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by hnbad 3y ago
The problem is not democracy (everyone getting an equal vote) but representative democracy (everyone getting a vote on a person once every N years who then gets the power to do what they want which they hopefully did not lie about in order
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by hnbad 3y ago
I think there's a significant distinction, at least among younger generations: memes like "old man yells at cloud" (or "surprised pikachu") aren't used to make you laugh. It may produce a short smile sometimes
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I wonder about the demographic breakdown for these memes. "Downfall" due to the nature of its original subject matter largely seemed to attract memes targeting "boomers" (or more specifically Gen X and beyond) and "
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As an aside: I love how the people complaining about "identity politics" are often the ones engaging in a blatant form of identity politics by painting a picture of a white median income working class person who doesn't care
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by hnbad 3y ago
I'm not sure what the surveillance has to do. I was responding to a comment saying that while the CCP cracks down on dissidents it does so mostly based on perceived "blast radius" (i.e. reach). I'm saying this selective
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I didn't say the RAF weren't "far left". The exact ideology of the Bader-Meinhof group is not easy to pinpoint exactly, especially if you account for its evolution over time, but I think it's somewhat safe to say th
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by hnbad 3y ago
Is there some executive summary of this? I find it hard to wade through the waffling and while I appreciate citing sources by pasting e-mails verbatim this doesn't exactly make the statement easier to follow. It sounds like they'r
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by hnbad 3y ago
I like to joke that Germany doesn't have a political left because most of it was killed or killed each other in the period between the end of World War 1 and the end of World War 2 and what was left (heh) was then repressed in both Ger
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by hnbad 3y ago
I think the RAF (i.e. specifically the Bader-Meinhof group) were idiots at best and ruthless at worst but public perception of the RAF tends to be heavily biased by a lack of historical context. The Federal Republic of Germany used to hide
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by hnbad 3y ago
Germany hasn't had a left-wing extremist movement since the RAF, which was a GDR-affiliated group (or more accurately, a number of groups as the members of the initial Baader-Meinhof group were imprisoned) that performed political assa
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by hnbad 3y ago
Yeah but ultimately that is far more dangerous, no? The law enables severe punishments that are applied arbitrarily by those tasked with enforcing it. Knowing there is a clear and reliable line you can't cross allows for opposition mov
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by hnbad 3y ago
There's a simple selling point to touch panels that most people here seem to be missing: it decouples the software/firmware from the hardware. Car manufacturers want to be able to change cars after they are sold. This can be in th
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by hnbad 3y ago
I think "proliferate" is the wrong word. Automatics seem to be on the rise - I learned on a manual but have only been driving automatics for a decade. They're also more accessible and I'm not sure there are any EVs that
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No, that seems about right. Traditionally investors prefer investing in a number of moonshots with the hopes that one of them succeeds to such an extreme that it pays for the losses on the rest. There are even some investors known to invest
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https://www.w3.org/TR/html-imports/ There are long and boring reasons why it never went anywhere.
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Not sure if that compares if you mean the use in the ad. "08/15" (often "null acht fuffzehn" rather than "fünfzehn") is a widely used colloquialism in the same way as "standard issue" in English
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by hnbad 3y ago
The Saturn one (Geiz ist geil!) was unavoidable in the 2000s. The Edeka one (Supergeil) was a viral social media hit in the mid-2010s. I can understand missing out on the second one if you weren't paying attention to German social medi
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by hnbad 3y ago
> Someone could literally get a heart attack from getting $100,000 bill - this amount of debt can literally ruin someone financially. Not a heart attack but there has literally been at least one suicide over an unexpected life-ruining bi
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I'm German so take this for whatever that means. As long as you're not literally working on software for the Russian military or police apparatus, I don't think it's in anyone's right to condemn you for not leaving
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Interesting how types like you will never outright say what they mean because they know it sounds bad when you spell it out. For example, how is it relevant that my bio includes pronouns and why do you insist on calling me "pronouns bi
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I'm 50/50 on whether Nordstream 2 was Russia or someone opposed to Russia because Russia's response to it has been indistinguishable from its usual disinfo dance when trying to shift blame for something they have done. I don&
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by hnbad 3y ago
Thank you for this context. I literally did not know this about watermelons.
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Oh, absolutely. But the level of hyperfixation present in American racism against Black people stands out whereas the other racism feels more familiar. I guess the European equivalent would be the racism against gypsies with the distinction
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Based on news coverage I've read: - it's a specialized business requiring specialized ships which are often booked out a long time in advance - the damage is in a war zone Would you be willing to do your job in a war zone? Would y
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The Vision Pro doesn't exactly seem to have reached what I would normally think of as mass production so I wouldn't be surprised if the scale doesn't really work for them yet. That said, with raw numbers like this I always ha
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I think JvM Tech is more of a "vertical integration" than replicating in tech what JvM does in advertising. I'm also not convinced most of their customers get a significant ROI from picking them over more "down to earth&
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Most consumers haven't. Most advertising agencies have. Some campaigns German consumers would be aware of: - Saturn, "Geiz ist geil" - Edeka, "Supergeil" - Sparkasse, "08/15 Bank" (very beige board me
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by hnbad 3y ago
> many (most?) larger German cities I guess those qualifiers cancel each other out? Anyway. Berlin is twice as big as the second biggest city, Hamburg. Munich is the third largest city: https://worldpopulationreview.com/c
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The only caveat is that the Soviets essentially tried to manufacture ethnostates by forcibly displacing ethnic groups from one region to another, but yes, Russia is ethnically heterogeneous although there is still a good deal of Slavic supr
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Cut down on the grandstanding maybe. It's clear from its descriptions and what we known now that they just carelessly added "diverse ethnicities and genders" or whatever to prompts across the board to compensate for a model t

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