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LegalLord
United States13779 Posts
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WhiteDog
France8650 Posts
On April 30 2016 04:06 Nyxisto wrote: most effective and uncomplicated thing will be to drastically reduce meat consumption, agriculture is the biggest producer of greenhouse emissions already for this reason, but good luck convincing anybody to turn this into policies During the war, the french changed the hours to reduce fossil fuel consumption ... We could just cut all energy except for public light during two or three hours each month at aroud 8 pm. Would be funny. Or just increase tax on non environmental consumption. | ||
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LegalLord
United States13779 Posts
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WhiteDog
France8650 Posts
On April 30 2016 09:12 LegalLord wrote: Power plant startup is not exactly an environmentally friendly process. That's what happens when you shut off power for a plant for any amount of time, which is why they tend not to want to do it unless they absolutely need to. Come on, don't critic my awesome idea with intelligent comment. Imagine a night every month with no technology, and all the girl you would be able to meet. | ||
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LegalLord
United States13779 Posts
On April 30 2016 09:19 WhiteDog wrote: Come on, don't critic my awesome idea with intelligent comment. Imagine a night every month with no technology, and all the girl you would be able to meet. Hard to argue against that, I guess we should do it then. | ||
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lord_nibbler
Germany591 Posts
On April 30 2016 09:19 WhiteDog wrote: Is it just me, or was this a pretty dark rape joke?Imagine a night every month with no technology, and all the girl you would be able to meet. I have seen it in a report once, there are actually some villages and suburbs here where the major thinks he is clever with saving money by turning off the street lights after midnight. And then they act all surprised when they do not get reelected because break-in stats tripled... | ||
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
WASHINGTON — The United States did not pressure Germany more heavily to give Greece debt relief because it needed Germany’s cooperation in higher-priority foreign policy matters, according to a former Greek finance minister. Yanis Varoufakis, the ex-cabinet official who became famous as the face of Greek defiance in the first half of 2015, said the United States, like the International Monetary Fund, believed Greece’s European creditors must provide the country with debt relief if it was ever to regain financial independence. High-ranking officials in Germany, which is Greece’s largest sovereign lender, remain reluctant to reduce the Mediterranean nation’s debts. But Varoufakis said the United States ultimately did little to back its views by putting pressure on Germany. “They would occasionally offer a kind comment about the need for debt restructure, but beyond that, absolutely, radically nothing,” he said. “And that has not changed.” Varoufakis, a prolific and outspoken progressive economist, was in Washington on Wednesday to promote his new book, And The Weak Suffer What They Must? Europe’s Crisis And America’s Economic Future. Since resigning under pressure in July, Varoufakis has founded the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025, a left-leaning initiative promoting a more democratic European Union. He argued on Wednesday that the United States’ inaction on Greece stemmed from a belief that Greece was “in the sphere of influence of Germany.” “I believe that the United States delineated different problems in the European periphery and decided to put all its eggs in other baskets and not in any basket that contained Greece or the eurozone,” he added. Intervening was not worth the risk of jeopardizing German unity with the U.S. against Russian meddling in Ukraine, as well as collaboration on the U.S.’s agenda in Libya and Syria, according to the ex-finance minister. Source | ||
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Nyxisto
Germany6287 Posts
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WhiteDog
France8650 Posts
On April 30 2016 10:12 lord_nibbler wrote: Is it just me, or was this a pretty dark rape joke? I have seen it in a report once, there are actually some villages and suburbs here where the major thinks he is clever with saving money by turning off the street lights after midnight. And then they act all surprised when they do not get reelected because break-in stats tripled... No I said cut everything but public light ... Come on, rape can't be funny. Yeah, in most "banlieue" near Paris, the lights are cut at night in certain part of the city for budgetary reasons. | ||
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Dangermousecatdog
United Kingdom7084 Posts
On April 29 2016 06:34 WhiteDog wrote: You're right, at current consumption levels, fossil fuels have no over a lifetime costs. Sorry, normally you are derangedly passive aggressive, so I have no idea if you are agreeing with me or not. | ||
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WhiteDog
France8650 Posts
On April 30 2016 20:43 Dangermousecatdog wrote: Sorry, normally you are derangedly passive aggressive, so I have no idea if you are agreeing with me or not. Not my fault, I'm french. | ||
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m4ini
4215 Posts
Blue/white striped sweater, black scarf, red beret - in one hand a baguette, in the other a cigarette, and a fancy snotstopper/stache? | ||
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oneofthem
Cayman Islands24199 Posts
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WhiteDog
France8650 Posts
https://www.facebook.com/670444518/videos/10154091547929519/ http://hanslucas.com/sguillemin/photo/7090 | ||
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RvB
Netherlands6304 Posts
Happy birthday. | ||
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WhiteDog
France8650 Posts
On May 02 2016 03:02 RvB wrote: What is happening again? Happy birthday. It's the 1rst of May so people are (were, it's over now) in the street, but due to the recent event (Nuit Debout, loi El Khomri on labor) there are a lot of black bloc and various leftist that were hot yesterday night, all saying, on facebook and elsewhere, that they would come to "make a feast" for the 1rst of may. And the police is full of shitheads (especially the BAC, brigade anti criminalité) who likes to hit for no reason, so there's shitheads on both side. And shitheads got to do what shitheads got to do. Maybe I'm not clear enough, black bloc are independants that comes to manifestations to make a mess. They even come with tools and start to pickaxe the street to take part of it to throw it to the cops. Thanks. | ||
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maartendq
Belgium3115 Posts
On May 02 2016 02:55 WhiteDog wrote: The shit is real in France. Black bloc ("les totos") doing their thing, cops doing theirs, everything heating up since the last two or three manifestation. It's funny as hell, altho not very productive. https://www.facebook.com/670444518/videos/10154091547929519/ http://hanslucas.com/sguillemin/photo/7090 Happy birthday, man! | ||
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WhiteDog
France8650 Posts
Thanks buddy. The rumble between the police and the black bloc is still going on in paris apparently, near Nuit Debout (place de la république). The media is making it seem like the responsable are the black bloc, but in reality the police showed autoritarism way too fast, way too hard days ago, most notably beating innocents, to the point that some people (on guy in Rennes, and apparently two others with one being in surgery right now) lost an eye due to "flashball" (weapon below). It's normally forbidden to fire such weapon above the belt, but some cops don't care about. + Show Spoiler + ![[image loading]](http://www.lopinion.fr/sites/nb.com/files/2013/06/article_flashball.jpg) | ||
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Banaora
Germany234 Posts
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/press/releases/2016/Leaked-TTIP-documents-confirm-major-risks-for-climate-environment-and-consumer-safety/ Update: Here they are http://ttip-leaks.org/ | ||
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AngryMag
Germany1040 Posts
On May 02 2016 14:14 Banaora wrote: For anyone who is interested in TTIP, greenpeace.nl said they are going to publish the document at 11 o'clock in the morning. http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/press/releases/2016/Leaked-TTIP-documents-confirm-major-risks-for-climate-environment-and-consumer-safety/ Update: Here they are http://ttip-leaks.org/ If this TTIP thing goes through I think the people should choose/ seriously think about violent methods to get rid of their leaders. The secrecy, the leaked information just look like the thing is a power transfer from people to economy and is threatening to cut into our rights guaranteed by our respective constitutions. | ||
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