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Israel Briefs US on Plan for 'Ethnic Cleansing' of Rafah
  • Don't worry, I usually don't (and I didn't say "the Jews", just "Jews" - big difference, since a "the" in front of it would imply that it's all while without "the" it's just a part of them).

    It just was needed in this context for the sake of my comment (the irony would be harder to understand otherwise).

    I apologise

  • Rivers are the West’s largest source of clean energy. What happens when drought strikes?
  • I'm no expert so I don't know what causes more damage, but the production of photovoltaic cells also is by no means environmentally friendly. People die, ecosystems get destroyed, ...

    And people argue that birds fly into wind generators and die, idk how much damage that is comparatively but probably the least. So from an environmental perspective, as a layman, I'd rank them wind > water > sun > non-renewables (nuclear > gas > coal).

    But wind (and sun) always changes, so it's impossible to only have wind (and sun). You need:

    • Something stable that carries a large percentage (for example water in rivers or at the end of lakes (so basically at the start of a river)).

    • Something flexible that can quickly be increased or decreased (for example pumped hydro storage power stations, bonus points there for also being able to use energy when there's too much wind/sun; or non-renewables (burn more gas, get more electricity))

    So even if we assume that wind and sun are better than water we still need either water or non-renewables. I'd say that's an easy choice.

  • 'You're asking the accused ['Israel'] to investigate itself?'
  • A bit different (since there was no war yet and it wasn't about the military) but after the assassination of Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, Austria requested to send their own police to investigate the case around the "Black Hand" (the terror organisation that assassinated him).

    It really isn't unusual for countries to deny foreign investigation.

  • German housing crisis: 'Like winning the lottery!'
  • There are good reasons to go to Germany, like relatively high salaries (it always depends on where you're comparing. At least in the fields I'm about to work in you earn significantly more in Germany than in Austria), high security, good schools and universities, ... (similar to Austria in that regard, maybe slightly worse).

    The only reason against Europe in general is that you pay a lot for mandatory purchases (a home (doesn't matter if rented or bought), groceries, ...). Personally I still prefer that over cheaper costs of living but less security, worse child- and healthcare etc. but something has to change, because it's only getting more extreme.

    If the development of 50 years ago to today will continue for the next 50 years something like a civil war is inevitable.

  • Hyundai pauses X ads over pro-Nazi content on the platform
  • It's not like antisemitism prevented people from supporting the NSDAP (in many cases the opposite). Sure, when they were elected they didn't know what to do with Jews yet, but antisemitism was one of the pillars of their philosophy (if the people are unhappy you have to take responsibility or simply point at someone and say "they are responsible, it's their fault") and antisemitism has existed since forever. (Of course there were not only Jews in concentration camps but they were initially made for them).

    And sadly antisemitism still exists today in many areas of the world.

  • How to Escape From the Iron Age?
  • That's fundamentally different from steel. We don't really have an alternative currently. You could use something like aluminium but that's not environmentally friendly either (in the initial production, for recycling it's great).

  • How to Escape From the Iron Age?
  • Coal is required for steel, electricty-based heat would only work to lower carbon emissions (especially when recycling steel since you don't need coal there), but you couldn't prevent them.