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  • Nobody cares about cars killing people and animals.

    I think that’s overstating it a bit, of course many care, and we have people who are responsible for setting safety standards.
    Just because accidents are unavoidable doesn’t mean we aren’t trying to minimize them and avoid fatalities.

    Mandatory safety belts is an example of this. But other than that there are actual scientific studies into road safety, and even city wide implementations of such studies. At least in Europe there is, but I’m guessing USA has it too.

    Just because traffic accidents happen, and we obviously need “traffic” to be able to move around, doesn’t mean nobody cares.

    As an anecdotal example, here (Denmark) the speed limit was increased from 110 to 130 on our equivalent to Autobahn, which may seem like accepting more accidents for convenience or efficiency. But in reality it was to divert more traffic to the safer “Autobahn” to actually reduce the number of accidents on smaller roads.

    Traffic safety is as much about psychology as it is about making safer systems.

    PPS:
    Regarding the animals we have just had warnings about deer, and some places have small tunnels made for frogs.
    And there are warning signs where deer tend to cross in almost any country that has them.


  • Which is why I find it very strange with the anti EU sentiment often seen here, considering EU and EU member states provide by far the biggest support for Ukraine.
    I really do consider those people idiots.
    EU has very wide sanctions on Russia more than any country in the world (Apart from Ukraine of course), while China, India and USA has had next to no sanctions with USA only introducing new sanctions on Russia last week.
    I completely agree in supporting Ukraine, and I also disagree on blaming the countries that help the most, usually based on ignorance.



  • Oh common, EU made a tremendous effort to switch away from Russian gas delivered by pipelines, and had to make huge investments to be able to use LNG instead. And even limited imports before the replacements were operational at no small cost to European industries. And LNG terminals were built in record time.
    EU has cut use of Russian gas to a tenth of what it was prior to the war!
    Stop the bullshit idiot!
    EU countries are the biggest supporters of Ukraine, and instrumental for the current success Ukraine has against Russia, supporting investments in Ukrainian weapons industries, together with humanitarian support, and support for the civilian/infra structuere functioning of Ukraine.
    Every aspect of Ukrainian society is supported by EU countries, and EU countries are the biggest supporters of the Ukrainian defense/war effort too.
    And EU has also been the leading force in sanctioning of Russia, to the point that EU has influenced India and China too, to observe EU price restrictions on Russian oil.
    No other region has done more than EU and EU countries to help Ukraine!












  • I think 20% is a very low estimate. Russia is a huge oil producing country, with exports of refined products too.
    But now there are widespread shortages of for instance gasoline, and Russia has had to even import that from China and Belarus.
    I’ve seen other sources claim as much as 38% of Russian oil refining capacity is down. And considering the results we are seeing, I think the number must be higher than 20%, because I doubt 20% would cause the kind of shortages in Russia we are seeing.

    So my guess is that 20% is a number they are very very sure of.