Or staying up longer than you should… or looking at screens too long… or…

Oy, no need to call me out like that… I should turn off my phone.

Wasn’t this on an episode of Trash Future?

“Bedankt voor uw stem op Hugo de Jonge.”

That man’s pedantry is truly beyond parody.

Ik denk dat vrijwel iedereen kan leren dit te doen ongeacht intelligentie, zolang je maar een grondig gebrek aan empathisch vermogen en een beetje charisma hebt. Je hoeft alleen (dood)zieke mensen keihard voor te liegen en als ze wanhopig genoeg zijn waait het geld zo binnen.

Same as it ever was!

Beef jewelry?

Truly a man of culture.

Yes, power output can be regulated in nuclear energy. It is, however, not economical to do so most off the time. Building a nuclear reactor is a massive capital investment, so any time you’re not running at 100% you are increasing your payback time, which leads to more expensive electricity.

That technology is nowhere near mature enough to provide a solution to the mentioned problems in the next decade or two.

I agree with the comic. I do however disagree with the title. I think the Hamas’ attack shouldn’t to be called “resistance”, just as Israel’s response shouldn’t be called “self defense”.

Well, if you don’t care if either party wins, vote third party. However, if you really dislike the idea of one party winning over the other, despite hating both, you should really think about how that vote is actually going to affect the future.

That’s not the way it should be, but that’s the way it is.

Depends on the voting system tbf. In FPTP, unless one party is extremely unpopular, it often supports your political opponents when you vote third party.

This is the tunnelbak where the main protests are. The speed limit is actually 70 km/h as shown by the sign visible in the street view. It is about 500 meters from where the A12 ends at the corner of the Malieveld.

I think it is unfair to describe “holding a pre-announced protest” as “jumping into traffic”. I imagine they take care to do it safely.

I think it should also be noted that the road is located directly between parliament and the ministry of economic affairs and climate.

The EU supreme court or the EU data protection agency, roughly.

The issue being that of those 17 nuclear plants, the youngest was completed over 30 years before Fukushima. Germany had stopped construction of new nuclear plants way before 2011.

I agree they shouldn’t have closed ones already built of course. That was indeed a knee jerk reaction.

It takes only 5 years to build a nuclear power plant, (…)

I agree with most of the comment, but this is just an oversimplification. I’m sure that you can build a nuclear power plant in 5 years, if you have the requisite infrastructure, engineers and knowledge. Germany did not have any of those in sufficient amount to build anywhere near enough nuclear reactors between the decision to switch to coal & gas in around 2011 and the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Even France wouldn’t be capable of that in such a short amount of time.

Had they made that decision 30 years ago, sure, but in such short time? No way.

Porque no los dos?

If profit drives Putin, why Ukraine and not another neighbour who hasn’t been courting NATO and accepting western money, weapons, training, etc since at least circa 2014? The answer is because the US chose Ukraine to provoke Russia.

Well, there’s really no reason to use hard power on any country that hasn’t been courting NATO. You can just use soft power (Belarus, Kazakhstan) in that case. Precisely when this ceases to work and a country does starts approaching Russia’s rivals, Russia appears to employ their military power (Moldova, Georgia and Ukraine).

Well, to be fair, it is a depiction of a bicycle.