According to Agora Energiewende, Germany has been a net importer since 2023.

Phasing out nuclear power before replacement sources were built, was probably not ideal. It's one of several reasons electricity prices across Europe has shot up since 2021, after being stable since 2008 (as far back as I found statistics for in the time I wanted to spend digging).

"Sex recession" is an anwful expression that causes ambiguity with other related phrases. For instance, does "going bust" in this context mean getting nothing, dressing in drag, or a sexual position requiring certain generous physical endowments? It also makes "Bear Market" sound like a niche nightclub and inflation like something viagra can help with, and I now dread hearing about anyone's gross domestic product.

Are they going allow MS to pull in all these documents without signing ironclad NDAs?

And Microsoft is going spend all this money to store all these documents without charging more? Or do these documents have some non-obvious value?

If I have access to every document at every company... Hmmmm.

Even when their motivation to suddenly redraw electoral maps is to distract from shielding high-ranking sex-traffickers from justice? Okay, Groomer.

How long before MS notices that the most common user input is: "That isn't what I want you stupid f***ing piece of mindless sh**t." My guess is never b/c they really don't care.

And how will it respond? Will it be: "To pay your Microsoft bill say Yes." "To add Microsoft services say Yes." When you really want to get Excel to add up and then slice and dice costs across 20,000 invoices.

Everything we buy is more expensive to fund the fees that feed these very profitable loyalty programs. Even if you don't participate, it is baked into the credit card fees which are in turn baked into the price at the store.

Simplifying. You over pay by 2% to get 1% back. This is dumb.

Leafy greens, bulbs and root vegetables and fruits, more specifically cabbage, garlic, potatoes, tomatoes. And coriander (some may find chewing an 18650 cell more palatable).

So you'll be pleased to learn that a diet heavy in sauerkraut, kimchi and Mexican food should minimise your chance of developing Alzheimers, however people in your immediate vicinity might not be so pleased.

It's interesting that you jumped straight to him fucking dogs though, rather than him merely owning both dogs and a saxophone...

I had always presumed it was a play on words, rather than an admission of bestiality.

After your first reply I guessed you were 'fragile' - why else resort to belittling someone for gently correcting a mistake.

Now, well...

It's something of a truism that the accusations we level at others are, in reality, our own failings. Thanks for showing us all who you really are!

And, not that it's particularly important, but just for the record, I took a chemistry module 2 years ago (so rather more recently than the 90's), as part of my degree and got a module mark of 95%.

I'm afraid your sarcasm is lost on me. Perhaps if you were to provide an actual quote from the book that you've linked to, one that backs up the statement you made about there being no difference between man-made and natural compounds, your intent would be clearer...

After all, by my understanding, and to quote from an easily accessible source the difference can be a matter of life or death: "This subtle difference can have profound implications for biological processes and drug interactions, as the human body often exhibits specificity for one enantiomer over the other." (c.f. thalidomide)

Both incorrect. I guess that just goes to show that, despite 'everyone' knowing what you both meant, imprecision in language leads to potential misunderstandings when it comes to reporting on science.

Yeah, me either...

Then that organic chemist needs to go back to school and revisit the topic of chiral molecules...

That said:

Indeed, there's an awful lot of absolute rubbish being spouted by some of these people e.g. "carrots aren't food".

I see. As long as you can think of cities that are not affected by a heat wave, heat wave does not exist? Looking at the weather map, it seems to affect about half the continent. Just because you're not in that half, does not mean it doesn't exist.

Do you live in every area of every country in Europe, or just one that happens to not be hit by a heat wave? Because I'm in Norway, and the place has been melting for a while now. Here, heat wave is defined as five consecutive days with temperatures above 27 degrees, we've been getting 35 at times. Today's peak where I live was 30. The forecast currently indicates it might drop to 25-26 next week (which is still above normal for anything but a day or two across all of summer). Making it extra special, it has been hitting the entire country at once, something that's almost unheard of.

As for the general trend, the statistics point in one direction. The frequency of heat waves here have doubled compared to thirty years ago. Areas that have never before recorded a heat wave, are now getting them.

Thankfully, I have a heat pump, otherwise my life would have been utterly miserable for the past few weeks.

I have some friends who like conspiracy theories and some who laugh at them.

But not one believes Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide.

I'm not sure how to process that...

Of course some conspiracy theories are later proved to be true (turns out that our governments were lying to us about Iraq having weapons of mass destruction after all... I was called a conspiracy theorist by these same friends at the time for saying this). History is replete with examples like this. So, I don't know how any study can claim to have the monopoly on common sense here.