Antykwa Torunski.

Resarch can only study the average effect. If switching to a certain font does not help on average, it does not mean that it helps never.

Now I want to import more than salami and paprika from Hungary!

Yes and no. Such a distributed battery storage system is necessary, if you want to use renewables as main energy source - that would be a green green motivation to implement such a system. There is a potential olive green motivation, too - such a system hardens your energy infrastructure against falling missile debris, smoking accidents and other natural desaster. Well, and against broken gas pipelines - this might even be the main reason? And making money, of course.

I’m shocked by Merz’s incompetence again and again.

Ukraine has been ready to accept territorial concessions since years. They had proposed more than once to freeze the frontline and accept the occupied territories as de facto under Moscow’s territorial control - i.e. they are ready to give up the occupied territories for years. Compared to freeze of the frontline, a demilitarized zone controlled by the US & friends would take away the control of the occupied territories from Moscow. Ukraine is now offering not more, but less to Putin and is using the natural ressources of Donbas and the glory of ending the war to bribe Trump. He can do so safely - he could even offer to demilitarize and put under US colonialecontrol every single oblast bordering Russia - because Putin is never going to agree.

That depends on your personal current Reality^TM. In this week’s Trumpian Reality China seems to be an ally, and the EU a hostile power occupying four friendlies. This might change next Monday, of course.

If you assume every country is a US-style presidential autocracy, 4/4.

It’s far worse. You need only controll of 10 % of a crowd to controll the entire crowd, if there is no competition for controll. At least that’s what crowd management psychology found out.

Well - conscienc and shame are just emotions that make us adhere to social rules.

After a pogrom in the 13th century the citicens of my city repented formally and build a church on the ground of the former Jewish quarter. They repented for having the Jews allowed to live in the city.

It’s very probable that a good portion of the 93 percent of Jewish Israelis who agreed that the commandment to erase Amalek’s memory remains relevant today are indeed ashamed that they haven’t managed to erase the memory of Palastine yet.

If the comittment to genocide a neighbour is this deeply engrained in a culture I’m sort of desperate. All genocides I recall that were not (mostly) successfull were only stopped by external military intervention.

Yes – but that regulation was passed a couple of years ago. The Greens were crucified (figuratively speaking) for it. When somebody pointed out that old internal combustion engines can still be used, and that new can still be sold if the fuel is produced CO₂ neutral, no news outlet would print this and nobody would listen. Now, our heroic Bundeskanzler wrote a letter, nothing changed, and he is the hero saving our economy? There’s something rotten in the State South of Denmark. Sorry, William for ruining the meter.

AWK?

Did anything change? Except the wording: “you may not, except” was changed to " you may, if", and I’m unsure whether this is an actual change of wording or just a different reading of the same legalese.

If I am not mistakem, they did not cite OP but pretended that OP joined their community and committed posts on their blog.

If they tell you they love you, they love you. But there are many, many different kinds and aspects of love, many ideas what love is. If they tell you “we love you” but you cannot feel or sense this love, you are both using the same word, but not the same idea of love. Or maybe you have even the same idea what love means, but have different ways and needs how to express and experience this love.

The key would be not to doubt their love but to discuss and reflect with them what they mean when they say “We love you”, how they try to show you their love, how they want you to show your love, how you want them to show their love.

Sadly, for most people such conversations are very hard, if not next to impossible. Counseling, mediation or therapy can be helpful, if you’ve got access to any.

@gigachad@sh.itjust.works has a point, though. I agree with you that love is expressed by words, but I also agree with them that words alone are meaningless if not backed by loving behaviour.

Like

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Pierre_and_Miquelon

Or

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Guiana

Traffic flows smoother with a speed limit of 30, so travel times go down, cars run for less time.

Lower speed limits also yielded environmental benefits, with emissions decreasing on average by 18%, noise pollution levels by 2.5 dB, and fuel consumption by 7%, indicating enhanced fuel efficiency and reduced environmental impact.

Review of City-Wide 30 km/h Speed Limit Benefits in Europe

In this study they did not look into the reduction of particulate matter from tire and brake abrasion, which is a major source of pollution caused by cars, so the environmental benefit is even greater than they found.

Yes,but there are two different definitions ar work here: Traffic laws vs sociology/geography/common speech. According to traffic law, it’s almost impossible to live in a rural area, because all areas settled by humans are considered urban for the sake of traffic regulations. Otherwise, “urban” references cities and “rural” everything not a city. A “rural town” makes perfect sense in common speech, but is an oxymoron in traffic legalese.

I don’t know about Ireland, but in a lot of countries a lot of people live along rural roads.