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Friendly reminder that reducing/eliminating outdoor lighting is one of the most impactful changes an individual can take to reduce their ecological/climate footprint.
Do they have control over that? I assumed that was handled by feds
An official language is not a lingua franca. A lingua franca is a bridge language. It is –and can only be– the most common shared language between native tounges.
They could add Esperanto as the official language for government beuraceacy, road signs, laws, public schooling and anything else under the purview of the state. That doesn't automatically expand the utility of the language beyond those use cases.
The population of the EU is ~450 million people. Let's look at how that stacks up against language demographics today (combined first+second languages for 2025):
- English 1.5B
- Mandarin 1.2B
- Hindi 609M
- Spanish 558M [the biggest non-english European tounge]
If we take out the EU's 44% English speakers and make everybody speak Spanish (who doesn't already):
- English 1.3B
- Mandarin 1.2B
- Spanish 931M
- Hindi 609M
So putting aside the logistical and diplomatic difficulties, the math just doesn't add up.
You can't just declare a lingua franca 😂
Here is the thing about equality, everyone’s equal when they’re dead! — ~~Gavroche~~ Adam Smith
Are there any good price comparisons for Lego vs alternatives? I didn't look at the piece per piece price, but the non-liscensed sets seem comparable at best (~€10 for a small build).
The only things way out of proportion for Lego are licensed sets (Disney tax keeps going up) and minifigures (collectors blow a lot of money)
I always felt the Onion should have pivoted to actual news after the world jumped the shark. Seeing posts from them these days is just depressing...
Their definition of violence is anything harming white people or their property
What is there to learn that we don't already know? The USA jockeyed for geopolitical influence during the Cold War, the USSR dissolved and was captured by capitalist interests, and now the Russian Federation is waging wars to protect and project their own influence.
Getting into the nitty gritty is pointless if you truly believe all sides are bad actors. The discourse online is a hollow wedge issue; just countless whataboutisms egging the masses to pick sides and keep the focus off of the people looting and destroying everything.
I think the umbrage most people take is when that opposition to NATO turns into Russian apologism. Like you said yourself, it's a country owned and operated by capitalists waging wars against other capitalist interests. The conversation can end there, fuck both of them.
My phrasing was unclear, I meant the original "all time high" statement being a lie.
I think there's two sides to that coin. One is complacency that everything will fix itself, but the other is the doomerism extreme. Things like:
this is what Americans want
X% of Americans support [atrocity]
there's no political opposition
anything short of an armed insurrection is pointless [including records set by rallies, scale of protest movement, political engagement, etc...]
They might be true taken in one frame of reference, but being bombarded by them isn't effective as a call to action. Seeing only the negative gives the impression that no change is possible and resistance is suppressed as much as complacency.
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