Considering the rest of your comment picturing Ukraine as some backwater (post)soviet hell hole: You've never been there. You've never even talked to someone from there.
I agree with the first points, but if you pay farmers not to farm, you'll get farmers who don't farm, you'll get farmers with more fields that they can use (because they'll have fields for 100% of what they can produce + extra ones for governments money), and you'll get speculative investors investing in empty fields to collect money.
So, when shit hits the fan, you have farmers who can't increase production, because they don't have the resources, and you get speculative investors who jump ship, plus a lot of empty fields and hungry citizens, revolution, guillotines, etc.
If those areas are now producing crops, you have a guarantee, that the farmer can actually handle those fields, that the equipment is in working order, you know how much they can produce, and all it takes is just to switch the corn for eg. ethanol to corn fit for humans to eat.
> co2 balance of those 'biofuels' is way worse than fuels refined from extracted fossil fuels
By what metric? You get out much more energy than you put in. And when we're talking about keeping farms active, that land wasn't going to be doing something significantly better wrt carbon if the subsidy didn't exist.
3 does not really apply in France. There are extensive swathes of country which are hugely monocultured already with food crops. At the same time small farming, economically uncompetitive types of farming, and other forms of land stewardship are extensively supported by the state in various ways. The question of monoculture is much more complicated than to think that growing rape for biodiesel is going to remove biodiversity.
Because they are a gutted, disempowered US-regulator. Wrecked by 4 years of Trump and countless other presidents before them.
Possibly there is also not the political will to ramp up the regulatory speed and power although I still have hope that Biden will be able to change that at least a bit.
What are you talking about? Read some history prior to the 4 years of the SEC.
Look at the suggested reforms the SEC was supposed to undertake AS IDENTIFIED BY CONGRESS. Then look at what actual reforms where implemented.
I'll help you out - almost none. The SEC has had a monopoly on financial market regulation since the 1930s and is just now becoming a victim to the cultural side affects of this monopoly. Shit, I actually think the SEC has done a phenomenal job regarding this and all other aspects of their job.
> The SEC has had a monopoly on financial market regulation since the 1930s
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, National Futures Association, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and many others would like a word.
Why is the constant screaming at me? Why is the fact that it's a constant important enough to be encoded in the styling of the letters, but not important enough to be encoded in the name. Why isn't the IDE or the compiler keeping track of the constantness of the variable and reminding me to not do the wrong thing? If they can and are, why am I not trusting them?
And if they can't, why am I writing in a language that doesn't even have JavaScript levels of a type system?
Yeah, this never worked well in windows (I remember switching 'show window content while moving' to 'off' whenever 'on' became the default).
Taskbar 'autohide' is still a clusterfuck (I don't remember a version of Windows, where this feature didn't have at least visual bugs). New centered taskbar in Windows 11 is just bad usability (only smart thing about start button was, that it was in a corner of a screen thereby making it easy to hit with a rough mouse movement).
Yeah, that trending and content suggestion algorithmic feed idea seems to be at the heart of the problem. Maybe making that illegal would go a long way.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_violence_against_LG...
Considering the rest of your comment picturing Ukraine as some backwater (post)soviet hell hole: You've never been there. You've never even talked to someone from there.