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- Comment on VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power 23 hours ago:
German car industry has one foot in the grave.
I wonder if that is true though. Sure, they lobby that way when they want government subsidies.
They might be slightly late to the e-car game (but the above article applies to e-cars only anyhow).
But all that largely applies to most car industries across the globe. Except those under totalitarian control because they can react faster to big changes.
- Comment on VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power 1 day ago:
Cory Doctorow nailed it once again.
- Comment on VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power 1 day ago:
The manufacturers fee for speeding is higher than the fine the police gives you.
- Comment on VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power 1 day ago:
Basically every car manufacturer pulls shit like this these days; good luck avoiding all of them.
If it’s specific to a certain model, that would be good info.
That said VW obviously sucks for pulling the stunt mentioned in the article.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
Nobody said Disneyland, or fiberglass, or tourist trap, except you.
is the closest thing to a real life fairytale castle that exists - because, as you said, that’s specifically the look the king wanted
How wrong you are. Real fairytales are folklore, developed over centuries. Neuschwanstein isn’t. It is to real castles what HC Andersen’s tales are to real folktales.
Es wurde als romantisches Ideal einer Ritterburg entworfen. Anders als „echte“ Burgen, deren Gebäudebestände meist das Ergebnis mehrerer Bautätigkeiten sind, wurde Neuschwanstein als gewollt asymmetrischer Bau in einem Zug geplant und in Abschnitten errichtet. Für eine Burg typische Merkmale wurden zitiert; echte Verteidigungsanlagen – das wichtigste Merkmal eines mittelalterlichen Adelssitzes – wurden nicht gebaut.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
First of all it’s Grünwald. There’s a difference. It’s effectively a suburb of München. Which is the capital of Bayern, which is said to be very different from the rest of Deutschland.
Please make an effort to speak German, even if it’s only Guten Tag and Danke. Don’t expect people to know English.
That said, try all sorts of nice dark bread, preferably whole grain. Any bakery (often integrated in supermarkets) will do. Butter is not salted by default.
Being that far south, the mountains - the beginning of the Alps - are really nice.
- Comment on What would be ancient ways to properly store vitamin C? 2 days ago:
Thanks, you make good points. I was thinking about basically room dried berries, not in an oven, not in the sun.
Modern sauerkraut is often pasturized so that’s pretty useless for vitamin C.
Not where I live!
- Comment on What would be ancient ways to properly store vitamin C? 2 days ago:
Sauerkraut!
And lots of other fermented products. Possiblities are endless, chances of success are high.
I was also thinking dried fruit/berries, but I’m not sure how well that preserves vitamin C.
- Comment on Could I just create my own drive format? 5 days ago:
Someone make the Lolcats programming language for a laugh.
Rabbit hole! There’s a whole genre of esoteric languages; Malbolge was mentioned by Sherlock Holmes even (not the original one of course).
- Comment on If suffering is good because it gives life meaning, wouldn't it follow that hurting people is good? 6 days ago:
I reject the premise, and I doubly reject the conclusion.
- Comment on Trying to buy some sata power cable for a lenovo sff pc, the seller did not clarify what size 6 days ago:
You mean sth like this?
In my machine it’s part of the PSU cable salad; probably “adapted” to the main trunk with something like above.
- 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 1 week ago:
Pledge
Words are meaningless.
This article has slightly more dirt but still seems a bit vague on hard numbers and names.
- Comment on Lemmy.World blocks VPN? 1 week ago:
They’re using the same blocklists everybody else uses. If your current IP address (as seen by lemmy.world) has been known to send a lot of bad stuff, it goes on the list. Same as with Tor exit nodes.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Their police dramas certainly do!
- Comment on I just dont seem to ever learn 2 weeks ago:
My favorite every morning moment: bow down and SLURP
- Comment on My foot found the worst Lego that can be stepped on. 2 weeks ago:
Yep. I was going to comment that LEGO is made out of amazingly hard plastic, but this one has clearly suffered the consequences.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Do you think your example is realistic? That would be 20% - a relevant difference. Not ALL the electrical power consumption will be turned into inside heat I guess?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Some (all?) heat pumps also have an auxiliary resistive heating element
You mean like an electrical heater basically? I’m pretty sure this one hasn’t, and I was told to additionally use the provided wall heaters during proper winter, as the air pump’s efficiency decreases.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Thanks. Just one device and mostly one big room. Nothing is icing up.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Thanks.
They do seem a lot more susceptible to drafts
This seems pertinent. I like to keep windows open - it feels weird not to do that in summer.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
it uses the same amount as when it’s heating
Thanks, I’ll take your word for it. So - if it cools the place from, say, 29 degrees outside to 22 degrees inside, that’s the same as warming it from 15 degrees outside to 22 inside?
And yeah, it’s been running a lot. I guess there’s no mystery here. Only the next bill will tell (the email sneakily did not tell me any amounts, just some colorful graph. They want me to use their app).
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I get that. But I come from a country where that isn’t a common thing because summers are short and not too hot (at least pre-climate-change).
- Comment on Does trump know he cheats at golf? 2 weeks ago:
IMO the discussion whether it’s done knowingly or not is moot in such cases.
Analogy: some people are so used to their own “fuck the world” attitude that throwing trash on the sidewalk is second nature to them, they hardly think about it. So they don’t do it knowingly. Does that in any way lessen their deed? Not to me. Quite the opposite: it’s a larger problem.
- Comment on Why is Fediverse moderation, even more Draconian than Reddit? 2 weeks ago:
It’s the #1 swearword in Finland, too.
I wonder if the other person would have objected if you’d used “dick” instead.
- Comment on What companies manufacture ancient musical instruments? 2 weeks ago:
First of all, what’s “ancient”? As in “Ancient Greece”? Assuming you meant “historical” instead:
People do. Not companies. Why do you think a Stradivari violin is called that? Because Stradivari built it. So if you want an instrument like that, it stands to reason that you use the same process.
I just learned from another comment that these people are called luthiers. Some still exist.
- Comment on Does trump know he cheats at golf? 2 weeks ago:
Totally believable. But Golf is kinda unspectacular even when you’re cheating.
I once saw a video of Putin playing ice hockey with his cronies, for media propaganda purposes of course. It was a sight to behold, how his opponents scrambled to get out of the way and let him win.
Unfortunately I cannot find it on YT - it’s flooded with said propaganda videos.
- Comment on Why is Fediverse moderation, even more Draconian than Reddit? 2 weeks ago:
Reasonable speculation gathered from OP’s post itself and a few other publicly visible facts around their account.
But I concede your point. Ultimately we should all just stop babbling on social media.
- Comment on Why is Fediverse moderation, even more Draconian than Reddit? 2 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t expect most any clubhouse to throw you out if you argued any point diligently and respectfully.
I bet OP didn’t.
- Comment on Why is Fediverse moderation, even more Draconian than Reddit? 2 weeks ago:
More and more often this is what it comes down to, for me too.
- Comment on Why is Fediverse moderation, even more Draconian than Reddit? 2 weeks ago:
Do you not understand the fediverse is decentralized? Your question makes no sense.
And even if it did, we cannot answer because we don’t know what really happened, we haven’t seen your comments or posts.
So if you can show us, do.
Also, your mod log shows exactly one ban from one community. Is that what got your knickers in a twist?
Even posting a Fox News article in the News areas will get your post removed
Now that is just funny. Let me parse it down: Fox is not “News”, it’s entertainment. And since that distinction is lost on 99% of its audience, it’s also disinformation.
…with a ban of course.
Where? It’s not in your mod log.
Oh yeah, your account is just 7h old at this point.
Personally I’d love for you to stay and learn to become a better person. But that’s just naive.
