Definitely not a politically motivated decision, totally nothing to do with Tiktok’s role as the only non-US-based mass social network, absolutely not because of pro-Palestinian views on TikTok! Europe is totally free and there’s no censorship :D

Henry Morgenthau be like

I’m aware, I personally use no shoes at home ever

Well, if you want energy access, don’t live in an off-grid house in a region of the planet without sunlight for 3 months a year

EU for the past 40 years: “yeah let’s destroy all our industry, degrade and defund welfare, and rely on external countries for our energy needs, that will surely work wonderfully!”

Britain industrialized first in history precisely because of its wide colonies. Exploitation of the global south is not a precondition for industrialization (see China, USSR), but it was one of the key factors that kickstarted the industrial revolution.

You’re likely right, my background is physics, I’ll quote you on the comment above!

Tenacitaaaaas!!

Millennial check

Spaniard here. “Shoes-on” is mostly for when you have guests over. You’ll wake up in the morning and use slippers, only put on shoes to go to outside, and when you come back home you’ll remove the shoes typically in your bedroom (unless wet or dirty). But when you have guests over, everyone wears shoes typically, even hosts.

My family is off-grid and there have been extended periods the last two winters when it has simply been too dark for too long to depend on the solar without installing 50x more panels

laughs in ultrahigh-voltage power lines connecting deserts to populated areas

Seriously, China is already implementing this technology, we just need a few socialist revolutions and we can go full solarpunk

Most coal comes from the carbonipherous period, a period in which plants evolved wood but microbes funghi (shutout to Lyrl’s below comment) still hadn’t evolved wood-eating.

You can get new coal in marshes because I think the process to eat wood requires oxygen, and flooded areas don’t allow for wood to decompose totally. That’s why they can pull out wooden ships from 500 years ago from the bottom of the ocean in relatively good condition!

The mirrors on Earth don’t transfer the energy using the air between the mirror and the collector, they just bounce the spicy photons which can travel even better in a vacuum.

This is mainly integrated AFAIK in industrial processes with high amounts of low entropy heat available (i.e. big volumes of not-that-hot liquids), and it allows for electric production from said heat with unprecedented efficiency. Cool shit

lying about the situation in Iran and Eastern Ukraine only helps the violent fascists in power in those places

Looking at history, it’s western intervention leading to far right in both though. Ukraine saved itself from Nazism thanks to communism, and only after western-style capitalism took control have far-right movements taken place. As for Iran, I wish Mosaddeq hadn’t been ousted by the west too, but alas it’s again not “tankie lies” leading to violent regimes, it’s western meddling. The tankies you hate have advocated since the past century against the ending of the USSR (which would have saved Ukraine from the demographic and humanitarian disaster it’s suffering for the past 25 years) and against intervention against Mosaddeq. If you had listened to the tankies 70 years ago, there would be no far right.

Europe: collaborates in the genocide of Palestinians

Europeans: “China is so evil and militaristic, look at all those hypothetical things they could hypothetically do to Taiwan!”

Believe me, I’m a communist, there’s nothing I wish more for Iran than a secular socialist government, land reform, LGBTQ and women’s rights, economic equality… Unfortunately, the west destroyed their most recent chance at this with the total sanctioning and military intervention against Mosaddeq, because British Petroleum’s interests in the region were more important than the lives of Iranians. CIA paying mafias to perform protests against the government, MI6 paying actors to destroy private property and pretend they were communists, military blockade of petroleum exports… The whole suite.

This is why I reject so much further western meddling. If Iran is to have a socialist government, it will be by itself without meddling, and the point of focus from the west should be, IMO, preventing sanctions and military action against the Iranian people. However bad the Iranian government is currently, the only alternative for now from what I see is ISIS or Israel, and neither is better, it’s the sad truth of geopolitics.

It’s not whataboutism, the protests are literally created by western-manufactured poverty, the US has admitted as much. Remember that the sanctions on Cuba are justified with the following:

“to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government”. I’m quoting official US memos here.

You don’t need to know much about Iran at all to know for a fact that US intervention will make it worse, you just need to look at Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Palestine, and every other “repressive dictatorship liberated by US efforts” to see the consequences of invasion.

The protests in Iran are happening because people are literally dying due to impoverishment caused by western sanctions causing the local currency to implode. Focusing only on the government reaction during a period of military buildup Against Iran amounts to atrocity propaganda, however well-meaning your intentions are. It’s meant to create mixed feelings about the invasion amongst progressives “look at how dictatorial they are”

How many people have died in Iran as a consequence of western sanctions since their currency exchange value plummeted? Remember, EU+US sanctions murder HALF A MILLION PEOPLE YEARLY over the world.