Worth noting about Startpage: they’re part of System1, an American advertising/marketing company. Sytem1 claims that privacy is one of the biggest focuses though. Make of that what you will.

Given some of the Putin bootlickers in the EU parliament though, like Hungary, I wonder if that would’ve even been possible.

True, they didn’t immediately seize all trade, but within a month already imposed sanctions like bans on imports and exports (particularly related to weapons and energy), restricted Russia’s access to the EU financial markets, SWIFT bans on several Russian banks (I don’t understand why not all of them) and a lot more.

Since the start they’ve imposed 17 sanction packages. Should they have done more in the 1st month though? Absolutely. I read your comment as if you were saying they did nothing at all, hence my response being what it was. If I read that wrong, I apologize.

I’m not sure what you’re trying to say here. Are you saying the EU has imposed no sanctions before this? If so, that’s objectively false. The EU has imposed many sanctions against Russia already since February 2022 on top of existing sanctions because of Crimea.

https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/policies/sanctions-against-russia/timeline-packages-sanctions-since-february-2022/

Yeah, 2 seasons of build up is a lot to keep track with

Helllllll yeah.

Wonder why Vshojo made that decision.

Edit: as I posted this I realized that this can sound sarcastic. It’s not. I’m genuinely wondering.

Keeping an eye on this thread. I’ve tried many FOSS music apps, but never found one as nice as the non-FOSS Pulsar, particularly in regards to playlist functionality.

Totally, but the dire wolf is not one of them

that disappeared because of humans and restoring ecosystems are possible ones

Yeah, 10,000 years ago. Is it really restoring when the ecosystem has been functioning for such a long period without it? Wouldn’t it sooner disrupt it?

I’m also a subscriber of Premium and have my adblocker turned on. Google still tracks you just as much as without Premium

Sure, so cut government funding for fossil fuel sources.

And what about the water requirements for mining lithium?

Yea, so our focus should be both renewable and nuclear. Why does it have to be one or the other?

Doesn’t energy made out biomass (like wood-fuels) release a lot of CO2 as it’s still a carbon source?

Also, in the same article, nuclear energy seems to be pretty high up too (if not higher) and they’re building a new reactor, showing that it’s not one or the other, but a combination that’s probably the best.