Tar_Alcaran

Because, god forbid, then we’d actually have to do something

Van de BBB verbaast me hooguit dat ze bereid zijn zo ver te gaan in hun nogal wanhopige poging meer te zijn dan alléén een boerenpartij.

De BBB is tegen alle verandering. Dus ook hier tegen…

See, drones don’t have much ammo, so you fly it to a place that DOES have a lot of ammo, and then you push the button

I especially when sports teams are routinely decimated, yet somehow all play again in the next game.

a young Muslim guy from India

Well there’s your problem. The rest is just an excuse

I’ve been stuck in customs for “not having enough money on me”, despite credit cards and ATMs existing. It depends HUGELY on which individual you get in the US.

It’s not entirely unwarranted, they WERE planning to work on a tourist-visa, which specifically and clearly not allowed in pretty much any country.

The horrible treatment is, of course, completely unwarranted, but denying entry isn’t.

But whatabout…

Yeah, if you speak the truth, soon you’ll have 20 tractors in your street

and/or given weeks of notice of his arrival.

And the examples I listed ARE from places that had advanced notice. It’s why most auditors get pretty anal about small stuff, we know it’s 10 times worse when we’re not there.

I love this dedication, but as someone who works in hazardous materials and workplace safety, he sounds rather naive in some areas.

“I don’t know of a single farmer who’s doing things purposely wrong,” Bloem says. “They’re just following the rules. The problem is, the rules are wrong.”

I can only conclude he doesn’t know many farmers. I don’t visit farms very often, because there aren’t a lot of safety or materials certificates farmers need to have, but I’ve still seen some shit you wouldn’t believe

Mixing things in water by sticking your arms in to the shoulder and swirling them around, working in the dust without PPE when that dust contains known heavy metals from the streams they dredged themselves, working downwind of pesticide spray… And those aren’t even uncommon.

I fully agree a lot of safety are stupid, either because they’re too lax, or unworkably strict and unneeded, but there are FAR more issues that arise from people ignoring the rules that come out of the rules being too lenient. And when it IS the latter, it’s mostly because we just don’t know stuff.

When is the last time you followed the instructions on your cleaning spray to the letter? Or paint? Never? Yeah, exactly.

“Chemical companies need to show their chemicals are safe”

And how would that work? How can you show a chemical is safe, ever? How can you test for interactions you don’t know about, or chronic effects that probably won’t even show up in animals?

And even if you DID show it was safe under circumstances, how can you make sure people handling it will stick to those circumstances? This shit is hard, and people suck at risk assessment, so they’ll fuck up even if they know better.

Apparently there is. From the article:

In France, a nationwide study found that Parkinson’s rates were significantly higher in vineyard regions that rely heavily on fungicides. Another study found that areas with higher agricultural pesticide use — often measured by regional spending — tend to have higher rates of Parkinson’s, suggesting a dose-response relationship. In Canada and the U.S., maps of Parkinson’s clusters track closely with areas of intensive agriculture.

Hey, the US can still bid on EU arms programs, but we’ll have to put a 200% tarriff in to balance the trade, because that’s totally how it works.

Wait, let me check with chatGPT to confirm.

Yep, that’s how it works!

Rubio warned that excluding American firms from European tenders would be viewed negatively by Washington—an implicit criticism of the EU’s proposed procurement rules.

Oh no! If we don’t buy any weapons, they might not want to sell us weapons anymore!

A Nordic diplomat not present at the Baltic meeting confirmed that US officials recently conveyed their concerns, stating that any exclusion from EU arms purchases would be inappropriate.

Yeah, the US has recently done just a few things that “would be inappropriate” as well, so I think we’re on good ethical ground here.

And as for data safety and privacy, another 1930s Dutch story. Dutch people are great at data and statistics, and very meticulous.

As a result, we have tons of data on people, including data on where someone’s ancestors are from and what religion they have. The results of that, combined with a fascist regime were not pretty.

Teflon Mark

What if you remade the Jumanji remake, but instead of actually writing, you just fill 2 hours with references and “haha just kidding” jokes.

Oh no…

Speaking of artillery… Have you actually seen the locations totally bombed to the ground before Russians move forward another few meters. No amount of mining with anti-personal mines would survive that well enough to actually deter soldiers.

Artillery is actually surprisingly bad at clearing minefields. If you could just lob shells onto a minefield, why would nations everywhere develop incredibly expensive mine-clearing systems?

Minefields are used because they work. Mixed minefields are used just like castle walls, to slow an enemy and increase the defender advantage. They don’t stop an enemy by itself, but purely anti-vehicle fields are easily cleared by hand, or walked across. Mixed fields are not.

Actual infantry movement (the reasons I refered to “marching”) that would make anti-personal mining reasonable doesn’t exist anymore

Minefields that deter strategic movement have never existed. They have always been a tactical thing, even in WW2 desert combat, which saw some of the most extensive minefield ever, they have always been tactical obstacles.

Mining the border doesn’t mean spreading mines across the entire literal border. It means defending key areas with thicker fields, and probably not even that, it means keeping them ready just in case.

The thing is, yes, mines might kill civilians some time in the future. But losing a war against a genocidal foreign country will absolutely kill more.

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