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  • Reintroducing mammoths in the arctic could potentially help reduce the climate change.

    There is a scientist in Siberia who built the Pleistocene Park. An area where he reintroduced a lot of large herbivores and studied their impact. He’s saying that boreal forest have a very low biodiversity compared to mammoth steppes. The steppes have way more animals, are stocking way more carbon in the soil and prevent methane leaks by keeping the permafrost frozen due to the low albedo of the biome.

    The problem is that with the mammoths are indispensable to maintain the steppes. They are the only animal big enough to clear up trees, without them the forest is taking over and all the ecosystem of the steppes disappear.

    So (according to this scientist), resurrecting the mammoth could revive a whole ecosystem, with a very rich biodiversity and that could have a give impact on the climate.








  • As others have said, there is no right answer but here are my thoughts based on my experience.

    Mortgage

    The apartment is under your name so I would expect you to pay the mortgage.

    One thing you could do is that your girlfriend puts a share of the mortgage cost into a savings account under her name. It could be the equivalent of what she’s paying now for her rent of the equivalent of your mortgage minus 30%.

    This way if you stay together and decide to buy a new home you can both contribute to it with a nice down payment and if you split up you both get your marbles back.

    It also levels your salaries and you are contributing equally to the housing cost so there is no resentment being built on your side.

    Utilities and groceries

    What I did with my girlfriend (now wife) is that we were doing a pro rata monthly contribution to a bank account that was used for everyday life. In your case you are earning 30% more then you can contribute 30% more to this account. Then everything like electricity, groceries, restaurants together … Was deducted from this account.

    It’s quite easy to get a free bank account with two cards so we used that (we used N26 at the time but there are plenty of options, the bank account was technically a single person account with two cards but it did not really matter since we were not keeping a lot of money in it). We started by keeping track of all our expenses on an app like Tricount and regularly balancing our contribution, it’s easy to set up but it requires to keep track of all our expenses and was quite annoying to do on the long term.


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    You can, but not in the US or the UK.

    For example Kirikou and the Sorceress, a French animated movie for kids based on West African tales.

    In the movie there is a lot of non-sexualized nudity, which is perfectly normal for people living in a traditional west African village.

    Because of that the movie was never released in the is and the UK despite the fact that it was quite popular in France and Europe.