Then you’re not good, you’re just law compliant.

Shocking if true

He’s doing it right now, cutting water and electricity to millions, taking advantage with everyone’s obsession with Gaza…

Excellent 😁

So will we finally be able to watch “Parlement” outside France ahead of the European elections?

Austria is not applying Schengen in some of its borders currently, therefore should not have the right of veto. Instead it should be questioned if Austria should be allowed to continue in Schengen considering that it’s the number 1 country closing Schengen borders on a regular basis.

Sorry about your dog. But your example only highlights a tabu issue in these discussions, the negative impact that having a pet has. They consume meat, packaged food, are driven around, attack wild fauna (cats especially) etc. Pets is one of the items everyone should cut, but they’re only becoming more common, like SUVs.

The person under an abusive situation easily loses the car key to the abuser.

Ambulances get stuck all the time in congestioned cities and that’s a problem.

A car should never be someone’s night shelter, that person is homeless in that case. Houses, not cars, can solve the problem.

Want to do a special trip where car is the most convenient option? You can rent one out. If you only use a car a few times a year, buying one is a terrible waste of money and street space.

I think you meant 3706 years old.

That’s clearly a residential area if someone would hit their cars it would happen either way… you’re supposed to drive slowly there.

And more are welcome. The war on cash must stop. Shopping should be a private matter.

Oh America, come on:

• end (and stop exporting) that vicious tipping culture of yours. Just pay decent wages to people in customer service.

• change the design of yours bills, make them easily recognizable, with different colors and sizes like normal curencies.

• take religion out of the money.

• and since I’m at it, end gun culture and disarm your people. Also SUVs, end that too. And introduce controlled prices in health services, regulate, regulate, regulate, till it becomes a functional system affordable by everyone.

Thanks. I would love you so much more.

Did I say that? Did I say they’re the only ones? I didn’t. I said that that extra pollution serves no good purpose. It’s for a status symbol and it’s not just in the US. Of course it’s not the only thing killing the planet but it’s the easiest thing to cut, and not even that is being cut.

This car is a status symbol. It’s completely over dimensioned. It pollutes much more, without any added value in transport, harming air quality (people’s health) and climate, it diminishes other’s views on the road, it diminishes driver’s own view of a child crossing the road, it kills much more easily any unfortunate pedestrian. it’s a very strong statement of “fuck everyone else but me”, damaging this car count as self-defense.

Assuming the person lives in a normal town or village, you always have plenty of options. Groceries by post is totally absurd.

Can you prove the 8 weeks in landfill claim? With a proper study, I’ll take nothing less after this talk.

Thank God you’re not super nitpicky.

It’s a fact published in dozens of websites included official websites of trash management services and companies.

This is not my area of expertise and I won’t look up anything else, but do feel free to do it and inform all those websites about your findings

I first heard this number at a conference by a PhD expert who studies these issues. But I never went looking for the exact origin, because I didn’t find it so hard to believe (given the context).

Certainly there are some specific conditions that freeze that decomposition and that might not always be present. This article mentions the lignin effect, that delays decomposition in anaerobic conditions, but no specific reference to lettuce. Can’t open other articles that seem more directly related.

https://doi.org/10.1016/S0956-053X(03)00062-X

Hard to believe was what was being asked 😅 the number is present in many websites about trash or composting, but I don’t know it’s exact origin. But I guess at some moment someone digged on a 25 year old landfill and found remains of a lettuce.

Even if this is exaggerating, the moral of the story is that it’s such a waste to send organics to landfills at a time where we’re losing soils at record pace. Food waste should be composted and returned to the soil.

But it’s possible that that lettuce was a fresh and plastic wrapped thrown to the landfill like that, because that does happen as well. And maybe that created optimal conditions to prevent decomposition.

Lettuces in landfills take up to 25 years to decompose.