What a shame. It was a good game… What a rotten way to die.

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Educating computers 😇

Educating people 😡

Consider pirate sport streams which by their nature are usually watched live and not downloaded. I have no idea about numbers, but it wouldn’t surprise me if they made up a significant part of that 96%, because sports are freaking huge.

Every time I see “NSFW” my brain goes “New South Fucking Wales”. Help.

After a bit of digging it looks like Newag has had a steady supply of government contracts:

25.01.2023 - 10,7 billion PLN (2,5bn EUR) for EMUs

24.07.2024 - Newag CEO mentions current contracts with PKP Intercity total 9bn PLN (2bn EUR)

21.11.2024 - 7,7bn PLN (1,8bn EUR) for hybrid MUs

23.06.2025 - most recent one I could find, 270 million PLN, EMUs for a local railway

Stock is up 260% since June 2022

In Poland we don’t negotiate with corporate terrorists, we throw money at them. 🙃

The government will enact the will of the people, whether the people like it or not.

“Europe is about to fall, the end is near”

Obviously fries represent the western civilization. Frying oil is the chaos dragon of woke left that means to destroy the fries, but will instead transform them into something even more beautiful, an entity of culinary perfection. But you would already know that if only you had bought my online course. sob It’s so sublime. sob

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de pannenkoek minion is gesmolten 😭

Source: https://xcancel.com/EmmanuelMacron/status/1935984838747586575

BDSM is not vegan, then? Can I get an expert’s opinion?

But the reader does not steal, the clear logical conclusion is that piracy isn’t theft if you read the book.

A lot of time is wasted on arguments made in bad faith that have already been debunked ten times over, trying to get through to a reactionary for the 11th time is unlikely to work. Maybe there should be more emphasis on the overarching mechanism of disinformation which you describe, and how it’s intended to stop people from taking any action at all. I feel like this educational approach will be a more friendly for people who are still capable of changing their mind.

99% of conservative arguments on climate boil down to:

Washing your hands is pointless since it only kills 99,9% of bacteria, you should incinerate yourself to remove 100%. Oh, you don’t want to do that? Hypocrite much? Might as well not wash your hands then.

There is no reason to it, pointing out the absurdity and nihilism of this might be more effective.

Thank you for the insight. Yeah, I expected the “cultural” talking points to be pretty similar across the western countries, including Poland, where I live.

The vast majority of pro-meat arguments I hear are based on these conservative ideas mixed with a large dose of protectionism, so any progress tends to be very slow.

But I think here we’ve passed the low point and common sense is slowly gaining ground.

This topic got ridiculously politicized, so hopefully once people get tired of the debate they will be more willing to consider the economic/health/environment/etc. aspects, not just cultural.

Tofu has been unfairly demonized here

Could you give me some more context on this? Is it the usual “phytoestrogen will make you a girl” or agricultural industry propaganda?

I feel like the EU in general has been quite pro-animal agriculture (for example plant-based milk can’t be sold as “milk”), but how is it in Germany specifically?

Yes, e-bikes take more resources to manufacture, especially the battery, but:

While manufacturing an e-bike is more resource intensive than a pushbike, lifetime CO2 emissions of an e-bike can be lower, because a motor is more efficient than human muscles.

If someone has an E-bike, depending on how they use it, it’s possible that it will replace more car trips than a pushbike would. E-bikes also require less physical fitness, which again can increase uptake among people who aren’t as fit or have health problems, for example.

This video is worth a watch: Simon Clark - How bad are electric bikes for the environment?

Expected you to put noodles on her head. Disappointed.

So say we all

The most mindblowing thing to me is that these firms are such a gigantic economic force, they could for example invest in renewable energy or sustainable industries. They could have our future low-carbon world by the balls, like Shell or ExxonMobil do today.

Insurers and banks could divest from their carbon-intensive assets, but they will lobby and look for every loophole to protect themselves from responsibility, while being pulled feet-first into a meatgrinder.