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I guess half of the flock pissed off and the other half died. Pretty sad considering they have strong emotional bonds to each other. When one part of a canary bird couple dies the other one usually dies soon after from sadness. Let's hope that the wild birds aren't such pussies

I don't know, could be, though I've heard that their feet protect them against electricity somehow, it's why they can sit on transmission towers. Birds' heart rate can change really quickly and can go up to extremes. Could be that they had a collective heart attack caused by something that really scared them, maybe an extremely loud noise.

surreal

it's useful

just act as if you know things, like I do

Even if somehow Scotland managed to declare its independence from the UK it probably wouldn't be able to join the EU because Spain generally doesn't support separatist movements all around the world because of their own separatists and EU members would have to approve unanimously.

most of the girls had entered puberty. if it's working down there why not use it? but seriously, I stand behind biden (cause I'm too scared to stand in front of him, he might sniff my hair and stroke my waste and breathe in my ear, or softly kiss my neck when I least expect it)

Made a track and my DAW crashed before I could save it. Then I recreated the track from memory and the same happened again.

Stop making me horny

I always thought his touchiness was some sort of old school etiquette. I've seen a lot of old men who like to poke their fingers in your chest while making a point. That hair sniffing stuff is weird as fuck though. If anyone would be a victim of a smear campaign like that then it would be a presidential candidate, so not really surprising to see allegations like that.

"In 2012, Biden delivered 1,875 boxes of “photographs, documents, videotapes, and files” and 415 gigabytes of electronic records to his alma mater, the University of Delaware. They covered his entire 36-year Senate career. At the time, the university said it expected to make the papers “available to the public two years after Biden’s last day in elected public office.” Biden left the vice presidency in January 2017, and January 2019 came and went with no papers released. Then, on April 24, 2019, the day before Biden announced his presidential campaign, the university revised the schedule. The papers would now remain sealed until December 31, 2019, or until two years after Biden “retires from public life,” whichever came later. That means Americans likely won’t learn what’s in his papers before they vote for president this fall." https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/biden-should-release-his-papers/610801/ is it just me or have we been here before? If the papers aren't incriminating he would profit from releasing them. So why does he not do that?

I always thought national security is seen as so important in the US. How come armed people can storm government buildings without getting arrested?

Similar thing happened to me. Contacted bandcamp and they fixed it the same day

Without CETA Canadian troops would soon attack Europe saying "sorry" after every bullet. ? Basically the point I made about Russia, though. Have you been to the baltic countries? They are really worried about Russia. And as you mentioned, trading relationships are a peace factor. Plus their gas is cheaper. Fracking gas is a huge waste of water (1 to 8 million gallons of water each fracturing job), it's inefficient and it contaminates the groundwater. I don't know how people even got the idea that it's harmless to pump hazardous chemicals into the soil. I think the burden of proof is on the people who want to contaminate the soil in that way (and proof isn't on their side). That being said, Nordstream 2 isn't unproblematic either, from an environment protection perspective, but still better than fracking. And we won't change Russia by stopping all trade with them. You know, in Europe Russia isn't another far away place with a problematic political system, it is part of Europe and we have to live with it. You could be right that national courts might be more in favour of the population that lives in the place where the business is done rather than in favour of big business, since they were elected by representatives who were elected by that population. I don't think it's a bad thing, though. Rather democratic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_model https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_market_economy

Of course I'm not against free(r) movement and I'm for more cultural exchange. I'm for free trade if it is regulated in a socially responsible way. Increased transparency doesn't negate the fact that arbitral courts are less democratic than national courts, they aren't constituted by parliaments. And they can decide if tax money goes to corporations as compensation. There are laws that are investment barriers (and compromise free trade) that are still sensible (even though they aren't in line with the neoliberal idea/ideology that free trade is always good in any and every case and an end in itself rather than a tool), e.g. green laws or health protection laws. Why should governments be punished when they implement them? The corporate lawyers working in the arbitral courts are paid on an hourly basis and they themselves have an interest in elongated law suits of corporations suing governments. Free trade treaties that include a parallel judiciary should be excluded from the outset by EU law. Other kinds of free trade treaties can be discussed, imo, and should be. As for GMOs, it's a nuanced topic. GMOs saved Vietnam from famine. Making plants yield higher crops of better quality without having to breed them that way over years is a good thing. Making crops that produce infertile seeds so farmers are dependent on distributors is bad. Making plants that resist insecticides so more of them can be used can in some cases be reasonable, in most others rather environmentally damaging, so should be strictly regulated. Also plants that are made immune to certain insect infestation can become a problem when they become part of the natural/non-agricultural environment (which is inevitable), taking away the food resources of bugs who in turn are the food resources of birds, destabilizing ecosystems. It's more complicated then generally banning it or saying it's generally harmless. I have never been to Canada so I can't say anything about food quality there, I was referring to you saying that the labeling on Canadian food is more sincere bcs of CETA. And Fracking is a sin against nature. Long term effects are hardly researched and it's an inefficient method. It makes more sense to buy Russian gas. Also, trading interdependence with Russia ensures peace. The Baltic states will thank us. Of course Russia is bordering dictatorship and has to be influenced in a way that hopefully makes them open up to the West more, which hopefully might cause political shifts into the right direction. Excluding trade is the wrong way. And yes, Aldi has some nasty shit in their shelves

I imagine tattoo online communities to be like that

Right, TTIP failed and CETA passed, luckily not in its original form, but it's still mostly bad. It's bad not only because it can lead to weaker Canadian standards being applied in Europe. It's bad because of arbitral courts that undermine democracy. Companies can make treaties to exclude national courts and move to a parallel judiciary that is completely secret and non-transparent (and not constituted by democratically elected parliaments). While in Canada it somehow might lead to better food quality it is against the interest not only of the Europeans but also of the Canadians because of that. But politicians still decide it, lots of them get a nice post in one of the profiting companies after their political careers (just coincidentally of course). It allows companies to sue governments for "investment barriers" such as green restrictions to prevent climate change or smoking restrictions for public health. That can lead to compensation payments of governments to international companies. That's tax money going directly into the pockets of major corporations, these decisions are non-transparent and anti-democratic because made by arbitral courts. Right here in my state Canadian companies wanted to pump chemicals into the soil (fracking). Luckily, there was a citizens' movement causing them to not do it. But if Germany should decide to implement a general fracking ban it might have to pay billions to Canadian companies. And no, Canadian citizens don't profit from that. Neoliberalism is the liberty of major corporations to exploit people and the environment. It's anti liberalism, global or not.

Hast Du Dir das ausgedacht? Nicht schlecht ?

Do you have more examples of these politics? Here in Germany people getting fatigued by being careful it seems. When this whole thing started people were barely on the streets, now it's almost back to normal. Might be the nicer weather. Still, death count is rising and all the work that's been done and all the discipline to contain the pandemic right now is on the line. People are getting careless and the situation could soon become the same as in the Netherlands and Belgium.

Just delete your account, OK?

How is your bird?

The Swedes are idealistic to the point of self-damage, at least in this question. You can get the impression that by tendency they believe in values more than in pragmatism*. Big question is if the high death count in Sweden is due to a lack of restrictions or if it has to do with flaws in the Swedish healthcare system, or a mixture - if not synergy - of both. *another example is the drug policies regarding heroin addicts. They refuse to implement the Danish model of safe consumption rooms even though it's evident that it reduces deaths and that recovery from addiction is more likely, causing deaths in Sweden and causing thousands of Swedish heroin and coke addicts to enter Denmark /randomfact