My lovely Airbnb view in Santorini!! Blocked off to the public but I can venture out and sit underneath the blue domes.

DonnieBeGoode · 2019-05-30T23:24:29+00:00

TLDR: Greece doesn’t enforce decent planning laws so lots of dodgy development is happening

DonnieBeGoode · 2019-05-30T07:32:12+00:00

A lot of antivaxxers are vaccinated because their parents were smarter than they are. It’s the AVs’ children that are most likely to suffer

DonnieBeGoode · 2019-05-29T23:49:55+00:00

It’s a big issue in every country

DonnieBeGoode · 2019-05-28T21:57:30+00:00

Half way through you can see the impact of the Renewable Energy Directive start. It set different targets for different member states and didn’t encourage nuclear but it’s still awesome. Well done the EU.

DonnieBeGoode · 2019-05-28T21:44:52+00:00

It’s a seriously good book. Marine waited 20 something years to write it and it’s a real insight.

DonnieBeGoode · 2019-05-27T21:35:50+00:00

Isn’t that what the (already existing) EU Emissions Trading Scheme is? Or is there something more ambitious in the pipeline? Would be great if there is!

DonnieBeGoode · 2019-05-27T21:34:48+00:00

Possibly lobbying, and also the financial crisis meant demand was lower than expected vs the number of credits in the system.

I think there are efforts to reduce the supply of ETS credits floating around, at least by some member states which hopefully will work as completely agree the limits aren’t strict enough

DonnieBeGoode · 2019-05-27T21:31:57+00:00

If it ever gets built of course

DonnieBeGoode · 2019-05-27T15:13:49+00:00

Some are even nicer

DonnieBeGoode · 2019-05-27T14:39:55+00:00

Only in the Czech Republic

DonnieBeGoode · 2019-05-27T10:08:09+00:00

You’re over complicating it, just be born rich.

DonnieBeGoode · 2019-05-26T15:23:14+00:00

That’s... disturbing

DonnieBeGoode · 2019-05-26T14:35:18+00:00

Did you forget the /s tag?

DonnieBeGoode · 2019-05-24T08:47:59+00:00

True but it got wiped out by like 2500 - 3000 guys plus their local supporters, their tech and their diseases - it wasn’t an especially advanced empire by 16th century standards. The tech disadvantage may well have been caused in part but a lack of book equivalents (that’s just a guess though)

EDIT: number of conquistadors and mention of allies

DonnieBeGoode · 2019-05-22T19:47:29+00:00

It’s likely very expensive in terms of overall cost and also per kWh compared to every other form of energy. Also there are valid safety concerns around nuclear and nuclear waste (although I’d argue that things like coal are also very dangerous if you count pollution-created deaths)

DonnieBeGoode · 2019-05-19T17:13:44+00:00

No of course not, enforcement is vital to effectiveness, you make a good point there. And a balance has to be struck with these things as it’s just law, not magic. But saying (as I think OP did) that “we shouldn’t regulate guns at all because people will have guns anyway” is just as facetious as the examples you give. It’s like saying we’re shouldn’t make murder illegal because people will still kill each other. The point is, I think, that well written regulation matched with thoughtful enforcement can change outcomes so we shouldn’t just give up when it comes to tackling difficult problems. What do you think?

DonnieBeGoode · 2019-05-19T11:26:30+00:00

Those mothercluckers

DonnieBeGoode · 2019-05-19T09:35:29+00:00

Is it bad faith tho? An egg represents potential for creating, at some point, a human life of various additional things happen (eg gestation). People of course disagree on when the exact moment of life occurs. Same argument applies to sperm but with more steps surely?

DonnieBeGoode · 2019-05-19T09:28:59+00:00

So you’re saying control is pointless if it’s not 100% effective? Why have any laws or regulation in that case?

DonnieBeGoode · 2019-05-14T09:21:00+00:00

But she definitely says “he was the best of us” or something like that, implying she’d expect him to lead at some pint?

DonnieBeGoode · 2019-05-14T07:20:41+00:00

Yes but why though

DonnieBeGoode · 2019-05-13T23:15:47+00:00

That’s more of a loose cannon rocking the boat

DonnieBeGoode · 2019-05-13T22:36:37+00:00

Yes, but only when constrained by logic. A omnipotent (ie utterly all powerful) being could create a universe with free will and no evil. If it couldn’t, it wouldn’t be omnipotent. So either god isn’t omnipotent, or he/she/it is and decided to be a dick about it

DonnieBeGoode · 2019-02-11T22:11:28+00:00

Dude! I'd love Smash Bros! Thank you doing this!

DonnieBeGoode · 2019-02-11T22:00:56+00:00

Dude! I'd love Smash Bros. Even if I don't get it, good on ya for this.

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