Tar_Alcaran

Dutch people already fucking hate animal feed producers, because they’re the ones actively backing cattle farmers in their opposition of nitrogen regulation.

The nitrogen issue is a huge problem for basically every last bit of nature we have, and thanks to the cattle farmers lobbying, it’s limiting the building of roads and houses.

The animal food industry is directly and indirectly costing the Dutch people billions of euros.

This just further confirms they’re fucking assholes.

If Russia never ends up invading Lithuania then this will only harm Lithuanians, either people who step on it by accident or while trying to remove them

Wait, I think there’s a big disconnect here. Nobody is suggesting they scatter a million landmines around Vilnius, or even emplacing them along the border right now. You can have landmines ready, but not place them until you notice troop buildups. You can even pre-place basic fences to keep civilians out of the zones you plan to use, it still works.

The time to place landmines is when you’re (about to be) at war. Not just for humanitarian reasons, landmines don’t actually work reliably forever.

It has been proven far and wide these things kill long after a conflict has been resolved.

And, very harshly, you can weigh those deaths against immediate deaths when you’re at war. Against an enemy that has repeatedly demonstrated that losing a war will mean you stop existing as a people, the equation becomes a lot less complex.

But, those factories can obviously operate just fine inside Europe, as they are currently doing so. They just make more profit under the lax Chinese regulations, which are set that way by the Chinese government.

Europe can’t legislate China.

Its not a total dichotomy, but one absolutely contributes to not having the other.

How is it Europe fault’s that China is still happily building new coal plants and not regulating industry?

I’m a big fan of Amesty, but their point is stupid. Look how much Ukrainians have suffered at the hands of Russia. Russia is literally comitting genocide right fucking now, kidnapping children and forcefully displacing adults and moving Russians into the occupied territory.

Now, landmines are bad, true. But genocide is a whole lot fucking worse. You can remove landmines, and the ones you miss will not kill tens of thousands of people every year.

The great weakness of a true democracy is that it allows skilled, well-intentioned politicians and corrupt assholes to run just as easily. And the corrupt assholes tend to be better funded.

Ah, I once literally burned a motherboard with an overheated CPU, as in the machine turned off when the mobo was black, smelly and bendy and something finally came loose.

That day, I learned the important lesson of having the store install the CPU for me, got a complete replacement for it too.

But the time I was ~11 I had built my own computer. Mother was kind enough to take a leap of faith and set a budget for the project. My parents are absolutely not tech people. So they had no idea what I was doing and could offer no assistance other than monetary. It worked out in the end though.

Same here, I learned by fucking it up and doing it until it worked.

Why? My parents couldn’t teach me how to get a modem working, so when we bought a 14k4 modem, I had to install that thing at age 12. Granted, I didn’t have to compile them, they came on a floppy, but it wasn’t exactly userfriendly

“Reinstall windows” was such a common solution, I still have my windows 95 and my windows XP key memorized (and no, not the FCKGW one)

a nullmodem is what we had too! I remember copying over Warcraft 1 from one computer to the other over most of a day, and it then not working.

At least this might shut up the neolibs still pretending Gaza is worse off with trump.

Yeah, Gaza is doing great under Trump, right?

As someone who works in materials/workplace safety, I can absolutely vouch that there are stupid regulations that should be scrapped. I have no doubt there are stupid regulations in food-safety, because there are stupid regulations everywhere. Recently here in the Netherlands we changed regulations for toxic residu in soil to distinguish between “Things that are bad for plants and animals” and “Things that are bad for humans”. That made things more complex, but it also means you don’t have to wear a hazmat suit to protect yourself from a dose of zink that’s roughly equal to a multivitamin a day (which, funfact, will absolutely murder fish).

But you know who shouldn’t get to decide which regulations are stupid? The people who stand to make money off of scrapping regulations.

This is already happening a lot. Take poultry for example.

In the USA, you can chemically rinse chicken (usually in acids, but in the past in chlorine) so that it won’t have any Salmonella or Campylobacter bateria on it.

The EU, you’re not allowed to do that, but you’re also not allowed to have those bacteria. That means you have to raise the chickens in a MUCH cleaner environment. The same goes for eggs, which you can’t wash, so they have to be clean from the farm.

As a result, you can’t export US chicken to the EU, because it doesn’t meet the safety standards. And that’s about to get worse. You can absolutely export EU chicken to the US, but it likely won’t be competitively priced.

heart disease, cancer, COVID-19 and drug-overdose.

Infant mortality is steady,
under 25 mortality increased very slightly.
over 65 went up by 20%, that’s where you find most of the heart disease and covid deaths, and it doesn’t decrease the life expectancy that much, since they’re already old.

The big problem is in the 25-55 bracket, because they’re dying from overdoses a LOT, and that’s hugely decreasing life expectancy. There’s alcohol consumption too, which increases cancer risks and deaths. Cancer screenings have dropped off in this bracket too, thanks to cost, so “preventable” cancers like breast-, lung- and colon cancers are killing more people.

It seems to be less of a direct regulation issue, and more of a “life sucks, so people do drugs”. Which one can (and SHOULD) argue is also a regulation issue, just less directly.

“Measles doesn’t kill anyone!”

No you fuck, measles doesn’t kill anyone TODAY. That can change real fast.

More like a LOT of services for an open project

Because, god forbid, then we’d actually have to do something

See, drones don’t have much ammo, so you fly it to a place that DOES have a lot of ammo, and then you push the button