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by tpm 1y ago
Hello from Slovakia. The gas pipeline from Russia through Ukraine into Slovakia (and further west/south) does not work since January 2025, it was turned off by Ukraine. If there is still gas flowing from Russia, it's through other
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by tpm 1y ago
> which is artificially tying our energy price to gaz thanks to the shortsightedness of our neighboors. There were plenty of opportunities to reform the price-setting mechanism of EU energy market, wonder why that never happened. There a
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by tpm 1y ago
Yes, converting the debt more or less equals a default. I don't see French economy being very dynamic without the euro. If the thought is to take on lot of debt denominated in local currency and then inflate it away (faster than what h
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by tpm 1y ago
> That would help with both the debt situation and our exports. But the debt is denominated in euro. If you leave euro and create a new currency, the bonds will still be in euro, while your new currency will be worth much less. It's
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by tpm 1y ago
2055, if we manage to replace most of heating, transport and industrial use, the rest is manageable. But it's still lots of work for 30 years.
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by tpm 1y ago
Yes, there are and will be issues. We should have started much sooner. But we absolutely have to do this.
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by tpm 1y ago
Funny you would mention the Greek debt crisis, because the next debt crisis looks to be in France.
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by tpm 1y ago
I'm sorry but this thread does not talk about using PV to heat your home in the winter. But it is absolutely possible to use electricity to heat homes, it's widely used in northern countries. And the nice thing about electricity i
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by tpm 1y ago
Plenty of people are heating their homes with electricity already, that's what heat pumps are for.
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by tpm 1y ago
this seems like a good starting point: https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/petro-aggression-when-oil...
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by tpm 1y ago
> But it was very interesting to see how quickly the Ukraine war turned Russias image (at least in Europe) from "slightly crazy, badass" into overt contempt. I think this is because while much of the Europe was willing to &#x27
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by tpm 1y ago
Sure, it's easy to dismiss anything as 'narrative, therefore nonsense'. I will give you another narrative to dismiss: oil-rich countries are waging wars more often than oil-poor countries, and they are starting them when the
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by tpm 1y ago
> You don't have any problems with imperialism or wars, when you're not targeted by them personally I do. And I don't agree it's normal human behavior - normal human behavior is also to feel some empathy for people yo
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by tpm 1y ago
Ah yes the old 'and you are lynching negroes' defence deployed again because you can't face your failures. My country was occupied by the Soviet Army, many people killed and whole society destroyed, and all of that for nothin
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by tpm 1y ago
Some also don't really want to draw a line, because the current war is not an exception, it's fully in character with the past 200 or so years of Russian behavior. In the 90s and later some thought it's going to be better, bu
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by tpm 1y ago
Yes, they have the most unpopular prime minister in history, and the most popular party is an openly fascist one, there are fascist mass protests in the streets of London etc.. This looks more like the end days of Weimar Republic and not so
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by tpm 1y ago
> They say having yet another new ID number will make things "easier." But didn't really say how. Brits already have ID numbers for lots of things. They don't have a national ID system though. Having a lot of differen
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by tpm 1y ago
> Also since all the data available about you in one place Note that having a 'Digital ID' and 'all the data available about you in one place' are two completely different things. You can have a electronic ID system a
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by tpm 1y ago
We have biometric passports in the EU for quite some time so I'm a bit surprised it took so long to take the same data for visitors too.
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by tpm 1y ago
It won't, you haven't cut any hierarchy, that's not how the EU works (but the UK let themselves get disinformed about that for decades by certain Mr. Johnson and others). A citizen can meet the politician in the supermarket i
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by tpm 1y ago
Long time ago when I came to the UK I had that exact problem, there was only one bank (HSBC I think) that agreed to open an account for based on passport only. Even though I'm an EU citizen and UK was part of the EU at that time. Other
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by tpm 1y ago
In some (most?) EU countries the head of the state or government is not elected directly, but even then is elected in the parliament and without continuous parliament majority support is unable to effectively govern. This is not the case fo
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by tpm 1y ago
> but it's bad for companies trying to innovate Which is why DMA only applies to huge, dominant companies (the complete list: Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta, and Microsoft) and there too it does not apply to all technologi
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by tpm 1y ago
Brexit did not and will not 'increase democracy' in any way anywhere.
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by tpm 1y ago
They are nominated, not elected. This may vary state by state but in our country there is not election process for them.
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by tpm 1y ago
The point of this regulation (DMA) is to enable more competition in important market segments. If this exact thing becames somehow very important, sure, it's possible, otherwise it's a bit contrived. What's the point?
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by tpm 1y ago
One of the issues is that London in that time was very far from "full of native Brits". The 60% he mentions were mostly not seen in the streets when I visited first in 1997, mostly because they lived in the suburbs. There is nothi
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by tpm 1y ago
It's 2035 and it is not a strict ban, rather it's a fine of 95 euro/1g of CO2 emmissions above 0g/km, so it's 9500 euro for a car emitting 100g/km, for example. That is to be paid by the manufacturer for every
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by tpm 1y ago
Why stop there, let us go another millenium or two into the complete offtopic territory.
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by tpm 1y ago
> Investing in Renault means investing in new thermal cars. Not for long though; the EU fleet emmission rules and fines are clear in this regard. If the fossil lobby does not manage to nerf them, no big mfg will build ICE passenger cars

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