Riddick3001

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Cake day: 2023年6月10日

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    "Of late, even some of the most ardent critics of immigration have conceded its necessity; in June Italy’s Giorgia Meloni, the far-right leader who has long called irregular migrants a threat to Europe’s future, said her government would issue nearly 500,000 new work visas for non-EU nationals in the coming years, in addition to the 450,000 handed out since she took power.

    While regularisation programmes have long been used across the EU, with 43 put in place by more than a dozen countries between 1996 and 2008, in Villamalea the push to grant papers was also rooted in the town’s history."





  • Yes, I get your point , though you make some colorful extrapolations. I’m not saying I’d be agreeing to others morality or condoning differences in our own morality, because they are all different, everybody has their own views. What I don’t like is when people claim the higher moral ground, without understanding any of the other’s cultural context and by proclaiming their culture should be like ours. Other cultures are other cultures. You can disagree with (some) of their practices, and equally other cultures will probably say similar things of yours.

    But when femicide. and domestic abuse in the West is on the rise it’s an increasing problem. So, that’s why I said; maybe lets focus first on fixing our own shit, before pointing the finger on someone else.



  • Corporations are responsible for a vast majority of the waste

    I don’t really understand this recurring theme in this context, Can someone explain to me why this is relevant?

    Afaik, this isn’t a discussion in my country, since most people (should) know that already. This article triggered me, beacuse I want to lower my personal energy usage. Many companies in Europe who were energy wasteful and high energy users (like some chemical, steel, or aluminium plants) needed to close after the Russian invasion in 2022 and the then extreem high energy prices. Those that survived, are still struggling to this day.


  • What was the source of that energy loss?

    No idea tbh. I tried to figure it out myself first, then I had two electricians independently checking it.

    And their conclusion was that they didn’t know, and that the 5% was sort of normal. I even had my electricity meter recalibrated by the grid company. I was afraid somone was taping, but no… It still could’ve been the electricity meter ( which was like only 10 yo, I looked up its specs and readings). Humidity, Magnetism and Radio signals might effect the readings, under circumstances. So to be" safe", I have now a newer smart electricicity meter.



  • Even if it is, this pales in comparison to corporate energy use.

    Yeah I agree, I later saw that the article focuses on households, which usually account for like 20% of a countries energy usage.

    Honestly, I associated the articles headline and photo to energy losses in the Grid by keeping energy online. So Grid losses, and the application of smart grid functions will save way more then 5% of a ca 20% household energy usage. In this article they talk about a 4-5% overall country gain, for example