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  • Germany shut the remaining two or three down. The others were shut down years ago, some in the 2000s others in the 2010s and replaced with renewables and gas power plants.

    When the remaining one's were axed, they barely provided 2% of yearly power.

  • none of the countries have killed as many children as Israel

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Chechen_War

    100,000–130,000 civilians killed (Bonner)[21] 80,000–100,000 civilians killed (Human rights groups estimate)[22][23] 30,000–40,000+ civilians killed (RFSSS data)[24] At least 161 civilians killed outside Chechnya[c] 500,000+ civilians displaced[citation needed]

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Chechen_War

    Estimate total number of casualties: 30,000 civilians dead (25,000 killed and 5,000 missing) according to AI[24] ~80,000 killed in Chechnya (GfbV estimate)[25] More in neighbouring regions 40,000–50,000 civilians killed (Kramer)[26] More than 600 killed during attacks in Russia proper.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Russo-Ukrainian_War:

    11,000+ civilians killed (confirmed)

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Syrian_civil_war

    Number of killed civilians by Russian forces: 6861 - 8729+

    Add a couple hundred of killed Georgian civilians and you have a range for Russian civilian kills in the last 30 years of:

    80,000 - 230,000


    If we count genocides perpetrated by Turkish nationalists in the Ottoman Empire and continued by newly founded Turkey we have:

    • 600,000 - 1.5 million Armenian civilians killed
    • 300,000 - 900,000 Greek civilians killed

    As to genocides perpetrated solely by the state of Turkey:

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dersim_massacre

    Turkish Kurdish anthropologist Dilşa Deniz estimates the number of deaths to be between 46.000 to 63.000.[65][66][67][68][69][70][71][72] Historian Hans-Lukas Kieser writes that 40,000 is implausibly high.[73] Historian Annika Törne estimates 32,000 to 70,000 dead as a result of massacres

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zilan_massacre

    Deaths: 5,000 - 15,000

    Several hundred more Kurdish civilians have been killed in the past few decades by Turkey.

    But you're right that in the past few decades Turkey hasn't killed as many Kurdish civilians as Israel has Palestinian civilians. Turkey is "just" commiting cultural genocide right now.

  • Suppose the man is blind then. He has the ability to jump but is unaware of the trolley hurliing towards the people on the track. While he has the ability to act his only "crime" is being unaware. Isn't this equivalent to the original trolley problem?

    [I]t may rather be supposed that he is the driver of a runaway tram, which he can only steer from one narrow track on to another; five men are working on one track and one man on the other.

    In this case, all six men are unaware of the runaway trolley heading towards them, believing themselves to be safe. The one working on his own track has not made up his mind yet as to whether he would want himself to be sacrificed. You would impose your own will onto him, wouldn't you?

    I don't have any solution for variations of the trolley problem that satisfy me. I would likely act based upon what I felt was right at the time without considering (all) the implications. Without the threat of running out of time however, I believe it's much more difficult to decide how to act.

  • But would you push the fat man over the railing?

    As before, a trolley is hurtling down a track towards five people. You are on a bridge under which it will pass, and you can stop it by putting something very heavy in front of it. As it happens, there is a fat man next to you – your only way to stop the trolley is to push him over the bridge and onto the track, killing him to save five. Should you proceed?

    • Some random philosopher
  • Simplification is great for language learners but an outright flaw for lossy communication. Whenever you lose some part of a sentence through interference (like a movie that decided to have a scene with people whispering at actual whispering intensity) the redundancies help in understanding the correct meaning of the sentence.

    Additionally, native speakers of any language (usually) have an intrinsic understanding of more complicated grammar so there is no real advantage in simplification for them.

  • Banning a party has significant affects on far-right organizations and money-streams. Much of their propaganda will become impossible to finance and any successor parties are automatically banned as well. Fascist voters cannot become disillusioned without a ban. Their beliefs are as solid as a flat-earther or anti-vaxer and only destroying their echo chamber has a chance to take them out.

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  • I dislike the .not() method a bit because it inverts the meaning of the previous code snippet you've read.

     
        
    if (list.isEmpty()...
    
    
      

    "Ah, so if the list is empty..."

     
        
    if (list.isEmpty().not())
    
    
      

    "Goddammit"

  • The government would be the accuser?? Just because a camera is used for evidence doesn't make the camera THE accuser. Civilized nations have a way to fight the camera-issued fine, for example if the photo doesn't show your face.