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Comment Re:Such a Biased Article (Score 1) 39

Which probably means that one of their two sheep needed to be treated.

More seriously: most of the countries that top the list - if you switch to the table display - are island states and there's even the note that "Several small island states have been excluded as they are large anomalous outliers" (you can still see them in the table, just not in the chart) and sheep were the animals with the by far the highest amount of antibiotic use.
So probably bad odds for those numbers if you are small, an island and the majority of the livestock are sheep.

Also, to quote https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F... :
"The domestic animals of the Faroe Islands are a result of 1200 years of isolated breeding. As a result, many of the islands' domestic animals are found nowhere else in the world."

I wonder if they maybe react more heavy-handed to outbreaks than other places and/or if their animals are less resistant to imported bacteria that are more common in other parts of the world. ..or maybe they are just going for cheap&easy.

Comment Re:Germans decry influence of English? (Score 1) 284

It's not about the other language or about its influence, it's about giving up and officially surrendering to stupidity.

It's like an official declaration that always using "there" instead of "they're" and "their" is correct English from now on.
If you aren't a moron, this hurts.

Comment Java-Upgrades (Score 2) 130

Oh, I don't know.
Java is pretty much backwards-compatible.
Unless they're using words as variables or class names that later became part of the language (like "module"), I don't even know what their "Java upgrade" was supposed to be doing except maybe replacing deprecated methods with their successors.
Ok, there's some stuff that used to be part of the JDK/JRE that got dropped in newer versions. And Amazon is old enough that they might be using collections without generics in some corners, but still..4,500 years of work doing Java upgrades?!

So 79% might as well just have been sh*t that was essentially search-and-replace.

Now, if it includes framework upgrades, that might be something different.

Comment Re:They're not dumb as rocks (Score 2) 73

Different point of view, though maybe an edge case:
As someone with what would be size 15 shoes in the US or larger since my teens, I was used to going through 5 shoe stores to find someone who even had a single pair that was roughly my size.
Forget about models, comfort, colors, prices or any other choice. It was get that single pair of possibly basketball shoes that were closest to my size at whatever prices they were asking.

So I prefer ordering shoes online, because I'm more likely to find shoes in my size because
a) the number of stores I can search in a day is bigger,
b) there might be specialty "big and tall" stores from the other side of the country among them, and
c) if a store does only or a lot of online sales, their customer base is possibly the entire country, so it makes a lot more sense for them to also have a few shoes in less usual sizes in stock compared to a store with only the population of its immediate surrounding area.

So I'll gladly spend 20 minutes sending non-fitting pairs back until I find some that reasonably fit.
Because the alternative for me more often than not will be to waste an entire day running around the city and still returning empty-handed or paying twice the price for that one somewhat fitting pair I found and that I didn't even liked.

Also, since a lot of the stores pay the return postal fees, they're kind of interested in that you keep the shoes.
So some might have more detailed size charts where they tell you how to measure your feet and then tell you what size of which brand should be the best fit for your foot size.

Comment Re:Why are sales of EVs dropping? Easy,.,, (Score 1) 315

What parts of Europe are we talking about?

Because at least here in Germany the charging infrastructure isn't that great and from clicking around a few manufacturers' websites in the past month (and just now to re-check Skoda and Hyundai), the cheapest electric models seem to be more than twice as expensive as the cheapest gas-powered models.
  For Skoda and Hyundai it's like 20k and 15k for gas vs 45k and 35k for electric.

(Granted, probably a bit of an apples-to-oranges comparison given the different sizes and features and whatnot, but the point is that there aren't any cheap electric cars).

Comment Re:'Cause Nuclear Power's Just Too Green and Relia (Score 1) 189

Lol. Any source for that? Or are you just spreading lies again?

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lemonde.fr%2Fen%2Finternational%2Farticle%2F2022%2F09%2F05%2Ffrance-says-ready-to-boost-gas-supplies-to-germany-urges-consumers-to-save-energy_5995921_4.html

Bless your vile heart, dear.

Comment Re:I thought the problem was a natural gas shortag (Score 1) 189

But keeping coal power plants open somehow helps with the natural gas shortage.

It helps with cutting ties to Russia if you can get your fuel from Poland or Germany instead of from Rosatom/Russia/*-stan.

if Germany can't get electricity by other means then they have to burn natural gas for electricity. By using coal or uranium for electricity production there's more natural gas to go around for heating.

As someone in Germany whose home gets its electricity and heat from the same CHP plant via district heating: burning more natural gas for electricity doesn't necessarily mean there's less heat.

The claim was that Germany was going to use wind and solar power for heat.

Who claimed this?

Comment Re:'Cause Nuclear Power's Just Too Green and Relia (Score 2, Interesting) 189

Know why Germany burnt so much more gas and coal last year, despite the shortages?
Because half of France's unprofitable, oh-so-reliable nuke plants were down. IIRC France was even shipping fossils to Germany for burning to get electricity back.


Also, where do people think Europe's nuclear plants currently get a lot of their fuel from and why might this be a problem?

Comment Re:Fine, then (Score 1) 175

I really hate how telcos are going around this in Germany:
The big, bolded price will be something like " 5 EUR* ", with the footnote being "* 24 months contract, 5 EUR for months 1-6, 55 EUR staring month 7" .

The especially scummy ones like 1&1 also make it impossible to opt out of "renting" a router from them even if you don't want/need one, but don't include that router fee in their government-mandated price transparency sheets (they actively avoid the word "rent" for extra-scummy reasons).

Comment Re:Piling On (Score 1) 149

  • * most roads are taxpayer-funded anyway
  • * the number of people it will benefit is going to increase in the future (and as I understand it, this idea is directly aimed at increasing this number; also, it can be argued that more people switching to EVs is going to benefit everybody, not only the ones driving)
  • * Florida has a lot more sun and a lot less snow than Norway

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