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  • This is a tricky one for Zelenskyy. And of course Putin knows that.

    Let’s take a moment and bring this ongoing most despicable war crime to the front of people’s attention.

    Investigations reveal a system of indoctrination of children abducted by Russia. […] Ukraine has identified over 150 locations where Russia is holding or has relocated abducted Ukrainian children, including families involved in illegal adoptions.

    Yes, Russian families "adopt " abducted children.

    These are around 40 camps, over 40 adoptive families, more than 50 educational institutions, and several Russian state-run facilities—spread across Russia and the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.

    Honestly, “educational institution” is a euphemism here. All this was known since '22 and it’s ongoing. It’s genocide. And imagine what that feels like for the parents back in Ukraine. Even if they do get their kids back, the damage is done. This alone if anything fills me with a visceral hate for the perpetrators and their participants.

    Earlier, Ukraine rescued five more children abducted by Russia

    This is good to hear. But can they get to those deep inside Russia?

    All in all it’s just another chapter from the Soviet oppression playbook, v2.0.





  • OK, this is interesting. Can you tell me if the far-right populists have been in power for more than one term or how that went?

    Right now it doesn’t look like they will join government come next term in Finland. And many people have been theorising/postulating that “once they’re in power people will realise how clueless they are, and that’s that then.” It certainly looks like it now, but I remain skeptical.

    But of course we still have our very own neoliberals; economically they’re not much better.


  • Thanks. It does not look like the far-right idiots are going to be part of the next government, but it’s still almost 2 years til then. And it’s not like the neolib/conservatives aren’t responsible too.

    We were lucky to have a good ol’ social democrat government before that which carried us smoothly through the pandemic. But immediately afterwards it was economy this and rebuild that. Workers in the social/public sector getting rather less money now. You still remember how they were cheering us on the balconies?





  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biofuel

    In general, biofuels emit fewer greenhouse gas emissions when burned in an engine and are generally considered carbon-neutral fuels as the carbon emitted has been captured from the atmosphere by the crops used in production.

    That does not mean they do not produce CO2 when burned, sorry.


    edit:

    The very next sentence in that wikipedia article:

    However, life-cycle assessments of biofuels have shown large emissions associated with the potential land-use change required to produce additional biofuel feedstocks. The outcomes of lifecycle assessments (LCAs) for biofuels are highly situational and dependent on many factors including the type of feedstock, production routes, data variations, and methodological choices.