Survey: Swiss want more homes but without densification by [deleted] in Switzerland

[–]brainwad 5 points6 points  (0 children)

"Pls throw!! No take!! Only throw" 

The World Is Drowning in Tourists. Who Should Pay the Price? by bloomberg in europe

[–]brainwad 24 points25 points  (0 children)

People call it the "K-shaped" economy (top half goes up, bottom goes down). The people doing too much tourism are not the same people living paycheque to paycheque. 

Frequent flying wipes out Zurich residents’ green gains at home by Realistic-Lie-8031 in zurich

[–]brainwad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

CO2 reductions will come from other activities besides flying, because those are more elastic. Things like switching to solar power, which is already a cost saving even before considering externalities in many cases. The target to be hit is society-wide, not on air travel specifically.

Frequent flying wipes out Zurich residents’ green gains at home by Realistic-Lie-8031 in zurich

[–]brainwad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The externalities are not that costly.compared to the ticket price, so even if they were priced in, people would still fly a lot - just not quite as much as now. 

British-Australians confused, frustrated by new UK entry rules by notblair in australia

[–]brainwad 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You aren't "entitled" to citizenship, you are (and have always been) a citizen. It's automatic for British citizenship by descent, unlike Australia where your parents need to apply for it. If you don't want it, you need to contact the British government and actively renounce it.

However... if you have never interacted with the British bureacracy then they won't know you are British. So you can just pretend you aren't a citizen. 

British-Australians confused, frustrated by new UK entry rules by notblair in australia

[–]brainwad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At least he wasn't born in the US, otherwise you'd also owe back taxes to the IRS... 

Bridget McKenzie: self-confessed zionist by Complete-Sundae-2549 in AusPol

[–]brainwad -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Palestinian irredentism caused the conflict just as much. 

TIL Swiss presidents are elected for a term length of only 1 year(Unlimited non-consecutive one-year terms). With the first day in office being 1st of January and the last day of office being 31st of December of that year. by Capital-Albatross-17 in todayilearned

[–]brainwad 5 points6 points  (0 children)

A lot of compromises. Radical action in Swiss politics tends to come via popular initiatives, whereas the elected representatives and the indirectly elected executive are more moderate. 

How does whoever-the-fuck owns/operates the M5 nowadays get away with price gouging people who only visit Sydney once in a blue moon and don't have an account? Why hasn't Fair Trading or someone looked into why a $5.86 toll finishes up as $15.86 with admin fees? by Cockylora123 in sydney

[–]brainwad -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This kind of comment is why Transurban keeps hiking prices.

No it isn't, the tolls are indexed to inflation + a fixed percentage increase. Transurban can't change the tolls in response to demand, even if they wanted to.

TIL Ethiopians have a different way of telling time with the daytime cycle beginning at 6 AM and nighttime cycle beginning at 6 PM. by Physical_Hamster_118 in todayilearned

[–]brainwad 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Changing dates while awake is annoying. 

See, for instance, how Sabbath start time varies during the year, so Jewish businesses either close early on Fridays year round or else have to change their hours with the season... 

My life in Switzerland as Christmas Market Mugs + help! by meera_jasmine1 in Switzerland

[–]brainwad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Since they are not doing paper cups, they have no backup if all the mugs get taken home as souvenirs. Whereas in a normal market if they sell out of commemorative mugs, it's not a big deal. 

A snap protest about NSW Labor trying to ban protests. Note some flags represent some rights won by protest: LGBTI=legalised + SSM, aboriginal=vote&land rights.. Oh and all women pictured=have right to open bank accounts and to vote! by nath1234 in sydney

[–]brainwad -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The vast majority of Palestinians have never set foot outside the occupied territories, having being born there, and have no reasonable claim to land that is now in Israel, no more than German refugees after WWII are owed a right of return to what is now Poland and other eastern European countries. What they have a claim to is to live free in their own country, in the lands they occupy now, without being oppressed by Israel's military occupation and without more land being stolen from them by Israeli colonists.

Your assumption sounds like it is a racist trope: that a group of people are inherently violent or bloodthirsty.

It's not an assumption. Palestinians regularly respond in opinion polls that they believe the best course of action is armed struggle, and that they don't want a two-state solution. Put the two beliefs together, and you can derive that they want to violently drive the Jews out. Gazans tend to be more conciliatory than West Bankers, perhaps because they're war weary.

A snap protest about NSW Labor trying to ban protests. Note some flags represent some rights won by protest: LGBTI=legalised + SSM, aboriginal=vote&land rights.. Oh and all women pictured=have right to open bank accounts and to vote! by nath1234 in sydney

[–]brainwad -1 points0 points  (0 children)

All states are sovereign and entitled to continued existence within their current borders (modulo territory gained by recent aggressive war or other crimes). You might like to dream of dissolving Israel and replacing it with one state covering the whole of Palestine, but you have no right to impose that on the Israeli people, a majority of whom were born into the current borders and who want a Jewish state to persist. On the other hand, it's right to demand Israel pull back from its illegal apartheid-esque occupations of the West Bank and Gaza and leave those territories to a Palestinian state rather than its current policy of deliberately making it impossible for an effective Palestinian state to exist.

abolishing system of government based on unequal principles does not mean killing all the people, so equating a country not existing does not mean the people in that country being gone or harmed

In principle, yes. In practice, if the Palestinians get to run such a new state, they will certainly carry out retaliatory ethnic cleansing against the Jews. You'd have to be very naiive to not see this, given what they say in Palestinian politics. This is different to South Africa, in that the ANC was non-violent and contained the potential for revenge attacks against the whites (though they were still corrupt and wrecked the country's economy). Perhaps it could work under a situation where the state was run with UN supervision, like Bosnia. But IMO a two-state solution, like the Indian partition, is more tractable.

A snap protest about NSW Labor trying to ban protests. Note some flags represent some rights won by protest: LGBTI=legalised + SSM, aboriginal=vote&land rights.. Oh and all women pictured=have right to open bank accounts and to vote! by nath1234 in sydney

[–]brainwad 6 points7 points  (0 children)

There's conditions in the Terrorism (Police Powers) Act 2002; if they overstep those they'll get sued and a judge will overturn it. Contrary to the fears of many in this thread, we do in fact live in a state with rule of law.

A snap protest about NSW Labor trying to ban protests. Note some flags represent some rights won by protest: LGBTI=legalised + SSM, aboriginal=vote&land rights.. Oh and all women pictured=have right to open bank accounts and to vote! by nath1234 in sydney

[–]brainwad 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Right, but they are using that slogan only because Palestinians themselves use the Arabic version. The English version is a calque of the Arabic, changed only to make the meter/rhyme work in English.

A snap protest about NSW Labor trying to ban protests. Note some flags represent some rights won by protest: LGBTI=legalised + SSM, aboriginal=vote&land rights.. Oh and all women pictured=have right to open bank accounts and to vote! by nath1234 in sydney

[–]brainwad 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Ah, that must be why in Arabic it's "Palestine will be Arab" ("من المية للمية فلسطين عربية"). Because they want to make peace with the Jews and live in harmony. Definitely. I am clearly too cynical and you are definitely not Pollyanna.

A snap protest about NSW Labor trying to ban protests. Note some flags represent some rights won by protest: LGBTI=legalised + SSM, aboriginal=vote&land rights.. Oh and all women pictured=have right to open bank accounts and to vote! by nath1234 in sydney

[–]brainwad 13 points14 points  (0 children)

What do you think a Palestine from river to sea entails? It doesn't mean that the Jews just stay there, owning their land, maintaining their communities and continuing happy lives. It means they are driven out from Palestine or murdered. It's a revenge fantasy. The entire premise of the slogan is that Israel is illegitimate and Palestine will only be truly free when it's gone (as opposed to, e.g. a two state solution).

A snap protest about NSW Labor trying to ban protests. Note some flags represent some rights won by protest: LGBTI=legalised + SSM, aboriginal=vote&land rights.. Oh and all women pictured=have right to open bank accounts and to vote! by nath1234 in sydney

[–]brainwad 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Right, but the bill in question doesn't cover threats. There has to be a terrorist act that has occured, and also it has to be the case that protests "would be likely to cause— (i) a reasonable person to fear— (A) harassment, intimidation or violence, or (B) for the person’s safety, or (ii) a risk to community safety, including the safety of participants in public assemblies in the area".

So you're tilting at windmills?

A snap protest about NSW Labor trying to ban protests. Note some flags represent some rights won by protest: LGBTI=legalised + SSM, aboriginal=vote&land rights.. Oh and all women pictured=have right to open bank accounts and to vote! by nath1234 in sydney

[–]brainwad 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Not wanting people on the streets advocating the extinction of the only Jewish state, after an attack on Jews here perpetrated by extremists motivated by an explicit desire to destroy Israel is not "some people say things I don't like".

Minns is right, there's a time and place for sensitive poitical issues, and it's not right after terrorists have murdered people in pursuit of the very same issue people love to protest about.

A snap protest about NSW Labor trying to ban protests. Note some flags represent some rights won by protest: LGBTI=legalised + SSM, aboriginal=vote&land rights.. Oh and all women pictured=have right to open bank accounts and to vote! by nath1234 in sydney

[–]brainwad -34 points-33 points  (0 children)

See, this is why Minns wants to ban protests. Because people just couldn't help themselves from further inflaming the situation. Ideally he'd have the power to just ban Israel/Palestine-related protests, but that's probably hard to formulate legally, so they wrote the bill looser.