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- Comment on Clock logic 3 days ago:
To some extent, though I still often hear people using the 12 hour system.
Just yesterday I’ve heard someone complain about their night shift which starts at 6.
Especially because in German you can’t say “half 17” for 16:30, only “half 5”. You save two whole syllables with this way over “sixteen thirty”!
- Comment on Good boah 3 days ago:
Yes, the joke is that being raped makes you a woman. Not very funny imo.
- Comment on Fell off the horizon into a black hole 6 days ago:
I thought time was a cube?
- Comment on Americans Are Using PTO to Sleep, Not for Vacation—Report 1 week ago:
Not gonna lie, that’s such a boring, corporate term.
Germans use the much more creative expression of travelling to Balconia.
- Comment on So...how the fuck do I trust *anything*? 1 week ago:
Same here.
A pattern in almost every song, book, poem, movie?
Like greed? Antisocial behavior? Populism? Lies? Belief in your own supremacy? Capitalism?
Honestly, my first thoughts were they eitnessed Cthulu. Though I suspect they intentionally chose to phrase it such that it invokes this analogy.
If we ignore the pattern aspect they mentioned maybe how history repeats itself? How tyranny emerges and sustains itself on fear and oppression?
I have no clue. It’s so vague.
- Comment on ralph 2 weeks ago:
When I met Ralph, he actually gave me enough fentanyl to overdose every day for a century.
(I haven’t met Ralph [A false precondition says nothing about the truth of the postcondition])
- Comment on EU tax officials confront the most pressing legal question of our time: If you sell RuneScape gold to someone and they use it to buy a magic sword, do you still have to pay taxes? 2 weeks ago:
According to the German (I have not found an EU equivalent) office for statistics, you are part of the top 1% of full-time workers if you earn >213,286€ per year:
www.destatis.de/DE/Presse/…/PD25_134_621.html
Sure, this doesn’t include billionaires who don’t work but there just aren’t enough of them to matter. It’s not like there are hundreds of thousands billionaires in Germany.
- Comment on EU tax officials confront the most pressing legal question of our time: If you sell RuneScape gold to someone and they use it to buy a magic sword, do you still have to pay taxes? 2 weeks ago:
Earning 400,000€ in two years makes you part of the 1% though?? Where else would this guy be? Upper middle class?
- Comment on Doot doot 2 weeks ago:
Speak for yourself
- Comment on Port-O-John Art 3 weeks ago:
The face is bigger than normal size I think. The proportions of the face itself seem mostly fine, yet the eyes are far too high up his head.
- Comment on Clock logic 3 weeks ago:
Fun fact: Many countries use both systems actually.
For speaking, it’s quicker to say something like: “The party starts at 8” instead of “The party starts at 20 o’clock”.
For writing though, you would never use the 12 hour system.
- Comment on choice 4 weeks ago:
As long as the rate of cyanide is low enough, you can do it no problem.
- Comment on Wikipedia is under attack — and how it can survive 4 weeks ago:
It definitely cannot go to the EU. I don’t believe any EU country permits private online libraries.
Plus the entire Wayback Machine would be considered systematic copyright infringement since the Internet Archive doesn’t obtain permission prior to archival. And if you don’t have permission then it is automatic copyright infeingement.
- Comment on new setup yall 4 weeks ago:
This is somehow simultaneously the best and worst setup I’ve ever seen.
- Comment on Steam cannot handle the Silksong release 4 weeks ago:
I mean at that point just get it through GOG.
- Comment on Simplify your life. End the stress. And just get one of these to make all your decisions 5 weeks ago:
Yes
- Comment on Left-handed sep funnel anyone? 5 weeks ago:
I mean the solution would be to literally just label both sides.
- Comment on Is playing horror games a good way to get desensitized to fear, or it gonna backfire and make my anxiety worse? 5 weeks ago:
The pizza delivery person will invite themselves in and you will eat the pizza together.
- Comment on I love a good fractal 5 weeks ago:
To be fair, GNU did a ton of work at that time (and today still). GCC and glibc alone are monumental works of software. Add programs like emacs and you now have millions of lines of code you need to develop and maintain.
- Comment on Uhm 5 weeks ago:
An LKW and an EKW
- Comment on Life Hacks 1 month ago:
It’s not meant to be food safe and therefore doesn’t have to abide by any of the usual food safety requirements.
For all you know, the salt lamp could’ve spent a month inside leaded fuel and was only superficially cleaned prior to being sold. Sure, it’s almost certainly not the case but you just do not know how the lamp was handled and whether it has absorbed hazardous contaminants.
- Comment on sentence 1 month ago:
That sounds pretty insane tbh
Over here in Germany and probably the entire EU punishments don’t stack.
If you commit multiple crimes doing a single act (e.g. in a bank robbery: violations of weapon law, trespassing, theft, threatening personnel, driving violations…) only the most severe one is prosecuted.
Multiple seperate crimes can stack but the punishment must be strictly less than the sum of punishments if they were prosecuted independently and must be less than 15 years (unless murder is involved).
There is no way in which you can get less time for murder than for attempted murder here.
- Comment on Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal 1 month ago:
The government is “social” democrats and “Christian” “democrats”. Both are very tough on crime and very pro corporation.
There’s a reason Germany has some of the most restrictive copyright law in the world. For example, only recently became making certain parodies legal due to a EU law forcing Germany to allow them.
Copyright infringement over here has the same exact punishment range as child kidnapping for non-monetary reasons.
There is a fee for anything that can cause copyright violations paid to copyright collectives including but not limited to storage mediums (CDs, flash drives, hard drives), electronic devices with said storage medium (mobile phones, computers) printers, scanners as well as yearly fees for having publicly accessible printers (for example, 190€ per printer in public libraries, 418€ per printer in universities/colleges) or general fees, like 17,222,621€ paid by the state for continuing the existence of libraries per year (in 2014, today probably significantly more).
Hardly anyone provides free WiFi because you can be sued for the copyright violations of your users. Or rather, you get a cease and desist with the demand to pay 1000€ in damages and if you don’t then you will be sued and lose.
Emulators for modern video games are almost certainly illegal because all modern consoles include DRM you’d need to circumvent to get a game to run on the emulator. This means the development would already be illegal. There hasn’t been any court case though because no emulation developer is based in Germany.
Only since a few years is publishing photos of the interior of your home if your wallpaper is copyrighted legal. Prior to that, you’d always lose if you were sued in Hamburg.
Hamburg has also ruled the website youtube-dl.org was illegal and that youtube-dl violates copyright. Sony and others successfully sued the hosting provider and were granted damages.
There’s probably a million more things but copyright in Germany is generally fucked. There’s no way any politician that has ever been in government will do anything that doesn’t further strengthen copyright.
- Comment on Watching the American president shake hands with the second person wanted by the ICC as the world keeps becoming more unstable because of an increasing economic inequality 1 month ago:
log(e^imtiredboss.exe^) = imtiredboss.exe
- Comment on (@￣□￣@;)！！ 1 month ago:
I am getting numerical analysis flashbacks, please help.
- Comment on Argon 1 month ago:
No they didn’t. Computers were just talking to each other. And we stole their mouths.
- Comment on Latex programming socks: schoolgirl with maid stockings edition 1 month ago:
What’s a GNU Image Manipulation Program mask?
- Comment on Under-22s in England should get free bus travel to access work and training, MPs say 1 month ago:
Long-distance trains aren’t covered by the ticket, only regional trains.
For example, the trip Munich -> Berlin would take around 10-11 hours with 5-6 different trains you need to catch. If you paid for a long-distance train it would be 4.5 hours with no changes.
- Comment on HR people smiling at you thinking that you are a complete moron 1 month ago:
Really?
Over here in Germany refusing to return items which someone contractually entrusted you is a misdemeanor. You would be treated like, say, a car repair shop who refuses to return your car you entrusted them to repair.
This differs from not paying debt, in that case you are legally in possession (not ownership though!) of whatever indebted item so the only recourse is a civil lawsuit. Besides, repossession can only be done through a court-ordered official:
Due to the state’s monopoly on the use of force, foreclosure may only be carried out by state foreclosure bodies, such as bailiffs. With the exception of permitted self-help, unauthorized foreclosure by the creditor is prohibited and is generally unlawful as vigilante justice.
This translation sucks btw, the term “foreclosure” is inaccurate because it refers to a court ordered official either seizing money/stocks/investments and/or physical valuables (valuables = items not required for a modest lifestyle such as jewelry, designer clothes, fancy non-IKEA furniture etc) or foreclosing your property. In case of specific debt like your car they would probably seize that instead unless you demonstrate you rely on it to get to work unless it could be substituted with a cheaper car which would then be provided in exchange.
- Comment on HR people smiling at you thinking that you are a complete moron 1 month ago:
Can’t they just file a police report suggesting you stole it? It’s the government’s job then and since the police barely have to investigate anything they are sure to actually do something. That’s a quick way to get a search warrant filed.