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  • Are embassies off-limits? Ecuadorian and Israeli actions suggest otherwise − and that sets a dangerous diplomatic precedent

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  • Thats not how embassies work. Embassies aren't a 'you get out of jail free' card. Hitler or Putin couldn't just hide at an embassy and thats it.

    Itt works in a way, that one state offers a second one a piece of land under its protection. That piece of land belongs to the second state as long as the first state allows it. If they want to claim it back, they have to go through a formal process.

    Thats why the actions of Ecuador are unheard of: they offered Mexico a piece of their land under their protection. And then they violated it.

    Israel attacked an embassy of Iran under Syria's protection. Thats not off the limits but of course can be seen as an attack from both countries.

  • consider the implications for a post scarcity future

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  • Just 20 more years of research. At least text was predicted 1990. And 2000. And 2010. And 2020. And last year.

  • consider the implications for a post scarcity future

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  • Thats basically how its done in most of Europe. Price changes every 15 minutes and some smart system starting washing machines etc if a certain threshhold is reached.

    Of course you can also get a hedged contract where you pay a fixed price and don't need to care about it, but you have the choice.

  • Mexico's president says his country is breaking diplomatic ties with Ecuador after embassy raid

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  • Mexico's president says his country is breaking diplomatic ties with Ecuador after embassy raid

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  • Still. Raiding embassies is the worst you can do. Its basically an invasion of a foreign country. Even states like Russia do not do that.

  • Paris Mayor Says Russian, Belarusian Athletes 'Not Welcome' At Olympics

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  • Slovakia has just shut down its last coal power plant

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  • So its fake news because he isnt a member of the green party – and actually never was an advocate of the end of nuclear energy. He was vocal about increasing the run time of nuclear reactors in the public, actually. Also, all german parties – except for the far right – were part of the process and at one point or another confirmed it. There is just no majority in Germany for nuclear power. One of the reasons is the high price (see France, which needs to subsidize their energy prices with billions each year to stay competitive), but also the problem with nuclear waste, which no one wants. Its not like in the US, where we have lot of empty space where no one is bothered.

    Still, the public debate is intense, even though nuclear power was only at 5–10 %. Meanwhile in the last year alone renewables producing 4 % of the energy demand were built. And each year lost by debating, more fossil fuels are burned.

  • Paris Mayor Says Russian, Belarusian Athletes 'Not Welcome' At Olympics

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  • Slovakia has just shut down its last coal power plant

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  • Thats straight up wrong.

    1. They didn't retire them early, but decided not to upgrade them. They where 40 years old and needed massive maintenance now.
    2. Germany was highly dependent on russian gas with nuclear as well – even more, if you consider that Germany got its Uranium from Russia, too. Also Gas and Nuclear Energy fulfill a completly different function. Nuclear is not really flexible, so its a baseload source. Gas is highly flexible, which is the reason its a peak load source. Nuclear competes with renewables and a bit with coal, but not with gas.
    3. No idea where you got this Fakenews, but no politican of the german greens was involved in any scandal with Russia – in fact its the opposite: they have been the most vocal anti-Russia party for years now and warned about dependence on Russia for the last decade already.

  • Slovakia has just shut down its last coal power plant

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  • Germany has drastically reduced their coal share, too. Just look at this Chart: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/sites/default/files/medien/384/bilder/3_abb_bruttostromerzeugung-et_2023-11-24.png

    In 2023 the share of coal decreased to 26.1 % of all electricity – which is close to other nations like the US with 20 % coal. In fact, per kWh germany produces on average 380 g of CO2, while the US produces 389 g, which is half of Poland's 690 g CO2 per kWh.

    I know its a meme at this point to shit on the german electricity market, but the sucess in the last 5 years is something other countries should admire, especially countries like Poland who claim to heavily invest in nuclear power, while they are in fact do nothing at all – and except for maybe France. They are 2nd to none in terms of CO2 emissions, even though they pay a hefty price for that.

  • Sacré Bleu! Cheese enthusiasts are mourning the possible extinction of brie cheese

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  • Oh no. Brie won't be white anymore, but orange, blueish or grey. It will taste exactly the same, but the color will slightly change. Guess its time to eat so much Brie that I will not want to eat it anymore any later.

  • USB hubs, printers, Java, and more seemingly broken by macOS 14.4 update

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  • As someone using android/windows in private life and MacOS for work, I can confirm. As long as its Apple, it works. But as soon as you use any third party software or hardware, its completly bugged.

  • El Salvador Will Keep Buying 1 Bitcoin Daily Until BTC 'Becomes Unaffordable' With Fiat Currencies, Says President Bukele – Featured Bitcoin News

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  • Thats what I meant with 'if security gets really low, you are willing to sacrifice a lot of freedom'

    My major complaint is, that he doesnt have a plan for the time after they will eventually get out of prison.

  • El Salvador Will Keep Buying 1 Bitcoin Daily Until BTC 'Becomes Unaffordable' With Fiat Currencies, Says President Bukele – Featured Bitcoin News

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  • Talk to families of unjustified imprisoned people or to the people itself. His 'fixing' was done by basically imprisoning everyone, which just happened to be close to any suspect gang member. There where even cases where a mailman was imprisoned because he just happenend to deliver a parcel during a raid.

    Yes, he fixed the gang problem for now. But at a high price – the loss of a fair justice system. He imprisoned 1.2 % of the total population in just 2 years.

    I know that freedom vs security is a fine balance and once security suffers significantly, you are willing to give up quiet a lot of freedom. But since he just imprisoned everyone and their relatives, its only a temporary fix – unless he wants to imprison them for life.

  • German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Israel: cannot stand by as Palestinians risk starvation

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  • Also there is a difference between calling for a ceasefire and claiming that its a genocide. SA has all right to be critizied for that.

  • Venezuela’s election in the crosshairs of new US regime change scheme

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  • Everyone reading this piece full of buzzwords and without any source and thinking 'yeah, this seems trustworthy', is completly delusional.

  • Pope says Ukraine should have 'courage of the white flag' of negotiations

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  • Holy shit... you are completly spinning it around. Insane...

    For context: the ICJ said they aren't allowed to rule about Russia commiting a genocide. But Ukraine has asked the court to check if Ukraine did commit a genocide in eastern Ukraine, like Russia claimed. Its Ukraine asking for this investigation.

    '“In the present case, even if the Russian Federation had, in bad faith, alleged that Ukraine committed genocide and taken certain measures against it under such a pretext, which the respondent [Ukraine] contends, this would not in itself constitute a violation of obligations” under the genocide convention, the ICJ said in the ruling read out by its president, Joan Donoghue on Friday.

    The ICJ, known as the World Court, said it did not have jurisdiction to rule on whether Russia’s invasion violated the Genocide Convention, or on whether Moscow’s recognition of Donetsk and Luhansk, two breakaway republics in eastern Ukraine, amounted to a breach of the convention.

    But the judges said they would allow Ukraine’s request for the court to rule that there was no “credible evidence that Ukraine is committing genocide in violation of the Genocide Convention” in eastern Ukraine.'

  • Pope says Ukraine should have 'courage of the white flag' of negotiations

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  • Pope says Ukraine should have 'courage of the white flag' of negotiations

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