Sub 10k bike not a dentist i recon ?

https://youtu.be/4tYhl-8g8TU

Phone just says ∞ PC is 0 atm usually like 3-20

That is an implementation detail and at least here in Germany typically not the case for glass and thick walled reusable plastic. Cleaning glass bottles and reusing them is the norm here and the system exists country wide so it is literally workable at scale and other countries could if they wanted just copy legislation and the physical infrastructure for this to happen.

It apparently also has some flaws ( regulatory capture will do that to laws under capitalism) but the last sentence of the Germany section basically is enough evidence that this kind of system works and reuses bottles.

At any given time, an estimated 2 billion beer bottles are in circulation in Germany, each of which sees an average of 36 reuses.

Moreover even if not reusing deposit still gives way better return rates than any other method of recycling, at the very least keeping trash in a managed somewhat circular system. The Car battery recycling structure is also deposit based and very successful in recovering the toxic lead in these things. So even non reuse deposits have great upside to the alternative of not having deposits.

Robust glass bottle recycling already exists and it just works. Here it’s called Pfand (deposit) and for drink (and some other) containers a law or for other containers an agreement specifies that a store has to take the containers and hand back the deposit for any type of container the store sells. Alcohol bottles apart from beer are for some reason usually not included in this scheme but it’s also used for plastic reusable and with a different deposit for single use cans and plastic bottles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Container-deposit_legislation

Idk the BND and its French equivalent can largely buy up the exact same data sources the Americans are buying as well.

I agree that it’s kind of a waste in terms of why would we want mass surveillance at home. But believing the EU can’t do this from a tech /resource perspective is rather shortsighted. Now a German French co-production running super smoothly especially at the start is also unlikely but they probably will get there at some point.

So why are we arguing for nuclear when nuclear and hydro both have that same problem of being necessarily megaprojects with huge risks if anything is mismanaged, incorrectly planned, or getting attacked in some way.

When we could instead argue for solar plus storage which is cheaper, much less vulnerable to attacks/ disaster, often good for the microclimate where it’s deployed, without any need for permanent staffing, has a much more resonable path to resource recovery at eol. …

Sure that’s great and all, but I’d imagine university software programs frequently still require ssh in the intro courses. In 2018 for our intro to programming the requirement was for the code to compile and work on the Uni cluster. Sure you can make a web infrastructure for everything, but teaching ML, Simulation science and computer science students some high performance computing and IT obviously still makes sense in 2026.

Ssh is at the very start of all of this stuff so …