Kornblumenratte
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- Comment on Why are podcasters/vloggers suddenly holding tiny mics? 28 minutes ago:
Here is a good video explaining the trend: youtube.com/watch?v=0arvnAlV_C4
- Comment on Trump posted this in Truth. 3 weeks ago:
They will. Autocrats love public applause, and what public applause is greater than a 90+ % vote? Or do you know of any autocracy that does not have a ritual of approval called elections?
Well, granted, military dictatorships usually don’t do this election thing. With all this ICE buildup, Department of War renaming, declaring war on gangs while redifining the Venuzuelan government as gang, and this Chipocalypse stuff Trump is cosplaying more and more as an unhinged warlord. I’m afraid you might be right.
- Comment on Trump posted this in Truth. 3 weeks ago:
Next US presidential elections.
- Comment on Trump posted this in Truth. 3 weeks ago:
There will be elections. All autocrats love elections. Being reelected with 90+ % just feels too good to not have them.
- Comment on Good luck! 3 weeks ago:
This image is far older than generative AI.
- Comment on Who could have predicted this? 4 weeks ago:
I’d like to agree. But I’m stuck with Windows at work. At the moment, our IT guys upgrade a couple of PCs a day from Win10 to Win11. The GUI sucks, and the complete network is getting slower and slower. I crave the good old DOS times, when the system used to be faster than me.
- Comment on Shit's getting real 1 month ago:
I’m afraid another form of governing rule would not change the exploitation of the environment, animals or people - humans always exploited the environment and animals regardless of the system of government or economics. We’d need a cultural shift from an individualistic self-centered culture to a culture that accepts our position as one part of a complex interconnected ecological and social network.
- Comment on Shit's getting real 1 month ago:
Farming has an far greater impact on the ecosystem. There is no way to live for humans without completely reshaping their environment. We evolved as an invasive species.
If you’re moral argument to call for a boycott of honey is honey bee’s impact on the ecosystem rather than their enslavement and exploitation to humans, your only reasonable moral course of action is Fruitarianism using only fruits growing in the wild - basically an Orang Utan or Gorilla lifestyle. That choice has been made some 4-5 million years ago, when our ancesters became an invasive species in the savanna and began our first reshaping of ecosystems. Good luck reversing that choice.
- Comment on Shit's getting real 1 month ago:
I’m glad you asked. Fruitarians have an answer to that moral dilemma.
- Comment on Tried naming the states from memory as a European 1 month ago:
And it’s far to rural…
Sorry, Appalachia does not exist in European mental maps.
- Comment on Shit's getting real 1 month ago:
💯
It has to do with the exploitation of insects.
- Comment on holee shiet 2 months ago:
Well… black holes are not cool, either.
- Comment on holee shiet 2 months ago:
I doubt this would work. The sun runs on hydrogen fusion. Adding water is just adding fuel to fire.
- Comment on EA Connect. How do I get in contact with a real Human?? Need Support. 2 months ago:
www.ea.com/de-de/legal/impressum-swiss
I don’t know about other jurisdictions, but German websites are legally required to have some info including postal address about who owns the site, called impressum.
I think US firms have a similar requirement for the licence agreement? Not sure about thid.
- Comment on EA Connect. How do I get in contact with a real Human?? Need Support. 2 months ago:
What about Contact_EAHelp@ea.com?
- Comment on PSA for those in America 2 months ago:
Cats are the dominant species. Well, actually ants, but cats are a close second.
- Comment on RIP America 2 months ago:
Thank you.
- Comment on RIP America 2 months ago:
defending education or defunding it?
- Comment on RIP America 2 months ago:
Yes. Just a couple of centuries earlier, so your point still stands.
- Comment on RIP America 2 months ago:
What’s the story of the Alpaca farms?
- Comment on RIP America 2 months ago:
They ousted all Jewish and all politically non-compliant scientists. They were interested in science, that’s true, and according to their world view, eliminating “inferior” scientist should have enhanced the quality of the science done by “superior pure blooded Aryan Übermenschen”.
While still being pro-science, they did cripple their scientific community on ideologic grounds. The communist regimes did the same.
MAGA being outright anti-science, the effect will be far more devastating.
- Comment on RIP America 2 months ago:
The Handmaid was a premptive documentary.
- Comment on You got it, buddy 2 months ago:
Otorhinolaryngology was born in the 1850s, though, not 1700s.
- Comment on You got it, buddy 2 months ago:
Taint is a bit inaccurate, I’d say. It’s actually “Schamlippen”. “Scham” meaning “shame” and was also used as an innocuous or rather less derogatory word to refer to this area of the female body that may not be spoken of. “Outer and inner shame lips” just stuck and is the colloquial expression for labia majora and minora.
- Comment on Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering 3 months ago:
They did not use coal back then – I’m not sure whether it was even known to the Mediterranean culture. Forests were plundered for shipbuilding. Crude oil was only available as naphtha in the Middle East, barely enough for the local fishermen to pitch there boats and for the Byzantines to use in their flamethrowers. Furthermore, crude oil was not used in steam engines — you cannot shovel a heep of oil under a kettle. Fuel existed, yes, but they had no access to it.
All it would have needed is fixing the steam exhaust and have it drive a shoveled wheel.
So a completely different machine? Shoveled wheels were invented centuries after Heron. Even if they played with such a setup – an open, non-pressurized turbine has no usable power. To use steam, you’ll have to pressurize it, and the technology to tame high pressure was only developed to build cannons that do not burst.
In the history of the steam engine, the fuel supply was available before the engine. IIRC, Watt’s incentive for the invention of the steam engine was the need to drain coal mines.
- Comment on Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering 3 months ago:
Herons steam “engine” had no power whatsoever and was not scalable. And even if it would have been scalable, they had had no fuel to drive it.
- Comment on I'll just take the bus 3 months ago:
I just checked some brands, and you are correct: currently both cost the same.
- Comment on world changes so fast 3 months ago:
- Comment on I'll just take the bus 3 months ago:
Actually there used to be another, more important reason:
Back in the old days, automatic transmissions accelerated pretty slowly. It was not possible to accelerate normally – or what we thought to be normal. No one in their right mind would pay ~5–10 % more (automatic transmissions used to be expensive) to get a lame car and annoy everybody at every traffic light. I don’t know when automatic transmissions got as fast as manual shifting, but this memo hasn’t reached Europe yet.
And, last but not least, and only still valid argument: automatic transmissions are still more expensive than manual ones. Why should I pay extra money for some fancy tech with no extra benefit that takes away my illusion of control and feels horrible to drive?
- Comment on Exposure might cause suffocation 4 months ago:
Depends on a lot of circumstances – weight, kidney and heart function, temperature, activity. The people I saw developing hyponatriema drank more than 4–5 l tap water. Desalinated water will cause problems sooner.