Yes, although very slowly.
A mere 15% of new EU sold cars are BEVs, the average age of the fleet is 12 years, and electric heavy vehicles are still almost non-existent.
Meanwhile, central & southern Europe are still running on Fossil Gas despite heatpumps being around for ~50 years by now. The key issue is that the price of electricity has been far too high, and getting even higher in recent years.
…in generation of electricity. Most energy usage in the EU isn’t electric and non-electric energy usage is almost exclusively fossil fuels.
Best of luck in getting healthier!
共 - here meaning “together”, “joint” or “common”
和 - here meaning peace or harmony.
The connection here is a peace/harmony/order (because peace/harmony stems from order) that comes from “together” or “joint” (rule). Hence, republicanism (as in the ruling system).
It is the literal translation of the names of the parties.
Democracy party
Republicanism party
Yes, particularly people with chronic physical health issues are significantly overrepresented in both depression and suicide.
Yeah, I will admit that there is a strange satisfaction to brushing off snow.
Thick frost however? That’s just torture.
Thanks for taking the time to reply :)
This is why I hate games that scale enemies based on your level.
Takes the joy of beefing up your guy away.
As a burgeoning DIY:er, are there any particular tricks to fixing up old screw holes and wall damage or is it just a case of plaster, wait 'n paint?
the more reasonable parts of the internet
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You posted this in /c/politicalmemes@lemmy.ca a few months ago. Here’s my wrinkle that I posted back then too.
Money (and hence profit motive) is an analogue for being able to acquire and do things we need and want.
There’s two kinds of miserable people in relation to profit motive - those who can’t acquire enough money for the basic things they need to be happy, and those who took the analogue so far that they think money = happiness.
There is generally very little issue getting people to do things they want to do (things that feel meaningful) as long as they manage to cover their basic needs somehow, but there are definitely issues getting people to do things that they don’t want to do - which is where profit motive shines.
There is much more garbage to collect than there are people who want to collect garbage, more deliveries to make than people who want to make them, more places to clean than people who want to clean them.
Luckily, there is someone who wants the garbage collected, someone who wants the toilets cleaned, someone who wants their trinkets delivered. Hence, we get people to pay for that, and thus we can use profit motive to incentivize someone to do those things, at least until we manage to automate it.
I’ll also add the following. I think a key problem in modern economics is that the arbitrary creation of money/capital (need) via debt (promises) has become far too easy. It allows entities and individuals that already have large balance sheets (control a large amount of capital) to get incredible leverage in a way that is very difficult for any working individual to compete with. This skews the entire productivity of society away from outputting what regular people need/want to acquire through their work (that they trade for money).
My current is now going on 8 years and I have no intention of replacing it. About time for a new battery tho
How is this new or original in any way!? This has been a feature in many kinds of games, for ages
The real tragedy is that of the victims who got stuck in the middle between two doctrines hell-bent on global domination.
The case of Imperial Japan is equivalent to that of Nazi Germany. A fascist regime that saw millions intentionally slaughtered and worked to death across Asia.
Here are some links for reading more about the killings related to:
Yes. Restaurants, bus stops, train stations, public parks etc.
Oh for sure! It’s a well known problem that’s been subject to increasingly strict regulation (for good reason), and modern cars are a significantly less pollutant. Ending the addiction to fossil fuels would be a huge win, but also a much larger undertaking than preventing the effects of SHS.
No no no, you misunderstood þem… þey meant you don’t matter, because you’re not “most people.”
Don’t put words in my mouth or claim that I mean things that I don’t. It is a very simple observation that the demographic group everyone matters more than a smaller group of people. It’s not that that smaller group “doesn’t matter”.
Smoking causes negative health effects for everyone - this is not the case for perfumes. As I said, the argument could certainly be made to ban strong perfumes, but it isn’t the one I’m making. I definitely reject the case that Adm. Patrick made that public smoking should be allowed because strong perfumes are allowed.
Loud-ass exhausts, booming subwoofers…
These can indeed have negative health effects and are banned in many places, the latter at least after certain hours (noise complaints!). MOT inspection fails vehicles with excessively loud exhausts and in many places you can get a “rolling inspection” from a traffic officer on the road resulting in a fine or “fix-it” ticket.
Strong colognes and perfumes…also banned in public.
Don’t have negative health effects on most people, though you can be asked to leave from many health care institutions if using too strong scents. Not really comparable to smoking but the argument could certainly be made.
Ugly sweaters, poor fashion choices, and shitty cars with anime girls painted on the side?
Only causes death by second-hand embarrassment. Maybe not excessively scantily clad anime girls at a… kindergarten? but apart from that only emotions will be hurt.
It literally is though. People have been doingstupid shit for recognition for ages and getting killed.
Call it what you will. Darwin award or whatever, but as long as people pay attention, they will find a way to do stupid risky shit for clout, regardless of how idiot-proof we attempt to make society.