That is interesting to know but I feel that Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences is a bit long and the distinction is not really that meaningful.
Either the research is good or it isn’t.
People keep attacking the price simply because it was not sponsored by Nobel himself as if only that direct connection to him transferred some sense of divine truthfulness to the other Nobel prizes that this one lacks.
Video from the incident showed Lufthansa staff telling passengers that everyone who was “Jewish coming from JFK” would have to pay for the mistakes of the passengers violating the policy—despite many of them not knowing each other and not traveling together.
That is certainly bizzare behavior. I can’t imagine that that is official company policy.
They prefer EVs over public transport.
Meh, not everyone speaks Arabic and there are probably people who don’t know that the Sahara is a desert.
Minor redundancies are a small price to share information with a wider audience.
The new forecast that gross domestic product will shrink by 0.2% this year compares with the government’s prediction in April of 0.3% growth and brings it into line with economists, who also have forecast a slight contraction. The German economy shrank by 0.3% in 2023.
And this is when the topic was published by a newspaper.
If memory serves, the fist scientific publications were from the 1880s.
Regulation is just one tool, and a blunt one at that, but individual choices matter and can operate with more nuance for better results.
I’ll grant that everything else you said were valid considerations but here I disagree.
We need regulation because relying on individual choice doesn’t work.
We wouldn’t need regulation for emissions if individuals would always chose emission free products.
We wouldn’t need regulation for animal welfare if individuals would always chose cruelty free animal product or become vegan.
We wouldn’t need speed limits if individuals would always drive safely.
But people are assholes and idiots. They make choices that hurt the environment, society and often even themselves.
As I’ve said before, why not try to reduce both?
And let’s be honest: Whenever someone post a sarcastic ‘good thing we banned plastic straws’ under a topic about CO2 emissions, they’re not doing it as a good faith argument that one pollution might avoid the other.
Ask any black soccer player
Not the best example if you want to argue that it’s not about skin color, tbh.
“White” has always been more about fitting a certain narrative than a specific shade of skin.
Replace “White” with “Racism” and you’re on the money.
Whiteness has always been more important in the US that in Europe. People here have always been surrounded by other “white” nationalities and cultures that they could still be racist against.
Of all the things people say about Roma, them not being classified as white is one I have never heard.
Plastic bags have the lowest carbon footprint
Why do people only ever talk about the carbon footprint when plastic bans are discussed?
Plastic waste is lying around everywhere, microplastics have been found in placentas and brain stems, the great pacific garbage patch is larger than some micro states.
The environment consists of more than just the atmosphere and we should reduce both greenhouse gases and plastic waste.
Also
plastic bags (including small produce bags) can be recycled at the grocery store (two near me do but it’s easy to miss). I also found plastic very easy to reuse.
That may be so but many people do not recycle or reuse their plastic bags. I would assume this measure is aimed more at them then at you.
Huge reason no one goes to cinemas anymore is cuz you can’t vape in there as freely as you can at home.
I assure you, as someone who doesn’t smoke or vape, that is not the reason I don’t go to cinemas.
On the contrary, being trapped in a room with dozens of smokers or vapers would further discourage me from going.
I mean using your real name does not depend on the platform you’re using but more on how you’re using it.
Pretty sure the majority of reddit users do not post under their real name and you could use a pseudonym on facebook if you wanted to.
Zuckerberg isn’t going to check your ID when you sign up.
Your data isn’t really more private on the fediverse, is it?
Everything you post is shared with myriad instances.
You might not end up just handing it to some large tech corp but you also give up any remnant of control over it.
Berlin clean and beautiful? This must be some alternate history.
Unfortunately in Germany this is only in the older city centers. It’s far less common in newer “suburban” developments.
When someone openly shouts heil Hitler, I think I’m justified in ignoring their POV and calling them what they are.
In Germany, individual plug-in panels sell for as low as 200 euros, or about $217, at big box stores. Complete sets, including mountings, an inverter and cables, are about twice that cost.
Boneless chicken wings did come from a chicken with bones in it,
Sure but then someone prepared the chicken and decided that the outcome can be described as boneless.
Personally, I would also expect the bones to have been removed.
You can debone chicken without turning it into pink slime.
I’d rather expect it to be made from another part of the chicken in the style of wings.
If you’re distinguishing by the type of offense instead of by age, you don’t have a youth justice system, you have a minor offense justice system.
Distinguishing by the severity of the offense is already part of the justice system.
Youth justice systems explicitly consider the age and maturity of the offender, not just what they did.
Also I’m not sure why a 15-year-old is a kid in one of your examples and a “kid” in the other.
This is not about tolerating behavior, it’s about reforming people to become members of society instead of lifelong burdens for the justice system.
Despite the severity of his action, brandishing kids as “irredeemable” not only throws away their entire future but also burdens everyone else with keeping them contained forever.
That profits nobody.