I hate to pull the “You Yanks still have it cheap” card, but I just did the math for my car, assuming 10,000 km (6k miles) annually and a generous 8 liters (29 mpg?) fuel consumption. At current gas prices (2€ per liter), that’s slightly under 800 Euros per year that the state collects at the pump (gas tax, CO2 surcharge, VAT adding up to at least half the price of gas). In addition, 135 € per year flat tax to have the car registered.

That said, the idea that you have to pay a penalty tax for driving a EV while the brodozers don’t is, well… idiotic.

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Cannot convert precisely right now, but in Germany I’d say gas is currently at 1,90€ per liter. That would place the gallon at 7.00 to 7.50 USD. Did the math, that’s 8.35 USD at current conversion rates.

For me, it would be a great option if my B450 board goes belly up. I have 32 gig of DDR4 installed and would prefer to keep the system operational for a couple more years with the 5700X3D.

That said, I don’t quite see why they need to introduce new boards for AM4. Inexpensive B550 has been around for quite a while now.

We know that it’s his third DUI case in a courtroom, but how many times did he actually sit behind the wheel shitfaced? I’d assume dozens, if not hundreds of times with varying degrees of alcohol related impairment.

So what you’re saying is if we refuse to pay for journalism long enough, the journalists will eventually give up and just work for free? Not have to travel for their investigations, eat nothing and need no private home?

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Your 5. is not wrong though. My first printer was a used Ender 3 v2 that I modified and tuned quite a bit until I was finally tired of issues with the bowden extruder and got myself an Ender 3 S1 Pro. In hindsight, I should have purchased the S1 Pro in the first place, but the v2 did teach me valuable lessons, even though I quite probably spent more time fixing and tuning the thing than enjoying successful prints.

The S1 Pro ended up accumulating a lot of dust over my two years of ownership and I now own a Qidi Q2. That one has its own set of issues and design flaws, but their support is okay and for what it costs, it can print an astonishing variety of materials with good to great quality.

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Yes, he understood it.

Ideal, as in “100 mph tail wind all the way”.

As in “British Airways”.

It’s surely a reference to the Dune novels.

And it’s not “because the engineers are mentally chsllenged”.

They should be, no?

Are we better off with Trump as the useful idiot? I am not sure if Vance could do even more damage.

Nah, it’s a German family’s last name.

Link to archived version

European here, how does that “register with a party” thing work?