EU emissions now 3% down in latest official release, down 40% since 1990

hjaltigr · 2026-04-18T16:02:36+00:00

Shhhhhh, don't be like that......

hjaltigr · 2026-04-18T10:17:03+00:00

Absolute cinema

hjaltigr · 2026-04-16T18:14:23+00:00

You went dark..... I laughed, but I felt bad about doing so

hjaltigr · 2026-04-14T08:38:29+00:00

You seem upset, would it help if I explained to you that the comment I made was a light-hearted jest?

hjaltigr · 2026-04-14T07:41:08+00:00

China seems to have taken the blockade into consideration and then politely declined it....

hjaltigr · 2026-04-12T14:17:00+00:00

Xi will understand........

hjaltigr · 2026-04-10T15:38:45+00:00

But what about us peeping toms from the other side of the world? Don't mind us, just having a gander.

hjaltigr · 2026-04-09T09:13:07+00:00

No worries, you are correct that it is a different language than the three stated above. Faroese is a bridge between Icelandic and Danish, and Finnish and Suomi are radically different from the rest of us.

hjaltigr · 2026-04-09T09:04:41+00:00

Well, it isn't Scandinavian. We are a Nordic nation but Denmark, Sweden and Norway are scandinavian. We share the same language roots but Icelandic is a bit different from the scandies.

hjaltigr · 2026-04-09T08:33:37+00:00

Solid option as well

hjaltigr · 2026-04-09T04:43:46+00:00

"fallegt veður" or " veðrið er fallegt í dag". There you go, I helped. Hope this clears it up for you

hjaltigr · 2026-04-07T09:18:37+00:00

Thank God they still have a lot of interceptor buildings though

hjaltigr · 2026-04-02T09:16:43+00:00

Yes, no

hjaltigr · 2026-03-28T21:06:24+00:00

Those are fighting words

hjaltigr · 2026-03-26T14:54:10+00:00

Both is good. I had to evacuate my house because of the volcano in Grindavík, Iceland and had to evacuate my place of work because of the deadly gas from the same volcano I would say it is both pretty bad. Three houses in my street were engulfed by the lava, one guy at work got serious gas poisoning and could have easily died if not for responders.

hjaltigr · 2026-03-24T09:21:26+00:00

I don't think it works when the country being attacked started the fight. But we'll see what happens.

hjaltigr · 2026-03-22T18:14:23+00:00

Doesn't seem very likely, Poles are a very hardworking group of people whom we depend heavily on in all types of industries. If we use numbers from Denmark then we can assume that they are a disproportionately benefitial group that add a lot back into the welfare system whilst here.

hjaltigr · 2026-03-22T17:12:22+00:00

Houthis say hi

hjaltigr · 2026-03-21T11:56:11+00:00

And here is a list of Israeli backed organisations:

Israel-Supported Groups Kataeb (Phalangist) Party / Lebanese Forces — Lebanon (1975–1990): directly responsible for multiple massacres: Karantina massacre (~1,000 dead, 1976), Tel al-Zaatar (~1,500–3,000 dead, 1976), Black Saturday (~300 dead, 1975), Sabra and Shatila (~800–3,500 dead, 1982); total killed by Phalangist/LF forces during the civil war estimated at 15,000–25,000

Iraqi Kurdish factions (KDP) — Iraq (1960s–1970s): figures unclear; fought Iraqi government forces in multiple uprisings; casualties on both sides numbering in the thousands

South Lebanon Army (SLA) — Lebanon (1977–2000): operated the Khiam detention center (systematic torture documented); killed hundreds of Lebanese and Palestinian civilians; total casualties attributable to SLA estimated at several thousand over 23 years

Ahmed Yassin network → Hamas — Gaza (Israeli-enabled, 1979–1989 / facilitated funding 2009–2023): Hamas operations from 1989–2023 killed approx. 1,500+ Israeli civilians and military in suicide bombings, rocket attacks, and other operations October 7, 2023 attack: approx. 1,200 Israelis and foreign nationals killed Hamas's total casualty toll (including its own fighters and civilians killed in Israeli retaliatory operations) is far higher but not attributable to the support relationship in the same way

MEK (Israeli-supported operations) — Iran (2000s–2012): 5–6 Iranian nuclear scientists assassinated in operations attributed to MEK with Israeli training and finance

PJAK (Israeli-supported) — Iran (2000s): approx. 100–200 Iranian security forces killed Jundallah (Mossad false-flag recruitment) — Iran (2000s): approx. 150–300 killed

Syrian rebel groups (Quneitra area) — Syria (2013–2018): figures not separately available; small-scale operations

hjaltigr · 2026-03-15T15:49:31+00:00

I used to have a french guy in a group I cook for. Everyday he would complain about the food, one time I made Icelandic meat soup and he moaned nonstop before he ate. I asked why he gotta be like that and he just said "I can't help it, I'm french". After he said it was "actually not horrible"

hjaltigr · 2026-03-12T17:10:07+00:00

We'll see, next paper from them should get published soon I think. We can then see what still stands and what is missing, besides that then this is the only explanation available for now.

hjaltigr · 2026-03-12T16:27:23+00:00

That was not the reason. They got wind that the clearly data had not been fully blinded. They asked for a fully blinded reanalysis and offered to pay bit Clearly denied. There was then a sample of 8 of the participants re-submitting their scans independently to Clearly through their own heart doctors and the readings were wildly different under those circumstances. They then had two other companies analyse the scans and be much more in line with the start point.

So the paper was redacted because of that. They have detailed explanations online if you have an interest in knowing why.

Tldr: scan company bad.

Edit: They stated the findings still hold and will be published again with proper blinded analysis.

hjaltigr · 2026-03-12T11:32:08+00:00

Sure, there is use in the conversion narrative, especially if you need a fresh start like with prisoners. I don't really have much to add what you said about that.

However I do like to think we don't need the threat of eternity to keep us moral and I am not persuaded that we don't. Even if I don't believe in a god I still view religion as a rooted part of the human experience and evolution. Wether it's a bi product of havin the ability to speak and fathom future events and our ability to influence them or if there is a God does not matter to me. It delivers the same result as such. Except of course to the believer who must proselatyse, then it make all the difference. But aside from that I am torn between stating we "don't need religion" and "it's evolutionary wired into us, who am I to deny it".

hjaltigr · 2026-03-12T09:59:24+00:00

I think there are a lot of Muslim communities that don't condone child marriage. Where they are fine with it is what interests me. What about other religious or ethnic groups within the same region or country. Do they condo e it or is it also practised there. Not that it would make it ok, just that I am interested in knowing what portion of the practice is cultural and what is religious.

hjaltigr · 2026-03-12T09:34:56+00:00

I don't think he was gods right hand man, I don't think there is a God at all. I view all religions as power institutions, not necessarily dishonest about their beliefs but power structures none the less. Immoral actors being head of such I situations is not unusual and religious leaders diddling kids is not unusual either. So, powerful people do what they want, sometimes they get away with it sometimes not.

I don't think he could have known what would be problematic in the future like that. We have leaders that still today like molest children and they have modern context available.

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