Those instances weren’t breaking laws. At least not American ones. It is not illegal to be an incivil assclown, but you are going to get thrown out of the bar.

You can also look into the long, long list of defunct instances because they got defederated by basically everyone because noone wanted to deal with their shit. Hexbear and lemmygrad don’t care if they’re defederated because they’re platforms to themselves, the instances I’m talking about were basically 4chan, kiwifarms, whatever, chuds getting banned on ordinary instances setting up their own and trying again. When that didn’t work the instances collapsed as harassing others was their only purpose.

Was heißt denn Wiederstand? Das ist ein Wort mit einer sehr großen historischen Bedeutung.

Widerstand bedeutet ein absichtliches Entgegenwirken durch genau da bleiben wo man ist. Wider: Entgegengesetzt, stand: Nunja, stehen.

Bleibt man z.B. in Angesicht einer Verlockung standhaft und lässt sich von dieser nicht willfährig hinfort geleiten, so hat man ihr widerstanden.

Und auch wenn man das fast schon widerwillig wiederholt wider den Umständen tun muss so sind wider und wieder immer noch zwei komplett verschiedene Wörter.

Honestly not so uncommon with inland shipyards. Bridges etc. are built to deal with everyday traffic while the shipyard might only send out a ship per year or such so it’s fine having to do some manual work to get it past infrastructure.

E.g. the 2006 European blackout was caused by the operators messing up the comparatively routine shutdown of a power crossing. The lines are high enough so that the cruise ships the shipyard builds can drive under them, barely, but they can’t be energised while doing so.

That’s not to defend Bezos having a yacht, billionaires shouldn’t exist, but this probably happens with any other ship that the shipyard builds. Not to mention the uncountable number of street signs which have been temporarily dismantled to let windmill blades through.

Like, the periodic tables mapping isn’t arbitrary or alternate.

Neither the biology nor culinary mappings are arbitrary, they have their rhyme and reason. Also biology would be the alternate one? Because the culinary definitions were definitely first.

Did you know that there’s quite extreme disagreements on what metals are? Chemists will tell you one thing and not be particularly unified in their response around the topic of semimetals, while astrophysicists have a very simple definition of metals: Anything that has more protons than helium.

Who is right? This has nothing to do with metaphysics (I’ve read a bit down the thread) as in “what is beyond physics, god, and stuff”, but how we interpret our (scientific) observations. Neither definition of metals is more correct than the other, they’re both maps drawn by scientists caring about vastly different things. Neither side says that the other is wrong – they just don’t care for it.

Back to the periodic table itself: Defining elements by protons has quite some predictive power but at the same time it’s a vast oversimplification of what actually goes on, ask any quantum chemist. It is rooted in quite hard science, but that doesn’t make it ground reality. Actual reality is something we can’t observe because to observe anything we first have to project it into our minds. All perception is modelling: Ask any neuroscientist. Or, for that matter, Plato.

Isn’t the rejection of post-modernism like a very Jordan-Peterson–like thing to do?

Peterson is kinda the embodiment of post-modernism, that is, he does all his ideology building by questioning everything else into oblivion.

Of course, not knowing what he’s talking about is also something very Jordan-Peterson-like so that all tracks.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33580387/

I haven’t but that sounds like a pie not a cake. A meal, not a dessert.

Like at the end of the day it’s just humans developing a system to make sense of nature

The core of the matter is that we have multiple, mutually incompatible schemes sharing in part the same terminology. Biology is not cooking, both fields care about vastly different things thus the categorisation scheme is different, that’s the end of it. Culinarily, tomatoes have too much umami to be fruit. Botanically peppermint is an aromatic, I recommend you not put any into your soffritto.

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Tomato is also dominated by oxalic acid, not malic, citric, (typical fruit acids) or acetic (fermented/overripe). Oxalic acid is in parsley, chives, spinach, beans, lettuce, that kind of stuff. “It’s sour” isn’t sufficient to describe a taste profile, our tongues may not tell them apart but our noses definitely do.

I think it should be possible to break the culinary categorisation down to chemistry. That doesn’t tell you anything about the “why” but it’s definitely not random and definitely not all in our heads.

I wouldn’t count on the federation they’ve been doing nothing all these years. Schleswig-Holstein law has favoured FLOSS solutions since 2009 (“where technically possible and economical”), and bits and pieces were introduced as early as 2012. ZenDiS exists since 2022, opendesk is based on dPhoenixSuite, work done by Dataport precisely for Schleswig-Holstein, and they’re still doing most of the development work. More importantly though I’m not seeing any political commitment on the federal level, the Bundeswehr switching over because they care about stuff doesn’t mean that the, what, finance ministry cares. The BND probably also cares but tough luck getting them to confirm or deny anything.

SteamOS is not a good desktop distribution, which isn’t surprising as it’s not supposed to be one. It’s specialised for handhelds.

Go install Ubuntu or something, really anything, ideally don’t have an Nvidia GPU, install steam, done. SteamOS has no special sauce regarding running games.

Sandwich.hs:6:11: error: [GHC-83865]
    * Couldn't match type ‘Bread’ with ‘Cucumber’
        Expected: Bread
        Actual: Cucumber

This wouldn’t have happened with Burritos.

Ne das passt 100% Faust auf’s Auge. Mantasleep is ne US-Firma, bei denen wird ja inzwischen absolut nichts hergestellt, die sagen auch dass es in China hergestellt wird, die Chinesen verkaufen das Ding dann ohne Markenlogo selber, Produktionslinie steht ja schon. Um sowas zu verhindern müsste man selber herstellen, weltweit Gebrauchs/ Geschmacksmusterschutz beantragen, oder weitaus weniger gierig bei der eigenen Gewinnmarge sein.

Musterschutz müsstest du mal nachgucken kann ja einen Grund geben warum es das China-Modell nicht auf Amazon gibt, ansonsten fröhliches Dropshippen.

Bevor das was aus macht musste nackt und ohne Decke schlafen. Schwitzen tut man in der Gegend nicht wirklich.

You don’t need nukes to make Russia think thrice, they can be easily hurt a lot in very conventional ways. What the nuklear deterrent is good for is them not defending themselves with nukes. Generally speaking the only thing nukes are good for is to stop others from using nukes.

Also do watch Yes, Minister, and Yes, Prime Minister. Best political TV show ever and not just because it’s hilarious. Only show able to put Babylon 5 on second place.

What if I told you that Germany is a federation. NRW would be the fifth largest US state, Bremen the third smallest (actually, almost identical population to DC), most of all the US has more states. They can do stuff in parallel that’s no excuse to not have quick election results. And now don’t come with “but there’s so much space in between” you’re not sending the results via horse buggy are you.

And, no, of course the federation doesn’t legislate on state elections. It gets to say how federal (and EU) elections are run. State’s rights my ass in Germany the federation has no tax office, it’s all collected by the states, and their police can’t put boots on the ground outside of international borders (incl. airports) and the train system (cf Amtrak cops). Certainly can’t just decide to invade a city like is happening in LA. They also don’t have anything like ICE, that’s all state responsibility.

You mean cause a chargeback or something? You’d have to find a sufficiently shady seller, the key might get revoked, also you’re supporting another ilk of scumbags.

Du ich hab’ eine und die passt. Die Firma hier, mehr oder weniger per Zufall ausgewaehlt. Das Premium-Ding wäre das hier, verstellbare Augenmuscheln hören sich Sinnvoll an, die alte funktioniert aber ausreichend und ist nicht abgenutzt also is es mir das Geld nicht wert. Bin aber auch ein ruhiger Schläfer.

Ansonsten – Gewöhnungssache? Wichtig ist halt wirklich kein Druck auf den Augen. Evtl. beim Musikhören oder so dran gewöhnen.

Wenn alles nicht hift gibt’s natürlich immer noch Rolladen und du kannst auf LED-Jagd gehen.

Covid was a completely different situation, also, here in the north people took it very well (Wat mut, dat mut).

Importantly: Fighting Covid largely meant sitting on your arse. In isolation, bored, for months and months on end. Fighting a war is, psychologically, more like getting together and sewing masks and that worked effortlessly, organically.