Fediverse is worse than Reddit. Mod abuse, admin abuse, disinformation, and people simping for literal terrorists.
Their banks are doing nothing short of magic but afaik they now burned through most of their cash reserves, so things could get bad fairly quickly. I’m not sure what they even can do at this point, and their long term prospect is even worse with all the brain drain and the loss of so many men.
Quantity does not equal quality. Most of Russia is harsh and mostly useless tundra.
My worry is that plastics landing in a compost are going to be more of an issue than plastics ending up being upcycled.
It’s greenish yellowish, like seaweed I guess.
Is this truly without any plastics? Afaik the wood based stuff still has a tiny bit of plastic inside of it.
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Days?! They’re two bridge laying platforms, no?
And of course the moronic watermark covers half of it.
Purely because Germany chooses not to. It would very much be a legitimate casus beli if they saw it differently.
It’s honestly pathetic of you to trivialize this.
You probably recognize this on same level, but you see too self-absorbed to be willing to publicly admit this.
How ironic.
You should stick to ruminations about how “Poles and Ukrainian are unfit” and “they are like the russians, anyway!” I think we will both agree that this is a good reflection of your character.
Whatever mental gymnastics and wild fantasies make you feel better.
I am done here.
Yes, since you ran out of any sort of arguments and are just projecting at this point we’re indeed done here, and anywhere else in the future as well. I really don’t need to hold pointless internet arguments with blind hypocrites.
I can’t decide if that’s better or worse than the golf carts.
Germany did not commit an act of war against Poland or Ukraine, let alone did not recognize their sovereignty, so it’s hardly if at all comparable. Germany just did stupid policy that failed, which is always easy to criticize in hindsight.
And if you’re so critical of NS, what’s your opinion on the Polish pipelines coming from Russia? Or the Ukrainian ones? It wasn’t so much about morality when it comes to NS, there was rather a lot of criticism for it purely because it would bypass the transit tariffs that Germany had to pay for the import, which also benefited all the countries who then imported from Germany.
Of course I have. I never voted for them, nor agreed with them. So why are you telling me I have no right to not just tell them off, but also other’s who do the wrong thing?
Your article is cute, but really talks around the issue, seemingly obfuscating it as “polluting investments”. Those billionaires own businesses, the ones that you buy at or buy from in one way or another. It ultimately still falls back to us and our consumerism, as well as just our general way of life and necessities in our developed countries. Sure, you can tax them more, but who do you think is going to pay for those additional costs?
Remember the downturn during covid? That also came with a drop in emissions, one that would have to continue until 2035, just for us to meet our emission targets. People already went on the barricades at that time, losing their businesses and being able to afford less and less due to rising prices. And that was just after about a year of it, causing massive demonstrations around the globe. If your average voter is already fed up by being mildly affected like this, what do you think would happen if this would have continued indefinitely?
The inconvenient truth is that absolutely no one wants actual climate policies, except for a very minor fringe movement of climate “extremists”.
I’m not sure what your point about Schröder and Merkel is, I don’t support them, I don’t like them, I have frequently called them out on their bullshit politics.
And you still miss the point, even though I clearly stated it already. I am of this opinion because they did not recognize Germany’s sovereignty and chose to commit an act of war against an ally. Two things that Russia and Nazi Germany did to Ukraine and Poland btw. You try to justify Ukraine’s aggression towards Germany by the same bullshit arguments that Russia uses to attack Ukraine, not respecting their right of sovereignty, that they are not allowed to make their own decisions, like joining NATO for example. In the West, disagreements like this are supposed to be solved through politics and diplomacy, not through hostilities.
which the Dems aren’t willing to offer.
Of course not, because it would affect voters negatively. And voters don’t give a shit about the climate, unless it is just something they can contribute to with token gestures.
You’re missing the point. None of this is any sort of excuse to commit acts of war against one of your largest allies, let alone one you want to join. I did not agree with the building of NS back then either, I always thought it was a stupid thing to do. But ultimately, whether it was used or not, it was still part of EU infrastructure and Ukraine had zero rights to just blow it up.
Would you argue it is okay to execute or torture Russian POWs too, just because Russia does the same? That it is okay to annex your neighbors? Would it okay for Ukraine to attack Moldova and declare it their territory? You can’t claim to have the moral high ground and wanting to join a more civilized world by acting this way.
Womp womp. Their generals are definitely not someone I’d feel any sympathies for. They’re very much part of the authoritarian problem in NK.
False equivalence. The pipeline did not go to what I presume would be Crimea in this example. Either way, I would not bomb Poland’s or Ukraine’s pipeline, especially after it was shut down anyway and would’ve easily been solved through politics rather than terrorist like actions - especially considering that Germany is one of Ukraine’s biggest contributors. If Germany was somehow taken over by the AfD or whatever, then fine, bomb away, because at that point you’d have a hostile and Russia aligned government anyway. If you want to join the West, the EU, then you’d have to be better than Russia, not act like them.
I’m sure this gets downvoted & censored by the mods again, but it was equally as dumb, if not dumber, of Ukraine to bomb the pipeline. Imagine Germany came to Ukraine and bombed their pipelines coming out of Russia, or whatever other infrastructure they have political issues with. Sabotage acts like this against an ally’s infrastructure are absolutely not okay and could normally be considered an act of war, regardless of what you think of the pipeline from a political point of view. Can’t say I feel good with Ukraine’s EU application now, and Poland’s EU membership as well, since they were also involved. It’s like Ukraine & Poland do not recognize Germany’s sovereignty, which is precisely the way Russia thinks of Ukraine and other countries.
Not really. Melted permafrost leaves unstable terrain and the soil is still going to be lacking nutrients.