Comments by "Immudzen" (@Immudzen) on "DW News" channel.

  1. Endless growth is unsustainable. You can't just keep having more and more people. We have to learn to deal with this problem.
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  2. Use nuclear power and build more nuclear reactors. If you want to see that this method works just look at France. Honestly who would have thought that France would beat Germany in engineering?
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  3. What I am weary of is people not getting vaccinated. I am tired of this pandemic just stretching on and on because people "did their own research" by reading stuff on Facebook and other social media sites and deciding against getting vaccinated. If you want to live in society then get vaccinated. Also don't hide behind religion because none of the major religions are against vaccines and many of them have come out and said it is your religious duty to get vaccinated.
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  4. If people had to pay the full lifecycle costs of these garments they would not be so cheap. They are only cheap because the companies don't have to pay to fix the damage they cause. This is just a classic issue of externalized costs. These companies don't really make the economy better.
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  5. Protest votes don't exist. If you vote for a party you are supporting that party and what it does. The myth of a protest vote spread around Brexit and the vote was real and the damage it did was real.
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  6. As much as I don't like this kind of law I think that it is needed in this case. I don't think that all the people being sent to Russia are just asylum seekers. It really looks like Russia is weaponizing asylum seekers and also using that to get their own people in to do damage.
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  7. @Mark Vaccines do no provide immunity they provide resistance. Immunity basically doesn't exist in biology. A vaccines primary job is to prevent serious illness and secondary is lowering your risk of infection.
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  8. I still think we should be using nuclear power as the primary power system. It works right now. There is no special energy storage system that much be built so that it works all the time. We should invest in renewables and deploy them where possible. We should also invest more in fusion technology and deploy that when ready. However, if we want to get off coal, natural gas, and Russia right now then nuclear is the best option.
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  9. @Septic Tank And you are wrong on both counts. You can force people to get vaccinated and the vaccines are effective. In the USA vacinations have been mandatory for many diseases for over 200 years.
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  10.  @realfreedom8932  The vaccine is not immunity to infection it is protection from serious illness. It is not some indestructible shield. Vaccinated people show fewer short term and long term effects of the virus. This is based on actual research. If you really want to learn nearly every journal article on Covid is public and has been for the entire pandemic. You could also talk to some ICU nurses.
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  11. Nord Stream was a legitimate military target for Ukraine given that Russia invaded them. I don't know if they destroyed it, but it was a legitimate target.
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  12.  @inoclasism  Actually that is incorrect. A vaccine lowers your viral load which also lowers how much you breathe into the air which does lower the spread of the virus. More important the vaccine protects you against serious short and long term problems from the virus.
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  13. Honestly 5 days at 6 hours each is about the max my productive hours actually are. Beyond 6 hours in a day my productivity already drops. That is why I use that time for meetings.
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  14. How does this impact people that are not supposed to get their 3rd shot yet? I had my second shot in late August and from what I can see I am not supposed to get the booster until late February (6 months). If possible I will try to get the booster in early February.
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  15. This is the part I am confused about also. I am supposed to get my booster in late February, and I don't know how these rules apply to me yet.
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  16.  @bimDe2024  HIV is really hard to create a vaccine for. There are finally some HIV vaccines in testing now that look very promising but it is still probably a ways off. Remember it was only about 20 years ago that we first typed out the human genome. We didn't even learn about the part of our immune system that works inside the cells until a few years ago.
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  17. In the end executives want control and they want to appear like they are doing something. It doesn't matter if the data backs them up or not. It is also clear that quite a number of very rich people are heavily invested in the commercial property market which is collapsing. If I went into the office I would still just be on remote calls all day because we have people all over the world and there is no way to move them all to one place.
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  18.  @CantHandleThisCanYa  Even that is not unlimited. If you actually look at how fast humans have been growing in terms of energy usage it would only take a few centuries to use the full power output of the sun.
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  19. The reality is that we are already at war at that this will escalate until it gets a more serious response.
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  20.  Will R Thomson  The newer work is on a HIV vaccine that uses the intracellular machinery to target the conserved part of the virus instead of the protein coating.
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  21.  @LDNpat  Thank you. I will go get an appointment immediately for my booster.
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  22. Ukraine is not ready to be an EU member. I think they are clearly on the path to EU membership and the EU should keep developing closer ties but they are not ready yet. Before this war happened corruption and equal rights where still major issues in Ukraine and the war does not change that.
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  23. Just ban it already. It is clear it spreads hate and violence and makes the world a worse place.
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  24. The vast majority of Germans are following the rules. In the town I am living in I have not seen a single person not wearing a mask inside stores or yelling at employees about not wearing a mask. People just put on the mask correctly and go about their lives.
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  25.  @PopularesVox  there is not much room to negotiate. Russia had signed a previous agreement with Ukraine in exchange for giving up their nukes. We can see now that is a horrible deal. Ukraine can't make any deal that doesn't have actual security guarantees because we all know that it just means Russia will build their forces up and then attack again in a few years to try and take more. The only way this ends is with Russia leaving Ukraine at their original borders and Ukraine becoming part of NATO.
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  26. We really need to deal with China as a group. The EU, USA, Canada, Japan etc. need to work as a group against China.
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  27. I am not worried about AI taking over at all. That is more of a scifi scenario and distracts from the real issues. I am worried about companies using AI to manipulate and further push the world into a dystopia. Just wait until your dead relatives are used to sell you things. Wait until AI is used to automatic social engineering attacks. Companies already hire some of the best people to understand the human brain to make their products more addictive and that will only continue. I think we need a good regulatory framework similar to how medicine is regulated. Nothing is allowed on the market until it goes through regulators.
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  28. The cost of inactivity is so high and we continue to do nothing. Germany should focus on more trains, buses, walkable areas and better cycling infrastructure. We need to cut way back on car infrastructure. Electric cars are not the answer. Electric cars won't save the planet they will save the auto industry and still doom the planet.
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  29.  @albertinsinger7443  From what I can find Germany is the 5th largest CO2 polluter in the world. They have also caused the EU to emit more as a whole than they would otherwise because of how hard their government has pushed against higher standards on cars or even switching away from fossil feuls. It looks like China + USA + India +Russia is probably 90% of the total Germany could also work on making green technologies more available and that would help the problem. Also this is an existential risk. Every amount we cut helps and saying that we won't do anything because someone else isn't going to do anything is not a viable option.
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  30. The vaccines and boosters are free. In Germany it is a simple appointment in smaller areas or just showing up to the larger vaccination centers in larger areas. It takes very little time or effort to get vaccinated and boosted and has a large positive impact on public health. Most of the people in Germany are very rational and if getting a shot every 4-6 months is what it takes for life to return to normal then that is what they will do.
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  31.  @ThePakophan  You are correct they are not free. However, the cost when spread over the society is quite cheap per person. Research has also been pretty clear at this point that even people that recover from covid have a much higher death rate over the following year and likely much longer. The vaccine protects against that also. We also need to keep people from getting seriously ill because it takes up too many hospital resources. If continuing to get boosters solves these problems I am all for it.
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  32. This just makes China look weak. There was no reason to even react to a politician visiting Taiwan.
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  33. Can we please just ban twitter already? It is not about free speech. It is a partisan political platform and he uses it to push his political viewpoints.
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  34. These companies will kill us all to make more money. I fully expect they will get away with it.
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  35. We already know he is a white supremacist. He has made that very clear. He supports the AFD. That was definitely a fascist salute and there is no point in acting like it wasn't.
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  36.  @silasla  You being a lawyer changes nothing about this. You are not a medical researcher or any remotely related field. There are thousands of papers published at this point from groups all over the world. Almost 100% of that research is completely open and available right now. The vaccine is safe and effective. Covid is a very serious virus that has serious long term consequences. It is very likely that we will keep seeing complications from this after more than a decade just like we see with measles. If you really are a lawyer you should be used to reading long documents. So go read some of the studies on the vaccine from Germany, France, Canada, Japan, etc. They are not that hard to understand and you can become much better informed on the subject.
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  37. If we have to get 1 shot even 4-6 months for life to return to normal that is fine with me. Getting the shot is a minor thing and in Germany it is easy to show your vaccination status with an app on your phone. The vaccines are doing a great job of cutting short and long term illness from the virus.
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  38. Musk does NOT support free speech. Ban Twitter already before he destroys another country.
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  39. Can't we just ban twitter already. Musk supports the AFD. He uses his platform to push information favorable to the far right and suppress information against it. He is using his platform to radicalize people and put his finger on the scale of democracy. I just don't see any reason why it should be allowed to continue to exist in the EU.
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  40.  @griffith2934  The shot does protect for longer than that for serious illness but the protection is not as good as with a booster. Basically, the Omicron wave is expected to be so bad that any additional help they can get right now is essential. In other areas of the world hospitals have already overloaded and we have not even hit the peak of the wave yet.
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  41.  @griffith2934  So far as I have read here the flu season is basically not happening in Germany to any real extent. The mask requirements for going to stores and other places was never lifted. It seems to be pretty effective at cutting it down. Some of the Germans I have talked with just expect mask wearing to be the new normal like it is in many asian countries.
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  42. So their profits are not high enough..... They also gave a lot of money to executives and share holders. Why is it always the workers that have to cut costs. It doesn't ever seen to be the executives and shareholders that are being greedy.
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  43.  @bonnierobinson8684  It doesn't change that they are not ready to be an EU member and that more work is needed there before that is viable. None of the criticisms against them joining a month ago have really changed much. The EU should absolutely support them and help them get to the point of becoming a member. It should help defend them now because it also has a strong interest in the long term health of Ukraine. None of that requires membership.
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  44. I am living in Germany right now working on a PhD and I don't think it is depressing at all. Most things are open if you are vaccinated. People did not lose their jobs. They did not lose their houses. They did not lose their healthcare.
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  45. We are screwed. We are just going to drive over the cliff all together. We could use nuclear power and renewables now. We could focus more on mass transit and walkable cities. People will keep insisting that we can't change right up until we kill ourselves.
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  46. Because Germany does not want to stop people that come in with the normal visa process.
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  47. I would vote for a pet rock over Trump. Kamala is a no brainer decision. She would do fine.
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  48. This sounds like a horrible "compromise". It just means Russia will use the lifted sanctions to strengthen themselves and then they will do this again and want to take another bite the next time. This will only lead to more bloodshed long term.
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  49.  @bullfrog5037  An economy built on endless growth is unsustainable. We could change the economy to work with a stable system but we won't do that. It would mean paying everyone more equally instead of a few getting all the rewards. We also have a truly insane cost of housing and by the time people feel stable they are no longer interested in having more kids or even kids at all. I don't think that cities are the problem it is how we setup our economic system. I also think that renting out apartments and houses should probably be illegal, it just has too many negative side effects on the system. We have a few billionaires buying up ridiculous amounts of housing and dramatically increasing pricing in the areas. I think you should be able to buy or some kind of collective ownership in a building. This would drive prices of housing down hard and should have positive, but disruptive, impacts across the economy from what I have read.
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  50.  @MoonLightOnWater1  I judge places by what they do not what they say they want. It is very clear that countries don't want more children because they enact policies that make it harder for people to start families. Everything from policies that increase the price of housing to policies that make it too expensive to have children and policies that require people start later in life due to education requirements deter people from having children. Endless growth is also unsustainable.
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