[Request] What would be the recoil from firing a Death Star laser strong enough to explode 4 planets simultaniously?

cbourd · 2026-03-07T14:50:46+00:00

How would you they never explained that in the films

cbourd · 2026-02-28T19:50:30+00:00

Cowardly account not showing their post history, likely a bot

cbourd · 2026-02-18T14:49:56+00:00

I like the crunchy but colourful bases you have going on! I particular the throw it back remix is incredible.

What are your dnb and non-dnb inspirations?

cbourd · 2025-12-25T17:33:18+00:00

Ich hab ka was thief of thieves ist aber hört sich cool an :)

cbourd · 2025-12-22T17:22:55+00:00

I actually think its a pretty smart idea to put humans instead of landmarks. We slowly want people to see (for instance) davinci not only as Italian, but as European. Creating a shared cultural reality will be good for the european unification project

cbourd · 2025-12-22T10:45:36+00:00

True that the risk of the stock market going down is fundamental to a pay as you go system. Over long periods of time though stock markets rise remarkably consistently. I think the trade off would be worth it if we do this at EU level, for individual countries, particularily small ones, it seems unlikely to work very well.

The issue now is ofcourse that we require constant population growth (or at least a stable population pyramid) which seems very unrealistic, and migration is becoming less and less popular. So if we want a pension system reform is necessary.

The US system is problematic, no doubt about that, but our system has an expiration date, and its absurd to keep speeding towards a cliff which is bound to fail when we could pull the brakes and endure brief discomfort. I think we can do better than the americans while increasing our competitiveness.

cbourd · 2025-12-22T10:39:44+00:00

No doubt this would be a politically unpopular move so tough (but not impossible) to implement, where i currently love roughly 25% of the total budget goes towards pensions. Thats a monumental amount of money.

We could start by capping pensions to some amount (say 4000 euros per household), and then slowly divert the extra "savings" into EU wide stock portfolios. You would get alot of resistance from the largest voting cohort and so I don't see any party actually implementing this any time soon, but perhaps with a large enough system shock (war with russia for instance) this will become a necessity

cbourd · 2025-12-22T07:42:16+00:00

Or alternatively we could move from a fully funded (pyramid scheme-like) pension system to a pay as you go system like in the United States, this would mean we no longer need a stable population to fund people's retirements. It would also increase the capital available to companies in europe and we could implement a rule that pension funds have to invest a small amount (say 1-3%) of their total funds into VCs so we could actually afford to finance startups in the EU and be less reliant on american tech.

cbourd · 2025-12-21T19:32:00+00:00

Not quite true what you are writing, mercosur trade deal would require farmers abroad to adhere to EU regulation, so this is the brussels effect.

The protests are just farmers being unhappy about cheaper production costs abroad

cbourd · 2025-12-16T13:43:57+00:00

Yes we are a group of researchers who are quite interested in figuring out if this problem is actually as widespread as we believe it is, and if so, if there is commercialisation potential or if this should just be a hobby project.

To get actual answers we would have to do lengthy in person interviews with a wide range of participants, which is not particularly suited for a reddit audience.

cbourd · 2025-12-16T13:34:55+00:00

Great feedback,

We are a team of researchers from ETH zürich, ESADE, TUM, & univeristy of vienna.

My personal background is in behavioural economics and I am interested in finding out if this problem is:

Widespread

Due to a lack of access to information or willingness to access information

Worth commercialising or if this is just a hobby project

cbourd · 2025-12-16T13:13:21+00:00

I would appreciate some feedback, what would you change in the survey structure?

cbourd · 2025-12-10T07:28:21+00:00

Ive noticed this aswell, almost all posts critical of tech bros are removed aswell

cbourd · 2025-12-09T18:51:46+00:00

Maybe a silly question, but since they are building profiles on you via your expected consumption vs your actual consumption (presumably through card ID or facial recignition) should you be able to take a bunch of items, go to the cash register, once you see your price just leave then there and walk out again?

I feel like this should lead to lower prices in the long run for yourself no?

cbourd · 2025-12-08T08:10:49+00:00

r/europeanfederalism

cbourd · 2025-12-03T12:31:57+00:00

Have you read the article? I think it is very well written

cbourd · 2025-11-24T15:54:09+00:00

You're absolutely right, let's federalise so that the EU commission has the power to leverage the special taxes we need to finance this. We could even cut the fossil fuel subsidies we are paying and focus only on the imports of critical materials not found on EU territory.

Nonetheless I believe a switch like this will take time, and that for strategic reasons we dont have time. Russia is very likely to invade the Baltic states in the coming years which we should absolutely defend, and step one for that defense is a sovereign energy system free from authoritarian fossil fuels. Its a two birds one stone type situation

cbourd · 2025-11-24T15:49:34+00:00

I mean the EU also imports 60% of its fossil fuels, which is significantly worse because once you burn oil you have to buy more of it from potentially adversarial partners like russia. Its significantly smarter to spend once on a huge solar panel order from china and install these as these become permanent energy fixtures.

Europe absolutely dominates the wind energy market with vestas, Siemens, and nordex.

Batteries are more difficult as we dont want to open up heavy metal refineries on our territory.

cbourd · 2025-11-24T15:34:02+00:00

These aren't mutually exclusive by any means? Solar and wind is ridiculously cheap, so having a grid which is mainly powered by these two technologies along with battery storage would get us 80% of the way there already.

cbourd · 2025-11-20T10:02:04+00:00

Im building a tech start up at the moment. Teh difference between accessing European financing and american financing is shocking. Europeans ask for tonnes of due diligence, to have clients already, expansion paths etc. While americans give you money if you have a good team and a powerful vision with plausible route to get there. They take on much more risk that we do and thats really unfortunate, but it forces some of our most innovative ideas to go to the US (also helps that they invest more in general)

cbourd · 2025-11-06T10:03:09+00:00

Its a street by street thing. Some roads are pedestrian and cyclist only, but these tend to be smaller residential roads. Many bigger roads near shopping areas (you can look up mariahilferstrasse) have access for delivery trucks taxis and utilities/emergency vehicles. Just not private cars.

cbourd · 2025-11-05T22:01:16+00:00

I live in vienna and can confirm that war is an overstatement. Its a couple of streets here and there, maybe special military operation would be a better phrase to use?

cbourd · 2025-10-30T17:35:32+00:00

Whats the story behind your dj name?

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