RunawayFixer

Redheads are probably less genetically diverse than the rest of the population, iirc it's mostly caused by a recessive gene. So if someone is a redhead, then the chances are high that they share other special genes with other redheads.

Africans on the other hand are more genetically diverse than people from other continents. It's possible that some African population groups require different levels of medications, but you won't be able to tell those population groups apart by the color of their skin.

Pickups have their uses in Europe as well. Where I live, it seems like most pest controllers (rat catchers, an easy to clean open trunk is probably very nice) and land surveyors prefer them over other vehicles. They all use smaller sensible size pickups from Japanese brands though.

I think I've spotted only 2 different modern USA oversized pickups in traffic. Both full black, never a speck of dirt on them, always tailgating someone. They are vastly outnumbered by the sensible pickups, but you just can't miss spotting them in traffic.

Thanks for looking it up. It does look a lot less bad than I expected.

Were those pledges from before or after February 2022?

February 2022 is when Russia expanded their invasion of Ukraine. A lot of the gas that Russia is not exporting to the eu anymore, is now being flared off instead, and I wonder if that is included in those predictions.

Do you have examples of this stuff happening in continental European countries? I'd love to jump down that rabbit hole.

In the past I've read descriptions of systematic bad practices in the industrialized Uk, but I can't recall reading about similar things happening in other western European countries. Nothing systematic anyhow. I'd image that the french would have had a(nother) revolution if anyone had tried that stuff with their food.

Yes, both are in the nature park "high fens", it's less than an hour walking between the 2. Baraque Michel is about on the edge of the park, Signal de Botrange is somewhere in the middle. The High Fens is pretty flat, so even though it's a few km away, there's not that much height difference between the 2.

I think that if food delivery was treated how my last postal package was treated, then all food would be arriving as a soup, or maybe as a goulash.

It's a self-coup, so people are correct in calling it a coup. It's still in progress, so it's not clear how much power the white house will end up usurping, but with what they've done so far, it's imo already enough to call it a coup.

From Wikipedia: A self-coup or coup from the top, is a form of coup d'état in which a political leader, having come to power through legal means, stays in power through illegal means through the actions of themselves and/or their supporters. The leader may dissolve or render powerless the national legislature and unlawfully assume extraordinary powers. Other measures may include annulling the nation's constitution, suspending civil courts, and having the head of government assume dictatorial powers.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-coup

The wiki article also contains a long list of other historical self coups. Germany in 1933 is the most famous example.

Parliamentary democracy with a monarch as non-executive head of state. So being monarch is a mostly ceremonial role, with the seldom used power to temporarily veto or morally object against bad ideas. Juan Carlos saved the Spanish democracy in 1982 for example.

The eu commission warning was officially only aimed at their internal services, it wasn't a mandate that all organisations within the eu should stop advertising on x. Though it wouldn't surprise me if it comes to a total ban in the eu, X is already under investigation for disinformation.

In a system where men and women are treated equally (double surnames, same parental leave etc), it might no longer be needed for central governments to register people's sex, only the healthcare system would need to know. I'm just thinking out loud here, this might be a bad idea for other reasons.

Years ago my university restaurant was modernized to have different kinds of food counters. After the modernization they had 2 problems with the salad bar: one problem was that some people were ordering meat at the grill counter and then piling salad on top to hide the meat, but more common was people building small salad towers, enough to feed multiple people with 1 plate. Eventually the restaurant resorted to billing the salads based on weight, which mostly solved the problem, but it also lead to a drastic drop in the consumption of tomatoes and cucumber.