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The dirty secret of renewable energy generators is that they're not actually carbon neutral, since building solar panels or wind turbines is very carbon-intensive and the plant once installed is barely efficient enough to offset its production cost. Nuclear is much cleaner in this regard. Hydro can be good or terrible, depending on where it is installed, the size of the dam needed (concrete is very carbon-intensive), and of course it has a huge environmental impact besides the whole carbon thing. Not necessarily an entirely negative impact, but again, it's very very situational, it can be good here and terrible there. Geothermal energy is probably the best but you need to have ready access to it, so it's a local/situational thing. Solar furnaces are IMO better than photovoltaic panels for solar energy because you don't need rare earths. At the same time you do need quite a large area to put all the mirrors, so it's not something people can just put on their roof like photovoltaic panels.
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Swedes got their last names on their doorbells as well, but like its not like the landslords ever change the signs, my old roomies name is on my door and he moved 4 years ago.
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Cat Mattress posted:The dirty secret of renewable energy generators is that they're not actually carbon neutral, since building solar panels or wind turbines is very carbon-intensive and the plant once installed is barely efficient enough to offset its production cost. Nuclear is much cleaner in this regard. Hydro can be good or terrible, depending on where it is installed, the size of the dam needed (concrete is very carbon-intensive), and of course it has a huge environmental impact besides the whole carbon thing. Not necessarily an entirely negative impact, but again, it's very very situational, it can be good here and terrible there. Geothermal energy is probably the best but you need to have ready access to it, so it's a local/situational thing. iirc the water heater solar panels (where you circulate the water directly through a panel instead of making electricity) are pretty much always going to improve your carbon footprint because they're basically just a flat pipe painted black that reduces your electricity/fuel use.
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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Cat Mattress posted:The dirty secret of renewable energy generators is that they're not actually carbon neutral, since building solar panels or wind turbines is very carbon-intensive and the plant once installed is barely efficient enough to offset its production cost. Nuclear is much cleaner in this regard. Hydro can be good or terrible, depending on where it is installed, the size of the dam needed (concrete is very carbon-intensive), and of course it has a huge environmental impact besides the whole carbon thing. Not necessarily an entirely negative impact, but again, it's very very situational, it can be good here and terrible there. Geothermal energy is probably the best but you need to have ready access to it, so it's a local/situational thing. No that's flat out wrong. Naysayers made that up trying to make out why renewable energy is bad, renewables are super good and as about polluting as nuclear in carbon cost per gigawatt. See this paper from Nature, 2017 for details, figure 2 is the graph you are looking for. Writeup of the paper here if it's too dense in academese. Nothingtoseehere fucked around with this message at 21:40 on Oct 25, 2020 |
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Mr. Jupiter here can’t seem to shut the gently caress up lol https://twitter.com/emmanuelmacron/status/1320419059016617985?s=21
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Yeah, try beheading a few more French people, maybe he'll learn then? (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Cat Mattress posted:Yeah, try beheading a few more French people, maybe he'll learn then? But that's how you get French Presidents in the first place.
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An insane mind posted:I'm sorry, I guess I'm just naive and trust easily. When the postman has a package for a neighbour that's not home I always take it into my care and pop by later that day to hand it over. And I easily accept that others would do the same Not that you really have a choice here. As long as a package ends up in the general vicinity of your house, it is considered delivered, so you'd better start searching. Neighbours? Of course. "Neighbour" two blocks down? Could be! A random post office in the city? Hopefully they'll write you a note. Outside in front of the door? Good enough. Chucked into the back yard across a wall? That works, shake the tree and it'll drop in. In the second floor bathroom thrown through an open window? Nice and dry, except that it fell in the toilet. In the trash bin outside? Sure, they'll probably check it before taking it away. And if you are the first person to open the door in a large apartment building, you are getting all of that day's packages for everyone in the entire building and the postman is getting out of there leaving you to do the job. This is what happens when national postal services do not exist any more and they are all 'freelancers' who get paid per delivery. There are some hilarious pics around of interesting deliveries  Last time I got a package it was a box of medical supplies with all kinds of warnings on it and it was left outside at the front door. I've also lived in Germany and can confirm the thing about names on doors. If you don't put a nice legible nametag on the mailbox, you're not going to be getting any mail no matter how hard you try!
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Al-Saqr posted:Mr. Jupiter here can’t seem to shut the gently caress up lol What do you find so offensive here? 🤔
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Libluini posted:I vote for taking a Stupidity Chancellor-President instead of an Idiot King. Not only is this a better choice for a democratic union of democratic states, but it also means we can sow SA-wide confusion when talking about our European SCP. Haut représentant du Fil de Discussion Pour Les Affaires Imbécile
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Not So Fast posted:What do you find so offensive here? 🤔 Two of his ministers have been publicly parroting far-right horseshit less than a week ago. https://twitter.com/RimSarah/status/1318786036231790593 https://twitter.com/RimSarah/status/1320038295695429635
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Oct 26, 2020 09:42
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Cat Mattress posted:Yeah, try beheading a few more French people, maybe he'll learn then? uh
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Entropist posted:The Dutch government seems to have taken a turn towards being interested in nuclear again, as putting windmills in everyone's backyards is proving to be extremely unpopular. My hometown has been fighting the placement of windmills for about a decade now I think. They were put up just a while ago only for my dad to basically go 'Eh, they're not as bad as I thought they'd be, you get used to them quickly!'
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54692485quote:Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called on Turks to boycott French goods amid a row over France's tougher stance on radical Islam. I don't see what Macron can do to satisfy all parties. There's an extremism problem in France and Europe and we needs to be able to address it. Tasteless racist cartoons are one thing but the reaction to them is insane and you know, free speech is important. And now Erdogan is using this tragedy as a weapon to attack France on top of the row in the Med.
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Erdogan is lashing out cause the Turkish economy is in the shitter and he needs to focus the attention elsewhere
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orange sky posted:Erdogan is lashing out cause the Turkish economy is in the shitter and he needs to focus the attention elsewhere And what better way to get the economy out of the shitter than to try to start a trade war? https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/s...27-daf448a07097 quote:It was apparently a call from Recep Tayyip Erdoğans that fueled the recent crash: "Don't pay attention to French brands, don't buy them," said the Turkish president. Shortly afterwards, the Turkish lira fell below an important mark. For the first time, more than eight lira must be paid for one dollar - more than ever before.
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Truga posted:it's pretty ubiquitous on the balkans in my experience, also i know for a fact japan has names on houses/bells Croatia, just names. Serbia, names + numbers, which is the best option. Names only is a poor solution when you have to go from door to door in a dimly lit hallway and squint at names written in handwritten fonts. Numbers only is so alienating. It doesn't make you want to learn about your neighbors at all.
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Cat Mattress posted:And what better way to get the economy out of the shitter than to try to start a trade war? Ah. The Trump.
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Vichan posted:My hometown has been fighting the placement of windmills for about a decade now I think. They were put up just a while ago only for my dad to basically go 'Eh, they're not as bad as I thought they'd be, you get used to them quickly!' I saw a report on Dutch news today about a mill owner (yes one of the quaint dutch country side ones) who stipulated that he fought against windmill placement in his area and was waffling about stuff like it's not actually that energy efficient, birdstrike blablabla...then at the end of the interview he offhandedly sasys that he it's really all about his view and his little mill being the dominant landmark in the area. He almost got through without breaking kayfabe.
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Private Speech posted:Idiot king i.e. a mini-moderator for the thread. WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:You are right. This thread is very diverse and many viewpoints need to be at least acceptable to not be probated for. Currently ardennes is a regular in this thread enough to handle transgressions with a fairly even hand. So the handling of punishment is based in situation instead of a blood feud between croatia and herzegovina(an fictional example). Honestly do we really want a racewar of probates sparking that ends up pushing a lot of information off site? I don't want half of europe leaving the thread. From a few pages back, but how is this thread diverse, except by posters' nationalities? What conservatives and nationalists? I don't even remember many topics that got people to seriously engage opposing opinions. A few months ago there was an incredibly tedious argument between the "communism didn't work out before, how do we know it would work now" guy vs "the house is on fire" crowd... and... that's all I remember from recent history. All the rest is people basically agreeing with each other. The EE thread gets more action, and I don't follow US POL but apparently lots of heated discussion there, probes and bans too. Not that it matters much, but I'd say the EU thread is less diverse compared to the rest of D&D and certainly less than the circle of people I know IRL.
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Doctor Malaver posted:From a few pages back, but how is this thread diverse, except by posters' nationalities? What conservatives and nationalists? I don't even remember many topics that got people to seriously engage opposing opinions. A few months ago there was an incredibly tedious argument between the "communism didn't work out before, how do we know it would work now" guy vs "the house is on fire" crowd... and... that's all I remember from recent history. All the rest is people basically agreeing with each other. The EE thread gets more action, and I don't follow US POL but apparently lots of heated discussion there, probes and bans too. As for there not being that much action, nor internal disagreement, isn't that basically a function of the two recent big pan-European events being "The Brits are making GBS threads themselves" followed by "Now everyone is making GBS threads themselves, and the Brits have somehow grown another rear end in a top hat to poo poo themselves twice as much"? The former was seen as loving idiotic by like all but a couple of British posters in D&D (at the start, like one by the end), so you wouldn't exactly expect the rest of the European posters to have a giant row over Brexit either. And now with corona the story is global, not EU-centric, there isn't really much to argue about - and what is there to argue about makes more sense in other threads. It's not really a crew thread either, which USPOL definitely is.
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Whenever anybody displays any kind of centrist or economically liberal attitude, they are promptly heckled and chased away. Not saying that I agree with those guys, but I don't see much diversity of opinions here. It falls short of a echo chamber, but just barely.
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An insane mind posted:I saw a report on Dutch news today about a mill owner (yes one of the quaint dutch country side ones) who stipulated that he fought against windmill placement in his area and was waffling about stuff like it's not actually that energy efficient, birdstrike blablabla...then at the end of the interview he offhandedly sasys that he it's really all about his view and his little mill being the dominant landmark in the area. Ha, that's great. I tried the 'Since windmills are Dutch why are making GBS threads on our traditions?' line once since I thought it'd at least make them laugh at the very least. They were not amused... 
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-cyprus-erdogan-idUSKBN27B286 It's weird that Erdogan's attitude wrt. the breakaway republic in Cyprus is not at all the same as his attitude wrt. the breakaway republic in Azerbaijan. Fancy that.
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Cat Mattress posted:Yeah, try beheading a few more French people, maybe he'll learn then? The gently caress is the matter with you? Bigoted piece of poo poo.
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are we about to see the EU turn against opening up public transport, when it's not western capital that gets to profit from liberalizing rail? https://twitter.com/SamJamesMorgan/status/1321031951990591490
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You mean China developed a locomotive that can run the entire new silk road? Which they built and invested massive political and financial capital into? And whose only weakness is the gauge changes? Shocking, truly noone could have foreseen this.
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Orange Devil posted:You mean China developed a locomotive that can run the entire new silk road? Which they built and invested massive political and financial capital into? And whose only weakness is the gauge changes? Shocking, truly noone could have foreseen this. look man trains are like the perfect walled garden you can extract rents from. Don't allowsome other gardener coming and stealing your
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Cat Mattress posted:Yeah, try beheading a few more French people, maybe he'll learn then? Well
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Something that I'd like to get some outside perspective on, the new Common Agricultural Policy, approved last week in the EP. From what I've read on Italian media it looks like in many ways a step back, and environmental activists outside seem to agree. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/oct/21/greta-thunberg-accuses-meps-of-surrender-on-climate-and-environment quote:“Without binding targets for more climate protection, less pesticides in the fields and less antibiotics in livestock farming, the CAP will stand as the very antithesis to the purpose of the Green Deal,” Eickhout said. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/oct/19/vast-majority-europe-key-habitats-poor-bad-condition-report quote:Jabier Ruiz, senior policy officer at WWF, said: “As it stands, the future of the CAP looks grim. Neither council nor parliament appear to care about the climate and biodiversity crises as they strip away conditions for farm subsidies and push for greenwashing loopholes. Policy-makers must hit the emergency brakes and change direction before it is too late.” (yeah this was raised also by Greta Thunberg, who is spearheading a campaign against the CAP, for full transparency.) https://twitter.com/HarrietBirdlife/status/1316110056744652801 This thread here is pretty damning. I've also read elsewhere that caps on intensive farming and intensive animal farms are being eliminated. Anyone else been following? This is not exactly my domain, so I'd like to get some other opinions. mortons stork fucked around with this message at 12:10 on Oct 29, 2020 |
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Doctor Malaver posted:Croatia, just names. Serbia, names + numbers, which is the best option. Names only is a poor solution when you have to go from door to door in a dimly lit hallway and squint at names written in handwritten fonts. Numbers only is so alienating. It doesn't make you want to learn about your neighbors at all. yeah i'm in slovenia and mail's supposed to be by house numbers, but also there's family names on mailboxes because why not i guess? makes delivery easier/more friendly too. i live on "road 4 house 5" and i'd get mail for "road 5 house 4" on accident a couple times when there was a new mailman and the name wasn't there temporarily when we bought a new mailbox
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My heart goes out to anyone in Nice, or France in general. You guys seem to get the worst of this by miles. I feel like my own personal opinions on what we can do about Islamic terrorism is slowly being forced to change as these keep happening.
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Nilbop posted:My heart goes out to anyone in Nice, or France in general. You guys seem to get the worst of this by miles. I feel like my own personal opinions on what we can do about Islamic terrorism is slowly being forced to change as these keep happening. How so?
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While I think that publishing the Prophet's caricature is akin to publishing a black person's caricature as a monkey (in that it is extremely offensive to a race/religion) in Mohammed's case it is actually written in multiple rules and obeyed religiously (no poo poo lol). In both of these instances, analysing the subject doesn't require showing the actual picture in a class, but I can understand why viewing it academically should not have such a reaction. It's an extremely sensitive subject in any case, and from my point of view the only possible response is acting as if this was a white supremacist or any other terrorist threat - find the hot-spots, who incited or supported it, and arrest/watch them.
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orange sky posted:While I think that publishing the Prophet's caricature is akin to publishing a black person's caricature as a monkey (in that it is extremely offensive to a race/religion) in Mohammed's case it is actually written in multiple rules and obeyed religiously (no poo poo lol). Congratulations, you're a liberal.
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French speakers, is there a pun here? If not, I don't find it funny. Not because ooooh insulting religion oooh, I just don't see the joke. A Buttery Pastry posted:I mean, without going through the thread looking up posters, I can think of at least one one-nation conservative in this thread. There are countless EU-wide and regional issues, but they just don't ignite the thread. I think the last one that did was immigration, when Gaussian Coppula was posting. AndreTheGiantBoned posted:Whenever anybody displays any kind of centrist or economically liberal attitude, they are promptly heckled and chased away. At least new forum rules forbid calling for their death.
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Alternatively it's okay to say it's complete bullshit, particularly as depictions of the Prophet (pbuh) in historical Islamic art are relatively plentiful especially in the 14th century. I also think Mass and other vestiges of medieval church "scholarship" is complete bollocks and the opposition to contraceptives by the church is a travesty to be opposed by any means. And I'm a somewhat religious person in a relationship with a Muslim woman (which is a separate issue in itself).
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orange sky posted:While I think that publishing the Prophet's caricature is akin to publishing a black person's caricature as a monkey (in that it is extremely offensive to a race/religion) in Mohammed's case it is actually written in multiple rules and obeyed religiously (no poo poo lol). I find it extremely offensive to imply there's any context where such a reaction is warranted.
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Owling Howl posted:I find it extremely offensive to imply there's any context where such a reaction is warranted. I don't think that implication exists in the post you quoted, unless I'm reading it wrong. It is abhorrent no matter what laws, rules or Islamic jurisprudence says that someone would harm someone else over a drawing, an opinion, or shouting "blasphemous" things - no qualifications there. Whether it is appropriate to show and share these depictions in a country with a systemic bigotry problem with their ostracized minority is a different question, and the one driving all the calls to boycott in the Islamic world. Ham fucked around with this message at 16:26 on Oct 29, 2020 |
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orange sky posted:While I think that publishing the Prophet's caricature is akin to publishing a black person's caricature as a monkey (in that it is extremely offensive to a race/religion) in Mohammed's case it is actually written in multiple rules and obeyed religiously (no poo poo lol). It's like publishing a black person's caricature as a monkey, but those who react violently against it, they are white supremacists? Makes sense.
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