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The Guilt Bomb

Paul R. Ehrlich's *The Population Bomb* and the mindset behind it is something I deeply despise. I vividly remember that a childhood friend of mine explained to me that wars aren't that bad after all, because overpopulation is a serious problem. That's what a seven year old takes with him, when his...

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2050

Die deutsche Energiewende war erfolgreich! Das bedeutet: Klimaneutralität 2050 ist jetzt endgültig abgeräumt. Das Ziel war stets, AKW abzuschalten und durch EE + Gas zu ersetzen - das haben wir, trotz aller Probleme und Kosten, geschafft. Die Erzählung, man könnte aber den gleichen Pfad, der C02...

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State

Some people need to learn that the state did not invent culture, airplanes or art, nor did it do your work or raise your children. Humans did that. The painting you are looking at was created ten failed governments ago & protected from them. The architecture you praise and is even legally protected...

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Traumtänzerei

Es gibt eine Erklärungslücke im deutschen Pfad der Energiepolitik: Was machen wir, wenn das Wetter nicht mitspielt? Und zwar nicht für ein paar Stunden, sondern so, wie im letzten November, für Tage und Wochen. Batterien Grob überschlagen: | | | |---|---:| | Deutschland benötigt im Jahr etwa | 56...

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Starlink

This small antenna connecting you anywhere to broadband internet is still unbelievable. Thousands of Satellites! Western (meaning uncensored) internet anywhere in the world. That was always the idea. satellitemap.space

Solocooker

I forked Campfire by @37signals to add some to-do capabilities and a recycle ♻️ button - published as Solocooker. I like to create disposable notes while working on something and then wrap up by deleting everything that became irrelevant when I found the core of a problem.

Cathedrals for Everyone

It’s a triumph of the modern world that palaces once built through plunder and forced labor are now freely visited by everyone. Parking your car in front of Versailles is very much the most egalitarian thing you can do. And while we wander around in awe, we shouldn’t fall for the self-portraits tho...

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AC

With high morality, we look at the number of deaths by gun violence in the States and bask in the moral high ground we claim here. They just need to forbid assault weapons! Right? Meanwhile, an equal number of heat-related deaths in Europe leads only to fake alarmism and dangerously inadequate "hea...

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