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Cake day: August 9th, 2023
  • Gsus4@feddit.nltoEurope@feddit.org•Berlin voices cautious criticism days after US attacks on VenezuelaEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I mean, if they had just kidnapped Maduro to try him and didn’t pretend to own Venezuela otherwise…there could be a way to say it was arresting a criminal (who happens to be a head of state and has diplomatic immunity, but then you could argue that since Venezuela is not on paper a dictatorship and he stole the election, he is not the legitimate head of state…ok…take him to the ICJ, then, which you don’t recognize…so…uh…jurisdiction…no…)

    But when captain orange shitass says that they will run Venezuela, claim “victory”, take the oil, threaten more attacks, not run new elections, not talk to neighbouring countries or allies when they have nothing, just the threat of getting themselves into another Vietnam with all of South America…it is not even just illegal, it is dumb.

  • Gsus4@feddit.nltoEurope@feddit.org•Far-right populists top polls in Germany, France and Britain for the first timeEnglish
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    6 months ago

    I see there is a broader reason: without colonial empires and without a technological or demographic advantage, we are in decline. The only thing going for Europe is the progressiveness and open societies, which allowed us to patch up demography with migrants, but even that is being attacked and lost.

    Europe is going back to being irrelevant in global terms, which means economic decline and economic decline always leads to political instability and crazy people taking over with stupid solutions, but they always fail, because there isn’t enough growth to make people happy.

    Best that can be done is slow the decline and spread the sacrifices with left policies, but inevitably incumbents will get punished and we get back to megalomaniac miracle cures that set us back again.

  • Gsus4@feddit.nlOPtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Butter made from carbon tastes like the real thing, gets backing from Bill GatesEnglish
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    6 months ago

    “Made of” can mean “composed of” or “constructed from”. This is the latter:

    Savor says they take carbon dioxide from the air and hydrogen from water, heat them up, oxidize them and get a final result that looks like candle wax but is in fact fat molecules like those in beef, cheese or vegetable oils.

    The entire process releases zero greenhouse gases, uses no farmland to feed cows, and despite its industrial appearance, has a significantly smaller footprint.

    “In addition to the carbon footprint being much lower for a process like this, right, the land footprint is, like, a thousand times lower than what you need in traditional agriculture,”

    Good example of how choice of words can mislead, particularly when intentional.