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pdonchev t1_j9a5uov wrote
Reply to Turkish firefighter rescues cat trapped in rubble; adopts it after animal refused to leave his side. The cat was reportedly trapped for 10 days and nights and has not left Cakas' side since the rescue. by Sariel007
Both the story and the guy are super cool, and a ray of light in the horrible tragedy, but I cannot not notice that his name is "Jackass" (C is Turkish is the sound that J makes in English). I choose to take that as an association to the legendary status of the show.
pdonchev t1_j6tcuov wrote
Reply to comment by mjfi4cp2 in No coal comeback: Europe’s renewable energy transition is in hyperdrive by Straight_Ad2258
Not only. "Transitioning" countries in Europe don't have sufficient sources of electrical energy in the winter (also in summer, but winter is the bulk of the deficit) and happily import cheap dirty energy from other countries, while bragging about being a clean economy. And then you have the biggest bulshit of the 21th century so far, the gas-backed solar and wind. Where the gas sometimes is the bigger source. And then you have the wind turbines that not only have embedded a lot of dirty (and cheap) energy, but when installed they would not recuperate even this energy during their operating lifetime, but the economies work because you sell the smaller quantity of clean energy at a much bigger price.
To measure impact on the earth, the emissions for all exports should be subtracted from a country's pollution footprint, and added, together with the transportation emissions, to the footprint of the importing country. Then the charade will be clear - for now powerful (rich) governments mostly externalize emissions (in the process increasing them), while their countries continue to be the largest emitters by a large margin.
pdonchev t1_j6taud5 wrote
That hyperdrive, however, must be running on lignite coal, because Germany has not only reopened gigawatts of coal power, but also sent several hundred policemen to beat the people protesting a small town being levelled with the ground in order to open a new lignite mine.
pdonchev t1_j5o6bip wrote
Stealing artifacts and bodies from their tomb is perfectly fine, but stereotyping those long deceased people as potentially cursed is where they draw the line...
pdonchev t1_j459jv9 wrote
Reply to comment by twotonekevin in USC School of Social Work removes term 'field work' because it may offend 'descendants of slavery' by wxcode
It's definitely worse. Just make all bedrooms the same.
pdonchev t1_iw79hwz wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in A modest change in housing temperature alters whole body energy expenditure and adipocyte thermogenic capacity in mice (Nov 2022) by basmwklz
I would boldly assume that the effect of extra calories from food accessibility dwarf any effects of ambient temperature, within some reasonable range of home temperatures (say, 18-28 °C). It's hard to outrun a bad diet, I bet it's even harder to out-shiver it.
pdonchev t1_j9kgnso wrote
Reply to Russian President Vladimir Putin unwittingly accelerated the European Union’s green transition with his war in Ukraine, with the 27-nation bloc reducing its dependency on Russian fossil fuels and increasing its renewable energy use over the past year, the EU’s climate czar said Tuesday. by MrGuttFeeling
Opening new lignite mines is so green, I feel optimistic about the future...