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by tfourb 3y ago
We basically built an all-wooden house: Timber posts and beams (not the flimsy sticks that are used commonly in construction in the US but solid 8" posts), interlocking OSB-boards on the inside for air tightness (this can also be achie
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The "good old way" of making leather soles grippy is nails, just to give one example. Even using synthetic materials instead of hobnails would reduce plastic consumption quite a bit for these use cases. I've hiked quite a bit
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That may be the case, but the last few pairs of "normal" shoes I bought had to be discarded after a year or so, not sure if the sole was still ok, but it didn't matter: they were done and because of their construction you cou
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Even if it is "too late" for this generation or the next generation or the next 5 generations that is not a reason to simply don't care and continue to make the problem worse. That is the kind of attitude that kept us from do
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Why not pay people per kg to return plastics. We have a scheme in Germany where you get something like 30 cents per glass bottle that you return. Even people who don't care about this small sum leave their beer bottles in a convenient
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Are you kidding me? Even if that were true there are probably 500 ways of making leather soles equally grippy to plastic soles that would either eliminate or drastically reduce the use of these materials. There are also other biodegradable
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Not sure how the "it's to late to do anything about it" is supposed to contribute to this debate. It's also factually wrong. The production of new plastics could be drastically reduced through regulation of both the prod
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The demand for these kind of drugs is quite predictable. It would be trivial for the government (assuming it has the political will to do it) to make mid or long term contracts with suppliers to provide these drugs so that the risk of short
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Haven't been in a long time. And as I've written above, drug checks are part of a public health approach that makes it easier to treat addiction, including by offering opportunities to engage in therapy.
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I know and agree, but in modern western societies there is no real expectation of or preparation for doing anything in retirement, least of all something that benefits society at large. Yes, some people transition and find fulfillment in so
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There have been projects in Western Africa that have shown that cognitive behavioral therapy can markedly increase social integration and reduce violence of even former child soldiers, probably the most traumatized demographic you can think
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A formalized retirement age is a recent invention but human biology alone has always required people to transition through various stages in life. I think the idea of retirement = doing nothing is quite new when applied to broad sections of
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San Francisco also experienced a number of events that could have significantly impacted drug deaths, i.e. pandemic, recession, housing crisis, fentanyl, etc. etc. You'd have to carefully control for the impact of these events to make
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I don't see any "empirical" evidence for your claim. I think it also betrays a fundamental misunderstanding, of the policies that are implemented by most countries. While "legalization" is the popular term for what
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The source you link says that Portugal had a total of 68 drug-induced deaths in 2019, corresponding to 10 per million. In 2001 there were 76 deaths, corresponding to about 7.3 deaths per million. So overdose deaths rose slightly relative to
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What you are essentially saying is that the right of certain people to access public spaces should be curtailed because they annoy you. Begging is a right und German law and does not have to happen silently. If that annoys you, how about yo
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There are valid considerations at play regarding keeping weed away from minors. There is also a legal issue because Cannabis is still classed as a controlled drug by the European Union and all-out legalization is not something that the Germ
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This is such a nihilistic, fucked-up view of the world. Is this proposed policy the silver bullet to stop addiction and drug abuse? No, clearly not. Will it help alleviate some suffering? Almost certainly so. Just to point out some of the m
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The proposed change is not about legalization of these drugs. They will remain illegal. It simply allows federal states to pass laws and regulations governing publicly accessible (and presumably free of charge) test facilities where consume
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From your first source, directly contradicting your interpretation of what it says: "In the first five years after the reforms, drug deaths dropped dramatically. They rose slightly in the following years, before returning to 2005 level
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I'll need to see a source for this. It is contrary to basically all public health research I've read about.
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According to the plans (not actually law yet): - private citizens will be able to grow a limited number (I think 5?) of plants, with the produce used only for their own consumption. Passing it to others will still be illegal (though consumi
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Germany wants to legalize quality control of illegal drugs(spiegel.de)
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tl;dr: The German minister for health wants to an existing law that bans the provision of quality control service for illegal drugs. This would allow federal states to offer "drug checking" services to consumers of illegal drug, r
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I said his use of language is reminiscent of the way language was used in the 1930s, I didn't call him a Nazi. For what it's worth, the Nazis certainly don't have a monopoly of using language in this kind of way (creating an
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The point is that you are creating an image of a society fundamentally split into "natives" and "migrants" – two distinct groups that in this telling are incompatible. I am sorry about the seemingly bad experiences you&#
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You are using language that is designed to (artificially) create an us vs. them scenario. You are creating two groups, "Germans" on the one side, "migrants" on the other. These are rhetorical devices that have been used
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"Outer groups," "native culture," "fundamental islam + LGBTQ rights," "These migrants," … The 1930s called, they want their xenophobic language back!
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Maybe also interesting/important in this context: Schools have only very limited ways to do their own hiring. Teachers are usually allocated by state government administrations. This tends to be a bureaucratic and drawn-out process. No
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"migrant background" in German political discourse is mostly defined as "at least one parent was not born with German citizenship". That is incredibly broad and covers both children of Syrian refugees who arrived last ye

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