Yet the prior means that France is one of the least carbon intensive economies in the world. Each German unit of GDP has twice the CO2 emissions compared to France.
Expanding the transit lines at this point would only lead to German industry purchasing even more
Swedish electricity, driving up the prices in the north of Sweden as well and killing the rest of the industrial base. The German effect deficit is larger than the entirety of the dispatchable electricity capacity in Sweden. In some 5-10 years, the northern surplus there will be used up anyway due to the electrification of the Swedish steel industry.
The ugly truth is that this situation will only be resolved when Germany take responsibility for their own grid, or the transmission lines get cut. The Swedish economy is highly electrified (70% of energy consumed) and low carbon (80% of energy consumed), especially when compared to Germany (~35% of energy as electricity, 25% low carbon).
One of the main differences is heating. Economically vulnerable Swedes are literally being driven out of their homes because of German electricity imports, which are enforced by the EU.
Yeah, religious extremists and regressives of all sorts tend to these sorts of horrors. Thankfully, the civilized world has become a lot more secular in the past centuries.
Even so here are still hundreds of millions of people living under governments with religious laws that enforce, enable and perpetrate these kinds of atrocities.
Would you care to cite the source of that statement? That'd be pretty significant news considering the number of dual citizens who are SD members and I haven't seen anything about this elsewhere.
Euthanasia for humans is a difficult ethical dilemma. On the one hand, being allowed to die seems like a rather fundamental personal autonomy, on the other, it risks producing some very perverse economic incentives in both healthcare and society.
Nova Scotia cancer patient who said she was asked if she was aware of assisted dying as an option twice as she underwent mastectomy surgeries.
The question "came up in completely inappropriate places", she told the National Post.
Canadian news outlets have also reported on cases where people with disabilities have considered assisted dying due to lack of housing or disability benefits.
The incentives, specifically, involve a slippery slope where it becomes more acceptable for society in general to push somebody considered a "burden" towards assisted dying as a way of getting rid of them. Terminally ill, elderly, disabled, mentally ill, unemployed etc. people may find the institutions that support them slowly become dismantled with society then proceeding to offer assisted dying as a "solution" when existence as a consequence becomes more and more miserable.
This might be a tad cynical, but I consider the risk of this ultimate betrayal of the most vulnerable in society as a consequence of legalized euthanasia so large that it outweighs the potential moral benefits.
I think you are highly oversimplifying the situation.
The rapid fall of the Assad regime means the end of the Syrian civil war, which is a good thing. Syria has been plagued by war for more than a decade now, perhaps some peace will finally settle and the millions of Syrian refugees will finally return to their homes. As for what happens after, it remains to be seen. The rebels are no monolith, they contain everything from Turkish backed mercenaries, jihadists to mostly secular Syrian anti-Assad nationalists.
Those who simply assume that the rebels are wholly "good" are no doubt naive, but there is certainly hope that the more reasonable elements of the movement will prevail and institute a more free society, perhaps by cooperating with the Kurdish autonomous zone in the east. If that happens however, or something else like a taliban-esque islamist theocratic tyranny is instituted instead remains to be seen.
My own answer is what got me thinking of the question.
People cheering for, happily celebrating or laughing at death or people dying.
At least to me, death is dark, serious, grim and horrible on a very fundamental level. Even if it is deserved or necessary it just isn't something to be elated about. Human beings dying don't combine with happy feelings.
I find it literally sickening. Usually it's been in the context of people behaving horribly (for instance suicide encouragement, terrorism etc.) but todays lemmy feed also brought it out, and really made me think about why it made me feel that way.
For myself? A midi-file library for music (1gb is easily tens of thousands of songs), some audio porn (video takes too much space), a whole bunch of E-Books (tabletop rpg, science, literature etc.), compilers for C, a bunch of core python packages etc.
Meanwhile I'd also head over to my university to warn staff of the impending doom such that they can spread the word to other institutions and start rescuing as much data as possible to non-digital formats.
The stated goal of entering Lebanon was to end the threat from Hezbollah - if they stay away from the border and allow the Lebanese government to enforce rule of law, hasn't that been fulfilled?
That is simply incorrect. I suggest that you educate yourself further on the topic and refrain from making similarly uninformed statements on related topics in the future.
Here is the wikipedia page of all current members of knesset:
I would say that demographic tensions in the US, colloquially "american racism" primarily have a particular flavour - namely focusing on skin colour. In other parts of the world demographic tensions come in many other forms. Between Europeans for instance it is more often cultural and religious tensions (secular/atheist vs religious, protestant vs catholic, germanic vs latin etc).
For each region and people these sorts of tensions tend to have a basis in different historic catalysts. In Israel for instance, there are jewish-arab tensions with a long and complicated history, interreligious tensions (christians - muslims - religious jews - secular/atheist), intra-jewish ethnic tensions (mizrahi-sephardim-ashkenazi) and many others. Similar tensions can be found in other countries in the middle east.
The problem with applying the american lens to these other areas is that it will miss important aspects and risks exacerbating problems by applying inappropriate remedies.
Yep - a lot of westerners fail to understand that a majority of Israelis have middle-eastern or north-African ancestry, even if excluding the large arab Israeli demographic. Depicting the people of Israel as a monolith is a very crude oversimplification
Price of oil coming down, sanctions taking effect. Europe just needs to keep up with supporting for a while longer whilst the Russian economic downturn turns into a collapse.
Whilst I agree that some mods may be overzealous and that the fediverse has a serious slant, you also seem to have behaved very uncivilly.
In any case, unlike reddit, there are many options. When lemmy.ml/c/world bans me for criticizing genocides comitted by the USSR & CCP I can still post to lemmy.world/c/world or even create my own community for world news elsewhere.
Male/Female are also nouns, which are biological terms.