geissi

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

only country that officially uses kilometer is…the US

Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden all use Meter

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately that's exactly how it works.
Look at any country's border and tell me which ones weren't established by violence.

The actual question is, what alternative to accepting Israel's existence would you propose. Because forcefully removing them would just be one more crime.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Yes, opposing the establishment of a new state with a new population where someone else already lived would have been appropriate in the late 1940s.

Unfortunately it's 2024 now, Israel does exist and time is linear.
So the only thing that can be done now is to recognize neither Israel nor Palestine should be erased.
(Though pointing out that the latter doesn't seem to get mentioned here would be appropriate.)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Fractional-reserve banking

That has already become outdated, at least according to some economists.
Banks can just create loans out of thin air without having to check their own reserves first.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_creation#Credit_theory_of_money

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

and the houses will not go on the market

I understand the other arguments but I'm confused about this one.
If houses that were used to house tourists are no longer allowed to do so, why would they not become available for either rent or sale?
What else is there for the owners to do with them?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Not to weigh in on one side or the other but the Nazis claimed a lot of things.
That they were socialists, that Poland had attacked Germany...
I wouldn't rely on what they said.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Barcelona still has plenty of regular commercial Hotels that are purpose built to house many tourists.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

somehow an even bigger clusterfuck

I agree that rejoining won't magically solve all problems but I don't see how it would make things worse.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

austerity measure after austerity measure and somehow made our budgetal deficit worse

Not surprising.
Reducing government spending means reducing the money that is in economic circulation.
Companies earn less, people earn less and ultimately taxes go down.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ah, I see.
So the water is not too warm for cooling, it's too warm to absorb the backfeed, which is a necessary result of the cooling process.
Which effectively still means that they can't properly cool the plant because the river water is too warm.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

Besides providing verbatim records of who said what, there is a second can of worms in forming any sort of binding agreement if the two sides of the agreement are having two different conversations.

I think this is what the part about the missed nuance means.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Wenn keiner ran geht, kann man aber auch nicht behaupten man hätte den anderen informiert.

view more: ‹ prev next ›