Could also be they expect a part to not survive. And if the price to buy/source them is very low compared to the price they can be sold for, that might also make it attractive to smuggle more. But still, can imagine it takes a while to sell 1,500 spiders.

I hope the French word has different connotations, feared feels like the wrong word.

I’d argue it be clearer between round brackets instead of behind a comma like states in the U.S.:

Paris (France) over Paris, France.

Without having a tough response ready to roll out, i think reaching a “fair deal” will be a lot harder anyway.

Nice, i subscribed. Have to see in a few editions if i’ll remain but might have something interesting i’d have missed otherwise in it.

My personal opinion is similar, not because i feel resent or think Brits dont deserve a good deal, but because i think EU should always work in the interest of the EU as a whole and that is having the UK having less exceptions they had before. But i also hope the EU won’t play too hard to get, and work to prevent they delay the breunion decades beyond what it would take if they agree with a part of UKs conditions.

Was just about to paste some text i copied from the article here when i saw your comment; it seems your thoughts are in line with how many people think. Considering the Brits do not appear to be happy about those conditions, I guess a breunion or brejoining won’t be happening very soon:

Only one-fifth of respondents across the four biggest EU members, from 19% in Italy and France to 21% in Spain and 22% in Germany, felt the UK should be allowed return as if it had never left, with 58-62% saying it must be part of all main EU policy areas.

The pollster stress-tested western European attitudes by asking whether, if the UK was only willing to rejoin the EU on condition it could keep its old opt-outs, it should be allowed to. Some (33-36%) felt this would be OK, but more (41-52%) were opposed.

In the UK, while 54% of Britons supported rejoining the EU when asked the question in isolation, the figure fell to just 36% if rejoining meant giving up previous opt-outs. On those terms, 45% of Britons opposed renewed membership.

What does it even say in the first place. I know it should include either D or Donald and either T or Trump, possibly include J or whatever J stands for. The last teo letter look like ld, but the ones before look like rum, as if he just put something together like DumnldJTummmmld.

Could be, but i believe corporate espionage is gets you a lower sentence. But also happens often when they catch a spy they just throw them out without a court case and sentence or if it’s a hostile nation they do sentence them but then try to make a deal or a swap or something so that spy still doesn’t get punished.

Just 2 days ago there were two articles posted in this community. One called Russian propaganda group Storm-1516 is using identities of real journalists to target Moldova, Armenia, and France and the other by AP news titled Intelligence officials worry a sabotage campaign blamed on Russia is growing more dangerous which was about a fire at a warehouse in east London storing equipment for Ukraine, plotted by Russian linked to the secret service. They wrote the following: “The fire is one of more than 70 incidents linked to Russia that The Associated Press has documented since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022”. I earlier wrote comments on posts some of those ‘incidents’, this is what I commented below the two posted articles i linked above:

3 days ago someone posted a link to an article by The Insider titled Polish researchers trace Baltic GPS disruptions to Russian military sites in Kaliningrad about finding the source of navigational system failures (by either spoofing or jamming coordinates) on thousands of aircraft and ships in the baltic sea and the airspace of the surrounding countries. This is what I commented on that post:

Yesterday someone posted a link to an article by france24 titled The church by the airport: Inside Russia’s suspected spy activities in Sweden on how Russia is suspected to use the Moscow Patriarchate church as a platform for espionage. Recently I commented on a few posts about Kremlin-related activities in Europe. Below is a copy of what I commented the last time:

Yesterday someone posted a link to an article on news.err.ee titled Arson attack on Ukrainian restaurant in Estonia ordered by Russian intelligence, I decided it would make sense to copy my comment on that article here.

5 days ago someone posted link to an article by united24media titled Russian Saboteurs Reportedly Torch German Military Trucks in Erfurt in Brazen Attack on NATO Soil. I thought it’d be nice to copy my comment on that post.

Yesterday someone posted a link to an article in The Sun, it’s headline was Britain’s migrant crisis being fuelled by Putin’s Russia and other hostile states in secret plot to destabilise UK; I feel I might just as well copy and paste my comment to that post:

The amount of shit Russia pulls without getting any kind repercussion truly astonishes me.

In the Netherlands we only have Aldi Nord (didn’t know about Sud before I went to germany), and have visited them less and less over the years. Lidl has been expanding a lot the last 10-15 years and I am becoming more and more a loyalist. Aldi (Nord) to me is really losing the game in my eyes.

Yes but I have to disagree with you as well, they are failing very very badly but the failure isn’t in the literal sense completely as there are some places it is providing an answer to these anti-democratic forces. I think the EU response to PiS helped getting them out of office (for a bit) and also Orbán is losing political weight because EU doesn’t let them.

Their effort clearly isn’t bringing enough results, I get your sentiment though but dismissing their succes isn’t helpful either.

Thanks for sharing!

the most-practical and cost-effective approach

This one only goes for people who trust their government or an ngo to come rescue them when there’s an disaster or other emergency going on. I am one of those people, but there seems to be a lot of people who don’t and want to buy stuff now they can so they can survive as long as they can without any help when the point comes they can’t buy these things.

for days minimum

This will be up to two relevant factors, only the first you know in advance:

1. The more densily populated an area the more effort will be spend locating survivors, if you survive a flood but live remotely it on average will take longer before you are located.
2. The extent of the emergency, the bigger the area the more available resources (including effort/ human energy) are spread out. If the flood covers a lot of area, it will on average take longer for help to reach you.

It is very unlikely there will not be any help coming.

If you survive a flood you might have gotten wet which will have massive influence on your ability to maintain a desirable body temperature. If the flood comes with bad weather and you have no acces to heating or a place to shelter hypothermia might kill you before contaminated water can. If you can shelter in place and you’re safe in your own (or somebody elses) home bottled water and/or a water filter might be a great thing though, just trying to say what you’ll need depends entirely on what situation you end up in.

3 days ago someone posted a link to an article by The Insider titled Polish researchers trace Baltic GPS disruptions to Russian military sites in Kaliningrad about finding the source of navigational system failures (by either spoofing or jamming coordinates) on thousands of aircraft and ships in the baltic sea and the airspace of the surrounding countries. This is what I commented on that post:

Yesterday someone posted a link to an article by france24 titled The church by the airport: Inside Russia’s suspected spy activities in Sweden on how Russia is suspected to use the Moscow Patriarchate church as a platform for espionage. Recently I commented on a few posts about Kremlin-related activities in Europe. Below is a copy of what I commented the last time:

Yesterday someone posted a link to an article on news.err.ee titled Arson attack on Ukrainian restaurant in Estonia ordered by Russian intelligence, I decided it would make sense to copy my comment on that article here.

5 days ago someone posted link to an article by united24media titled Russian Saboteurs Reportedly Torch German Military Trucks in Erfurt in Brazen Attack on NATO Soil. I thought it’d be nice to copy my comment on that post.

Yesterday someone posted a link to an article in The Sun, it’s headline was Britain’s migrant crisis being fuelled by Putin’s Russia and other hostile states in secret plot to destabilise UK; I feel I might just as well copy and paste my comment to that post:

The amount of shit Russia pulls without getting any kind repercussion truly astonishes me.

3 days ago someone posted a link to an article by The Insider titled Polish researchers trace Baltic GPS disruptions to Russian military sites in Kaliningrad about finding the source of navigational system failures (by either spoofing or jamming coordinates) on thousands of aircraft and ships in the baltic sea and the airspace of the surrounding countries. This is what I commented on that post:

Yesterday someone posted a link to an article by france24 titled The church by the airport: Inside Russia’s suspected spy activities in Sweden on how Russia is suspected to use the Moscow Patriarchate church as a platform for espionage. Recently I commented on a few posts about Kremlin-related activities in Europe. Below is a copy of what I commented the last time:

Yesterday someone posted a link to an article on news.err.ee titled Arson attack on Ukrainian restaurant in Estonia ordered by Russian intelligence, I decided it would make sense to copy my comment on that article here.

5 days ago someone posted link to an article by united24media titled Russian Saboteurs Reportedly Torch German Military Trucks in Erfurt in Brazen Attack on NATO Soil. I thought it’d be nice to copy my comment on that post.

Yesterday someone posted a link to an article in The Sun, it’s headline was Britain’s migrant crisis being fuelled by Putin’s Russia and other hostile states in secret plot to destabilise UK; I feel I might just as well copy and paste my comment to that post:

The amount of shit Russia pulls without getting any kind repercussion truly astonishes me.

The US might have gone dumb, but that does not make China good.

Totally agree, my point is that there are a lot of countries who don’t have the wealth to stop their co2 emissions overnight and because of China’s massive investments in production facilities the cost of solar and battery tech has come down by so much that new fossil fuel energy plants are increasingly less interesting.

Renewables aside, there is also a greyscale when it comes to fossil fuel: old coal plants are worse than new ones (just like with a car). Going from coal to oil or gas can also lower emissions. But either way, the fact that China has access to cheap fossil fuels really counters the progression. It’d be better to stop using fossil fuels altogether.

The west (previously including thd US) also did a lot in that regard, but the reason I wanted to say I’m glad with China (about this) is, that if it were just Europe pulling the cart, Earth would be screwed.

I am so glad China is proving betting on renewable energy isn’t only morally the right thing to do but also economically the smartest thing to do. That will really help battling climate change now the US walked out.

I got the sarcasm, chose to respond as if it weren’t 😬