Timon3

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by Timon3 5d ago
That's not the experience of most Germans - the big companies here are horrible and treat you as bad as the law allows, and oftentimes even worse than that. I've never met anyone who prefers Vonovia etc. to housing cooperatives, o
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by Timon3 5d ago
Could you give some specific examples of ideologically-motivated standards that Japan and the US don't fulfill?
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by Timon3 5d ago
How? Most of the power plants had already been decommissioned! The CDU had years and years to stop it. The Greens only had the option to prolong the lifetime of the last power plants, which they did. Ideology > critical thinking
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by Timon3 5d ago
Why would the tracking be ineffective? How do you know?
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by Timon3 5d ago
Did they stop tracking people through their like buttons by now? If not, there's no argument - they're literally tracking non-users on every site they can! Besides Google, what company is doing as much tracking as much as Facebo
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by Timon3 5d ago
> Come on, you're trying to tell me that people didn't understand that when they give someone a thing, that someone has the thing they gave them? This is a bad faith argument, because Facebook collects far, far more than "
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by Timon3 5d ago
Maybe you should check? Because we definitely weren't at +1.2°C warming in 2006.
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by Timon3 5d ago
Would you mind sharing your source? AFAIK the coal plants are only backups, so it'd be very surprising if they're utilized as much as the solar capacity.
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by Timon3 5d ago
It's eerie how often this lie gets repeated here. It wasn't the Greens that decided this for Germany. It was our conservatives, the CDU/CSU. The latter had high-ranking officials literally threaten to step down, unless German
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by Timon3 5d ago
Since 2000, how much production did the US offshore to China? If this trend keeps going for a decade+, China might begin to approach US per-capita emissions.
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by Timon3 7d ago
I can see how LLMs can't be lossless compression algorithms, but why not lossy?
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by Timon3 8d ago
What? How is it not a deliberate lie?
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by Timon3 8d ago
Yes, I do! Spahn is infamous for doing lots of illegal stuff, and none of it resulted in him stepping back, until the surrogacy story. His constituents and his party publicly criticized him for his bigotry and asked him to step back. Which
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by Timon3 9d ago
> Sharing the government propaganda site’s link as a source has to be the joke of the year. Since the article is essentially a collection of quotes, each of which is easily verifiable by following links, you'll have to be a little m
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by Timon3 9d ago
> The reason he had to give up his position was not his hypocrisy. If that’s the case then 99% of all politicians would have to give up their positions. No, you're lying. His colleagues publicly asked Spahn to resign explicitly be
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by Timon3 10d ago
Yep, same goes for "ideologue" etc. IMO such thought-terminating cliches are a mind virus: ~10-15 years ago I noticed some people frequently using them in discussions. Today, these people are largely incapable of staying calm whil
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by Timon3 10d ago
Just because many people think they mostly harbor activists, doesn't mean that it's true. I regularly see people getting called "activists" or "ideologues" because they serve the public instead of whatever ca
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by Timon3 10d ago
Of course. When a family lives in a dangerous region and has too few resources to afford everyone's escape, no human would ever choose to save a loved one while staying behind themselves. And if they do, it must be virtue signaling or
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by Timon3 10d ago
> Vulkangruppe has been conducting sabotage in Germany It's important to note that AFAIK nothing in this direction has been proven. After the attack, some people claiming to be part of Vulkangruppe claimed they did the attack, but i
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by Timon3 11d ago
You can't be serious about one week being plenty. Have you ever moved to another country?
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by Timon3 12d ago
We should have accepted that our trajectory is not sustainable, and voluntarily replaced and reduced consumption over decades. But growth was more important - "because the others won't stop growing either!", or "because
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by Timon3 12d ago
> You are asserting this "one person one vote" definition of democracy. I am questioning it. Where did this constraint on what qualifies as "real" democracy come from? From kmeisthax? https://news.ycombinat
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by Timon3 12d ago
But said country would not fulfill "One person, one vote". Why should we weaken such fundamental ideas by allowing them to mean the opposite of their real meaning? The same phenomenon is happening with "Opt-In by Default&quot
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by Timon3 12d ago
Well, it matters a whole lot once you choose to bring up "One share, one vote" in response to "One person, one vote", since it shows that it's either wrong or shows a gross misunderstanding of democracy.
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by Timon3 13d ago
Due to the monopoly on violence, governments need additional more constraints in some areas. If your government dislikes you and they can track every step you take out in public, it becomes much easier for them to violate your rights with
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by Timon3 13d ago
> It's one share, one vote. This is just wrong. As kmeisthax mentioned, shares can have different voting weights - if any at all. Many shareholders have no voting power. > I employed a painter a few months ago, and I decided wh
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by Timon3 14d ago
Yes they do: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intent_and_incitement_in_the_G...
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by Timon3 14d ago
No US president I'm aware of has ever antagonized all their allies and threatened the world nearly as much or as often as Trump has.
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by Timon3 14d ago
Because we have proof that humans who aren't taught a subset of social behaviors never show any of them. It doesn't matter what we've bred foxes to do - "sense of right and wrong" is not the same as "social beh
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by Timon3 15d ago
> I would certainly agree that one gets taught more refined and nuanced notions of right and wrong, but those are innate feelings. At least for me. How could a person who was taught social concepts of right and wrong since birth ever hop

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