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  1. Re:Beneficiaries of Longer Summers on Summer Weather Is Getting 'Stuck' Due To Arctic Warming (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Tell that German farmers, who made a billion loss this year due to droughts ...
    (Google the other European countries, I'm to lazy to do your work ...)

  2. Re: We care about climate change on Europe's Heatwave is Forcing Nuclear Power Plants To Shut Down (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Only a small fraction of the body's blood flow goes through the feet (10% would be generous).
    That is wrong: all blood flows through the feet and the hands. You have like 7% of your body weight as blood, so about 1.2 - 1.5 gallons, or around 6liters.

    https://www.healthline.com/hea...

    "The heart can move 5 to 7 liters of blood in one minute and 7600 liters (2000 gallons) per day."

    During the course of a few minutes: all your blood was once in your feet or your hands.

    Which is why people never, say, get frost bite, as the super efficient blood supply means their toes stay toasty.
    You get it reversed ... strange. Obviously you get frost bite because the feet are so efficient flown with blood. If you lose heat and start freezing, the body shuts down blood circulation to the extremities where it loses most heat: which are your feet and your hands. The body would love to shut down the head too ... but obviously that would be no solution :D

    Putting your feed and hands into water implies your pour a bit water over your legs and forearms: what is cooling more? Cold water evaporating from your forearms and calfs or 100F/37C warm sweat?

  3. Re:I expect they'll be as successful as electric c on Rolls-Royce Launches New Battery System To Electrify Ships (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    To replace the 16 tons of fuel it burns in one hour, for the roughly 30 miles to clear this zone, it would need 1600 tons of batteries to get the same energy.
    You are of by a factor 20 - 100. I doubt they would need more than 50 tons of batteries.

  4. Re:I expect they'll be as successful as electric c on Rolls-Royce Launches New Battery System To Electrify Ships (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    The Danish Ferries do exactly this, and Blindseer is to blind to see it ...

  5. Re:Cars vs boats on Rolls-Royce Launches New Battery System To Electrify Ships (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    so are willing to burn money to feel green.
    Rofl ...
    The electric ferries safe 80% of their fuel costs ...

  6. Paris most of the time, too. And cheaper than the gasoline/insurance/maintanance of a car most of the time.

  7. Still trolling with your uninformed anti EU rant?

  8. The Commision is not elceted, and so is your cabinet! Or did you vote for the minister of defense, or minister of education (I suppose you have one)?

  9. Which part of 'the commision is just a fancy name for "board of ministers" ' aka a cabinet, don't you grasp?

  10. Re:EU Parliament resolutions are non-binding on EU Accepts Resolution Abolishing Planned Obsolescence, Making Devices Easier to Repair (retaildetail.eu) · · Score: 1

    The guy who is trying to spin everything is you. EU laws are made by the EU parliament, like country laws are made in any countries parliament. I have no funking clue why you want to twist that.

  11. Re:EU Parliament resolutions are non-binding on EU Accepts Resolution Abolishing Planned Obsolescence, Making Devices Easier to Repair (retaildetail.eu) · · Score: 1

    European Parliament has no actual legislative power. It just has a power of veto. All legislation must come from European Commission, which European Parliament gets to vote on. It's a "yes/no" vote with no right to modify the package and vote on the modified legislation
    That is nonsense.
    All laws are voted in by the parliament.
    The 'commision' is only a fancy name for 'cabinet', consisting of the european 'ministers'.

  12. That is the biggest nonsense I ever heard.
    What exactly is a power supply?
    A transformator and some AC to DC converter and an out let with a few different voltages.
    How exactly should that degenerate or fail?
    My Apple ][ is nearly 40 years old ... powers up just fine ... I guess a C64 is just the same.

  13. The EU is democratic.
    No idea why you think otherwise.
    Every position except the 'ministers' is elected.

  14. To bring home a $15 salary a technician would have to charge at least $65 / hour. And that's excluding the costs he or she might have for the shop, shipping, components etc. In effect it means that even a small 20-minute repair on, say, a smartphone will put you down at least a $120.
    That is complete nonsense.
    First of all: all costs are deductible from your income. They are not taxed. Secondly, even with helth insurance and pension, you hardly hit the 50% barrier.
    Fixing an iPhone in Paris, e.g. replacing the battery, costs $20 ... 10 - 20 minutes waitig, or you go for lunch while they fix it.
    The screen is below $50 ...

  15. Berlin has no and never had turkish slums. Or any slums for that matter. I doubt you find a european city with slums, perhaps in greece? But I doubt that, too.

    The time of run down Arab quarters in Paris is long over, too. While they still have 'quarters' associated with 'origin' like China or India, those are mainly business related (a quarter with lots of indian shops and/or restaurants e.g)

    However other frensh cities still have that problem, Lyon e.g or Bescancon.

  16. Re: We care about climate change on Europe's Heatwave is Forcing Nuclear Power Plants To Shut Down (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Feet don't have great blood flow,
    They have, that is the point.

    So what was your point about my understanding of physics again?
    The poing of having no idea about the human body, e.g. how much blood flows through your feet and how much water you can evapourate via your skin :)

    Why don't you simlly try it, instead of arguing?

  17. Re:Differences in censorship on After Employee Revolt, Google Says It's 'Not Close' To Launching Search In China (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    Then, that society will slide into third-world status because
    Most "civilized" countries consider yours already on that level ... except for places like most of California and some selected city centers.

  18. Re:This does prove something... on Science Confirms That Women's Pockets Suck For Smartphones (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I see advertizing for Wish.com quite often, especially on FB.
    They are incredible cheap with accessories, like small leather bags or phone "power banks" (extra battery with USB plug and sometimes solar) ... never really checked as they require you to log in.

    In Europe we have many shops only for cloth, e.g. H&M (a dutch brand), Zara (Spanish, afaik), Orsay (french), Anson's (men only, but high class, no idea if they even sell T-Shirts ;D ), my favourite is Springfield (obviously british), they are mens only but unfortunately either have no shops in Germany, or when they try to open one, they don't have the original repertoire (hence they fail, how stupid can one be to open a shop and tailor its range of products to the "perceived market" instead of offering everything and let the customer decide).
    As you see, for female only shops, I don't remember the names, H&M might be female only. And then there is s.Oliver (no idea why they write it that way).

    Of course those shops sometimes have some make up or jewelry, shoes, or an occasional purse etc.

    So in Germany I only by the essential stuff, but that I don't need to do more often than once a year or every second year. When I'm in Spain I visit Springfield, because there they have the same range of products as in UK, and are 30% cheaper than in Germany.

    Depending to where I travel, I have an half empty suitcase and buy some cloth :D

    Paris e.g. is full with small boutiques that sell cloth and accessories, often designer stuff where each piece is unique or exists only in amounts of low two digit numbers.

  19. Reminds me when they called Odin, where he lost his eye:
    "I did no lose my eye, I know exactly where i placed it!"

  20. Re:We already have (had) a solution to this on Planet At Risk of Heading Towards Irreversible 'Hothouse Earth' State (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you should make up your mind.

    Draw a random line on paper going from left to right over 24h hours. Does not matter if it is accurate.
    Then look where the lowest valley is.
    Draw a horizontal line across the paper touching that valley: this is base load.
    Now adjust the line and move it 5% higher, that is true base load, as pumped storages are filled during that time.

    Now imagine that base load in France is a mind staggering 60% of peak. In Germany it is below 50% of peak.

    Germany produces at the moment about 40% of its power by renewables. So: we use it as base load. It has nothing to do with "intermittent". You are stuck 50 years in the past.

  21. Re:This does prove something... on Science Confirms That Women's Pockets Suck For Smartphones (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    Clothing stores are here most of the time mixed sex.
    Pure male stores are rare, and those are super expensive.
    I have no idea how the ratio between pure female and pure male stores are ... I shop to rarely :D

  22. Re:Easy fix, bring back 1910 rules on US Bosses Now Earn 312 Times the Average Worker's Wage, Figures Show (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Health care is not payed by taxes but by health insurance. Exception is Scandinavia, they have included it in taxes. So if you e.g. earn 50k and pay 16k in taxes, you can add something like 4k health insurance and probably 5k pension funds. But that is split 50/50 between employee and employer.
    Regional taxes, e.g. in a city, only apply to companies (but their corporate tax is cut at something like 28%)

  23. If you "don't follow up" you can not blame the surgery.

    And still a 1% failure rate is absurd. I could imagine that if the spermatic duct is only blocked with a clip. But usually it is cut, the ends are "wrapped around" and then stitched together, I mean the wrapped parts, not the original connection.

  24. Re:This does prove something... on Science Confirms That Women's Pockets Suck For Smartphones (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    Women's clothes are also more expensive but that's due to the cut of the fabric.
    That seems to vary by country, here mens close is more expensive. One of the reasons I don't do "occasionally shopping".

  25. Re:Strange divergence on Science Confirms That Women's Pockets Suck For Smartphones (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    I can't think of any reason men don't typically carry purses.
    Because I put lipstick on at home, and it lasts all night! And honestly: if my prey prefers safer sex, it is her job to have some condoms in her purse :P