Wood as a construction material is not really the problem, it burn fairly slow. The problem is our furniture and other stuff changed from wood to MDF and petroleum based based products, reducing the time you have to react from 15 minutes to 3 minutes.

If you look at a map of where smoke detectors are mandatory and where not in the EU, it’s more about rich vs poor: https://www.q-certified.eu/en/smoke-detector-legislation-in-the-european-union/

Your landlord’s responsibility, your problem

Yes, that’s probably why Turning Point membership is growing.

Maybe not equal, but rather worse than many on the far right (probably not all, I’ll give you that). Murder is bad, full stop. I don’t know why I’m wasting time explaining this…

And now he’s a martyr who’s been killed by the radical left terrorists who celebrate his murder.

I didn’t know him before he was murdered (only knew his face of the memes, didn’t know what he stood for) and I think the world is a better place without him. But if you advocate for and celebrate people being murdered in the streets, then you’re just helping the far right narrative, and frankly it makes you not any better than them.

You do realize that this and the killing of Kirk is great news for the far right movement?

Depends on what you do mean by Europe. Yes Russia is not a direct threat to Spain or Italy. But for the Baltics it’s an immediate threat. They might invade by next year. Yes, that would be utterly stupid, but so was invading Ukraine and they still did it. Poland will be next if they are successful in the Baltics and Ukraine. (Which they will if we don’t support them)

The worst thing we can do is ignore the threat just because it would be stupid for them to do it. When someone threatens you, take them serious. Especially if they have done something similar before.

I think most people nowadays mean Latin Americans with Lationos. Otherwise you’d also have to throw in the Italians, the French, the Romanians, half of the Belgians and bunch of Africans.

Average 3 years when they start potty training? Over here preschool starts at two and a half and kids are generally expected to be potty trained (accidents do still happen of course).

Don’t threaten me with a good time

Like a doomsday machine? Might work (and also might find you with very few allies). But it wouldn’t work without loudly declaring your intentions beforehand, and apart from your post I have nowhere found any indication this is France’s nuclear doctrine.

You launch everything on the one attacking you, not just everyone.

How does defensive nuclear strikes amounts exactly to:

anyone uses nukes, they launch everything they have against all nuclear powers

?

Source ?

That’s not an answer to my question. What you described sounds most like Israel’s Samson Option and not anything like I’ve ever heard of France’s nuclear doctrine.

Isn’t that Israel’s nuclear doctrine?

What’s next? Windows renamed to Windows Copilot?

Anyone can start a school, that is a right guaranteed by our constitution. It comes from a time where the Liberals were afraid of Catholics interfering in their education and vice versa so they limited the power the government has over education. And looking at what’s happening in the world, it still seems relevant to me.

Being able to hand out recognized diploma’s and receiving government subsidy is a bit more difficult, but also far from impossible and you can always send your students to the government organized exam center.

So if it’s not standardised, does that mean people pay more attention to where you went to school Vs the grade you got?

If you’re going to university/college it doesn’t really matter since you just enrol (or take an entrance test for a few majors). Of course, your chances of getting through will depend on the school you went to. If not, I suppose yes. But isn’t that the same as everywhere else, or do you also have national exams for trades?

Here in Belgium we don’t have any standardized tests either. It’s less hassle and allows for more flexibility for teachers and schools (the difficulty can vary wildly between schools).

I think that the literature says standardized tests are better, but our education is (was?) among the best, so I don’t think it’s a deciding factor.

Freedom of education is a big thing here, the government only can give a rough overview of what teachers should teach. For better or worse, standardized tests would never fly here.

99% of flat earthers are just trolling, I refuse to believe anything else

The world has really gone to shit if the cryptobrowser is our only hope