@MAVERIC68078049 Evolution at work, funny how leftists understand this perfectly when it comes to all other animals, but bugs flying slightly higher when passing over a black hot road is just not possible...
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Jeg kæmper for en verden uden Islam og venstrefløjen, dvs. en rigtig menneskerettighedsforkæmper, altså modstander af EMRK. "Si vis pacem, para bellum"
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@AnishA_Moonka This is so stupid, don't you think that evolution will solve for wide stretches of hot black tarmac? Insects are fully capable of sensing heat and seeing light...
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A Danish scientist counted bugs on the same windshield, same road, same conditions, every year for 20 years. By year 20, 80% of the insects were gone.
In Germany, a group of volunteer bug scientists did something even bigger. They set traps in 63 nature reserves, not farms, protected land, and weighed everything they caught. Same traps, same method, 27 years straight. The total weight of flying bugs dropped 76%. In midsummer, when insects should be peaking, it was 82% gone. A follow-up in 2020 and 2021 checked again. No recovery.
In the UK, they literally ask drivers to count splats on their license plates after a trip. The 2024 count came back 63% lower than just 2021. Three years.
A 2020 study pulled together 166 surveys from 1,676 locations around the world. Land insects are disappearing at roughly 9% every ten years.
Here’s where it hits your plate. About 75% of the food crops we grow depend on insects to pollinate them, everything from apples to almonds to coffee. One 2025 study modeled what a full pollinator collapse would look like: food prices jump 30%, the global economy takes a $729 billion hit, and the world loses 8% of its Vitamin A supply.
Birds are already feeling it. North America has lost 2.9 billion birds since 1970. A study from just weeks ago found half of 261 bird species on the continent are now in serious decline, and the losses are speeding up in farming regions. The birds that eat insects lost 2.9 billion. The birds that don’t eat insects? They gained 26 million. That ratio tells the whole story.
One of the German researchers behind the 27-year study drives a Land Rover. He says it has the aerodynamics of a refrigerator. It stays clean now.
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I am sure many of you have noticed this.
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I've been looking at cars on the road.
Why are there no visually asymmetrically designed cars?
Apart from functional reasons (exhaust port, side opening tailgate, number plate etc) all visual design elements are symmetrical.
Yeah, yeah, I know, humans like symmetry, asymmetry is branded ugly. But why so few examples of it and so many companies unwilling to rock the design boat?
Are us humans that wired to symmetry that it's impossible for an asymmetrical design to be successful?
Only major production example I can think of is the Nissan Cube, and they only did it because it's part of the functionality of the side opening tailgate.
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@ConsoomerLs If it was just a deposit you got back after a couple of weeks, it might actually be a good idea, obviously it would have to be the full amount, no stupid "transaction fee" BS.
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Imagine making struggling unemployed people pay just to send a job application.
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@LisaBritton The entire school system has been redesigned to cater exclusively to young female preferences, its not surprising that boys do worse than they used to.
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Boys are behind girls in education. We often hear “Boys need more recess!” or “We need all-boys schools!” but experts don’t know if these things will actually help because there isn’t enough research to support it.
We need more research that actually measures boys separately so that we can effectively address the challenges facing boys and young men.
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@Madskorsholmdk Skide god ide, så kan vi rigtig få amerikanske tilstande...
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@CitizenCohn @WIRED Chinese companies usually lie by a huge margin, and its not wise to give the CCP a kill switch on all vehicles in the west, why are we so insistent on repeating the mistake of relying on Russia for energy?
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BYD just unveiled an electric car that can charge from 10 to 70 percent in five minutes, and all the way in nine
More proof that EVs are going to dominate the future, just a question of how long it takes — and who will build them
Via @WIRED wired.com/story/how-byds…
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@jesvejle @Don_Domingo66 Deres beskyttelsesbehov er i hvert tilfælde væk, så må de jo betragtes som arbejdsmigranter og gå ind under det regelset.
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@Don_Domingo66 kan de tage på ferie i det land, som de kommer fra, så skal deres opholdstilladelse forsvinde automatisk
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@Kristia54288792 @Don_Domingo66 Det er 100% frivilligt at tage imod dem, det kan vi bare lade være med, men det vil jo kræve lidt politisk mod, og det er der stort set ingen af vores politikere der har.
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@Don_Domingo66 Og nu har vi snart en million iranske flygtninge i Danmark pga. Geniet trump
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@Diodotus__I @Blajblaj2023 @visegrad24 A repressive government is required to live with muslims, even muslim countries need serious authoritarian government not to end up in civil wars.
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@Blajblaj2023 @visegrad24 There are 25 million native Muslims in Russia, a country with 190 different ethnicities and 100-180 languages. Everyone lives peacefully together.
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Around 3 million Muslims live in Moscow.
Their numbers increase every year through immigration and higher birth rates
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Det meste af en Europæiske effekt kommer af genitik, selv om det vestlige uddannelsesystem nok hæver deres IQ et par points så gør tilstedeværelsen af disse elever i skolerne at det samlede niveau falder kraftigt.
Jeg har selv siddet i en klasse hvor der var 2 elver der ikke kunne holde kæft, det kostede mig og andre i klassen dyrt, det tog mange år at indhente, og det var tilbage i 80erne.
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Den ekstreme skolegang i Kina har løftet nationens IQ med 5 point på 20 år.
Den ekstreme masseimmigration til Europa har sænket Europas IQ med 10 point på 20 år.
Tak for lort!!! #SigerDetBare
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@LoeveTristan Desværre er han til stor skade for landet, men ja, han er dygtig politiker.
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@KaareDybvad Hvad hjælper det når problemet ikke er løst, der er stadig stor tilstrømning fra MENAPT landene og det koster os milliarder hver eneste år, for ikke at tale om de gigantiske negative konsekvenser det har for dansk kultur og specielt børnene er hårdt ramt.
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Her siger Morten Messerschmidt, at udlændingepolitikken aldrig har været strammere end under Mette Frederiksen.
Jeg er enig!
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@Dalbjerg @DennisJensen11 Jeg har flyttet mig fra radikale til DF på 15 år, når man først sætter sig ind i tingene så er det ret klart at venstrefløjen her himmelråbende vanvittig, og "Moderaterne" er på venstrefløjen.
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@DennisJensen11 Vil være vildt hvis en vælger hopper fra Moderaterne til DF..
Tenderende skizofrent..
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Blå blok med sejr på udebane med det røde publikum.
Tror S tabte stemmer til SF.
Og Moderaterne tabte til DF og LA.
#dkpol
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@AndersKolling @Hollow_Coffin @Anders_Vistisen Folk på venstrefløjen ser alt i sort eller hvidt, nuancer magter de ikke.
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@Hollow_Coffin Jeg betragter Rusland, Kina, Iran og Pakistan som lande uden danske værdier.
Jeg er enig med Viktor Orbán omkring indvandring, og samtidig er jeg uenig med Orbán omkring krigen i Ukraine.
@Anders_Vistisen har en nuanceret position, der skelner tydeligt mellem de to ting.
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Hvad betyder det, at jeg er racist? Det betyder, at jeg er kæmper imod islam.
Jeg kæmper imod antisemitisme, undertrykkelse af kvinder, angreb på ytringsfriheden, voldtægter, socialt bedrageri, bandekriminalitet, terrorisme, vold mod LGB, sundhedspersonale, lærere og børn.
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