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Filesize itself usually isn't relevant. A high resolution video in a very large file size will rarely cause playback issues on most devices. In my experience the bottleneck of a setup is almost always first encountered with highly compressed video with a large resolution.

Also, not everyone hoards. Some people look for 4k, watch once and delete. They don't even seed.

Anyhow, the main thing to me is content quality. I can watch a solid movie in poor quality, but I couldn't watch certain crappy movies in super duper high resolution quality even I would be paid for it

Depends on your TV, taste, budget.

A good movie at 480p can be watchable. A good movie at 720p is usually very fine for me.

1080p is my upper limit.

I have a small TV. Resolution doesn't matter all that much if your TV isn't 2 meters wide.

Small files with high resolution are very strongly compressed. Some devices might struggle with playing them causing lags or difficult to fast forward or backward etc. That would be more annoying to me than a lowish resolution.

Also depends who ripped it (did they know what they were doing?) and from which source. Webdl or DVD sourced are normally very watchable in lower resolutions if ripped by skilled people.

the social component to them is that they 'control' an enormous fleet of streaming listeners this way.

Inb4 "mind controlling tones" meets "who has a big pile of money for us?" Don't forget music has a power to strongly influence or even set a humans' moods, also on election days.

"driving", they're all just standing around

Please don't strip, trump. Just don't

It's deceiving in multiple ways. Like of course more Romanians emigrate to Germany than to Belgium or Luxembourg, Germany is many times larger. They should add the to-country base population and/or surface to the equation.

They do feature a lot of exotic words I don't understand

When people actually were literally dying during the unprecedented climate change induced heatwaves, they were all quiet and no-one got a single cent to buy airco

No one is dying and the 17 cent discount per litre is making no one who is dying, survive. There are not less cars on the roads, people are not driving less kilometres now than when fuel was 1,55 € per litre instead of 2,5 € now. Apparently many many people with valid alternatives like e-bikes still choose cars despite the price increase. One could for example support industries like agriculture or heavy transport where transitioning is harder and higher prices mean bankruptcy. They didn't, they chose populist catch all at the pumps and the reason is not impending starvation of people or economic sense, the reason is Merz not wanting to give up power, Reiche being a gas industry employee and afd threatening them in regional elections.

Yes we do. I think it's EU regulation. There is a "base company" responsible for the network in a region and they are often also a producer/supplier to consumers themselves. But then there are many (dozens per region) other suppliers you can buy your power from. And they both sell power to consumers and they build power plants. My supplier (and a few others in the region) only invest in solar, wind, water, and only in the own region. At times when they need to sell more electricity to consumers than they produce with their own plants, they of course are actually selling dirty electricity, but they will still only invest in clean renewables themselves for production so it's still the better choice.

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Speed limit