Nerd02

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Nerd02,

While renewable sources are awesome, they are still not as reliable as the other solutions. You still need a baseline to keep your grid up at night, when the wind wanes or during droughts (depending on your renewable source of choice). Nuclear is the next best thing. Low CO2, safe and cheap in the long run. If everyone in the EU was as commited to nuclear as countries like France, Finland and Belgium are we could get reliably cheap power everywhere, which would be an amazing asset for our future industrial growth!

Nerd02,

Alright, Switzerland, keep your secrets.

Nerd02,

I remember once seeing a thread on Reddit, either on r/YUROP or r/europe can’t really recall which of the two, where they banned English for the comment section of that thread and invited all Romance speakers to speak in their native language. It was surprising how anyone could pretty much understand and hold conversation with everyone else. Granted, it’s likely that written makes it a bit easier, compared to spoken, but it was very fun!

I suppose we could also hold something similar for Germanic or Slavics, if a sufficient number of those speaker were down to try this experiment

Nerd02,

Direi che ci riusciamo senza problemi! Diventa più difficile quando la gente inizia a parlare le lingue strane, tipo il francese o il rumeno.

Nerd02,

In Italian and French they are caled “Vasistas”, from the German “Was ist das?” (What’s that?), it’s said they called it that way because the first German tourists who saw those windows in France were confused and kept asking for clarifications on how they worked.

Nerd02,

Oh really? My bad then. We call those windows from the pic “vasistas” in Italian, and I was always told we copied that word from the French. I just checked whether such a word existed in French, saw that it did, and didn’t ask any further questions.

Nerd02,

Interesting. Like I said in another comment in Italian it means exactly what I said. From the first line on the topic on Italian wikipedia:

A vasistas (also written wasistas) is a type of window that is also opeaneable on the inside […]. The system allows the door to rotate down and the opening is delimited by special stops, called opening delimiters.

But apparently, after reading the French wikipedia page they use that word for something else. So it appears that we did steal the word from them, but used it to describe something different.

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    Nerd02,

    Yes. Yes you have.

    Sincerely, from Italy with love much hatred and anger.

    Nerd02,

    Well I am sorry for your loss. It happens. You might have stumbled on a “tourist trap”, places where they make disgusting food that no local would ever touch and exclusively bank on foreigners who know no better. The Costiera Amalfitana is filled to the brim with foreign tourists, especially in summer, so I’m guessing there’s no lack of such scummy places.

    Nerd02,

    Oh this is going to be good. Let me grab some popcorns and open my trusty “Check downvotes” panel…

    Pepe eating popcorns

    Nerd02,

    Deeply saddened they didn’t use grappa for Italy, I think it would have been more appropriate, but I guess limoncello is better known abroad.

    Also, I’ll never stop thanking Hungary for the great gift that is Unicum!

    Lithuanians are at it again, raising money to outfit Ukrainian soldiers with personal anti-drone systems, laser sights and night vision monoculars, all made by Lithuanian manufacturers (sh.itjust.works)

    Each set of items is supposed to cost around 7500 euros. 350000 was already raised in the first day. The fundraising campaign is supposed to last until February 24.

    Nerd02,

    7,5k€ for one of those toys?! Hell I might get one myself. Even just the anti drone system would be so funny. What? You are flying your little shitty quadcopter at the park and taking pictures of the people jogging? No you are not! Hehehe.

    Nerd02,

    Yeah it would be in most countries lol. Good things in life are always either illegal, immoral or they make you gain weight.

    Nerd02,

    YES! That was one of my favourite subs back on Reddit, glad to see it reborn.

    Nerd02,

    LMAO abbastanza ridicolo.

    Articolo a parte, il solo titolo già fa ridere:

    Ho scoperto di non essere il papà di mia figlia (9 anni). Non voglio più vederla e non mi interessa se dovrà vivere per strada

    “Giornalismo” di questo genere potrebbe tranquillamente essere roba generata - no, rigurgitata - da IA, mi viene quasi da sperare che nessun giornalista abbia sprecato tempo traducendo una roba del genere.

    Domanda. Perché hai censurato l’url?

    ‘Anti-European’ populists on track for big gains in EU elections, says report (www.theguardian.com)

    Populist “anti-European” parties are heading for big gains in June’s European elections that could shift the parliament’s balance sharply to the right and jeopardise key pillars of the EU’s agenda including climate action, polling suggests....

    Nerd02,

    If it did exist (and it doesn’t), it would be an excessive cause of government spending. Money that could otherwise be used to pay for other services like health or pension spending, or subsidize (read as: “cut taxes on”) necessary stuff like food or petrol.

    I think their argument per se does make sense, it’s just the initial assumption that is flawed.

    Nerd02,

    Ok hear an European federalist’s (me) take on this:

    Yes, ID and ECR are set to gain a pretty substantial amount of seats, especially compared to the results of the previous election, as the Guardian’s infographic clearly highlights:

    https://lemmy.basedcount.com/pictrs/image/a5dc730a-550d-4576-89d2-ab5c03bff959.png

    However, their conclusion:

    As a result, the far-right ID group is projected to gain up to 40 more seats, for a total of 98, potentially making it the third political force and opening up the possibility of a “populist right” coalition (EPP, ECR, and ID) with 49% of MEPs in the new parliament

    seems a bit of a stretch. While ID is firmly eurosceptic and ECR is… undecisive, EPP is firmly pro Europe. EPP has been the largest party in the European Parliament for over 20 years, and they are the ones who elected names like von der Leyen and Metsola. I wouldn’t call either “Anti-European”.

    As the POLITICO “Poll of Polls” clearly highlights, the top groups aren’t set to change all that much. The most notable changes are Renew losing quite a lot of seats and ID replacing it as the 3rd political force, but EPP and S&D mantain a significant lead.

    https://lemmy.basedcount.com/pictrs/image/617d7c2e-5e11-4e1b-b42a-753f766c74e6.png

    If ECR and ID ever came to building a “populist right coalition”, I doubt EPP would be on their side. I think it’s way more likely that they’d side with other forces like S&D or RE and try to stop them.

    In conclusion: yeah it sucks that Renew has lost so many seats, and it also sucks that far right voters seem to prefer the way more extreme ID to the comparatively more sane ECR, but things aren’t nearly as tragic as the media is portraying them to be.

    Nerd02,

    Pretty ironic, lol.

    Nerd02, (edited )

    Props to OP for making it clear in the post body, but the headline made it a bit more clickbate-y than it should have been. That article is about NPD, a very minor and actual neo nazi party. The anti-right protests that have been happening recently, instead, are about the AfD (alternative for Germany) party, which is set to gain a sizeable 23% of the votes for its far right coalition ID during the next European elections.

    In other words yeah they are cutting funds from a far right party, but not from the far right party.

    Nerd02,

    No you don’t. As bad as the American Republican party might be, they are not THIS bad.

    From the NPD wikipedia page:

    The Homeland is a neo-Nazi political party. […]

    The Homeland argues that NATO fails to represent the interests and needs of European people. The party considers the European Union to be little more than a reorganization of a Soviet-style government of Europe along financial lines. […] The Homeland is strongly anti-Zionist, frequently criticizing the policies and activities of Israel.

    The Homeland’s platform asserts that Germany is larger than the present-day Federal Republic, and calls for a return of German territory lost after World War II, a foreign policy position abandoned by the German government in 1990.

    Nerd02,

    I haven’t actually bothered looking at what AfD stands for (obvious disclaimer: I’m not German, I’m allowed to not care lol)

    Just wanted to make it even more clear that this party wasn’t the one causing the people in Berlin to storm the streets.

    EDIT: I tried opening your article, and aside from the language barrier, which my browser extensions were able to overcome, it looks paywalled.

    Nerd02,

    Can you elaborate on the “the GOP wants to return to the confederacy” thing? As you can probably tell I am not American, don’t really follow your politics that much. Referencing anything in particular? I don’t think I’ve ever heard of it.

    Anyway, I feel like you have kinda overlooked my last point, where NPD is openly claiming areas in the borders of their neighbours. That’s a pretty big deal, coming from a neo nazi party in the country that started WW2. And I don’t recall reading about the GOP having similar policies.

    Nerd02,

    Hi, thanks for the lenghty explanation. Sorry, I should have been clearer in my reply, I am aware of what the confederacy was, historically. My concern was more about what they meant when saying that the GOP might have wanted to return to that. I do know a thing or two about American politics, but I just don’t recall ever hearing about them having similar stances.

    Make no mistake, I am not defending the Republicans here. From my point of view they are definitely the worst of the two parties and some of their policies are downright evil (including but not limited to: privatizations, opposing welfare, opposing national healthcare, opposing public transport…).

    My entire point in this was just saying: I don’t think they are as bad, evil, dangerous or even criminal as the neo nazi parties currently running in Germany, in particular the topic of discussion, NPD.

    Nerd02,

    Seeing as I am already Italian I suppose I will pick Chinese.

    Also I guess I’m going to be that guy. “La vida es bella” is not Italian, it’s Spanish lol.

    Nerd02,

    The world needs more cat posters. Thank you for your service, OP

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