Saleh

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to poop outdoors in a way that won’t harm the environment and other hikers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If it is very dry, doesn’t that also mean it is less likely to spread/leak into the aquifer?

  E.g. dried cow-manure seems to be fine for the environment to handle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The duality of man⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Accepting either presented level of shittiness is what got us here in the first place.

  Trump couldn’t have done it without Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden or Kamala Harris. The House Reps would struggle more, if it wasn’t for people like Schumer. If Democrats had called out AIPAC over the past twenty years instead of drooling over the opportunity to aid and abet war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide for them, we’d never had the whole “yeah i am voting for the slow genocide” argumentation being somehow “acceptable”.

  And the most important thing is that the current Democrats are not going to be a driver for positive change. They are still fighting against moderate progressives like Mamdani and pushing for neoliberal reactionaries like Newsom instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who is the enemy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Structural engineers: fire, water, air and earth. They are like the Anti-Avatar

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Imgur's Community Is In Full Revolt Against Its Owner⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But imagine having to choose a server from which to access the fediverse! This is just too complicated!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intelligent Design⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you are missing the point that the limits are intended.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intelligent Design⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We can observe evolution. We cannot observe if the steps are purely random.

  E.g. if you mix eggs and butter and flour in a specified ratio and put it in an oven, it is not random that a cake evolves in the oven.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intelligent Design⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The eyes of mammals are designed in a way that they “see less” than for instance certain birds or reptiles.

  You call this “fuck up some weird convulted way”, when it is doing exactly what it is supposed to do. Thereby it is consistent with the way the visual nerve cells are designed and work together with the rest of physics and chemistry. The design is intelligent as it factors in all aspects as part of a coherent complete design. A design far too complex for any human mind to grasp in full.

  Basically your question is like asking, why there is no “magic solution” that directly breaks the observable laws of physics. The genius of the design is in not requiring to break the observable laws of physics to achieve the desired outcome.

  You say this is “unscientific garbage” when your only alternative explanation is “everything just happened randomly and here we are.” Neither approach, “intelligent design” nor “extremely long chain of random occurrences” can be empirically observed and only argued logically. I find it unscientific to denounce a hypothesis as “unscientific garbage” when it cannot be falsified, while the counter hypothesis cannot be proven.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intelligent Design⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Plenty of animals have their excretion outlet and their food inlet in the same place.

  For birds the cloaca is both for excretion and sex.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intelligent Design⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  From the point of intelligent design:

  We see that there is different sensory focuses. For instance many animals can smell and hear much better than humans do. Some animals have exceptionally better eyes than humans, but overall humans are very focused on vision.

  Now when we look at modern inner city environments and the like. Would you think it to be actually better if our senses, particularly our eyes were that much better and delivering even more input to our brains? We already see many people that are overwhelmed in terms of their sensory input and frankly the ones that aren’t still suffer slowly from living in cities. In terms of where we are now, i don’t think it is too bad that we don’t have hawk eyes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨leading ai company⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Producing rockets faster than they can explode during launch!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🏹🏹🏹⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also they all hold the bows completely wrong.

  Angled arm, turned the wrong side, wtf?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨anons brother has some strong opinions⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on what you want to do. Wood buildings have more limits in terms of height and structural load. But wood usually means much lower emissions and easier recycling of the building. Of course fire safety is another issue. In comparision to steel, wood does surprisingly well, as a thick wooden column can be burning on the outside, but maintain its load bearing capability on the inside. steel transmits the heat to its inside quickly and looses its stability faster.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨anons brother has some strong opinions⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  bricks made by burning clay aren’t that much better. Especially considering that you need more bricks for columns and other load bearing structures.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What game(s) could you not get into but with a handheld device you started to like the game(s)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I know it is a bit of a silly answer but here we go:

  My brother had installed a game-boy emulator on the family PC when my parents had prohibited gameboys from the house. My older siblings bought some though and hid them, but i was too young for that. (They also didn’t tell me).

  Anyways, so at the time Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire was the hot shit. I played Ruby on the emulator and i loved it. There was just one problem. The “nebula” animation that is transparent in the gameboy version was solid in the emulator. When i entered a cave i had to find a way to pass it blindly. This was before we had proper internet access at home, so i couldn’t look up the cave layout.

  I had to gave up after the second gym or so. When i got older and my grandma bought me a gameboy, i played Ruby like crazy as i finally could progress.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jump on in.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Serotonin can’t past the blood-brain barrier.

  You have two serotonin households and it serves different regulation purposes in your body and brain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Private water company increases CEO pay by nearly 100%. This is how Steve Reeds, UK water minister, reacts⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The obvious solution is to clean up the mess.

  Yeah it takes effort to clean things up, but the current way is only helping the far-right and kicking the can down the road will only mean them to become even more powerful by the time they take the wheel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨that's a sunday night⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Birds are dinos.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just a reminder of how many out there are completely clueless⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Flying straight over the arctic is a great idea (for Putin and Trump only).

  I once had a flat-earther use this as an argument that the earth must be flat. “if the earth was round, why don’t they fly over the arctic?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA: WASH YOUR HANDS⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know. As a lack of proper inspections is a key aspect to the issue, i wouldn’t trust it not to be the case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA: WASH YOUR HANDS⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can only speak about Germany, but Germany is one of the largest pork producers and consumers.

  There is at least one mayor scandal every year about malpractice, lack of hygiene and/or abuse of workers at industrial animal farms and slaughterhouses. The number of government inspectors only is enough to allow for inspections about once every 20 years or so per business. Also in many cases inspections are done by the local veterinarians, who also have the farmers/slaughter houses as customers and have a clear conflict of interest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon shares a family moment⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What is he going to do? Call the cops and tell them he got roughed up by a f-word?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Man what is it with people these days?

  "Hi, nice to meet you. Honestly this is the first time i go on a blind date and i am a little nervous. Anyways, did you arrive well?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, they managed to find someone. So at least in their time and place they managed to do something right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For example, most religions tend to accept suffering and poverty as a given, as a test or as something that in general is by design. Assigning virtue to being oppressed …

  Islam acknowledges poverty and wealth to be given in the sense that it is not by the virtue or failing of the individual that he or she is rich/poor. This is contradicting the neoliberal mantra, that it is totally the individuals fault and thereby justified.

  Furthermore it is the duty of the rich to help the poor and it is the right of the poor upon the rich to be helped by them.This is why mandatory donations for the wealthy are an obligation equal to prayer and fasting.

  God tests people with poverty and with wealth. Also Islam with its prohibition of interest is incompatibile with capitalism. Christianity and Judaism also prohibit interest, but a millenia long effort to twist the prohibition away eventually suceeded.

  If in millennia every religion ever has been used to crystalize a power hierarchy in humanity (from the clergy to caste systems), maybe there is a reason. And the reason is that religious thinking and mindset inherently enables these hierarchies.

  Again you are describing institutionalization. On the contrary if someone is steadfast in their belief, they will obey God and not the worldly leaders, if those demand something in violation of the faith. This also creates a measure for the legitimacy of leaders that cannot be set by the leaders themselves. So what the historical and current leaders are doing is to try to corrupt existing religious institutions or build institutions so they can be corrupted. The hierarchy is inserted into the religiom by existing hierachies.

  To further argue that point. What became of Soviet Russia? Maos China? Eastern Germany? All the other Warsaw pact countries? All of them were hostile to religion on a range from surveillance and coercion to death squads murdering clergy by the tens of thousands and razing places of worship down to the foundations.

  Authoritarianism finds any tool to impose unjust hierarchies. And it creates its own idols to worship. Be it the market, the great chairman, the 5 year plan, the supreme race, the expanding imperium…

  All these idols share one crucial aspect. They are geared towards material aspects in this world. And this is a great weakness of communist revolutionary thought. It chains itself to compete with the capitalists in the struggle for capital accumulation and distribution. Thereby communist thought is enslaving the working class to remain producers and consumers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As i have written:

  What we have seen over the last century is the result of deliberate meddling by outside imperial forces that promoted wahabism and other extremist strands twisting Islam into being a tool of oppression and riddling it with hypocrisy.

  Religion is a form of institutionalized control and oppression, and as such is a fundamental enemy of the working class.

  A common argument is that Jesus would be a socialist by todays definitions, condemning the corruption of the rich and sitting with the poor. The prophet Mohamed, blessing and peace be upon him, was persecuted by the polytheists because Islam was challenging their business model surrounding the idol worship and they tried to coopt him into furthering their economic agenda. Moses was liberating his entire people from enslavement under the Pharaoh. The Abrahamic prophets all fought injustice and corruption in their society.

  I agree with you that the institutionalization is an issue, but that is an issue of the particular institutions, not the religion itself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  you have mosques kicking off every morning,

  Have you ever been to Southern and Central Europe? Churches ringing their bells every day. Villages being mostly dark at night, with the church being shined on with a dozen spotlights. Religious festivities including parades around holidays. Priests and Nuns casually walking in the streets.

  Islam is noticeable in everyday life everywhere (to the extent that I feel that you have a substantially higher religious freedom in Europe as a muslim),

  As you can see with the statement above, the fact that religion is “noticeable in everyday life everywhere” has nothing to do with religious freedom.

  and if you do something that is socially (and therefore religiously - as there’s a nonexistent division between church, states and culture here) risque, you can also gtfo. so what?

  Islam is quite accommodating and tolerant to other religions. Religious minorities enjoy protection and are allowed to practice their ways even when it contradicts Islamic law, such as Christian being permitted alcohol. What we have seen over the last century is the result of deliberate meddling by outside imperial forces that promoted wahabism and other extremist strands twisting Islam into being a tool of oppression and riddling it with hypocrisy.

  Also we see how religious minorities are instrumentalized to start divisions and civil wars in places like Syria and Lebanon. Areas where Christians and Jews have lived for Millennia and built vibrant communities, with religious tensions being the rare exception. Or looking at Iberian Peninsula, where the Jewish community fared well for centuries under Islamic governance, until the Christian conquerors slaughtered them and forced them into conversion and hiding like the Muslims.

  Finally the western nation state model is incompatible with Islamic governance, but again was imposed upon Muslim majority countries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  About 20-30% of the people enslaved and deported to the US were Muslims.

  The “Christians” brought Islam to North America by force.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vibe check!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am dissapointed that noone came up with ACDC yet.

  Anyways here you go:

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  4. C
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bill and Melinda French Gates and Warren Buffett’s Giving Pledge after 15 years: Only 9 of the 256 billionaires actually followed through on giving away half their wealth⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It is a bit more complicated than that.

  First of all the social security system in Germany should not be tax funded. It is a mandatory insurance which should finance its activities through the insurance rate collected on income. However with demographic shifts and the like it is notoriously unstable, in particular the pension fund. So what happens is the social securities being cross financed from tax money.

  Like with climate change, we are talking about the issue since more than 30 years, the problematic effects are becoming ever more apparent, but no government is willing to address the fundamental issues, instead kicking the can down the road, until the system will collapse.

  Then another issue is that the government activities are far from sufficient and it is en vogue to attack social security further. Especially in the last years we saw an unprecedented rise in people relying on food banks as unemployment checks and the equivalent for refugees, who are prohibited from working, are insufficient. But rather than adjust the payments to reflect the rising costs of living, we see a distraction debate about people “refusing to work” which make up only a tiny minority of people receiving benefits, but the goal is to abolish unemployment insurance.

  Then another issue is that nonprofits are often used by rich families to circumvent inheritance tax. This year there will be an unexpected windfall of 4 billion Euros to the inheritance tax, as a rich family failed to set up their construct in time. Furthermore “nonprofits” by industrialists are often used for lobbying for more capitalism. In particularly infamous is the “Stiftung Familienunternehmen” (family run businesses trust). You would think this represents your local bakery run in the fourth generation. Instead it is run by “family businesses” such as Henkel (washing ingredients, chemicals) whose owners are billionaires.

  Finally, Germany has the whole range of non profits which follow purposes that genuinely follow causes that benefit humanity and the environment and they also receive billions in donations in Germany every year. Overall the donations to nonprofits in Germany amounted to 12.5 billion € last year, or about 150 € on average. This includes a wide range of purposes. For instance sports clubs are usually nonprofits and donations to them are usually tax deductible. So it might be the father of one of the kids in the football club donating a new set of jerseys.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bill and Melinda French Gates and Warren Buffett’s Giving Pledge after 15 years: Only 9 of the 256 billionaires actually followed through on giving away half their wealth⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Which then needs someone in the real economy to make goods and services to back up the value of that money.

  They are basically printing YOM instead of IOU vouchers.