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Israel Briefs US on Plan for 'Ethnic Cleansing' of Rafah
  • Don't worry, I usually don't (and I didn't say "the Jews", just "Jews" - big difference, since a "the" in front of it would imply that it's all while without "the" it's just a part of them).

    It just was needed in this context for the sake of my comment (the irony would be harder to understand otherwise).

    I apologise

  • Repair or replace?
  • I have no idea about the damage and expected costs so I can only judge from a psychological site:

    A wise woman (my psychology teacher when I was in school) once told me that when you think about if you should spend money on something that brings you happy memories, you should just do it because those happy memories are what makes you feel happy at the end of your life (and helps you when you are going through a rough time).

    So while it likely is the better financial decision to get a new bike, you'll always remember fixing your bike and keeping it going. It's something you achieve. It makes your bike special, it'll make the memories you make with your repaired bike special. You're of course spending money on repairing and maintaining your bike, but at the same time that money goes into good memories.

    *assuming you fix it yourself. If you just let someone else repair it that special effect won't be there

  • Rivers are the West’s largest source of clean energy. What happens when drought strikes?
  • I'm no expert so I don't know what causes more damage, but the production of photovoltaic cells also is by no means environmentally friendly. People die, ecosystems get destroyed, ...

    And people argue that birds fly into wind generators and die, idk how much damage that is comparatively but probably the least. So from an environmental perspective, as a layman, I'd rank them wind > water > sun > non-renewables (nuclear > gas > coal).

    But wind (and sun) always changes, so it's impossible to only have wind (and sun). You need:

    • Something stable that carries a large percentage (for example water in rivers or at the end of lakes (so basically at the start of a river)).

    • Something flexible that can quickly be increased or decreased (for example pumped hydro storage power stations, bonus points there for also being able to use energy when there's too much wind/sun; or non-renewables (burn more gas, get more electricity))

    So even if we assume that wind and sun are better than water we still need either water or non-renewables. I'd say that's an easy choice.

  • Gay Republican group is now rooting for Joe Biden’s death
  • In the text about Sodom and Gomorra the way I understand it God is punishing them for wanting to rape the angel or whoever it was who's sleeping there. Not for it being a gay act when men rape a man.

  • 'You're asking the accused ['Israel'] to investigate itself?'
  • A bit different (since there was no war yet and it wasn't about the military) but after the assassination of Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, Austria requested to send their own police to investigate the case around the "Black Hand" (the terror organisation that assassinated him).

    It really isn't unusual for countries to deny foreign investigation.

  • ich🕵️‍♂️iel
  • Gehen wir einmal davon aus, dass du Recht hast:

    Die USA ist wenigstens eine Demokratie, mit ähnlichen Werten wie wir. Ich bin zwar kein Freund der USA aber würde tausendmal lieber in den USA als in China leben.