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by zpeti 3y ago
Japan's culture is 8000 years old. They are f**g amazing at so many things, from pottery to knives to amazing food. Why shouldn't they be allowed to protect that culture if they want? Why does every country have to standardised do
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by zpeti 3y ago
> Why I find interesting is how some topics are basically self-censored whilst we like to pretend we’re having a free discussion Propaganda doesn't work because people actually believe it. It works because everyone thinks that every
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by zpeti 3y ago
Judging by the quality of journalism these days, yes this qualifies as investigative journalism.
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> Another thing. China has more people that Europe and US combined and so does India. With your statement you are somewhat implying that we (European as Us citizen) have a right to pollute more per capita than Cinese and Indian citizens.
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I fail to see how this is the solution. China now produces more CO2 than US and europe combined. And it's growing. So is India. Germany committing economic suicide will not save the planet. It's also not going to persuade china an
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by zpeti 3y ago
I mean, china is also committing economic suicide, so at least there's that...
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Can someone please explain to me, in an objective non political way what German leadership is actually doing in the last 3-4 years? It seems like complete economic suicide to me, and they are just doubling down all the time. I can morally u
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by zpeti 3y ago
That's very easy to say in hindsight. Cannibalising a public company's most successful product and profit source is extremely risky, especially for management. There is a reason this is so rare. It goes against many of our ingrain
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by zpeti 3y ago
Except per capita co2 emissions AND total emissions have been falling in the USA. China now emits more co2 than europe and USA combined. And this is NOT because of exports to the west, those are now also falling yet co2 emissions are still
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by zpeti 3y ago
Thank you. Climate change is a diplomacy issue, nothing the west is going to do in the next 50 years will make a difference with what’s going on in china and elsewhere. So either you are a realist about this problem, and you admit that eith
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by zpeti 3y ago
What do we actually want? I’m just playing devils advocate, but do we actually want anything beyond satisfying our urges to eat and reproduce? Everything we do, even artistic expression etc is about gaining status, which is ultimately about
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by zpeti 3y ago
> Have they seen how many Chinese immigrants/second generation Chinese Americans power high-tech US tech companies? But this is the whole point. They might be Chinese immigrants but they are adding value to US companies. Your later
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This is not clear at all. Perhaps people who don't want kids will die out, but if this is a cultural issue that affects our basic human instincts, it could be something that is extremely hard to fix. Perhaps in modern society, whatever
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by zpeti 3y ago
It’s worse than that. Historically only 50% of men reproduced, and that hasn’t gotten much better. There are plenty of divorced men with more than one family, yet this is rarer for women. I’d estimate if 30% of women aren’t having children
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I think this is a surface level explanation but there must be deeper reasons why people aren’t having children. Maybe our lives are so comfortable we just don’t want the inconvenience of children. Maybe we’re so obsessed with momentary hedo
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by zpeti 3y ago
The UK was a serious wine and grape producer in the Middle Ages. It was warmer. We’re not even at that stage yet.
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Except they will be doing this at a much lower economic situation than Japan. Japan still got to being a first world country, but then busted. China won’t get there.
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The tweet I linked shows european wildfires. Last time I checked, there are no savannas in europe. "I'm going to assume that as you're on HN you're more than bright enough to" know there are no savannas in europe.
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by zpeti 3y ago
> Per-capita emissions is the only valid way of looking at it No. Rate of change is what matters. How does per capita emissions matter when the graph looks like this? https://twitter.com/GuntramWolff/status/1627
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by zpeti 3y ago
China's exports are actually flat at this point, yet their emissions are exploding. They have 1bn people who want to be richer. There is enough internal demand now that will mean emissions will rise without exports to the west. Have yo
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by zpeti 3y ago
Please point me to the data then. How are these fires worse than before, if acres burned are the lowest in 10 years?
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by zpeti 3y ago
Unfortunately despite the media coverage, most of these fires have nothing to do with climate change [1], and in fact in europe for example this year we had less fires by area than in the last 10 years [2]. I'm all for sustainable livi
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by zpeti 3y ago
Also - in 2023 - if you really want to be an eco terrorist, you should be terrorising china, and most of asia. They are increasing their carbon emissions like there's no tomorrow. Frankly, nothing the EU or the USA is doing at this poi
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by zpeti 3y ago
Dude, like who is google? The judicial system of the web? No. Google has their own motivations here, they are a player not a rule maker. Don’t trust SEOs as no one actually knows what works, but certainly dont think google is telling you th
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by zpeti 3y ago
> There are many, many situations in life where you can do everything right and still not win Yet the only way to give yourself a chance to win is to take part. If you sit at home and feel resentful, you definitely won’t build a billion
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by zpeti 3y ago
Sorry, but no. I have two children. I as a father probably had mild PPD, and so did my wife after our second child. You know why my wife had PPD? Because being a mother is hard, and she also had a lot of unresolved anger and issues towards
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by zpeti 3y ago
I agree with you, but what we are arguing about is how much, and when? Looking at how many people are medicating for mental health issues in the west (or world), I find it extremely unlikely this is because all these people have gone throug
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by zpeti 3y ago
It’s very easy to explain. By going straight to medication you are treating the symptom not the cause. And you don’t even know if it works. SSRIs don’t work for many people and we only found out 2-3 years ago. Opioids were prescribed to hal
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Is the EU marketing budget now doing sponsored posting on HN? What the hell is this comment? It’s completely wrong on facts yet full of quasi praise for eu politics
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Musk is one of the last people you should think that of. Jamie Dimon - yeah sure. Musk? Really? Why? Probably because he takes a political stance? Funnily enough so does bezos and Zuckerberg but on the other side. But I don’t see how musks

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