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Welcome to YUROP
The Ultimate Eurozone of Culture, Chaos, and Continental Excellence

A glorious gathering place to celebrate (and lovingly roast) the lands, peoples, quirks, and contradictions of Her Most Magnificent Europa. From the fjords to the Med, the steppes to the Atlantic spray, this is a shrine to everything that makes Europe gloriously weird, wonderfully diverse, and occasionally passive-aggressive in 24 languages.

Here we toast:
🇪🇺 The progressive Union of Peace (and paperwork)
🧀 The freest of health care
🍷 The finest of foods
🏳️‍🌈 The liberalest of liberties
🌍 The proud non-members and honorary cousins 💶 And the eternal dance of unity, confusion, and cultural banter.

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[–] FudgyMcTubbs@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Everyone keeps pointing out exceptions to the rule. Obviously enfeebled elderly folks benefit from pellets if their children/grand children arent hacking down trees for them.

It's like me saying "prepackaged single serving items are a scourge on the planet" and then someone clapping back about how they're disabled and need single serving pre cut apples or pre-peeled bananas or some shit. Like, yeah, of course in that situation it makes sense.

[–] CaliforniaSober@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

No it’s like you are saying apparently everyone has children and grand children ready to start a logging op on the fly…

As if everyone has equal access to trees and equal physical ability to log them at the necessary scale.

Meanwhile in reality… your poor understanding of prepared foods doesn’t scale to folks actually heating themselves in real life…

Manufactured wood bits aren’t the way but they have a place in a world where your bs doesn’t create a silver bullet either.