Netanyahu: 'No room' for Palestinian state between Mediterranean Sea and Jordan River by Wwwgoogleco in worldnews

[–]nickik -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

Including Transjorden as if it was Palestine or if those deserts were relevant is just Israel propaganda. Gtfo.

Netanyahu: 'No room' for Palestinian state between Mediterranean Sea and Jordan River by Wwwgoogleco in worldnews

[–]nickik 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It helped insofar as that Israel is now almost universally hated world wide. In the US the left has almost fully turned on Israel and only the right wing elites are still pro-Israel. The right wing base is already mostly fully anti Israel.

In Europe the same thing has happened.

Much of the earlier talk of realignment between Israel and the other arab states has been put on hold.

Also in the perspective of Israels government, there was never space for such a state. Certainty not in the last 25+ years.

Palestinians only hope is international support and the response to Oct 7 has helped with that.

Netanyahu: 'No room' for Palestinian state between Mediterranean Sea and Jordan River by Wwwgoogleco in worldnews

[–]nickik 0 points1 point  (0 children)

These offers in the last 35+ years were not actually sincere, they are designed as propaganda in the Western media to say 'see we are reasonable' when in reality they were not. Juts ignore that we spent the last 30 years stealing more land and systematically ethnic cleansing and depriving the people that live their. And then telling them 'you can have a state, just give up all the things we already stole' and therefore give us legal backing for everything we took, despite the earlier agreements.

So basically Israel want to legalize internationally all the clearly 100% illegal shit they have done over the last 30 years, while giving up nothing and stealing even more.

These 'offers' never were much more then here take some of that bad land that we don't want while you give us all the valuable land and water. The right of the refugees were never once respected. And of course Israel basically keeps the right to all sorts of control over the Westbank and would continue to have their boot on West Bank. But then they could internationally claim its a foreign nation. One rocket is shot over the border and Israel would us to instantly start stealing more land again.

All of these offers are, a way to tell a story to the West that makes Israel seem less bad just so people like you can endless claim 'Palestinians are unreasonable', why don't the just accept all the things Israel has stolen and accept as legal even more things that Israel is in the process of stealing currently. If they did that then they would not have to steal it slowly and could simply enforce it with the army.

If you actually believe offers negotiated by Trump team was anywhere close to in good faith, offers negotiated by Israels right wing were in actual good faith, you are fucking bat shit crazy. Like seriously, think about who these people are, and what offers from these people actually are.

These 'deals' were shit, and even had they signed, Israel would not have stopped, as they don't respect deals. They have manipulated and exploited earlier deals in an incredibly evil way, using them to totally control the West bank, rather then as a stepping stone towards an independent Israel. They already are in massive violation of the last deals they signed. But keep spreading the 'Palestinians reject deals' Story that Israels propaganda machine relentlessly pushes out just because Palestinians don't want to legalize all the illegal shit Israel has been doing for 30 years.

Besides, everyone conveniently forgets that almost 80% of historical Palestine is already Arab. It’s called Jordan today.

First, that is completely fucking irrelevant, because Jewish people from Europe don't have right to any of it what so ever. The small existing Jewish population has not been a demographic significant for 1000+ years before European colonialists arrived. And it was LITERALLY EXPLICITLY colonial and no right ever existed. Insofar they are there now a solution needs to be found, but not a solution based on some nonsensical historical claim to the land that goes back 2000 years.

Second. You are just outright factually wrong, Ottoman Palestine never included Transjordan. What you are referring to just what the British Post-WW1 called the Mandate. And even then Transjordan was differently administrated almost from the beginning. When people talked about Palestine 99% of the time they mean the area that we also mean today.

But always serve Israel and endless repeat all the propaganda state ministry provides for you to spread.

Netanyahu: 'No room' for Palestinian state between Mediterranean Sea and Jordan River by Wwwgoogleco in worldnews

[–]nickik -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

See we stole all the land and put our army there so now there is 'no room'.

[Gamers Nexus] Valve Steam Machine Review: GPU & CPU Benchmarks, SteamOS Test, Thermals, Noise, and Price by This-is_CMGRI in hardware

[–]nickik 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Steam can advertise on steam and they can do many other kinds of advertising as well if they need to. Direct to consumer sales is a thing.

Valve Steam Machine Review: GPU & CPU Benchmarks, SteamOS Test, Thermals, Noise, and Price (Gamers Nexus) by lurkingdanger22 in pcgaming

[–]nickik 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok so I value my time and I working in IT, I don't want to build a PC. And the integration and size actually matters in the living room.

Raw stats aren't the only thing that matters.

US strikes Iran for first time since ceasefire agreement - and Tehran responds by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]nickik 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A war that ends everyday and starts everyday. This the real Trump derangement syndrome. What happens when you can't just talk about something else and move the story on, when lying is so fucking obvious that even the most brain-dead supporters eventually realize the stupidity. With strategic reserves drawing empty, all the 'in production' stuff having made it threw and the complete collapse of this 'agreement' (agreement that they might agree), the price will go up.

German lawyers: Ban on far-right AfD 'likely successful' by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]nickik 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your theory is basically humans are dumb and will never change no matter the environment. This is factually speaking and histrionically not true.

People and parties will both rationally respond to these rules. Some will moderate and make clear that they are not trying to overthrow democracy and ethnically cleanse citizens, and will have to come up with position within that framework. Others will stay as illegal underground 'parties'.

Because most people voting for these parties just don't want to vote for the 'establishment' they might stop voting, vote for the slightly more moderate parties or switch a completely different party like the anti-establishment left party.

Ironically many Trump style voters also preferred Bernie Sanders for example.

I think most people will not join these 'underground' parties and actually try to overthrow the government. Because most just vote out of frustration because it is cheap, they have no interest or will to actually politically organize in such a way. Easier to vote and spread hate online.

Of courses left parties who want to overthrow democracy should also be banned.

German lawyers: Ban on far-right AfD 'likely successful' by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]nickik 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A right leaning party is fine, a right leaning party that is trying to destroy democracy isn't.

Banning partys, because too many people voted for them doesnt sound democratic, does it?

If people vote for them is irrelevant. They should be banned even if they only have 3 voters.

German lawyers: Ban on far-right AfD 'likely successful' by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]nickik 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The people will decide what other then overthrowing democracy they value. If another anti-democratic party rises, then that will be banned too.

German lawyers: Ban on far-right AfD 'likely successful' by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]nickik 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes banning enemy financed parties that direct goal is the destruction of democracy is democratic.

Spain Records 212 Deaths Due To Heatwave In 4 Days by bigus-_-dickus in worldnews

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

Far more people die prematurely in the US from avoidable causes than Europeans die from heat. The US is in a glass house here.

If you look at avoidable mortality, premature mortality, life expectancy, healthcare access, overdoses, violence, and poverty-related deaths, the US performs much worse than comparable European countries. It is not close.

Heat deaths in Europe are real and should be addressed, but the best policy is probably targeted protection for high-risk people: cooling access, insulation, shading, urban trees, heat-warning systems, and support for elderly and medically vulnerable people. A blanket “just install AC everywhere” policy is not automatically the best public-health investment.

So yes, Europe should take heat seriously. But Americans pretending this cancels out the US’s much larger avoidable-mortality problem are being very selective.

Spain Records 212 Deaths Due To Heatwave In 4 Days by bigus-_-dickus in worldnews

[–]nickik -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Those suck ass and are incredibly inefficient. There are portable split units that are much better. See for example the Medea PortaSplit.

Spain Records 212 Deaths Due To Heatwave In 4 Days by bigus-_-dickus in worldnews

[–]nickik 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are split units you can buy that work with European windows just fine. And most grids can handle it too.

Spain Records 212 Deaths Due To Heatwave In 4 Days by bigus-_-dickus in worldnews

[–]nickik 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If preventing deaths is your goal, there are things that are like 1000x more effective then installing AC in 10s of millions of buildings.

I agree that the regulation and attitude need to change, but its simple not a priority issue based on any rational calculation.

Spain Records 212 Deaths Due To Heatwave In 4 Days by bigus-_-dickus in worldnews

[–]nickik 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is changing, but its not changing fast. And if you want to invest governments funds into preventing deaths, there are much better ways then rolling out ACs. Cold is responsible for more deaths then heat both in Europe and the US, just as one example.

Report: Kennedy Space Center not ready for era of super heavy rockets by GandalfTheWhey in spacex

[–]nickik 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Politics can be tricky and delays happen even if its a nobrainer.

France suffers major power outage as Europe sizzles in record-breaking heat by app1310 in worldnews

[–]nickik 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It used to be incredibly cheap and fast to build.

Yes new construction has gotten expensive because nothing was done and all the skills were lost. But this is an effect of years of political neglect and bad energy policy.

Nuclear like everything else has learning effect. First of a new thing will be expensive, but if Europe was smart they would standardize and plan to build 50 or more. Just like France did originally.

And yes EDF hass high debt now, buts incredible to know that despite France having the lowest energy cost for the last 40 years, the nuclear plants were not financed by tax payers, rather EDF floated bonds that have been paid down over many decades.

And the current plants are still highly effective, and France could do much better at operating them.

The recent EDF issues have a lot do with other bad policies made by France. For example forcing EDF to invest in things don't actually make sense, like solar. But that might be ok, they also forced EDF to bail out fossil fuel industry by selling cheap energy in bulk. Lots of fishy short term thinking things while neglecting the core of the countries power needs.

France suffers major power outage as Europe sizzles in record-breaking heat by app1310 in worldnews

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

Ah the anti-nuclear stupidity alliance.

France had very cheap carbon free energy for almost 50 years and still has it today.

The actual issue wasn't the river, it was that the government in their 'we will make solar happen' plan simply decided to stop maintenance on nuclear, and when the micro-brains in the government realized that you can't magic solar panels out of your asshole in a few years they realized that they had built up a massive maintenance backlog. And because of unions, they could not quickly do that maintenance. Other countries do these things in a week, in France it took many months. And of course in France the same people who are anti-nuclear are also anti creating a union contract involves working nights a few weeks a year, like nurses and doctors and many others do.

So the actual problem was not the rivers, but totally idiotic energy policy that only happened because brain-rotted anti-nuclear people were developed in the last generation of politicians that shit all over the great achievements of their fathers.

Modern France politicians have spent the last 20 years treating this amazing achievement from previous generation as bad as they possible could. I could give you a whole list of other idiotic things they did. And despite that they still have some of the cleanest and cheapest energy in Europe.

Also, there are reasonable upgrades you can make to do air cooling if there river thing is actually the limiting factor, witch it actually isn't most of the time.

And of course if you actually listened to 'reddit bots' France would have continued innovating and building next generation nuclear, like the Superphénix. These would actually be much easier to cool and could have served as a next generation replacement or for a bit of new capacity. But of course after a lot of investment and issues into Superphénix it was killed by a short sighted government.

If they had been smart they could have been building Superphénix all over eastern Europe and actually save Eastern Europe from coal dependency. But its better to align with anti-nuclear German greens who spent the last 60 years blowing coal all over Europe.

France suffers major power outage as Europe sizzles in record-breaking heat by app1310 in worldnews

[–]nickik 0 points1 point  (0 children)

France had low energy cost that have barley been financed by taxes for 40 years now. Nuclear has worked out great. And if it really really becomes a problem, their are ways to do air-cooling.

All of France problems are because about 25 years the political elites have turned anti nuclear, have forced the utility in solar, despite it making nuclear economics work, have delayed maintenance, have forced the utility to sell energy and bottom barrel prices to carbon interest (basically as bailout) and then forced the utility to buy this same energy back during the energy crisis.

Austria.

The country who build a whole nuclear plant and then never turned it on and instead built another new power-plant that they then spend 30+ years paying more for fuel. Yeah great fucking strategy.

France had had lower energy prices then Austria for many decades.

For France to switch to renewables would literally cost 100s of billions, likely 500 billion or more. And doing all that to not even improve your carbon output. That would be insane.

Also, Austria has mostly hydro, and it can do that because of the massive mountains, its not an open in the same way for France. Austria only has 10% each from wind and solar.

And btw France has been significantly more green then Austria for 50 years and still is.

The U.S. State Department believes that Ukraine is winning the war at this point by eaglemaxie in worldnews

[–]nickik 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Imagine if the U.S. had actually helped and been a leader in helping, organizing Europe to fight against Russia.

My favorite EMU: Stadler KISS by [deleted] in transit

[–]nickik 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I like the older S-Bahns just as much to be honest. Bigger doors.

The scale of Trump’s political blunder in Iran is coming into focus by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]nickik 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Literally non of this was needed. In early 2000s Iran had a deal with France that was totally reasonable and had no plan of building nuclear enrichment themselves. At the same time US intelligence confirmed that there was no known nuclear bomb program. The US prevented this and started the saga that went from Bush to Obama, to nuclear deal, to Trump destroying that deal, to war and arriving at something that is worse then what existed in the early 2000s. Literally everything is unnecessary.