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Europeans used to be big fans of green energy, but now that the Chinese are leading the way they seem to be changing their minds. “China dominates green tech, producing about 90 per cent of the world’s solar modules, more than 80 per cent of wind turbines and 80 per cent of battery cells, as well as controlling wider supply chains for rare earth and semiconductor materials.” Europe apparently needs to be mindful that “we don’t replace one set of dependencies on fossil fuel imports with a dependency on Chinese low-carbon technology.” One of the reasons for caution is that “China was likely to restrict supply of low-carbon technology and components”. It’s worth noting that China would only ever do such a thing in a context where Europe was engaged in aggression against it. So the question for Europeans is: what’s more important, preventing climate catastrophe, or reserving the right to participate in hot and cold war on China? A very revealing sentence: “An under-appreciated risk was that the US could demand Europe remove Chinese technology from its energy systems — or face tariffs, sanctions or reduced security commitments.” This is a stark admission that Europe is likely to be forced into subjugating its own interests to those of the Project for a New American Century. All pretty pathetic.

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A drunk guy grabbed a guys wife ass in front of him... Is this the only way to respond?

A mother forced her son to slam his PS5 the same way he had slammed her pet cat.

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The research behind this is wild. A baby owl can sit and starve to death right next to a pile of food. Put a stuffed owl next to it, like in the video, and suddenly it'll eat. An Austrian zoologist, Konrad Lorenz, won the 1973 Nobel Prize for figuring out why. He showed that young birds aren't born knowing who their mom is. In the first few days of life, their brain takes a kind of mental photograph. Whatever they see moving around gets locked in as "parent." After that, only that figure can switch on their feeding instinct. He called it imprinting. Owls have it worse than most birds. They're born blind, naked, and totally helpless. A baby barn owl needs feeding every two to three hours for weeks. It can't even keep itself warm until its feathers come in. And right around the time its eyes finally open, between days 15 and 20, its brain locks onto whoever's been taking care of it. Miss that window with the wrong face nearby, and the owl is wired wrong for life. Even the begging is automatic. In the 1950s, a Dutch scientist named Niko Tinbergen ran experiments with baby seagulls. He found the chicks were pecking at a specific shape. A long thin thing with a colored spot was enough to trigger the full begging routine, even when it was just a painted wooden stick. Take the stick away and the whole sequence shuts down. The chick can be staring straight at food, but if there's no parent-shaped trigger, its body doesn't know how to swallow. There's a tiny patch in the bird brain that runs this whole show. It's the same part that learns and stores faces. Researchers at Cambridge and labs in Japan have mapped it down to the chemistry. They've even found a hormone that, if you inject it in the right spot, can re-open the imprinting window after it closes. That dummy owl in the video carries 40 years of conservation work behind it. In 1982 there were only 22 California condors left in the entire world. The San Diego Zoo started feeding hatchlings with hand puppets shaped like adult condors, hiding the human handler behind a curtain. The condor population is now 607. The Bronx Zoo did the same thing last spring with a baby king vulture. The Barn Owl Trust in the UK feeds orphaned owls through owl puppets while wearing camouflage hoods, because an owl raised by humans can never be released back into the wild. It'll fly toward people, beg from them, and starve. The dummy is the only signal the chick's brain still accepts as "mom." Evolution carved a very specific lock into its brain, and only the right shape fits.