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Cake day: August 2nd, 2023

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  • That’s the best part, when you meet people of the language you are learning you can say the odd quirky shit from Duolingo and they’ll absolutely love it. What, you are an apple?? A dog is wearing three pullovers?? More relevant for beginners who can say a handful of stuff but can’t yet hold a proper conversation.

    It’s not like Duolingo is just randomly generated sentences that make no sense either. They are carefully sprinkled in to break up the routine and make it a bit of fun.







  • Coming straight from “unless 100% of people abstain 100% I’m not calling it change”-folks. There’s significant shifts in both of these issues. Meat more so, or leading ahead compared to cars, but the fact that some people aren’t going to drop one or either doesn’t change anything about that.

    So maybe efforts to reduce the impact of those kinds of things aren’t necessarily wasted.

    Not only are they not wasted, they are absolutely necessary. What’s important to understand is, however, that large parts of the negative impact of cars aren’t affected by EVs at all. It’s not just internal combustion engine exhaust pollution, it’s the waste of space, gigatons of asphalt for roads and parking, microplastics from rubber tires driven endless miles by a billion people, traffic congestions and the never-ending demand for another lane to fix them, ““cities”” sprawling out so far that everything is too far to get to by any means other than driving, pedestrian (if such a thing even still exists in your neck of the woods) safety, noise, socioeconomic factors such as the high upkeep costs vs low-income population who are reliant on a car in a car dependant world, …

    We have to transition to EVs either way, but it’s not going to fix anything meaningful. And that’s just the neutral outlook, a real danger we’re facing is that through car manufacturers’ greenwashing that is already in full swing, we coax ourselves to a good eco conscience over our no-emissions cars and continue growing the dependency, which would eventually increase the impact. The only real way of reducing the impact is by reducing cars and car dependency where it’s possible. And people are, very slowly, waking up to the fact that this is more often the case than they were led to believe by lobby driven media and politics of the last 60 years.







  • schnokobaer@feddit.detoich_iel@feddit.deich_iel
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    2 years ago

    Von “Kinder werden Sachen die ihnen verboten werden besonders interessant finden” zu “Verbote sind schlecht” muss man mental erst mal springen. Aber Hauptsache man findet sich besser als der Rest XD find ich gut.


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    2 years ago

    Pädagogisch vielleicht nachvollziehbar und definitiv tapfer aber aussichtslos und und nicht den gewünschten Effekt erfüllend. Oder denkt irgendjemand Lasse guckt dann wirklich kein RTL 2 nur weil man das dem Kumpel von Lasse sagt? Als ob Lasse nicht absolut danach lechzt Trash TV zu gucken und ungesunde Sachen zu essen und was ihm sonst noch so alles Zuhause verboten wird und wegen sowas nur um so öfter zu dem Kumpel geht wo das erlaubt ist.


  • And what is the problem with a gas hybrid heat pump? It’s an ideal solution for places that get very cold, use the gas furnace for the weeks when it’s below -5 and use the heat pump for many months around that. It’s one of the most efficient ways to use a heat pump as you don’t have to bully it through the coldest part of winter with very bad COPs, you’re only using it when it’s most efficient. And when your heating period is very long, that will only benefit your seasonal COP. So of course it’s more expensive than a simple furnace, but it will also save loads of energy and redeem itself after 5-10 years.

    The best part about this is you already have an AC, aka a heat pump, but you don’t use it for heating?