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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

yes, fytoplankton, but those are plants too. THey'll be extinct in +/-500 years because of the ocean acidification, which is a result of the sea absorbing CO2 from the atmosphere.

Name & shame. :) in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Fun fact! In the Netherlands, Elsevier publishes a weekly magazine about politics, which is basically the written version of Fox News for that country. Very nice that those people control like 50% of all academic publishing.

Paris votes on SUVs: voters back proposal to triple parking fees for SUV drivers in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The question was if heavier cars should pay more. Heavier cars are more expensive to buy, so this means that people who can afford a big car, will pay more. It's a sort of progressive taxation by proxy.

For context: don't forget that this isn't the US: not everyone drives an SUV/pick-uptruck. Here you can see the size of the most popular car in France, compared to a pick-up truck.

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For the first time since 1949, representatives of the Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ) were elected in the Salzburg State House. (hexbear.net)

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This is the second State House in which they've achieved electoral succes. In Styria they also have elected members, and since 2021 they've won the mayoral office in it's largest city: Graz.

what do the parties stand for:

ÖVP: Christian-Democrats, traditional centre-right party
SPÖ: Social-democrats
FPÖ: Extreme-right
Grüne: The Green Party
NEOS: Liberals
KPÖ: Communist Party

Some context about this election: It looks like the ultra-right was a big winner, but it's important to note that in the previous election another extreme-right party also participated in the elections, and got 4.5% of the vote. They're out of the picture now, and ÖVP now has those votes.

The reason for the Putin and Hitler comparisons in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've been active in the Palestine-solidarity-movement for some time now, and I've learned that you can never, never make a comparison between the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians and their subsequent submission to apartheid conditions on the one hand, and the nazi's on the other hand because immediatly you're branded as an anti-semite.

There's some merit to that argument, because the Holocaust actually was the worst thing humanity ever did: the industrial destruction of entire races is unmatched in cruelty.

But seeing how everyone is comparing Putin, and before that: vaccine mandates, to the nazi's in much more stupid ways then I've ever seen in the Palestine solidarity movement, without their being any sort of pushback in the same fashion as against pro-Palestinian statements really shows a double standard.

I feel like we should change the Assad “Who must go” meme to Maduro in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Didn't the Kurds sort of did that themselves?