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thedarkfly

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PhD in aerospace engineering from Wallonia.

Docteur ingénieur en aérospatiale de Wallonie.

Docteur indjenieur e-n areyospåciå del Walonreye.

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  • Europeans are just as bad as Americans for the planet

    https://overshoot.footprintnetwork.org/content/uploads/2022/03/How_many_Earths_2022_EN_sm.jpg

    Feel free to look at the sources and data.

    [citation needed]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_overpopulation#Criticism

    Basically, the population is predicted to naturally decrease, any active efforts to reduce the population is not only unnecessary but will be plagued by questions about racism, eugenics, and social justice.

    Then, the belief that there are too many people shifts the blame from the ones responsible of our unsustainability to the common folk. It will redirect efforts to build a sustainable society to reducing population. But we were unsustainable even with a tiny fraction of our population. It's now how many we are, but how sustainably we behave.

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  • far too many people

    On what base? If it's about resources, there are plenty renewable resources for even more people than now. It's more about how we use them. If people live like americans then I agree.

    the planet is at a breaking point

    That's more to do with the unsustainable way we treat the planet. So, more to do with the systems in place than the amount of people.

  • EU's own satellite communication system now operational

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  • Has anyone found which eight satellites?

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    One in five people in Brussels, Belgium now bike to work, as bicycling rates have jumped 40% in just five years.

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  • And as a result, the Ecologist party at the initiative of the project got obliterated during the last election 🙃

  • High-speed trains collide after one derails in southern Spain, killing at least 20

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  • Looks like it's not the first derailment of the Frecciarossa 1000.

    On 6 February 2020, unit number 21 was involved in a high-speed derailment at Livraga (Lodi), on the Milan-Bologna high-speed line, operating the first service of the day. It caused the death of the two train drivers and the injury of 31 people.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frecciarossa_1000?wprov=sfla1

  • China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossible

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  • Yeah, I hope that the renewables will continue exponentially... I agree that the growing share of renewables in the mix is awesome, but in the end what matters is each ton of CO2 emitted. And we're not going in the right direction :(

  • China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossible

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  • What frustrates me is that China is indeed leading so much technological development on energy, but the amount of coal being burnt is just not budging... Please, China. Make the transition already.

  • But these organizations are for peace, trust me! -liberals

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  • Ah yeah, I thought he was drafted. Thanks!

  • But these organizations are for peace, trust me! -liberals

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  • Thanks for reading more carefully than me!

  • But these organizations are for peace, trust me! -liberals

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  • I can't find anything on Walter Hallstein and Adolf Heusinger being nazis or committing war crimes. Looks like the former was an academic drafted in the army and the latter a high-ranking officer who began his career before the nazis.

    I get that Heusinger can be seen as complicit (he must have known for whom he worked and didn't quit), but what about Hallstein?

  • all my homies hate eco-fascists

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  • The population won't grow infinitely. People have in average two surviving children when mortality rate is high. If mortality decreases thanks to higher living standards, there is a population boom because more than two children survive. Birth rate then decrease to about two children per woman and population stabilizes. You can argue on why this happens, but this is just observation from Europe to Africa, from the Americas to Asia.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_transition?wprov=sfla1

  • Holy rule!

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  • "But you're making the world uninhabitable by doing so? And you're still doing it?"

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    Seven German journalism students tracked Russian-crewed freighters lurking off the Dutch and German coast—and connected them to drone swarms over military bases

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  • The original source of the article is Bild, a German tabloid. I don't see this story relayed on other reputable news outlets.

    Big red flag for me. Let's see how things are evolving but I'll be skeptical until then.

  • regrettably now rule

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  • Super interesting vid, thanks for the recommendation! And on Nebula, no less.

  • "enjoy the show"

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  • A moment of normalcy and laughter before the events of the evening unfold.

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  • I don't deny the existence of slurs or hate speech (like "bloodmouth"). In this particular case, "carnist" is an academic word used in scientific papers in a sociological context.

    Like I said in the other thread, it's describing the opposite of vegetarianism and veganism. "Omnivorous" was proposed as an alternative, but it's initially understood as "digesting plant and animal matter" in zoology, which would technically include vegetarians.

    There is a need for a name that excludes vegans and vegetarians to describe reality.

    Sorry for the Godwin point, but fascism is also an academic word used to describe a real political movement and fascists hate being called fascists. I'm myself eating meat so I don't want to draw parallels here.

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  • Okay I had a look and, you're right. Apparently it's an academic word in sociology meaning "prevailing ideology in which people support the use and consumption of animal products, especially meat." So it's not the practice, it's the way of thinking.

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  • Alright, that's pretty good. I wanna nitpick by saying that vegetarians are also omnivorous because omnivorous is digesting "plant and animal matter", but I don't know if it would be in good faith :p Thanks for the discussion.

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  • Then what word would you like people to use for "person eating meat as part of their alimentation"? I ask in good faith, I'm really curious to know your opinion.

    I don't think that "meat-eater" is necessarily better than "carnist" 😕 Or a negative like "non-vegeterian"? A bit of a mouthful.

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    xkcd #2839: Language Acquisition

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