True. But the app makes it easier for noobs to configure. Anyone with basic CLI skills wouldnt be trying to infer Mullvad doesnt work on Mint anyway.

To use mullvad on mint, download the .deb file. Double click on it. Click ok to installing it.

Done.

Edit (Download it off mullvad website if not clear)

American flag shagging is considered beyond funny and well into boorish here. So yeah it may be tame by yank standards, but sticking Union flags (or St George flags) on stuff is considered a bit crass.

Didn’t used to be, became considered tasteless due to the oiks that keep doing it.

I hadn’t heard of it before the above post but a quick google duckduckgo search suggests “mostly factual with a bit of extrapolation”, links I found here

TL;DR - 55bn in concentration camps is true, it’s also true some of those camps have incinerators for bio-waste. Whether that means they’re for Auschwitz style mass crematoriums is unknown (and to be realistic it’s not something they would explicitly document if it were true).

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/politics/government/critics-modern-nazi-concentration-camp-repurposed-55b-us-navy-contracts-to-build-detention-facilities/ar-AA1W4x70

https://factually.co/fact-checks/politics/detention-centers-warehouses-death-camps-incinerators-claims-a58543

https://healthranger.substack.com/p/blueprint-for-genocide-the-trump

https://migrantinsider.com/p/how-the-pentagon-is-quietly-building

etc

EDIT I use google as a verb, but after their recent changes I think I’d better differentiate

Has anyone read the full report because this paragraph is the article’s summary of what’s being impacted and it doesnt sound that bad

“The 240-page-long “2026 Fundamental Rights Report,” presented in Karlsruheon Thursday, says fundamental rights are threatened, for example, when efforts to combat climate change wane, when affordable housing becomes scarce and when technical standards on social media violate informal self-determination. But the greatest danger comes when security concerns dominate domestic policy, and lead to a military buildup.”

So the greatest threat created from a military build up is that a military build up occurs

Yeah that’s kinda the point.

Noting also the climate change initiatives are overseas aid ones, they’re not actually impacting German basic rights

I predict China is going to feel the same car dependence pain in a few decades if they continue to ramp production and climb the cars-per-capita leader board. It’s crazy expensive to keep millions of people puttering around in multi-ton metal boxes.

Ahh I don’t think they’re going the way of the US in that regards:

Wikipedia data is a little old, but…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_transport_in_China

"China’s railways are the busiest in the world. In 2019, railways in China delivered 3.660 billion passenger trips, generating 1,470.66 billion passenger-kilometres and carried 4.389 billion tonnes of freight, generating 3,018 billion cargo tonne-kilometres.[1] Freight traffic turnover has increased more than fivefold over the period 1980–2013 and passenger traffic turnover has increased more than sevenfold over the same period.[10] During the five years 2016–2020, China’s railway network handled 14.9 billion passenger trips, 9 billion of which were completed by bullet trains, the remaining 5.9 billion by conventional rail. "

This is the Chinese govt site

https://english.www.gov.cn/archive/statistics/202506/06/content_WS6842d8f6c6d0868f4e8f31d9.html

"China’s railway system transported more than 4.31 billion passengers in 2024, up 11.9 percent year on year, according to the National Railway Administration.

Railway cargo transportation volume approached 5.18 billion tonnes last year, reflecting a 2.8-percent growth compared to the previous year.

In terms of investment, China’s railway sector saw fixed-asset investment amount to 850.6 billion yuan (around 118.39 billion U.S. dollars) in 2024. During the same period, 3,113 km of new railway lines were inaugurated, about 79 percent of which are high-speed railways.

As the modern railway network continued to expand, China’s total operational length of lines reached 162,000 km in 2024, including over 48,000 km of high-speed railway lines.

Furthermore, railway transportation remained safe, stable, and orderly throughout 2024, with no severe railway traffic accidents in China, the administration added."

TL;DR They’re doing plenty of rail

Not to mention the astro-turfed voting by Israel last year (and presumably this year but I didn’t watch)

I have some wooden shoes, will they do ?

EDIT

As this disappointingly seems to have gone through to slips:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabot_(shoe)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabotage#Etymology

“An alleged etymology [of sabotage] describes the actions of disgruntled workers who willfully damaged workplace machinery by throwing their sabots into the works”

Into looms…

There are plenty of Chinese ICE vehicles, what on earth are you talking about ? MG got rolling here in the UK with ICE before releasing hybrids and EVs, Chery only have ICE and hybrids here etc etc Same in Australia with BYD and the rest.

You’re poorly informed.

Paywalled but the headline is true and the subject matter so self evident I can’t be bothered checking if archive unblocks it.

Next subject the bleeding obvious

I’m glad I’m not the only one there. I mean if you’re going to be a melt at least do it properly, these half mast flags are just half arsing it

Iirc but cant be arsed to check, 3 models - base (rwd) mid range (awd) and premium (awd with a bigger battery)

Do we have a peer reviewed study (ie facts) that reduction of urban speed limit from 30 to 20 actually does save fuel ?

Highway limit, sure, wind resistance and all that, well proven.

30 down to 20 in a stop start environment, where in many cases you don’t even get to 30 ? Colour me skeptical - I’ve seen this often asserted but never found an actual scientificly run study to prove it.

The plural of anecdotes isn’t data, but from my personal experience my fuel consumption went up when 20 was introduced here a few years ago (I can theorise why if you want, but I can’t prove why, only state that it is measurably higher with no real change in driven miles - I track my consumption).