Oh, woah, that link got mangled somehow - should be fixed now

But did he manage 3 days without going?

There are definitely similarities, but China has its own fascinating history there, with a lot of traditional beliefs resurfacing as weird, sanctioned versions of themselves after the cultural revolution had mostly suppressed them. I think on average, the administration in China will probably have less “true believers” and more “stuff like this is necessary to maintain societal peace and harmony” opportunists.

But that is mostly speculation on my part and hard to gauge without looking into peoples’ heads.

Sort of, they also had weird currents of esoteric nonsense, like “Welteislehre” for example. Or Himmlers expeditions to Tibet to find the origins of the master race and evidence of supetnatural abilities. They believed themselves to be secular and anticlerical, but they had their own cult with superstitions.

And they absolutely hated some scientists, relativity was a thorn in their eyes, for example, as “Jewish Science”.

Psychopaths, sycophants and grifters vying for power were all very prevalent at German universities and research labs at that time. While Engineering still kind of worked - as it was needed for the war machinery and larger industry - even there, with it being “politically neutral”, there was a brain drain - because education allowing for creative thinking was curtailed more broadly, and many talented minds were killed or displaced or even just disfavoured in favour of more nepotistic choices.

And the myth of “German engineering” being fundamentally way above allied engineering during the war still holds in some circles, when mostly it was about different priorities (like - reliability instead of complex engineering, or the proximity fuse instead of rocketry, or radar instead of jet engines), and even in the spaces where Germans had a leg up on their enemies, it was not a fundamental advantage, but a gap that was being bridged even before German scientists were recruited after the war.

Wie ist unsere Demokratie nur mit Merz & Co so vor die Hunde gegangen?

Das Potential steckte schon immer im System. Mit der AfD hat das schon lange als latent rechtsextrem erfasste Drittel der Bevölkerung eine Organisationsplattform bekommen, mit “Hauptsache Engagement und Clicks”-Struktur der Profitbenötigenden Medien hat sich das wahrgenommene Weltbild verschoben und selbst Menschen mit anderem Weltbild werden ausgepowert und ermüdet, mit stärkerer Kapitalkonsolidierung sind Abstiegsängste im Mittelstand größer und auch realer geworden, zugleich haben auch die Ärmsten immer weniger Geld zu Verfügung - bzw das Geld alleine erfüllt auch weniger die Bedürfnisse, und mit Menschen wie Musk, russischen Oligarchen, und auch einigen unserer hausgemachten reichen “Förderer” von entsprechenden Medien und Gruppen mischen auch einflussreiche Einzelinteressen vermehrt mit.

Man sollte auch nie vergessen, dass so ein Verfall auch immer sehr schleichend und mit Absurditäten einher geht. Rom hatte sich etwa noch viele Generationen nach Ende der Machtstellung des Senats als “Republik” verstanden. Ich sehe schon als eine (nicht die einzige) mögliche Zukunftsversion, eine Welt in der de-fakto faschistische Regimes im Westen sich als “Verteidiger von Demokratie und Menschenrecht” und als “Immerhin sind wir eine Demokratie” präsentieren. Ich zumindest sehe schon ein Aufweichen von wirklich demokratischen und Menschenrechts-garantierenden Strukturen, während der Kampfbegriff “Demokratie” in meiner Empfindung als Symbol immer mehr verwendet wird.

Das ist sicher auch interessant für !lemmylz@discuss.tchncs.de und !eltern@feddit.org - vor allem ja nicht nur eine schnelle Idee sondern schon ausgearbeitet!

Ich dachte für eine zu lange Zahl an Momenten, dass “Hui” ein echter Name für einen neuen Strömungsdienst ist.

“… plus you all have smallpox now.”

Yeah, Crusader Kings III taught me those existed, and not too long ago, it had me dive into a Wikipedia rabbit hole. They also used shade walls and radiative cooling to create ice during cold desert nights, which then remained long enough to be harvested in the morning and put into well-constructed ice houses like this. Also, wind catchers and Qanats.

So you need a non-vampire judge to enter the house and produce the warrant from inside, got it!

Yeah, I can’t argue with numbers - although when I searched for more of those numbers (because there was no report linked in the article), I am at least somewhat sceptical as of now. Mostly because all the outlets I have seen report on it are… well, not really neutral. This site, too, has a weird amount of AI images and praise of Trump (e.g. like in this article).

So, I had a bit of a look around, and as expected - if only one side reports something, there is usually at least something missing:

For example:
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/expert-reports-say-argentinas-poverty-rate-has-fallen-to-368.phtml

Meanwhile the ODSA (Observatorio de la Deuda Social Argentina) poverty watchdog of the UCA Catholic University voiced that although the projected indices had reached similar levels to the previous year for the third quarter of 2024, the consumer capacity of households was reduced by the higher costs of basic services such as electricity, water, gas and transport, among others.

Unlike the line traced by the total shopping-basket, the measurement of multidimensional poverty does not only focus on family earnings but also the lack of access to basic sources of welfare in from one to six dimensions.

“The current panorama shows an aggravation of the situation in this sense - multidimensional poverty (measured as income plus one lack) increased inter-annually from 39.8 to 41.6 percent and within that figure structural poverty (three wants or more) also rose from 22.4 to 23.9 percent,” they alerted.

This is a massive reduction, but it is a reduction from a massive surge:

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/argentinas-poverty-hit-barrios-food-emergency-takes-hold-2024-10-01/

So - seems like there is at least some cherry-picking and reporting early projections as fully manifested facts going on here, but the recovery itself is still good news for the people actually living there, of course. I’d like to wait for more fully-fledged analysis reported by different outlets than this. How likely is this to be sustainable? How many additional factors will be at play? Even if Milei’s reforms turn out to be a miracle of a new way to “do austerity right” - I will only believe that if there is better analysis than this, because Libertarian-adjacent outlets praising this, sometimes with misrepresenting data, like, e.g. this graph I came across:

(Milei came to power at the end of 2023, as a reminder, so the graph is coloured in a deliberately misleading way)

Those kind of reporting sadly does not spark confidence for me.

Thank you for the answer! I just came back home to all the answers, yours strikes me as the best summary of the situation. I had signed the petition myself a while ago, but after that, never looked into further coverage, so all this whizzed right past me. Seems like, no matter if he genuinely misunderstood it or maliciously misrepresented it - he handled the situation pretty horribly overall. Explains the hate I have been seeing.

Also, one can lead to the other. If you catch the right fish with a scam, they may just unwittingly give you a way in to an institution. Only the latter would make the news, though.

One large problem there: All the people that are “stupid” in the way you describe think exactly the same way you do here. It’s why I think arrogance and the inability to stand being humiliated by deferring to other people’s expertise, as well as a feeling of being privileged to be above the needs of other people, as well as a paranoid fear of others intruding on your space is the more pressing problem.

I have lived with and worked with people with actual learning disabilities, thanks to my own different disability, and “stupidity” is not the problem, it’s okay to be stupid. It’s not okay to demand the whole world submit to your emotional wellbeing and feelings of superiority and privilege.

I had been wondering when the first big campaign-style mod for the game would hit, stoked to hear more! As a side note: I get why, but I’m still kind of sad that projects like this seem to use Discord as their main space.

Oh, just a casual stroll of the “show only adult” section on Nexus Mods for BG3 can show you what people will come up with, if “normal nudity” is already in the game.

Looks good, and should remain visible that way on other instances after lemm.ee goes down!

That’s actually addressed in this video - he interviews the main maintainer in the last segment. The issue was Fedora announcing they want to retract support for 32 bit libraries eventually, and that sparking fear in the community, because some apps like the Steam client would be affected. As it looks as per the interview, to quote the maintainer: “Bazzite is not going anywhere”. The Fedora maintainers took comments to heart (in fact, their announcement was to get feedback from the community), and critical libraries for certain applications will remain maintained, until apps like Steam and OBS and such can switch to 64-bit architectures.

But don’t feel bad for thinking otherwise - in the interview, the Bazzite maintainer laments how many outlets used the announcement to fearmonger, so that was a widespread sentiment. Sensationalism, anxiety and outrage tactics to get clicks, basically.

Oh, that might actually be why piefed.social was down earlier? perhaps a sudden influx of interested people was too much for an instance run by the dev on a 0 budget atm?

Good excuse to link the Liberapay profile!