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Just keep calm and remember what you have learned. I mean theory part is just learning, the riding part is just riding and you already succeeded with all the exercises before when doing the test. You already did everything you need to do and probably more than once. Nothing new for you happening.

Do you already have a bike? Or looking for one after the license? Or waiting for spring?

It was really good and fun to watch for multiple reasons:

• Tyres/grip: It's hard to get them to temperature and keep them there due to the long straights. Braking before corners is required. When braking hard into a corner due to a fight for position, we saw lock-ups, going wide, and then the overtake. So pressure from behind got rewarded with small errors and the position. Drivers had a hard time with the throttle and grip as well. Suddenly we had a fight for position through two corners and with inside - outside line, also overtakes through corners with elbows out fighting for the position. F1 racing suffers from too much grip for everyone - Las Vegas track design solves this.

• Body kit/speed<>grip: Due to high track speed, e.g. Ferrari was running the smaller rear wing they also use during the Monza race. It grants a few more km/h on the straights but costs downforce in the corners. Depending on team decisions, they had an easier time to overtake on the straight, even without DRS, but fell victim to others in brave corner-overtakes. Which is again a combination of tyre temperature and downforce in the car setup or even the car's overall design.

• Track limits: It's in a city, there are walls. Nobody even tried to cheat, as mistakes are punished immediately by the wall. Suddenly it's no problem to stay on the race track. Drivers were even using the corner safety zones and doing a loop there, just to stay on the track, which is the lighter immediate punishment.

In the EU, 45km/h are mopeds or scooter and they don't need a license plate (not sure if all of EU), but only an insurance. Also kids can ride those from the age of 15 or 16. So it seems to be a proper motorcycle looking scooter replacement for teens.

Qualifying result here: https://www.formula1.com/en/results.html/2023/races/1225/las-vegas/qualifying.html

FIA is quick on fines against teams and drivers if rules/contracts are broken. Is there any possibility of fines against the Las Vegas track management or so?

That step they don't have to go makes me think with Windows 12, the whole process will likely start from 0. They will try to implement everything again, waiting for courts or politics to take some decisions after years.

Signal’s operating costs: around $40 million this year

• $14 million a year in infrastructure costs
• $6 million annually, goes to telecom firms to pay for the SMS text messages Signal uses to send registration codes to verify new Signal accounts’ phone numbers
• $19 million a year or so out of Signal’s budget pays for its staff. Signal now employs about 50 people

Staff budget seem crazy high with about 50 people. That's an average of $31.666 per month per employee.

As the prices are mentioned in US-Dollar, this offer is likely only available in the USA. E.g. I'm currently getting a Black Friday offer for the full price of 1.099€ for the Pixel 8 Pro but a 100€ store voucher is included.

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The natural gas through the pipelines is not owned by the transit or endpoint country. Same with Nord Stream, Germany is used as distribution hub in central Europe. E.g. after Poland closed their pipeline to Russia, their natural gas supply from Russia was simply transferred via Nord Stream and Germany, from the other side across the border into Poland.

And even with natural gas that stays in German storages, it's not owned by Germany. It's owned by private companies that sell it during winter to the highest bidder. German gas storage can supply other countries that have high demand and smaller storage capacities in a cold winter.

So regarding the resource replacement, it depends on the country that uses the natural gas at the end.

Looking at natural gas in Germany, the usage for electricity generation is relatively low (~7-12% over the last 5 years). It's more often used by the industry and for it's chemical properties, as well as heating in homes. You cannot just replace that with coal or nuclear ovens. But overall there is a plan to increase the capacity for electricity generation over the next few years as backup for the coal phaseout during low renewable generation. The new gas plants are intended for natural gas and later hydrogen.

For everyone only reading headlines: Those are not Russians trying to leave.

A total of 91 undocumented migrants have tried to enter Finland on its eastern border since August. These are third-country nationals who used Russia as a transit country and applied for asylum in Finland.

91 at official border crossings in 3 months is nothing, but they need to keep an eye on the situation. So far, Russia is no longer stopping them from crossing towards Finland without documents. On the border between Belarus and Poland they area already a step further and migrants are being used as desperate tools to breach the border and fences towards Poland.

Ich sehe das ähnlich und finde die Zielführung der Thematik lediglich auf Senioren nicht sinnvoll. Bzw. es schafft Konflikt innerhalb der Bevölkerung: wir gegen sie. Es sollten grundsätzich alle Führerscheine (auch Motorrad & PKW) nur auf Zeit gültig sein und regelmäßige Tests voraussetzen.

Welche Tests und in welchen Abständen kann man natürlich viel darüber diskutieren. Aber wie du schon sagst mit Gesundheitscheck alle 5 Jahre - bei PKW könnte man bspw. einen einfachen Sehtest alle 5 Jahre vorschreiben. Oder in regelmäßigen Abständen Erste-Hilfe-Kurse. Oder dann auch alle 10 Jahre einen erneute Theorieprüfung nach den aktuellen Verkehrsregeln, die sich ja alle paar Jahre ändern.

Ein Führerschein bringt Verantwortung mit sich. Das sollte eben auf der Gegenseite auch Leistung abfragen und Belege dafür liefern. Bspw. ein Sehtest und eine Theorieprüfung ca. 6x im Leben (18 Jahre, 28, 38, 48, 58, 68) ist da nicht viel verlangt.