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After 3 years of full-scale war in Ukraine, Europe announces plan to ban all Russian gas imports

kyivindependent.com After 3 years of full-scale war in Ukraine, Europe announces plan to ban all Russian gas imports

BRUSSELS — After years of reducing its reliance on Russian gas, the European Union is moving to turn off the taps completely within the next two years. The European Commission (EC) on May 6 presented a detailed roadmap to fully sever the European Union’s energy dependence on Russia by 2027. Energy...

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I wish lemmy was less like reddit, and that commenters actually skimmed the articles or knew anything about the situation beyond the headlines.
But hell, here goes, I'll try to use small words and explain things for you guys:
If they instantly turned it off without a replacement, a lot of people would have died. And even if a country government tried, their own citizens would riot over the idea that old people would die.
Coal is already banned.
Oil imports have dropped from 27% to 3%
In 2021 the gas accounted for 45% of imports in the EU, now it's 19% and the plan is to have it at zero by 2027.
- There’s been a big influx of users from Reddit and with it came the low effort one liner zingers and people allergic to reading the linked articles.
  I do really like how a lot of people here post articles give a summary below their link. While it’s definitely not required, it is super helpful and makes it harder for people to just form opinions and start blabbing in the comments based on a headline.
  
  Things get a little shittier for awhile every time there's a mass migration, but it seems like most communities do a decent job holding newbies to a higher standard than reddit (read: any standard). Eventually Lemmy gets better again.
  
  I suspect it may inevitably end up like Reddit. The problem IMO is comment visibility. Even if you're not trying to farm karma, people like their comments to be visible. Everyone wants to have their voice heard. And it seems that short "zinger" comments and jokes are the most effective way to make that happen. The current community does support high effort quality comments well, but I think as we get diluted with more users it's a slippery slide. I hope I'm wrong.
  
  I think the rest of us need to apply pressure against that trend. I try to call out assholes in a civil fashion, at least so it makes it harder to be one, and I don't upvote comments that don't add to the conversation. I can't downvote them since I'm on blahaj, so downvote them extra hard for me!
  
  This only works if the influx of new users stay relatively low. See the Digg Exodus of how reddit got fucked up because Digg expelled their users too fast.
  
  I'm definitely guilty of not opening the article pretty often, and I really love when posters put a summary/highlights/entire article when it's small in the body of the post. I actually do read/skim these pretty consistently vs opening and reading every single article in the feed.
- A lot of people did die, they were just Ukrainian instead of western European
  
  Ukrainian do not vote for European governments though
- So it's been 3 years and their plan is another 2.75 years away.

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