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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are there so many german communities on Lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Verdammte Autokorrektur!

  Verdammte Grammatischeafdler!

  Verdammt!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are there so many german communities on Lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I know. But an Austrian one.

  One could say they are more German than the Germans, but… well…that didn’t work out well before…so we don’t say that anymore I think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are there so many german communities on Lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. Personally I try to visit non-American subs for that quite often here. Australia, Canada,etc. provide different views and influences as well and are English speaking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are there so many german communities on Lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes and no. The zealousness of Germans to stick to rules but also to create rules is the issue.

  Just a few mid 50 friends kicking a ball once a week in a public park to stay fit and have an excuse for a beer afterwards? Nope, that’s regular use, join a club, get into a 50+ team and kick there, but don’t forget that you need a player pass, pay club fees and often have to do 24 work hours per year.

  Or even worse: Allotment gardening. Heavily regulated in most clubs by a few boomers (think HOA2.0) that will cite you for fallen leaves. And if you have the wrong type of hedge in your garden. Or if it’s to high. They will then mandate that you cut it. Which you aren’t allowed from March to October due to environmental protection laws. And of course if you sleep more than one (or two) nights in your garden it’s also forbidden. And beware if they find another salad in that part of your patch,that one is only for flowers. (It’s so bad that it is a meme in Germany)

  There is a German word for all that, of course: “Blockwartsyndrom”. A Blockwart(officially Blockleiter)was the lowest position with (very little) power during the Nazi times - they were literally responsible for a building block (around 40-60 flat). They were the ones who spied on their neighbours, organised the Volkssturm later on(aka sending poor kids and old folks to their death) and generally pestered their neighbours. Blockwartsyndrom simply means: Give a little man a little power and he will everyone’s life hell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are there so many german communities on Lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Germans have a tendency to associate in a formal association (called Verein). From sports clubs (often even the smallest rural villages have multiple), allotment plot gardening, hiking, environmental protection, neighbourhood based one, as parental associations, cars owners, professional ones to old folks and widows, etc. etc. These are all registered with the local court (e.V.), have a formal operations charter,etc.

  As people tend to be multiple clubs/associations there are far more club members than people in Germany. Germany holds the world record in that regard since 1945. (Personally I am a member of…12 I think. Maybe more. Car, School of the kiddos, sports, sports of the kiddos, a few very niche professional ones, environmental ones, a local food one,etc.)

  This tendency to formalize things also sometimes is visible online in terms of subcommunity formation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are there so many german communities on Lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To give a more serious answer:

  • Germans are a bit more privacy focused than most other nations (if you want to know how much read up on the google street view controversy). Germans tend to be much more aware how Meta/Google,etc. abuse their data (and while the average German won’t care there are enough of them that you actually note it)

  • There is a very strong “antiITestablishment” subculture that is very active since the 80ies. The Chaos Computer Club and its congresses,etc. but also the recent trend toward digital sovereignty has increased the amount of people who see Reddit and (to a much much larger extent) Twitter in a critical light - and due to the close links of Mastodon to Lemmy that helps both.

  • German speaking people, especially in the,on Lemmy, overrepresented Tech field tend to understand English fairly well (but underestimate their ability to speak it themselves often). That enables them to consume English speaking content as well, not forcing them into other media formats that do cater more for smaller languages.

  • And let’s face it: There are a freaking lot of German speaking people. Around 100 Million people speak German in Europe - and while that of course is nothing compared to other India or China it’s the largest non-english language block in Europe. That gives one a large enough “crowd” to actually find an audience for a sub - while it’s rather hard to get enough people for an Italian speaking niche sub it’s far easier to do so if it’s German speaking.

  • There are also some cultural issues at play - to quote an old German saying that says: “Three Germans meet - they found an association (Verein)”. Germans tend to self-organise extremely proactively. Which is often tiresome, believe me. Additionally some Germans tend to find the Americocentrism on Reddit, but also to a lesser degree, on Lemmy, boring and at times nerve wrecking.

  • Lastly the German main instance, Fediverse.org is operated by a pretty robust foundation who knows what it is doing. Which of course keeps the community more stable and hosts a lot of European (non German) subs as well.

  Source: Am German, lived abroad for quite some time.

  Yes, I am fully aware this question wasn’t totally serious.

  No, contrary to common believe we don’t have to go to the basement to laugh. Germans go to the basement for sauerkraut and to watch German dungeon porn, Swiss to clean their bunkers and Austrians,well, I’d rather not talk about that.

  Und nun is dein Schnitzel sonst gibt es keinen Nachtisch!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scifi question about time travel:⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Dude, just read the fucking manual, it’s on page 95 right under “What to do when a Gloridian chokes you through the time window?” And just before “Things you should report to the Time Cops”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Krafton Issue Statement Regarding Subnautica 2⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There is also the possibility,like always, that both sides are assholes, btw.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the funniest insult / joke you've come up with on the spot?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not me, but a friend. She got insulted by a drunk female nazi who happened to be… Ugly as fuck,not only because her ideology.

  Very calm and mannered she simply told her:"Excuse me, Ma’am, as I midwife I feel professional inclined to forward an important piece of advice to your dear mother: Usually you throw the afterbirth away and keep the baby,not vice versa. "

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uniciv (open-source android/desktop 4x game) 4.17 release!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If we ever get a proper open source version of a city skyline like game…I need a sabbatical or early retirement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can it take months to get over being laid off?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  First of all: As a healthcare professional but not your healthcare professional: What you describe has strong signs of a depressive phase and you should first and foremost seek professional help - don’t trust the internet on this and more importantly don’t start to self treat yourself in any way besides behaviour based measures.

  Secondly: It can take ages. I’ve been there. Especially when your new job is similar to the old one it is quite difficult, as you “in theory” know what to do but in reality you still have to find your place in the new company. It will take time. But it will get better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doctor Debates⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, just to be clear, that is meant for mechanical things…

  Fluids,not so much. For obvious reasons.

  It’s a hell of a lot of work to actually dilate it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doctor Debates⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It does so over multiple months. It is very averse to so spontaneously, as every OB/GYN might tell you. Always causes stressful situations in the OR.

  (Beside…the cervix is more or less a one way device. That would surely make it rupture. )

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Satisfactory] 222 hours in, I have built a factory that makes 20 heavy modular frames per minute. (more pictures and details in description)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Now make it 60! That’s the only number that counts! One per second!

  (And yes, that’s doable,done that,but won’t do it again…it wasn’t pretty,it wasn’t fun)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the e-reader you would buy if you were in the market?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t get the Kobo,it works only mediocre with Calibre Web and other “web based” “personal librarys” - and Kobo is forcing Kepub down users throat more and more. Kobo only looks good if you come from the hellhole that Kindle has become,tbh.

  I would highly recommend looking into Pocketbook and especially Onyx if your goal is a more “free” approach.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ARMA 3 Recieves Surprise Performance Update⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The learning curve isn’t that step anymore, especially for Singleplayer - even for more experienced Arma Players the main frustration there is the “trial and error” factor in the missions. Online it’s a bit different - if you don’t play full on MILSIM and focus on infantry combat you will be good there as well. It’s all manageable these days. And still great fun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Worst spy ever⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Tbh, I read that there were multiple Stasi Agents faking exactly that type of personality. If you can’t keep a secret besides that one important secret… Everyone will think you can’t keep a secret. … which means you couldn’t be a spy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can deliberate noise harassment still be a crime if it's done every day from 7:30 AM till 10:30-11:30 PM?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Healthcare professional with some experience in mental health and emergency medicine here: This is the way to go . Your problem is NOT the noise. The noise is a nuisance but not dangerous. The fixation on your brother is. Because there is a high risk here,that once “noise” doesn’t cut it from the point of view of the patient, he will resolve to other means.

  As said before:

  • Document everything, make a detailed protocol about everything he does or says towards you.

  • Call the police, especially when he threatens you or your brother or claims he is intruding. Make sure that every member of your household is as polite as possible to the officers. If they refuse to do something accept this but kindly ask for their names or collar numbers and the name of their chief constable. Then write a very polite letter to the CC making it clear that you understand the difficulties the officers face but how you feel threatened and miserable and ask for help and advice to resolve this. (Why being polite? Because then it is nearly impossible for any copper to frame this as a *neighbours dispute" or anything - and coppers in the UK are far more inclined to help “members of the public” they see as pure victims themselves)

  • Depending on where in the UK you live contact your “Single Point of Access” mental health team. They are, well, the single point of access for mental health and by definition also are the contact points for friends,family,etc. of mental health patients.There is a good chance of them already knowing him, so that might help. Also,if your mom gets sicker from the whole ordeal, call her an ambulance - more freely than normal, to get that on the file. (And yes,I know this is a moral grey zone)

  • Call your council both in terms of mental health and nuisance laws. Be nice,but pressure them to do something.

  • Find out who the landlord of the neighbour is (if he doesn’t own) and contact him as well as your own landlord.

  Again,let me repeat: The noise is not your problem. The noise is just a symptom of your problem and when the noise goes away and the problem is not resolved something else will come up - very likely something worse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hit it and quit it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually there is afaik a biological reason: Take it with a grain of salt,though - It’s a long time since I attended these lectures. The repeated insertion increases the need for lubrication(which increases sperm transport after ejaculations) and making sure the vaginal canal is opened fully.

  Again, it’s a long time ago I had that lecture and it might not be up-to-date,so someone please confirm this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Unlikely - a vast majority of landscapes in Europe, Asia and the Americas are defined by grazing and so far we are not even remotely close to producing a milk alternative for cheesemaking, which is a cultural staple in a lot of countries.

  So there will likely be some meat. BUT: That wouldn’t mean that we as a planet need to reduce our consumption massively, increase prices in a way that it is unfeasible for most people to consume actual beef a few times a year and supplement it with lab grown meat and insect protein as well as vegan alternatives.

  That would still lead to super rich being able to eat beef every day,yes.

  But that is absolutely not our problem - the problem is that people are super rich…the beef consumption of them is a mere drop in the bucket of their bad footprint on our planet and society. ELMO alone has a larger CO2 flight footprint per year than his meat consumption will ever cause,even if he eats half a cow every day for his whole life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨dual immunity (see body)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, I am a healthcare professional,but not your HCP and you won’t be able to know if I say the truth here either.

  So the easiest way for you is to read the wikipedia article or the MSD manual,etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨dual immunity (see body)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because that immune system(if one wants to call it so) is within the eyeball,not on the outside. Lacrimal immune response is something else again.

  Overall: It’s called Immune privilege and is present in the central nervous system, the uterus and the testicles as well.

  It’s nowhere near as extreme as the comment OP posted thinks it is - if you think about it closely it doesn’t make sense. The interior of the eye is highly vascularized and of course “regular” immun system parts go through that.

  In reality it’s more like"the eye" has an “extra Immunsystem” that helps it keep its special structures functional. Both alone as well as with the help of the body’s main system.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gave him an offer, then took it away. Thanks PayPal.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. I have been in a poition doing the hiring for over 10 years now and so far never ever needed more than three contacts with a possible employee. (Beide administrative things, like finding a dafe for an interview,etc.)

  First contact Is via phone(or mail or a combination of both)if I find anything in the application that leaves questions open or is inconsistent.

  Second contact is the actual interview. Nowadays m company is so small that we can do them “with the team”, back in an earlier job that was not possible - so part three was either an long interview with the team or (preferably but not always possible) a day working with the team. (Whicu is of course payed at the same rate everyone gets)

  But in my country we have to reimburse peoples travel costs and “trial tasks” during interviews would need to be payed as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Software engineer lost his $150K-a-year job to AI—he’s been rejected from 800 jobs and forced to DoorDash and live in a trailer to make ends meet⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a strong feeling, that someone who characterises himself as a “metaverse and web developer” that is interested in “super intelligence” might have other reasons why people do not consider him.

  Don’t get me wrong,he might be a totally nice fella and IT outside a narrow field of healthcare IT is not my field. But this guys makes all my spidey HR/management senses tingle hard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pictures of Animals Getting CT Scans Against their Will: A Thread⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It depends. MRI and to an even larger extent CT scans are “targeted” to an area. People are very very rarely scanned “totally”.

  E.g. you want to look at the cervical spine and therefore only examine this area. While you will also see neighbouring regions these are not necessarily full resolution (only if they can have an impact). So if the imaging run is being done for an area that is not affected much by the fat tissue it won’t produce more data necessarily (a cardio MRI is a good example). If you do a abdominal or pelvis MRI/CT is normally does include all tissue and therefore will produce more data.

  (Take this with a grain of salt though, while I worked inhospital for a while I am primarily a paramedic and more into repairing vital signs than radiology. While we have mobile CTs nowadays they are brain only and not my area of expertise)

  There is an exception for the real complicated cases like the one I mentioned, though. As we didn’t want to do the whole transport effort 4 weeks later again because another speciality found another issue the patient was indeed scanned almost completely" (with breaks in-between as that gets uncomfortable fast).

  (Sadly enough the whole thing was done 6 weeks later again,indeed, as the patient had suffered from an acute stroke which later killed them. Sad story,really. Never had a chance in life)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pictures of Animals Getting CT Scans Against their Will: A Thread⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually most of them (according to a friend who works for a large animal hospital and has some human EMS background) are intubated far easier than humans - and they place a “hand safer” device (if you’re old enough to remember the “plastic screw device”-I don’t actually remember the actual name- used to open a seizure patients jaw that were once used, they are similar).

  Back in my training day we used cats to practice neonatal intubation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pictures of Animals Getting CT Scans Against their Will: A Thread⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No shit, I once had the chance to accompany a patient to an large aninmal hospital for an MRI.

  The problem: It was so far away that the patient needed to be airlifted. Which was far beyond the capacity of regular HEMS. So they called in the military and they send a fucking CH-53 cargo helicopter. These things are huge and loud. But cool.

  That was one interesting ride. Somewhat embarrassing for the patient (who was not in on weight level due to simply eating too much - patient had a massive and life altering orphan hormonal disease) but patient kept somewhat good spirits and the volunteer fire brigade did a good job blocking the view.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have a shamefully dark question for firefighters. I'm sorry but I'm just too curious to not ask... It's about the smell and how that affects life.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks mate for the kind words. If you are that far down the spiral again, let us know. Personally I rather read a DM from you than read about your funeral.

  And I get it. Even the fire part. Fire does send a message. We all know that powerful photo of the monk.

  The human who is responsible for half of my fire-PTBS wanted to send auch a message. But it instead fucked people up. Not only myself, back then a 19 year old fresh paramedic graduate. Who now, multiple decades later sees that human in his dreams. Well. Not actually. I see my gloves melting because the flesh I am working on his still so hot. I don’t see the actual human.

  There are only a few things I truely fear. I went to conflict regions as a job for ages… But there are few things I dear like fire/burns. Rabbies, some cancers, ALS. But fire still is something else. Because it is more cruel. Unless someone really needs that fix to understand why it’s a bad idea I spare you the details.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have a shamefully dark question for firefighters. I'm sorry but I'm just too curious to not ask... It's about the smell and how that affects life.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My firefighter days were long ago and short numbered but I am a paramedic.

  Truth to be told: I have PTBS from the smell of burning human meat. I had two cases that cemented that in my brain - both were not people burning to crisp but instead people who were still moving* - but beyond rescue. In that state human meat smells different from other meats and it is… something you don’t want to smell ever.

  (*: Even most severely burnt people, with 99% grade 3 burns are awake for quite a while. They are beyond resuce,though. Please people, don’t try to kill yourself with fire. And if you do, don’t do it in front of people. Really don’t. You fuck them up for life)

  I still cannot stand if my wife cleans the oven for example.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cities Skylines 2, Kerbal Space 2, Planet Coaster 2, Frostpunk 2... What Went Wrong?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As a project manager (well sort of, but did IT projects for a while, have multiple friends in the gaming manager): Yes and no.

  From my point of view: The problem isn’t the fact that games are art. While games have their creative side they also require good “brick and mortar work” in the back - as many games as went horribly wrong due to a lack of space for creativity went wrong due to a lack of “less than glamorous” brick and mortar work and overcreativity. (Most drastic example would be the reddit dragon MMO story)

  This is actually a reason why people who are very invested in the subject matter of the project they manage often are horrible project managers - and vice versa people who have no clue can’t be good PMs either.

  Project management has one core component: Knowing when to ask whom. A good PM knows that the dev(or dev team lead) will always know better how long “feature X” will take. Of course I can try to learn how to do things… but that wouldn’t help much as the exact dev or team will still have their individual speeds. But a good PM also will know when to ask someone else who is nore knowledgeable for advice or to confirm things. (I literally had an Dev trying to tell me a small feature would take two weeks. Fair enough. But interestingly enough two other Devs were fairly sure it takes 30min including documentation. Which sounded way more reasonable. Turned out said Dev always tried to pull these stunts with new PMs and his lead being on vacation)

  A good PM will also know when to give people space for creativity - and defend this room towards the budget.

  Sadly - and this is a problem existing on all sides around PM- in the end it all boils down to a simple thing: Everyone thinks they know better. The PM thinks they know the job of being a Dev(or engineer,etc. etc.) better than the actual people doing the job. And vice versa the Devs think they could do without PMs (they can’t for larger projects it’s impossible, for mid size projects often really inefficient) or know their job better.

  Such is life.