yetAnotherUser

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨sentence⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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  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 ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  log(e^imtiredboss.exe^) = imtiredboss.exe

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(@￣□￣@;)！！⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I am getting numerical analysis flashbacks, please help.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Argon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ 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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Them⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  m’slurdy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A more simple time⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I still do that and like to look at all the tiny ice particles visible in the smoke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨mogbattle⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why would you give this vague of an age for the baby???

  Like of fucking course it’s less than 5 years old. It’s also less than 80.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨functional⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You better define all those symbols in the same tattoo

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ze princess⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Zelda

  Equine

  Link

  Daddy

  Asshole

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨chained⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, I am not just going to tap at those footpaws >:3

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My first colonoscopy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Three mini figures, 139 pieces AND two prints (computer screen and sign on the right)??

  Damn, that’s AT LEAST a 30€ set.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨cookie combs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No they don’t (necessarily))??

  Notice how they didn’t spread the cookies evenly on the tray? If they had, it would’ve resulted in squares - not hexagons. On the left, some cookies look more like squares already.

  Hexagons are just one possible way to tile the plane without gaps. The only reason bees use hexagons is because tiling a plane with hexagons results in the lowest possible total perimeter for equally sized shapes. And bees build the edges of their comb shapes using wax, which is expensive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The EU will sooner ban all adult games from Steam. Seriously, check out any porn game on steamdb.info and look for “restricted_countries” in the Metadata section. Notice a certain large EU country there?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you have an infinitely long wavelength of light? Or is there some maximum?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mass and energy are basically the same thing though. Since E = mc² you can substitute mass in any equation with E / c².

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UwU brat mathematician behavior⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I just think of the definition of a derivative.

  d is just an infinitesimally small delta. So dy/dx is literally just lim (∆ -> 0) ∆y/∆x. which is the same as lim (x_1 -> x_0) [f(x_0) - f(x_1)] / [x_0 - x_1].

  Note: ∆ -> 0 isn’t standard notation. But writing ∆x -> 0 requires another step of thinking: y = f(x) therefore ∆y = ∆f(x) = f(x + ∆x) - f(x) so you only need ∆x approaching zero. But I prefer thinking d = lim (∆ -> 0) ∆.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon's grandpa does his own research⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The statistical chance using our current models and understanding.

  We have never observed such a large amount of atoms dispersing through quantum effects simultaneously. There may be some process we are unaware of preventing this.

  Which is to say, there is a non-zero chance the chance of this scenario is exactly zero.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's just loss.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not necessarily, many small animals have an utterly insane metabolism making them eat their entire body mass in a couple of days. For example, hummingbirds eat the human equivalent of 150,000 calories per day.

  Larger animals typically cannot afford to spend so much energy - there is just no large food source that has sufficient calory density.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GET BRUSHIED IDIOT⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Doesn’t mean it’s nice to have gum infections though. I can also imagine they are more of a threat to baby crocodiles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We really don't want to talk about our problems⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Germany.

  8 patients per room is really the upper legal limit (as anything more is considered intolerable) and exceedingly rare but having at least one other patient in the same room is the default. Even if single rooms are available, hospitals prefer to put you into rooms with other people as they offer single patient rooms for ~120€/day and dual patient rooms for ~70€/day.

  When I was in the hospital for a pretty severe gastrointestinal infection as a child, I had one bed neighbor with a severe cough which I obviously caught after the stay. It wasn’t as severe but pretty annoying nonetheless.

  TVs generally exist for free but usually only one per room so you’ll have to negotiate with your roommates. WiFi, if existant, definitely costs money and will have early 2000’s speed.

  In general, hospital stays have roughly the same standard as in the 70’s or 80’s as there hasn’t been noteworthy investment ever since. Anything considered a luxury and unnecessary for treatment will likely not be provided for free.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We really don't want to talk about our problems⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Solitude? Damn, are your hospitals made out of gold as well?

  If you’re unlucky over here you get up to 7 other patiens in the same, unventilated room. Including patients who have air-transmittable infections because why not?

  Air conditioning doesn’t exist in hospitals either by the way. That’s a luxury hospitals aren’t obligated to (and as such never) provide. Enjoy dehydrating in 30°C+ rooms.

  I’d much rather just stay in solitude in my home for a week.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨413524 Gang, rise up!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  How about 31415?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No rational person would do this...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Try to find it - you won’t succeed.

  Therefore it doesn’t exist.

  ◻

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You got it, buddy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, the atom names are literally just German. Except sunstuff, that’s Helium in German too. Not too difficult to parse imo but I may be biased.

  But it’s not like I want all French influence be gone. Rather, for common things it feels… artificial(?) to use some fancy Latin word when it just refers to something so basic it shouldn’t have a Latin word outside of scientific contexts to begin with.

  It’s like a science fiction novel where the author insists on naming the Earth Terra, the Moon Luna and the Sun Sol. It feels needlessly artificial and somewhat clinical.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Math⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that James Grime from Numberphile?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You got it, buddy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Wasn’t English’s French influence mostly over by this point? The Norman conquest added a bunch of French vocabulary but by the 1700’s, England was a stable colonial power.

  And for very frequently used terms - like anatomical terms - the English root remained mostly intact and loanwords weren’t used. Arm, nose, shoulder, knee, elbow etc. are not French in origin.

  I suspect it could be remnant of nobility separating itself from the common people. By only ever referring to anything with its Latin term, you can distinguish the wealthy, highly-educated from the poorer, lesser-educated people. After all, if you spoke Latin and/or Greek those terms make a lot of intuitive sense.