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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • Any system can be undermined with enough criminal energy.

    People often argue against certain laws that they can be abused if judges collude with the executive.
    But if the separation of power between executive, legislative and judiciary and the related mutual controls break down then the actual laws don’t matter anymore anyway.








  • Once this has been implemented, something worse can be implemented.

    I don’t like these slippery slope arguments. You might as well reduce it to any legislation.
    Once people are allowed to make laws, bad people can make bad laws.
    Which is why we must continue to vote in the right people, not abandon the concept of laws.

    In this case, I don’t doubt that copyright infringement and general censorship are on some people’s agenda.
    But this current proposal is bad enough itself and should be opposed because of that and not because someone might make other, even worse proposals in the future.





  • Yes, one can argue that more fossil energy could have been shut down if the nuclear plants had continued operating.

    That said, Nuclear was replaced by renewables. Coal was also replaced by renewables.
    Maybe more coal could have been replaced but claiming that nuclear was replaced with coal is a rhetoric trick but it is literally not true.

    Also these assumptions about replacing coal always seem to come from people who have no idea about the power of the German coal lobby.
    Coal is just about the only natural resource Germany has and is a massive industry.
    The coal exit movement is decades old as well. But as the graphs show it is also glacially slow due to massive lobbying.


  • You original comment was that someone “turned on coal/oil…”
    That statement is factually and demonstrably incorrect.
    Gas was not even part of that original claim but whatever.

    Building capacity as a reserve for peak times is not the same as the plants actually running and producing emissions.
    As the graphs show, the actual production and therefore emissions from fossil sources have gone down. This is what matters in he climate change debate.
    The mere existence of buildings has little to do with the topic at hand.