[-] solo@fedia.io 6 points 1 week ago

I totally agree with everything you said :)

I just created an account in PieFed and it looks very interesting because there is the option to create your own feeds! I had the wrong impression that you can only choose from the existing ones. This is so exciting!!!

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The European Union on Friday threw its support behind the world’s top war crimes court after the United States sanctioned four of its judges in retaliation for having issued an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and for opening an alleged war crimes case into US troops in Afghanistan.

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The European Union on Friday threw its support behind the world’s top war crimes court after the United States sanctioned four of its judges in retaliation for having issued an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and for opening an alleged war crimes case into US troops in Afghanistan.

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Scandals are piling up for Sánchez, but the opposition is split: the Popular Party calls for protests while Vox pushes a likely doomed no-confidence vote.

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Thousands of tiny nematode worms can join up to form tentacle-like towers that can straddle large gaps or hitch rides on larger animals

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Brazil is one of the world's top 10 emitters of greenhouse gases, contributing about 3% of global emissions, according to the nonprofit Climate Watch. Almost half of those emissions come from deforestation, making efforts to halt it critical to meeting Brazil's commitments under the 2015 Paris Agreement.

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Climate experts such as University of Pennsylvania scientist Michael Mann have for years argued that carbon capture and storage is a false solution to the climate crisis that allows oil and gas companies to suck up huge amounts of public money while continuing to pump fossil fuels.

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[-] solo@fedia.io 3 points 1 week ago

And what would be the gain for the UK Parliament to use fearmongering tactics for something like that?

[-] solo@fedia.io 2 points 1 week ago

From UK Parliament Committees:

Sellafield’s race against time: nuclear waste clean-up not going quickly enough, PAC warns

Report highlights latest picture on delays and cost rises in c.£136bn 100-year nuclear decommissioning project.

The PAC’s report finds that Sellafield Ltd has missed most of its annual targets for retrieving waste from several buildings on the site, [...] Sellafield Ltd’s underperformance will likely remain extremely hazardous for longer.

Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown MP, Chair of the Committee, said: “The intolerable risks presented by Sellafield’s ageing infrastructure are truly world-class. When visiting the site, it is impossible not to be struck by the fact that one can be standing in what is surely one of the most hazardous places in the world. This is why we expect Sellafield’s management of its assets, and the delivery of the project to decommission it, to be similarly world-class. Unfortunately, our latest report is interleaved with a number of examples of failure, cost overruns, and continuing safety concerns. Given the tens of billions at stake and the dangers onsite to both the environment and human life, this is simply not good enough.

Edit: Since in the report they say the witnesses told us that the radioactive particles are “contained” in the soil and do not pose a risk to the public I thought it would be appropriate to say that at least they used brackets. The degradation of soil and groundwater needs to be taken into consideration as well. And let's not forget the impacts on local biodiversity.

[-] solo@fedia.io 5 points 1 week ago

Nuclear is considered 'clean' in terms of greenhouse gas emissions. Radioactive waste is not clean in other terms and their disposal is highly problematic. It replaces one problem with another.. France is a great example of this problem because they are very advanced in nuclear energy. They struggle with this and smuggle their nuclear waste to other places in the world.

As for the 'safe' part, this is also debatable.

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Exploitation of the high seas risks doing irreversible damage to biodiversity, climate stability and ocean equity. A consensus must be built now to save them.

[-] solo@fedia.io 6 points 1 week ago

I believe there is no reason to compare. Different kind of 'teribility', let's say.

It leaches enough radioactive water into the ground to fill an Olympic sized swimming pool every three years. There is no way to stop the leak until the silo can be emptied, which takes decades.

Sellafield was formerly known as Windscale. In 1957 it was the site of Britain’s worst nuclear disaster.

[-] solo@fedia.io 4 points 1 week ago

Fair enough! Now that I think about it, maybe I should have specified that this is an online approach. It includes finding them, reading them and having a dictionary for translating them. Then, at some point, you learn them by heart. Also, I don't think that just doing this is enough, but it somehow speeds up the initial process, especially for speaking.

[-] solo@fedia.io 8 points 1 week ago

I read many great approaches here. One thing that I have the impression it was not mentioned is song lyrics. It's like syntax and vocabulary get somehow absorbed or something. And it's fun!

[-] solo@fedia.io 3 points 1 week ago

I totally see what you mean. Very mixed feelings about this.

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Carbon stored in landscapes for thousands of years is leaching back into the atmosphere via rivers, and human activity may be to blame

“There is a possibility that we’re disturbing these long-term carbon stores, and so, as a result, we’re seeing more old carbon coming out through this pathway,”

For example, rising temperatures caused by climate change could be triggering the release of carbon from thawing permafrost, or accelerating the rate of rock weathering. Other activities, such as the draining of peatlands or drying out of wetlands, could also be contributing. Dean stresses that more work is needed to determine the extent to which human activity is driving this process, and how the release of carbon is changing over time.

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[-] solo@fedia.io 4 points 1 year ago

In Portugal, the drug decriminalization experiment is going pretty well last time I checked.

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