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Nope, I volunteer for nothing, and maybe I didn't state it clearly enough: I think that arming Ukraine is the right thing to do.

What I cannot stand is that from given premises, one goes to the completely opposite implication. I was just pointing that out.

Let me state it again, I am in favor of trying to support Ukraine in current conflict in any possible way (I hope I said it clearly enough now)

Why is it stupid? Please I am too stupid to understand why what I said is stupid

Russia doesn't give gas to Europe as retaliation for arming Ukraine, stop arming Ukraine and they will give gas to Europe.

I also said that this is not what I would do, because I think you should stand up to bullies.

Now, please enlighten me with all your wisdom, why what I said is stupid? And what does it have to do with climate change? That comparison IS stupid

Not saying that it should be done, let me state it before. But the obvious solution to the current crisis would be actually to stop arming Ukraine... It might just cause a larger more serious crisis later though

Also european living in Europe

The problem here is not the current government responsible of what the ex-Cancellor does, it is more what he did when he was in power.

So what happened to the property? Did people with an invalid loan get a free property? Or it was forced to be sold to repay the loan in PLN? Or the owed value was calculated in 2007/8 PLN value?

Sorry for having so many questions, but this seems to open a pandora's box of complications

Because Putin is a rational actor, the invasion of Ukraine was a huge miscalculation on his side, he thought it would have been a Blitzkireg, and it became a trench war for which he was not prepared

It's more likely that hell freezes then

Why, do we have unlimited cheap energy? Or the technology to pull out CO2 from the atmosphere at this scale yet?

IMO this is wishful thinking, and the wrong attitude to solve a problem that is right here right now.

We should focus on reducing emissions, not on hoping that a technology that is not yet proven will be available soon

EDIT: sorry for the tone, I just re-read what I wrote. Anyhow what I wrote still stands: we have no proof that fusion will ever bring unlimited cheap energy, if ever viable.

It poses many problems, from neutron activation of the blanket to energy extraction, problems that we don't know yet how to solve, to solve them in a economically viable AND with neutral carbon footprint... well seems just unfeasible to me (hope to be proven wrong). Therefore I might suggest to pursue more understood ways to mitigate the huge problem we have

While this is true for a few people, applying coercion on a mass scale using the kind of tech described in the article makes it much more convenient... so IMO the argument still holds

Nice read :)

There's also a say: "pecunia non olet" that literally translates to "money does not stink" but in latin is kind of funny, because pecunia comes from pecu, which does indeed stink :)

Ok, all I have to do now is to find a way to automate answering the interview questions

I live in Germany, and the problem is a bit more subtle.

At the moment is the 2g+ regulation, which basically means the if you are twice vaccinated of recovered + 1 vaccine dose you need to do a test every 24h to have a social life.

Tests are free, but you have to queue outside and spend time to get them.

Tests are not needed if you "boosted", i.e. if you had a 3rd dose (or second if you had only one), or as in my case you also recovered despite having 2 doses.

Also there is a social craziness, where schools can close because there are cases, kindergartens also can close etc. and there are limits in the number of people can enter a venue, you have to book everything online, and there are very few places always fully booked... this de facto limits your life quite a lot.

All this despite the numbers are comparable with a seasonal flu

For which country are you talking about? The picture is different in different countries.

In my opinion countries who reached 80% of vaccinated people should remove all the restrictions, but again, this is just my opinion, and I don't have any decisional power over it.

Not according to the data I saw, and for sure not in the countries I spend most of my time...

That was in a very different scenario: the beginning of the pandemics with a much more dangerous variant of the virus, and nobody vaccinated.

So I don't think that what the Nordics attempted is applicable at current situation

Same here, I don't care about numbers and statistics any more.

I want my life back NOW

I've had more than enough with 8 quarantines, and all of us already had COVID, we are vaccinated, and we are FED UP with rules and restrictions

It is pointless to be alive and well if you are not allowed to enjoy life

Well, the carboniferous era would disagree with you :)

Nah, owning up means suffer the consequences of ones actions, in my opinion he owns up to nothing, he barely says he's sorry, but he doesn't care too much about the consequences, that's quite different if not opposite.

Let's see how it goes... the auto lobby is quite powerful in DE

As other people have pointed out, the efficiency should be calculated over the car lifetime, and including the average efficiency at which the electricity is produced in the areas where the car test was run... Germany produces a LOT of electricity from COAL, so we are replacing benzin and diesel with coal... not very smart in my eyes.

I am also this kind of person (0 contact outside work), and I also want to add that I had to (strongly) push back when I was contacted on my private phone while on vacation.

I literally had to tell my colleagues RTFM and don't bother me on my time off.

World kept spinning

I think he is stating the exact opposite: to actually give doses to those countries without, exactly for this reason

because you are giving the virus less chances to replicate and therefore less chances at mutation

I might be wrong, but it seems obvious to me that this should reduce variants

oh didn't know that

mhh you might be right

some people need a villain to justify the evil in the world

Was going to answer to say exactly this.

The more vaccinated, the merrier the world with less variants

As long as they don't impose to me (40 y.o.) to catch a plane... fine with me

I am getting very wary of the whole situation.

"As soon as we get a vaccine we are good". Now we have the bloody thing, I got injected with it hoping to get back to normal: "We need a booster shot"

I was always pretty rational about it, but this is becoming a farce

I strongly disagree... also superstar make mistakes, and cannot know every single quirk. In particular when you have languages (like C++) with tons of "features" that enable very weird side effects in very weird situations.

By the way the worst clusterfuck I ever saw was caused by a very talented programmer that implemented a very complex object store on disk... the thing was brittle at best, and it failed in very spectacular ways.

Very entertaining to debug

Yes, but this doesn't confute what I said, it only exacerbates the situation.

I wrote code with no pressure, tested it used it for months, and with some input that I didn't think about it broke spectacularly... I might be below average programmer (although I would say no, from what I have seen so far), but as I said, the chain is just as strong as its weakest link.