AFAIK the claim was never that bioplastic was healthy, the claim is that it breaks down way faster. Preventing a buildup as we have seen with mikroplastic.
Sensationalist headline IMO.

Trump is so stupid, he has basically made it a necessity to abandon MS office in public services in EU. And of course also American cloud services.
So these will definitely lose sales in EU even without tariffs, because USA is no longer a trusted partner.
Programs are also started with the purpose to make it easier to switch away from these American services. Which can help private organisations too.

Except they can get oil from Russia.

And for some reason the stock market cheers for this.🙄

Bandage is better than no bandage. But I agree 30% is still pretty bad, and will still undermine US competitiveness in export markets.
But the real harm to US economy is that EU has decided to look at taxing services from USA. Which is completely new for EU.
As it were before Trump started this, the average tariff paid in EU on all imports from USA were a measly 1%!! How Trump got that to be unfair IDK?
USA has a deficit in goods to EU, but a huge surplus in services. And the services are way more profitable. So good going there Donnie.

Did he leave one of his diapers here?

Nope, I haven’t used reddit for more than 6 years now. And I was never banned, and I used reddit from when it was very new.
I have been banned on lemmy once, but only for 2 days.
I was just giving my opinion, because you got a very harsh respond IMO.

You acknowledge the problem and are working on it, seems sincere to me.
Best of luck.

Exactly.
Whatever reason, insanity is almost definitely behind it.

He doesn’t want us to read those book, by the same logic, would it be OK to cut off that mans genitalia because we don’t want him to reproduce?

This has nothing to do with criticizing rules against gambling. Nobody is making a fuss about that.
Chess achieved popularity first in Persia and spread quickly to the Arab world in the 15th century. So chess started in the Muslim world, and Afghanistan was probably one of the first places it spread to, since Afghanistan was closely related to Persia. Making it pretty insane for the Afghan government to ban it after more than 500 years?!?!

They might as well ban coins, because they can be a source for gambling!

Not to mention the queen is the most powerful piece on the board, I mean WTF!? Obviously we can’t allow a woman to have that much power in a 100% male dominated society!

Why?

Because I live in a country that gets cold in the winter, and the 200 mile range is already not enough to go to Copenhagen and home again on Autobahn.

But I absolutely get that it would be an excellent car for many people, but for us we are looking for 300 miles minimum WLTP.
We can get that at a similar price buying a used car that is 3 years old and has an 80 kW battery, that also charges 10-80 in just over 20 minutes.

I think a lot of range anxiety is weird.

You may be right, but the 1½ hour drive home already feels long, and we don’t want to add a 20 min charge stop to that.
We have an ICE car, and we have 800+ km range going 140 km/h on the Autobahn for about half the distance when visiting family almost 500 km away.

The 200 mile range would in practice ad almost an hour for recharging on such a trip, even at lower speeds. As it is we can stop once on the way home.

We only have one car, and we intend to keep it that way. If we didn’t have heavy taxes on owning a car, we could have 2, and have a smaller BEV for daily use.

Of the many cars I’ve owned throughout my life, I have never owned one that didn’t do at least 600 km on a full tank.
The 200 miles in practice is only 200 km depending on weather and speed. In cities a BEV is relatively close to the rated range in perfect summer weather. But it drops quickly in non ideal conditions. I think it depends a lot on where you live, and what you do with the car on a regular basis.

When charging is only 5 minutes it will matter less.

Additionally, the county most behind it was Britain,

I think there was pretty hard pressure from USA, and USA even wrote into their laws that they are required to protect Israel. Laws that are still used to explain why USA protect Israel even when Israel behaves like a terrorist state.

Israel hates turkey and hopes to draw the US into a war with Iran,

I acknowledge this is 100% a true scenario, it even seemed Israel almost succeeded last Trump was president, by almost I mean it was very very close. So absolutely a conflict involving Israel and USA vs Iran cannot be ruled out.
I think Trump likes the idea of the power of being US commander of a war. The man is completely sick in the head.
But I don’t think it will escalate to a world war. The moment USA steps in and goes to war, nobody wants to go up against USA if they have the option not to. USA is simply too powerful.

Has there ever been even the slightest indication of that? The Muslim world has had 70 years to fight Israel, and when someone tried, nobody was helping. I admit I don’t have much understanding of the politics of the middle east, but it seems to be a very far fetched speculation.

Under the current circumstances I wouldn’t dream of setting foot there, even if I was invited.

Maga shithawks jump on the conflict

If USA attack Iran together with Israel, Iran doesn’t stand a chance. It will be a very short war like when USA invaded Iraq.

Escalation spreads to Iraq

There is no logical path for that.

Russia leans in heavily

Russian military is a joke now, they have their hands more than full in Ukraine.

The E.U. steps in under the guise of defence

That doesn’t make much sense, but let’s say there is a “whatever” reason. That would just make the defeat of Iran even quicker.

Ukraine gets more intense as China assists Russia more openly

China has kept it’s distance from the conflict, and I don’t think China wants to actively increase instability in a world where they are making so much progress. Instability is bad for business. The way China has behaved NOT helping Russia much for 3 years, shows they would much rather participate in deescalation.

While things are peaking elsewhere, the PRC makes a move on Taiwan.

This is probably your best point IMO, but as I see it, China has to wait at least 5 more likely 10, until China has independent chip production that at a minimum matches Taiwan and the west. At this point in time, an invasion of Taiwan would be very disruptive to many of the industries that are most important to China.
Even then it’s a very big question if China thinks it’s worth the enormous diplomatic crisis that would follow.

So all in all, I don’t really see your thought experiment having much risk of leading to a world war.
Even though other scenarios might exist, I don’t really see that as a risk we should worry too much about.
Putin going even more crazy and using nukes is probably the biggest danger the world is facing ATM. Gaza is next to irrelevant by comparison.
But I suspect if Putin uses nukes, many of his allies will abandon him. And he will become a valid target for the entire world, and the Russian federation will not be allowed to survive.

Sadly yes.

I agree that there are problems with Islam extremists, just as there are problems with other extremists. But obviously we should not solve the problem by becoming the problem ourselves. In Gaza Israel is the extremist, and it is insane that Israel is allowed to control it like it was some sort of criminal ghetto prison.
As I see it, Israel is a failed experiment, and the countries behind it need to step in and resolve the situation and at a minimum stop further Israeli settlements.

I agree, also because USA is alienating allies, and this clearly emboldens China, Russia and Iran.
But this will hurt USA too, and Trump will hopefully declare victory soon and end it.