden / können falls sie Sitze bekommen ist die andere Frage.

Klimaliste wäre der konstruktive Mittelweg, aber auch hier die Frage ob sie genug Stimmen bekommen werden.

Die fehlende Prozent-Hürde bei dieser Wahl halte ich für einen Grund, eher für eine dieser beiden zu stimmen, weil es die letzte Chance ist sie auch mit weniger Stimmen ins Parlament zu bekommen.

Es ist noch eine ganze Weile nicht zu spät weitere Folgeschäden zu vermindern. Dazu muß man aber halt die Maßnahmen ergreifen für die man die letzten Jahrzehnte zu bequem war anstatt komplett aufzugeben und zu hoffen daß die kommende Katastrophe einen möglichst wenig betrifft und das Problem auf den Rest der Welt abzuwälzen der sich nicht in seiner Wohlstandsblase verstecken kann.

"Eliminates" is a bit misleading. Calcium carbonate in the water traps the particles, some in the layer that builds up in the pot, the rest can be filtered out easier because the resulting particles are bigger.

If possible I prefer voting for a small party / candidate even if they have no chance at winning. That way it actually takes away votes from the big options, while blanks are just ignored in the reported results. At least that's how it works here, the first thing ignored are the non-voters, next invalid / blank votes, and the only thing that matters and gets reported on are valid votes.

The reddit exodus has almost equalized things I think, there's still more stuff posted on reddit but it's low quality garbage (noticeably more than before), most interesting news etc. are here as well.

eventually there will probably ba a certificate authority alternative to Google

Which won't matter (for access from third-party apps), because to be accepted by websites they need to prove their trustworthiness, so you can't just use a different one to circumvent it.

Unless people mass-migrate away from Chrome-based browsers (basically everything expect Firefox) Google will at one point enable their Web Environment Integrity thing, force all other browsers to enable it too because otherwise a lot of websites will stop working in them, and no alternative frontend will have access to the video streams anymore.

Well, if they implement their web integrity DRM thingy in Chrome and Youtube then that will prevent anything that's not a real approved browser from accessing the website, and with that the video streams. Not only Piped/Newpipe, but anything automated trying to access any website will be automatically locked out unless the website approves of it. New search engine bot? Archiving crawlers? Any type of third party program that accesses some website's content without approval? Dead.

become complacent about solving the primary problems

We have been complacent about solving the primary problems for decades. At this point we should be doing all we can, and if a way to combat the symptoms gives us more time to finally get our shit together and do something useful before everyone turns into doomers giving up because it's too late anyway then I think that's a good thing.

Nice anti-AMD framing so shortly after that latest Zen2 vulnerability.

Somewhat shortened translation:

This mainly refers to jawg.io, the commercial cloud service that serves the basic map. The map itself is 100% OSM data, but the service isn't free. OSM themselves don't offer a vector tile server, not even for editors.

Also, F-Droid gives every app with a hard-coded network dependency the NonFreeNet flag, including e.g. api.openstreetmap.org.

They're discussing a new anti-feature like SiloedNet for such cases, because at the moment NonFreeNet is pretty useless, e.g. a Wikipedia reader gets that flag too.