DocTomoe

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871.
by DocTomoe 4y ago
> The US has not invaded a democratic, friendly country in several generations. Ah, so innocent civilians in countries the US does not consider democratic and/or friendly are fair game to be slaughtered. Gotcha. > Governments sho
872.
by DocTomoe 4y ago
Coming from the same European Union in which virtually every single member state has different wall sockets. This does not inspire confidence.
873.
by DocTomoe 4y ago
It is not only a demand question, supply seems also low: Usually, at this point in the year, country roads should be plastered with strawberry- and asparagus-selling stands (at least where I live). I have seen not a single one. Even if I wa
874.
by DocTomoe 4y ago
True. I like to avoid thinking that way. It makes me feel old.
875.
by DocTomoe 4y ago
It has nothing to do with innocent Ukrainians - but if we start to deliver heavy weaponry to any people who got innocently attacked and slaughtered by a larger aggressor, we would be at war with the United States within the week. We cannot
876.
by DocTomoe 4y ago
Hm, "decades" implies GDR ... AMD eventually bought some of Robotron's facilities, though.
877.
by DocTomoe 4y ago
You are refering to Robotron, which mostly is known for their Z80s knockoffs (which often were less buggy than the originals.) Given that they did not create chips of their new design, I would not describe them as having been 'strong&#
878.
by DocTomoe 4y ago
> please name me another EU company There isn't any. That's because EU taxes and regulations make running a large-scale business less attractive - and because there really is no market for another big-chip manufacturer; if you
879.
by DocTomoe 4y ago
"Half of Germans think Germany should do more." I'm one of the other half. Ukraine is a country that has been failing to meet European standards for corruption for decades, has had a history of gas disappearing in their terri
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Of course, you can sue against that, and sometimes for decades (and thus prevent the project from getting ever finished, see the planned, and eventually forsaken A85 project that was meant to connect Stuttgart to Schwäbisch Hall roughly whe
881.
by DocTomoe 4y ago
A short exploration of that concept: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALaTm6VzTBw
882.
by DocTomoe 4y ago
We're in serious "Ship of Theseus" territory here. Personally, I think the moment you switch mainboards, you have a new computer (even if mostly consisting of 'old' parts).
883.
by DocTomoe 4y ago
Sylt is considered "the holiday island for the uberrich". When the idea was first considered, their mayor carelessly spoke to the media that he feared the plebs coming to their island and do lower-class stuff, in short, getting on
884.
by DocTomoe 4y ago
My source is from an internal (FDP) party newsletter I've read when the idea first was announced. I seem to have since deleted it... But to put that into context: with 2.5 billion Euros, you could finance 12.5 million such 200-euro-sub
885.
by DocTomoe 4y ago
Let me guess: Your commute was in East Germany? Reliability is a lot better there [1] [1] https://media.ccc.de/v/36c3-10652-bahnmining_-_punktlichkeit...
886.
by DocTomoe 4y ago
This is first and foremost a subsidy scheme to give public transit providers some more money - many people will buy the 9 euro ticket which before did not buy monthly tickets - and for each such ticket, the state will give the public transi
887.
by DocTomoe 4y ago
As someone who just made the switch from planes to trains (I regularly travel on an inner-german route where planes do make sense): If the hordes would invade ICEs, I would go back to the airport. Long-distance rail is over-encumbered as it
888.
by DocTomoe 4y ago
This may be related to the relatively lax response of western governments as compared to the 'full out riot control' approach China takes [1]. As for the international level, China is following a carrot and stick approach there [2
889.
by DocTomoe 4y ago
We did see that with the beanie baby boom of the mid-1990s, which in fact is probably more comparable to the ape thing. I don't remember Beanie Baby regulation.
890.
by DocTomoe 4y ago
If it is "worth nothing", then why regulate it? Baseball cards are worth essentially nothing, yet I do not see international powerbrokers of questionable democratic lineage promoting baseball card regulation.
891.
by DocTomoe 4y ago
The term originated in the German "Kulturkampf", which was between the Imperial German state of the 1870s and the Catholic Church. In the US, it was introduced twice, neither time by conservatives.
892.
by DocTomoe 4y ago
Got me a Q2U from Samson, which came at around 80 Euros, and made my homeoffice-videoconferencing much better.
893.
by DocTomoe 4y ago
The site offers two alternatives, one which is more expensive, and one which is about the same price, but will provide much better results.
894.
by DocTomoe 4y ago
But isn't that ingroup/outgroup-dynamic still happening? Very few westerners would consider the followers of Bagwhan 'religious', they'd rather use something like 'cultists'. Aum/Aleph is a 'cult
895.
by DocTomoe 4y ago
Never be sure about any technology not being disrupted. I laughed at the idea of web-based calendaring in 1998, and look where we are today. Good thing paper calendars still exist. Personally, I am perfectly fine with my still-existing Web
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
I think one of the problems is that the the more grandiose an ad gets, the harder it is to block. Very few people have a problem with a small unobtrusive banner that's essentially an image and a link to some site. But filtering that aw
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
How modern is modern? I have sources back to at least the 1490s which clearly use the word 'religion' (and many more, earlier, sources that use the latin 'religionem') ...
898.
by DocTomoe 4y ago
That's why many of us opt for eastern traditions - which are generally pretty good at separating the philosophical aspects from the belief aspects.
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
> Buys a pallet of llama wool, seller gives a non-conforming receipt. Buyer goes back to France, imports the pallet as "cotton" Customs catches him (distinguishing cotton from non-cotton is surprisingly easy, so is forged docum
900.
by DocTomoe 4y ago
... which incidentally is the origin of the Commodity Market.

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