• Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Can we talk about why people in an ostensibly high income country (World Bank definition, not mine) were still burning coal to stay warm?

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Yeah there's no way there are still enough standing forests for this.

    • DigimonOtis [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      To have the wood ready for winter you'd have to have already started cutting and drying the wood by at least 3-4 months ago minimum and that's assuming it's already fairly dry wood. Dead trees, depending how dead and dry they are, could probably do but that's a tiny section of the total forests of course. I live on a 48 acre property and the amount of trees that die naturally each year is about enough to heat the house about 70-80% of the time in the winter with oil filling in the gaps. So that's like 0.2 square kilometres per household or a density of 5 houses per square kilometre, which ain't good.

    • Joan_of_ArcSys [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      I was playing cyberpunk earlier. There’s a line in a loading screen news segment that contains the phrase “Amazonian plains”. Even polish capitalists are like “yeah, Brazil is going to kill us all and turn the world lung into a new Great Plains”. Real doomer moment. Guess Poland is joining them.

      • BeamBrain [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        In Hardspace: Shipbreaker, the view of the Earth shows flooded coasts and only the poles having greenery

  • Mardoniush [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    Looks like we're about to have some extremely time dialated weeks coming up soon.

  • Joan_of_ArcSys [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    I know a polish a weeb. I sent him this with the caption: “oh no, how are you going to protect your waifu now”.

    He responded by saying that there are worse fates than reliving the trauma of Gilles de rais. Surprised at the low key diss at Joan tbh.

    • GenderIsOpSec [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      Gilles de rais

      what a lovely fellow, all royals are bastards.

      oh and massive content warnings for SA and pedophilia if you want to look him up :stalin-gun-1::stalin-gun-2:

      • Joan_of_ArcSys [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        You do realize those accusations were fabricated by rivals and the inquisition…right?

        Insane playwright who wasted his inheritance? Yeah. General who won the war. Also yeah. Victim of the bias against the mentally and falsely accused by zealots. Beyond doubt.

        • GenderIsOpSec [she/her]
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          2 years ago

          i will not take back my disgust for royals, but if you have a source for the rest i'd love to learn

          • Joan_of_ArcSys [none/use name]
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            2 years ago
            1. Disgust for royals is basedbut let’s not allow a good thing to stray us from the (likely) truth

            2. I welcome the open minded discussion this place has, but I’m 8 loko deep (4 x 2 = thank you god for autocorrect)

            3. I’m leaving the notifications active so I’ll see this in like 15 hours when I’m not drunk/hungover.

            4. This is not a source, just fun music somewhat related. Cradle of filth has a concept album that is based upon him falling to satanism after witnessing her burning on the stake. 13th Caesar and death of love are bangers if you like black metal/extreme metal

  • Mike_Penis [any]
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    2 years ago

    i was told by a redditor that it actually has nothing to do with the war but the pandemic calming down and demand skyrocketing

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      2 years ago

      :cope:

      Genuinely wonder what this will do to domestic politics. Poland is already pretty fucked by fascists. Where do they even go from here?

    • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Yeah didn't you know you need to heat your home more when you're able to leave it more often?

  • Sen_Jen [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    I and many people I know will not have heating this winter, and living in the city we'll have to rely on hot water bottles and blankets. This is in Ireland, one of the "richest" countries in the world

      • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
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        2 years ago

        Every parenti image is so powerful. He looks like a wizard casting a spell to wake us up in that one. :parenti: looking like he's glancing back at us having seen the truth he knows so well. :party-parenti: just looks like a fun guy