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  • how much would that cost then? Since countriea have different costs of living and use the money to maintain the roads (with personell) it would have to be paid by the countries standards. if you try tonunify that, and charge i.e. the price of austrian vignete, then other, poorer countries people could not use the roads in their country anymore. Except you exclude them from paying it, but that is against the european law (germany tried that and failed). If you make it the price of a country like croatia, then roads in austria could not be maintained as the personal (that needs to be paid) could not live from that.

    the only possible solution would be something like the Eurail pass fr r trains, where you pay a flat amount for a sepecific set of countries.
















  • Honestly, with the Presentation of Switch 2, i guess they will again have a unsuccessful Generation (Like Wii U, N64 etc) of console ahead of them. That is why i Sold some of my Nintendo Stocks now while the hypetrain is still going. From my Point of View, the Controller-Mouse is a Gimmick at best - i want to Play a Handheld while on the move, Not by sitting at a desk. Not including a Touchpad is a failure. The price Point of both the Games and the console are the other Thing - Sure for the young Generation the usability of a Switch 2 IS good - but all other successful consoles of Nintendo were compelling to other chunks of dthe democraphic too, thats what made them successful - Nintendo DS was popular among students, Wii with families and elderly, NES with everyone below 30. And those demographics certainly care about price,and the Steam BigPicture UI is as good as the the Switch one.

    If on the other Hand valve will Take some of the Features of Switch/Switch 2 to Heart with their next SteamDeck Generation i think, it will be widely successful (at least as Long as Gabe will stay with US and No enshittification Happens). Like the detachable Controllers on a SteamDeck2 with integrated Mouse functionality would Work really Well - because, and that is the deciding usability Factor Here - SteamDeck can also bei used as a Workstation. The Switch 2 can’t, so the utility of a Mouse is much larger for a SteamDeck.




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    This article is about the German gold reserves, Not the US ones. Germany have Had some gold stored in New York during the cold war, Most of IT transfered Back to Germany in the begining 2000s. But some Portion remained. Every Country has some Form of their reserves stored within other countries (be it gold, prciuos Metals, USD). It’s used as Backup or collateral for Trades between countries, in Case of a Default on either Side.