PhD in aerospace engineering from Wallonia.
Docteur ingénieur en aérospatiale de Wallonie.
Docteur indjenieur e-n areyospåciå del Walonreye.
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.
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 :(
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.
Ah yeah, I thought he was drafted. Thanks!
Thanks for reading more carefully than me!
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?
In Belgium, we had a pretty based children TV show called “Blabla”. In the opening song there is
Je bouche mes oreilles et je cache mes yeux. La pub ? Bêê !
I plug my ears and I cover my eyes. Ads? Blegh!
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
Haha in Belgium, regular cups for beer would be the appropriate footed glass of course. 😛 But yeah, basically plastic cups with customized decoration.
Nope, in Belgium the students are binge drinking in “eco-cups” which are reusable.
“But you’re making the world uninhabitable by doing so? And you’re still doing it?”
Compared to dictators (or wannabe), I get that Macron seems attractive. But he’s proven to be pro-rich (taxes on the rich have been drastically cut under Macron) and anti-democratic (he’s ignored the result of the last election and nominated a plethora of prime ministers from parties who lost).
Macron always has a knack to try to use things popular with younger people to score political gains. Infamously with the ZEvent, for instance.
It is now traditional for them to answer with “Shut your mouth Macron, this isn’t about you”.
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.
Super interesting vid, thanks for the recommendation! And on Nebula, no less.
This has Myst vibes
A moment of normalcy and laughter before the events of the evening unfold.
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.
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.
And as a result, the Ecologist party at the initiative of the project got obliterated during the last election 🙃