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This is a good time for the EU to get its shit together on their train networks. Make one central portal for booking trains Europe wide, remove the no fuel tax subsidies and no VAT for airlines and apply them for trains instead, and invest in a network of night trains.
"Best we can do is Hydrogen jets"
can we stop calling it iran war and start calling it usa and israels expansionist war?
To be fair, we usually also call it Ukraine war instead of Russo-Ukranian war or just Russian invasion or Russia Expansionist war. Makes it not less wrong, but you need to admit Iran war is a little shorter than your suggestion.
Vietnam War
Iraq War
Ukraine War
Iran War
It's just a continuation of the tradition of naming wars where a single country gets invaded by another after that country.
It's almost like we name the war after the location where the fighting takes place.
Names with the same or fewer syllables as "Iran War":
- Ego War
- Fossil Farce ^(you could take that a couple different ways hehe)
- Epstein War
- F*ck Kids War
- U! S! [eagle screech that sounds like "A!", except it's not an eagle it's a hawk, because eagles don't screech like that]
- Orange You Glad I Didn't Say Bananuclear? War
I am partial to "Operation Epstein Fury" or OEF2
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Technically, it's the "Stop talking about the Trump and Epstein child rape crimes War"
No, it's the Epstein war
Epstein Files War? Wouldn't wanna bait him with Trump War I
Gulf War 3
Can we get this map (Paris before and after cycling was pushed) but for the entire atmosphere once the jet fuel runs out?
Paris has to remove the low emission zone so old polluting cars are back in the city. Parliament just approved that.
This is a total disaster, like 2 days ago.... I guess we're going right back to the first map.
https://brusselssignal.eu/2026/04/france-backpedals-and-cancels-low-emission-zones-for-cars/
After much thought and googling, really that's before and after dieselgate.
NO2 is a notorious byproduct of diesel engines at 10x the rate of gasoline cars. Dieselgate cars emitted 40x the legal amount. You can't quite do this, but roughly that means a dieselgate vehicle emitted 400x the NO2 of a gasoline car. Aka a single dieselgate vehicle was equivalent of 400 gasoline cars.
Now let's get the absolute number of cars. France had 984,064 dieselgate affected vehicles. Paris has about 19% of France's population. Assuming equal ownership that's 186,972 dieselgate affected cars in paris. At 400x the emissions of gasoline cars that's the equivalent of a whopping 74,788,800 gasoline cars.
So replacing the dieselgate affected cars with gasoline cars (apparently the popularity of diesel peaked around then and has been declining since) is the equivalent of removing 74,788,800 - 186,972 = 74,601,828 vehicles off the road in paris alone.
Dieselgate was 2015 so the change between 2020 and 2024 definitely was bikes, seen by how the main car roads are still horrible and emission standards havent been tightened enough to create such a big change. It really is just less cars driven and less space where cars are allowed.
My car actually had a dieselgate recall in 2024. They didn't do them all at once.
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So do people not understand that this is game over? We are in a zombie economy, it may still be walking but in reality it's dead.
Even if the straits open tomorrow, planting season is ending with out the needed fertilizer. Smelters and pot lines for aluminum, iron and glass are going cold. They can't just be restarted, cold idle make them giant bricks and damages them. Pharmaceutical manufacturing is shutting down, and also can't just be restarted. Clean rooms must be re-certified before restart. Similar problems for micro chips production that uses helium from the gulf.
It's fucking terrifying. And it makes me angry because it was all so avoidable. All the Untied States government had to do was enforce its fucking rules
The global economy is having its Wiley E. Coyote moment. The floor is gone, but gravity isn't doing its thing yet.
The Epstein distraction war will have to stop.
So ... maybe we should reduce the number of flights right now? And maybe check which flights are serving a real purpose and which are just flying people around who want to shop or get wasted.
Ban private and charter flights. Only high volume commercial flights
Did Europe thank the orange pedophile though?
Good. Excellent 👌
Why?
Less pollution. Maybe people will finally learn to use trains again.
I'd love to use trains, but they're so much slower and way more expensive. A return journey cuts into some very precious, limited time off.
I'm going to Berlin soon and I checked out the rail option first, it it's just unfeasible.
This 100% is the problem with bad policy.
Maybe it will get at least bit more possible after the new railway EU legislation passes this year but I am not that hopeful because they are just bunch of idiots flying business jets and don't understand the problems there.
Tbh it is big lobby by national railway companies like SNCF that slow the prgress way down, they should really pull out their heads from their asses and recognise that cross European travel isn't that much competition.
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World cup will be cancelled.
Because of a war started by the FIFA Peace Prize winner!
Why? Players could take sailboats, games could be seen on screens at local stadiums, organized by cities. I hope it would be how future events go.
So corrupt Fifa would be fucked with their overpriced tickets AND bus fares to stadiums
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Brothers in Arms will have to go Down to the Waterline with their Six Blade Knife to save us from Industrial Disease.
It's not easy when the whole world runs on Heavy Fuel.
And the birds up on the wires and the telegraph poles They can always fly away from this rain and this cold You can hear them singing out their telegraph code All the way down the telegraph road
Love the Dire Straits reference 🤘
All thanks to terrorists trump
So in six week we will have back out nights that were stolen some years ago by a dubious permission for night flights?
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