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The thing you idiots would need to do to understand how the world works would be to finally get that it's not Sim City 2000. Spending isn't a one-dimension slider. So spending on healthcare has increased slowly over time, yes, but how comes at the same time there are less and less beds (despite a growing and aging population needing more beds), there are less hospitals and clinics, the medical staff is stretched thinner and thinner... Where, exactly, is that spending going?
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mortons stork posted:One of them is a report on the state of EU healthcare infrastructure from 6 years ago, which highlights that many countries have been cutting back on their infrstructure mainly, but personnel-wise Speaking of, more hospital personnel is not necessarily more medical personnel. AFAIK in France for example it's mostly the non-medical personnel that has been increasing, with more staff in administration (mostly for IT-related tasks as everything gets more and more computerized).
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Libluini posted:Don't worry, as soon as you dig up Charlemagne, the French will claim he was French, so you're allowed one extra Lessing. Charlemagne is French. If you want a German, dig up Karl der Grosse instead.
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Dawncloack posted:Ah yes, Carlomagno, famous ruler of Spain born in Nueva Magunas. Still better than the English version, Big Chuck, born in Nutmeg.
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Fun fact: people bitching about nuclear out of misguided environmental concerns is precisely why Euratom is the one European Community that hasn't been fully folded in the EU so as to not be subject to the European Parliament.
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Oct 25, 2020 09:10
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Lord Stimperor posted:Honestly, you have to somewhat sympathize with the German position on nuclear energy. I don't. See, Germany did not have a nuclear waste treatment plant. (Plans to make one were canned in 1979.) So they sent them to France for reprocessing, but the deal is that while France would condition the waste for long-term storage, it would not keep them. So there were trains bringing nuclear waste from Germany to France, and then trains bringing back processed German waste from France to Germany. Guess which trains the German Greenpeace activists were blocking.
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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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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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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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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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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). The ban on depictions of the prophet in Islam is a ban against idolatry. Basically: the prophet was just a man and should not be worshiped as a god, because there is no God but God. Muhammad insisted that he should be seen as a normal man, that being a prophet was not the same as having a divine nature (contrarily to Christianity's view of Jesus). I think we can all agree the idea that worshiping a caricature of Muhammad is a ludicrous idea, so these toons are not idolatry. So they call it blasphemy instead. But blasphemy is to insult God. If insulting the prophet is insulting God, then it means that the prophet is God. And that's worshiping the prophet, which is heresy. This whole caricature of the prophet saga started with a Danish newspaper. This led to a complete fabrication where Danish imams started using cartoons not published by the JP while pretending that they were, so as to create international outrage. Because the actual cartoons were seen as not outrageous enough to work. The same thing happened with the assassination of Samuel Paty. He was accused by someone who was not even in his class, and killed by someone else who was not even in his class. Doctor Malaver posted: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. This is a cartoon of Erdogan. Are people worshiping Erdogan now? I suppose I shouldn't be surprised. But basically it's calling him a hypocrite, which makes sense. Right at the time when Erdogan and his buddies (Imran Khan, the Muslim Brotherhood, and similar) are organizing a vast campaign of francophobia with  claims about how Muslims are treated in France, they're also surprisingly silent about how Muslims are treated in, say, China. Or we could talk about how the Shia and Ahmadi are treated in Pakistan. I guess they're not real Muslims.Oh, and stuff like that is happening, too: https://twitter.com/YigitKarahan69/status/1321529896829620226 Let's be clear: it's not about religion, it's about politics. Let's go back to the Akkari-Laban dossier. The relevant part: quote:
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