But the X7 will on average carry one

It is worth keeping in mind that the poorest two-thirds of humanity really don’t emit all that much.

I may be making an assumption about where you are from, but I’m hazarding a guess that you are from a developed nation.
You and I likely emit significantly more than than someone who is not from a developed nation.

The wastefulness of the billionaire class needs to be dealt with, but that doesn’t mean that recycling, reducing energy use, etc for people in the developed world isn’t going to collectively have a significant impact.

Edit: Here is a graph to help visualise the share that rich and middle incomes contribute to emissions

Source: https://www.therichest.com/oxfam-richest-carbon-emissions/

Assuming you are from the US, Europe, Australia, etc, you are likely to fall on the higher end of the middle 40% or in the top 10%

Yes, but the trade deal also has a clause in it that the US has to honour their end of the deal.
If they don’t honour their part of the deal, the trade deal is null and void

The welfare state isn’t capitalism working as intended. That wasn’t what I was saying, nor am I saying that the welfare state is a result of capitalism. That was ultimately a result of workers fighting for their rights.

What I am saying is that the government not leaning heavily into laisez-faire capitalism, and them interfering in capitalism where needed, is what is making the European capitalist model largely work as capitalism is supposed to work. The government is there to prevent negative externalities and prevent monopolies from forming.

Ultimately the “correct” implementation of capitalism doesn’t exist. Only one which creates the most benefit for the people while reducing its negative outcomes.

It is a tool you can use in places where it makes sense to use it in order to drive innovation and lower costs to consumers.
The government can set regulations in order to guide capitalism to that outcome, and can directly interfere to do things themselves in industries where it deems fit to do so.

Edit: Fixed a typo in my first sentence, making me say the exact opposite of what I was trying to say…

That is largely down to where you live and the systems that are in place to help and encourage you to recycle

For example here in the Netherlands we have a bottle and can deposit system which encourages people, and makes it easy, to return bottles (both glass and plastic) and cans to the store.

The cans get recycled, and to my knowledge the glass bottles generally get washed and reused.

This system is common in many countries throughout Europe, and they are effective and increasing the recycling rates of these things

He argues the point in a good way.

It’s something I have believed for a long time but I’ve always found it difficult to vocalize to people why a single person recycling or saving energy matters in the grand scheme of things.

America’s extreme form of capitalism isn’t the the only form of capitalism.

With proper regulation and governnent incentives it is possible to make capitalism work to benefit the average Joe, and not just the oligarchs.

Europe for example runs on that capitalist model, and it works pretty well. You get the benefits of capitalism when it runs as it is supposed to, together with the benefits of the welfare state.

People underestimate the sheer number of people that live on the planet.

One guy recycling or not using a plastic straw is not going to make a difference. But millions or billions of people doing those things will be vastly more impactful than a few rich dudes sailing their yacht to Monaco.

I usually ride my bike casually, not racing either, and I still like the bikeride to not be heavier than it needs to be.
That said, I have never cycled using dress shoes, so that might be a valid point.

As much as I like Mamdani, that is a pretty poor posture for riding a bike.
You gotta use the balls of your feet! It’s much more effiecient and comfortable

This “trade deal” always was a rotten one, where the EU has to accept worse terms than it already had.

The only reason why we would even go along with that, is because Trump knows that there is a certain amount of reliance from Europe on the US in terms of defence. It really is a wake-up call to Europe that we can’t allow ourselves to depend on the US like we used to.

I agree that it’s a shame the US doesn’t engage with its allies in good faith anymore

Edit: Personally I think we should not even bother trying to appease Trump.

No matter what deal you reach with him, he will not honour it and demand more. Any trade deal reached with America is not even worth the paper it is written on.

Welp… Guess Europe now no longer needs to adhere to their side of the trade deal.
What a shame… /s

The headline is a bit vague, but this is reporting on the trust of SAP employees in the management at SAP.

Edit: And having the misfortune of needing to book my work hours in SAP, I don’t blame them…
It’s just about the worst coorporate software I have to deal with at my office.

This blog post is making my AI-senses tingle

Are phone booths still a thing in Japan? It’s been years since I’ve seen an operational phone booth here in Europe.

I would not exactly call that “a long history of appeasing Nazis”

And regardless, the NL had the intention of remaining neutral in any conflict that might happen in Europe, just like they did in WW I.

Insulting the head of state of a neighbouring militaristic country is generally not wise if you intend to stay neutral.

I stand corrected.

But my point was more that you need to make sure that your diet includes a source that gives you sufficient B12, which is not quite as obvious on how to get that with a vegan diet compared to a vegetarian one.

Apparently Vegemite also contains B12. But it’s also high is salt, which makes it not ideal.

Going vegan is quite a bit more involved than going vegetarian.

When eating vegetarian you can mostly kind of wing it and generally get all the nutrients you need. But when going vegan you really should make sure you know what you need to consume in order to be healthy.

Since B12 is only found in animal products, you are probably going to have to take a supplement.

Care to elaborate, or are you just gonna put out a statement like that without explaining what you mean?

The general idea of the snus-bans is that snus is not commonly consumed outside of the Nordics, so it’s better to pre-emptively ban it. They are trying to nip it in the bud before it becomes a problem.

Cigarettes are socially and culturally engrained after a century of normalization, and it’s a lot more difficult to ban it. Even vapes are already somewhat at the stage where it’s nornalized enough that outright banning it becomes difficult.