Luccus

"What's up with the wax by the slow cooker?"

"Well, I've read about 10 papers on high performance cycling and have concluded, that hot waxing my chain may save about half a watt."

"When did you last ride it?"

"Also a good question, indeed."

"Ich brauche einen SUV, ohne den kann ich ja weder meinen Monatseinkauf noch die Türzargen, die ich jede Woche ersetze, transportieren. Ja, der GTI ist wichtig für das Wochenende, da will ich ja nicht mit meinem Pendelwagen fahren. Der erinnert mich immer an die Arbeit. Und der e-Up muss sein, weil ich langsam den Sprit für den SUV nicht mehr bezahlen kann."

Honestly… who does that?

That sounds whacky af.

(going through a loved ones phone I mean)

I'm too lazy to look up the numbers, but I think the premise of this argument is rather weak.

Money spend on social welfare, vastly improves poor people's lives. When you spend it on corporate welfare, the money tends to go into the pockets of people who are already pretty comfortable.

This is a simplification of a multifaceted issue, but by and large I think this holds a lot more water than just comparing numbers.

Also: There was a pandemic in the time period given, so there might be some selection bias.

Und "Lauterbach"

HDPE can be recycled (as many thermoplastics can) but once it's in a matrix of other stuff (say calcium) it get's really difficult to do so. Also HDPE is not biodegradable. It can break up into microplastic, but I wouldn't call that exactly enviromentally friendly. Maybe if there are some added enzymes or something…

But you can just use unbleached, recycled paper. Paper is easy to recycle, doen't require a lot of chemicals (unless you bleach it) and is already one of the most recycled resources.

Killing birds with giant fans actually requires a lot of luck because it is so ineffective.

Cars or fossil fuel power plants are much better suited for this purpose.

cries in german

At least I can hope that people will stop with the "100% renewables are impossible". They won't, but one can still hope.

'Bottom surgery' bezeichnet eine Operation, bei welcher das Aussehen einer (transgender) Person angepasst wird; 'bottom' bezieht sich in dem Fall auf die untere Körperhälfte.

Die Antwort wäre also vermutlich:

"Because I wanted."

Ich möchte kurz einwerfen, dass es sich manchmal lohnen kann bei Menschen, die wirklich so denken mal zu erwähnen, dass auch in der DDR der "Personalausweis" schon "Personalausweis" hieß.

Mitunter kommten da ganz neue Erkenntnisse zustande.