Get it through your hate filled heads, zionists are not welcome in Europe. You may think it’ll be ok but it won’t. The politicians like Von Der Leyen may be properly “influenced”, but the people are not.

Do not come here. Stay in Israel, since most likely other countries will arrest you too. Not only you can be arrested for being the little monsters you’ve been, you might even get seriously hurt, especially if you go around being racist in public to our arab brothers and sisters.

I’m afraid to say that most people i have conversations with loathe your country and its actions. At best you’ll have locals politely excusing themselves well away from you the moment you announce being Israeli.

My theory is the following, i think what saved the US from being stuck on cold war propaganda was the internet. For a long time the US was truly great. It was a steadfast ally, a reliable trade partner and it helped rebuild the EU post WW2. It had railroads everywhere, cable cars everywhere, struggled and won against prohibition and oligarchs, treading ground on worker’s rights and rights of minorities.

Then the cold war came and things went seriously downhill. Because of the cold war a lot of things were done in secret and a lot was invested in propaganda. Corporations were allowed to do many things in secret. People in the US were told they were the best at everything and everyone else sucked. They never heard what the world really did think of them, only here and there by immigrants, who were seen as an inferior class anyway.

Then the internet came and finally the US heard what the world thinks of them and boy, it wasn’t pretty. Took a while too, many places didn’t have the infrastructure ready. The world wasn’t happy, the US had been doing very bad things in secret and so, US people finally saw what their country leaders had been doing.

The US isn’t a hopeless case but the US is at war with itself. A war that started in the 1800s and still rages on against an oligarch class that managed to inflitrate itself within the higher echelons of the government. Who took their railways away and their cable cars. Who took their days off and their workers rights and in some cases, even took away their right to strike (like the railroad workers).

They can’t vote their way out of this, both parties are deeply corrupt. The ones that could stop it, the regulatory agencies, are currently being gutted out. Now is a critical time for the US to change and make regulatory organs apolitical and independent from the executive branch. What is done now will define if the US will become an oligarchic dystopia or will return to its roots. I believe the destruction caused by Trump will invariably lead to the demise of the oligarchy, for oligarchy persists in denial and secret and what Trump is doing is reckless and obvious. But a time of shame has come to the US for what has been done.

Once people in the US realize that the bipartisan struggle is an artificial struggle and that no president is coming to save them, republican or democrat, hopefully protests will spring up everywhere and when they start, real meaninful change can appear. Every American knows the establishment is everywhere. Every American knows they’re in a class war.

Every American wants to fight it, but the Republicans say Democrats are the establishment and the Democrats say Republicans are the establishment. To overcome this both Republicans and Democrats must recognize they are fighting the same enemy and it’s not each other. The republican party and the democrat party are both artificial constructs of many political views that don’t translate to anything in the real world of politics. They’re amalgamations of parties that have differing political views who might win elections but won’t effect meaningful change on account of that. It serves the interest of the oligarchs that no matter which party wins, they win.

Head of health insurance company thinks he should be paid more by pushing policies that make his shareholders more money, but make life worse for everyone else, proving once more that health insurance companies are a fucking cancer on society that needs to be removed before it metastasizes and takes down the worker’s class. See this is why murderers go after these guys and it’s a popular thing.

Paratroopers are special forces, no ? My bet would be on the 2 paratroopers vs the 14 Russian regulars. Special forces train every day for all sorts of combat scenarios and they work out more than the average soldier. If you’ve seen a bar fight with a SF soldier in it, you’d see how irrelevant it is that they’re 14 up close.

I used to be a both sides have a right to exist and we should strive to achieve that, but the longer i hear Israeli and Israeli apologists speak online and the more i see their actions the harder it is to remain of that opinion.

My opinion now is that if we manage to successfully create the conditions to allow an independent state of Palestine and a state of Israel, it will be only a matter of time until Israel starts illegally occupying the Palestinian state. So unless it’s a nuclear Palestinian state or a nuclear backed Palestinian state, it’s very unlikely we can see a world where Zionism can exist in peace. Even with a nuclear Palestinian state, the Israeli mind would sit ill at ease trying to come up with a solution to disable the nukes and take over Palestine somehow, because Israeli can’t fathom a world where they have to share the land that “god gave them”, especially to a group of people they so overtly consider inferior to them.

So unfortunately the state of Israel itself has made me believe a two state solution is impossible no matter who leads Israel. It’s the Israeli zeitgeist. Their culture is a culture of war, oppression and genocide and if their god is real, i cannot see it being anything else but deeply ashamed of who calls themselves its people, who act so brazenly contrary to the principles set by the torah. Were this not the case, i see no reason that we could not have two states. But it’s like they say, if my grandmother had wheels, she would be an electric car. There’s only one way forward left. One state ruled by both Jews and Muslims. It will be bumpy at first, but eventually they will figure it out, like we all did. The idea of a Jewish only state is a deeply flawed idea that has harmed Judaism deeply and should be abandoned. And even if Israel comes out winning with the help of the US and they manage to stamp out Palestine, i believe over time that is exactly what they will become given enough time, as the old guard dies and their flawed, bellicose and bigoted ideas die with them. And that is the irony thay everything they are doing, all the deaths, all the cruelty, will eventually be pointless because their ideal dream is flawed and unsustainable.

I get that, i really do, but sometimes you just gotta take the loss for being unpopular if the cause is right. Israel is less popular today than it was yesterday. Sometimes you can’t help that your core principles are not valued by the majority at the moment, for whatever reason. If events change the minds of people, there’s a steady alternative to go to. To debase one’s principles to appeal to the right wing voters will only make their constituency not vote. People who are right wing won’t vote left because they are more anti immigration or more pro Israel. But people who vote left won’t probably vote at all if the alternatives are right wing or right wing light. They just won’t see themselves represented at all. Then you get low voter turnout.

Yeah no wonder conservatives are winning victories all across the democratic world. It seems the left wing has suffered a collective lobotomy. We live in a world where the left is fragmented in purpose, condoning the unacceptable, and ineffective in climate action. It would be cool if the left was, you know, actually the left, instead of trying to be more like the cool right wing because they think that’s what would win them more votes. Have some dignity, guys. Nobody is going to vote for the second, third or fourth best party at being right wing.

I tried looking around but this humble soul doesn’t have much in the way of receiving donations. I suggest contacting him via https://github.com/Catfriend1 to ask for an alternative and if he gets back to you, share it here for other people who dislike paypal.

Fyi the syncthing-fork guy (catfriend1) who’s still updating has a donating button on F-droid via Liberapay. It’s up to you if your financial situation allows you to donate, but the more of us help the remaining developers for their time, in particular those of us that rely so much on their work, the better off we’ll be. Let’s give them a little motivation to keep working on this.

FYI2 syncthing-fork (as written and confirmed in this thread) has an import button for your folders from syncthing Android.

The math depends on where you’re living, but what would you mathematically compare here, available required roof area and roof load limits?

Because the SWH, if put in a place like Cyprus, consumes next to no electricity. Pumps and electronics, but even that is pretty nil if the tank is on the upper floors. So let’s assume a mild sunny climate where the electrical heaters of both the heat pump and the solar heater are off. The heat pump requires power and the water heater doesn’t. As for cloudy days, with proper insulation, a SWH can keep the tank piping hot for a few days.

Personally i don’t see how a heat pump could beat a SWH in costs and benefits over time. Off the gate it already starts at a disadvantage on environmental impact and upfront costs. When it’s sunny, it loses to solar heating, as it’s free vs very efficient. It probably regains some ground during inclement weather and very cold winter days. There’s also the degradation of the solar panel, which happens at a faster rate than the degradation of the solar heater. So i guess in the end it boils down to how bad the weather gets where you live and yeah, do the math. There’s probably a graph of bad weather days with a point where the SWH becomes less attractive than solar powered heat pumps. But for Mediterranean climates, no contest I’d say. You require less area on the roof for a SWH.

And this is only considering available roof area/weight limits, because being honest they’re both free sun energy. But you could use the solar power/money/environmental impact elsewhere.

From the point of view of efficiency, solar heaters beat pv. With pv you need to convert the sun’s energy into electrical energy, with losses, then convert electrical energy into heat by extracting it from the outside with the heat pump. If you store it in batteries to heat up water later, there’s even more losses. Depending on the outside temperature, there’s a limit to what the heat pump can do, which an internal electric heater inside the water tank takes over to reach usable shower temperature.

With solar heating the sun heats water, that’s it. Not only you can yield energy from the sun more efficiently, this doesn’t need complex electronics or semiconductors, so it’s also better from an environmental impact point of view.

And it doesn’t have to be either/or. In my country, solar heating usually comes as a package deal with pv heating. Some companies are making hybrid pvs. Solar panels become less efficient as they heat up, so a hybrid pv would use coolant to keep them within their most efficient working temperature and extract that heat to be used for space heating, using radiators or floor heating or forced air systems, and/or water heating. Having both just makes sense, since it makes your pv needs (and your upfront investment) smaller and the maintenance on solar heaters is much simpler.

If i didn’t have a soldering iron, I’d probably grab a diode or resistor leg, snip it just enough to bridge the gap, press it down on the contacts, use super glue to hold it in place on both sides and the middle until it held and hope the glue doesn’t block the contacts.

But this is an extremely shoddy solution and i doubt it will last long. You have to hold it firmly in place or the glue will get underneath the component leg. The user can’t let it roll around under the finger. I suggest pressing it against the upper side of the contacts in the picture for leverage. Try it out yourself and see if you can do it. Once you verify with a multimeter you get current through, you can apply more super glue on top between the contacts to give it a little more grip, that may make it hold on for longer. Since it’s for a low current application I’m betting just the contact surface of the component leg with the solder blobs underneath will be enough and will not overheat, but i would suggest letting it run a bit just to make sure. You can always make it just a smidge longer in order for the component leg to wrap around the blobs to increase the contact surface, in sort of a C shape.

A soldering iron for students can be pretty cheap and I’m only suggesting this alternative so you have some sort of low cost solution that doesn’t involve one. Any diode or resistor will do, really, for like 5 cents and superglue for like 2/3€. Or if you want to put it in a kit just send small snips of tin plated, copper clad steel wire, but depending on how many kits you are manufacturing, it might be more cost effective just to use resistor/diode legs harvested from stuff you’ve got lying around.

Why would they be conservative ? I do agree with you that this thread is full of people trying to justify the unjustifiable, but let me remind you the party in power providing its full unquestionable support for Israel is the Democrat party, spearheaded by Biden, a Democrat president, who is very, very happy and supportive with all this. So being a douche is a bit all over the place if you ask me. You can’t necessarily point at douchebaggery and instantly realize it’s conservative.

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I think in this context no ship would ever approach nose-to-nose. That’s just for the viewers to see. I’d wager no two ships would come into less than around 1-5 km of each other if they weren’t lining up flight paths for shuttles or docking. It’s not like they need to “stand up” next to each other and “talk”.

They would probably have formations they would assume while in transit or stopped, so it would probably be normal to cross paths with a formation flying upside down or in a perpendicular axis.

In case of just meeting and talking, they’d probably do it from wherever they happen to be, very far from each other, flying towards different destinations.

Huh so you just make up categories in your head based on what goes in a fruit salad and what can be grilled to justify the fact that you don’t know.

See this is why going to school is important. I recommend reading up on why produce are either fruit or vegetable.

There’s only one sense, the biological one. You don’t recategorize things based on the ingredients of recipes. That’s just ridiculous.

The only government conspiracy i see here is the degradation of the education system where everyone knows AR-15 means armalite rifle 15 and thinks tomato is a vegetable because it doesn’t go with fruits.

Corn is a grain and tomato is a fruit. Why do so many Americans think corn is a vegetable ? Crazy, I’ve seen it several times in this thread.

Corn is not a vegetable though. It’s a grain.

Ergo, vis-a-vis, cogito ergo sunt, per se. Exempli gratia, id est, quod erat demonstratum. Errare humanum est, carpe diem et requiescat in pace. In vinum veritas, semper fidelis, et pluribus unum.

I cast you away demon, with my fancy latin words.

I can guarantee you that is never going to happen. You ban VPNs and all the companies R&D departments will leave. A VPN is an essential part of corporate data infrastructure. If a company is unable to secure intellectual property, it will move it elsewhere, leaving only sales and manufacturing, at best.

And since France is in Schengen, I’m sure other European countries would love to get those corporate taxes for themselves.