Bubonic plague is still a thing.

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It is supposed to have a sync option but I don’t care about that.

I’m not denying the animals can be stressed, scared or both at the same time.

Physically, 100kg is nothing for them to carry. The creatures are extremely sturdy and strong.

But do I doubt bad people abuse the animals? No. The problems start with the tourists. Most people can’t understand or notice when an animal is not feeling fine with what is happening. But if a tourist is willing to pay whatever may be asked to experience a “genuine” local practice, it is prone to be colonized by people that do not care for the wellfare of the animals.

This may also signal stress or calcium deficiency or excess in the animal’s diet.

Hens over one year old tend to lay very thick and hard shelled eggs, that break unevenly and peel poorly, even with every single technic to boil it used, when a surplus of calcium is available.

Younger hens, below 6 months of age, tend to lay fin shelled eggs that stick more to the inner membrane.

Why is there a tartan over Portugal?

But do the elephants prefer them in return?

Donkeys are incredibly robust animals. 100kg is nothing for them. A horse is more fragile than a donkey.

We are about to see very interesting policies being enacted! Some of which are historically labelled and associated with communist agenda or non-free market economy theory.

And let’s hope we do not see war economy being put into place.

We will hear that urgent measures - temporarily, for sure - have to be put in action, in order to preserve the balance of the economy, save companies and jobs, and prevent social distress.

It will be as close as possible we will be, globally, of feeling what a true conflict is and, hopefully, will be enough to force paradigm shifts as previous wars did.

So buckle up, people. The screws are getting turned. Again.

And if you can, donate a coin towards Wikipedia. They deserve it

Start an example?

Considering consumer laws are pretty good in Europe and jurisprudence tends to set example in the euro-space, it may cause other countries to do the exact same thing.

The company may appeal. It may even win. But the bad publicity hurts. And if they lose, it gets even worse, as it will have to pay what it is being demanded.

Or not pay and get fines on top of that.

Your argument was spot on with what was said to defend the conversion of a deactivated refinery into a hydrogen plant.

This is a relatively small country, with a small population, so achieving energy independence makes complete sense. We have a very strong solar, wind and hydroelectric instalation already in place, enough that we have already several registered days where no fossil energy nor foreign bought was necessary to supply our demand. But it is common for 90% of our produced energy to be sold (cheaply) and the energy we use to be bought.

We are an example to all and yet the distrust towards renewables is generalized, to the point many even think the wind turbines cause heat trapping where the machines are installed, leading to fires and droughts.

It is disheartening. I remember reading that 10% of all the money invested annually into the oil industry could cause renewables to leap ten years forward in research.

Sincerely speaking, I hope your obviously correct argument wins when the usual suspects start talking about “alternatives”.

Investing into renewables, paired with batteries and green hydrogen production makes sense.

The news where it is constantly pointed that renewables are unreliable because the sun and wind are not constant while at the same time we are getting news that solar energy production alone is reaching new output record, above fossil fuels, are nothing if not loathsome.

Asylum would be much more entertaining. A re-ashed Truman show. 24/7 live on YT.

Ideally, there would be another floor beneath, to catch that water, with electric pumps. Well planned, it could even act as the waste water management system.

But it makes sense to put the generators there. Radianting heat rises.

Worst.

Drilling in the North Sea is ramping up. Seriously. This means every country with suspected oil reserves is throwing money into a defunct technology instead of doubling down on renewables.

My country had a plan in motion to set up a green hydrogen plant, which was planned to act as an energy reserve for Europe. I fear we will see it completely forgotten and instead the plans of surveying our coast for alledged oil reserves to come back. In the 2000’s, early surveys pointed towards reserves just 30km off our shores possibly larger than the entire stock of Venezuela and Mid-East, combined, and easily harvestable.

Nobody needs this.

Magneto’s powers are stupid

Generalized world wide.

This is grim and a lot of dirty politians want it back.

Disgusting.

My country allowed foreign cinema “only” with subtitles because most of the population was illiterate and the idea was to keep viewership of such media low without resorting to very harsh censorship, although it existed at the time.

It backfired so bad the general population developed a knack for acquiring foreign languages, through those media. Being a latin language country we score very high on the domain of english as a foreign language. Many of us also speak a bit of french and a large majority knows at least how to curse in spanish to return the love.

It was a common recommendation when I was a kid to expose children to non-dubbed media to develop foreingn language and reading skills.

And I can personally vouch for this, as I started developing basic english domain very early through cartoons and movies and the need to follow the subtitles helped me develop my reading skill and speed.

Regarding the quality of dubbing, I can only say something always gets lost in translation. More recently, I’ve followed a couple of series, both subtitled and dubbed, and the end result is completely different. Subtitled, you can follow the emotions in the original actors voices and postures. No lag, no difference, no adaptation. Dubbed, it often feels like watching a completely different show. And the voice over actors are professionals, obviously. But it is common for the voice over team to take some liberties.

[…] the other choice is better

That’s your choice and point of view.

I enjoy watching a work in it’s most original form, even if I can’t completely or even not at all grasp what is being said, I can still infer emotions from the tone of voice of the actor.

There is a learning curve.