Because if the electricity produced on these vessels was ten times the normal price, it would still be peanuts in the grand scheme of things.

Die Demokratie hat einige Schwächen, unter anderem dass sie sich mit ihren eigenen Mitteln abschaffen lässt. Es braucht also keinen Putsch oder gewaltsamen Umsturz um aus einer Demokratie z.B. eine Diktatur zu machen. Und das kann eine Partei dann auch gegen den Willen des Volkes tun, weil sie die nächsten Wahlen nicht zu fürchten braucht.

Eine andere Schwäche ist, dass man ja gar nicht das ganze Volk hinter sich haben muss, sondern nur die Mehrheit. Das kann man ausnutzen, indem man größere Teile der Bevölkerung gegen eine Minderheit aufhetzt, zu Hass aufstachelt und der Minderheit Rechte entzieht. So kann die Mehrheit sich überlegen fühlen und das Gefühl haben, dass Partei XY für sie besonders viel tut.

Damit diese Schwächen nicht ausgenutzt werden, um der Demokratie als ganzes oder einzelnen Gruppen zu schaden, gibt es eben einige Spielregeln.

Es ist ein wichtiger Schritt.

Es wird immer wieder gesagt, dass der Verfassungsschutz eigentlich schon seit letztem Jahr eine Einstufung der gesamten AfD als ‘gesichert rechtsextrem’ vorbereitet hat, aber noch den Ausgang dieses Verfahrens abwarten wollte um ggf. nachbessern zu können, falls das Gericht etwas an der letzten Einstufung bemängelt.

Das ist nach dieser Revision ganz offensichtlich nicht der Fall und dass die AfD mit ihren weiteren Versuchen noch irgendwie Erfolg haben wird, extrem unwahrschenlich.

Somit können wir schon damit rechnen, dass die neue Einstufung der Partei insgesamt demnächst kommen wird. Und damit steigt dann auch der Druck auf Bundesrat, Bundestag und Bundesregierung, ein Verbot zu beantragen.

Gleichzeitig sollte das für uns ein neues Signal sein, wieder aktiv zu werden und zwar diesmal mit der konkreten Forderung nach einem Verbot. Demonstrieren, Abgeordneten Briefe schreiben, Leserbriefe, Online seine Meinung auch außerhalb der eigenen Bubble vertreten… da müssen wir dann richtig Druck machen, damit es auch was wird mit dem Verbot.

The town I live in burned down almost completely in 1787, so most historic buildings in the city were built after that. The city wall is probably the oldest structure, but it’s unknown when it was originally built. The oldest building with a known year of construction is most likely the church that was built in 1246.

Same here, I have one idea for a simple 2D game that I would like to make just so it exists. I even got myself Unity (before they stopped being cool) and tried to do some tutorials, but I just don’t have what it takes.

Yes, fully agree. They make absolutely no sense at all.

Considering that predicting the next word from context is the one thing LLMs are really good at, I just don’t understand how none of these developments have found their way into predictive keyboards.

I’ve actually switched to ThumbKey and while I don’t think I’m faster with it (yet), it’s at least so much less frustrating and that’s worth a lot to me.

Not necessarily. If you have a lot of experience or a different perspective and you seem trustworthy to me, you don’t need to have a good argument. On the other hand, if someone else comes along with a good argument why your opinion is wrong, I will start doubting you.

For example, if you’ve been growing potatoes for 30 years, you don’t have to explain the biochemistry of potatoes for me to respect your advice. And if you’re a black person telling me that our town is terribly racist, I will believe you without needing a list of every single racist incident that happened to you.

They’re only down there for a very short time and they don’t have a lot of nitrogen stored in their lungs, so decompression sickness is usually not an issue. I think there have been a few cases, especially with repeated, very deep dives. But nothing you have to worry about as a normal hobby freediver.

Passing out at the surface is quite common though, but not due to decompression sickness. It’s the lack of oxygen that can happen when you have learned to completely ignore your urge to breathe and then stay down for too long. The reason why you pass out at the surface and almost never at the bottom, is because the water pressure compresses the air in your lungs. At a depth of 10 meters (30 feet), four liters of air in your lungs are compressed down to two liters. This is basically “concentrated air”, which contains “concentrated oxygen”. If the air is compressed to half the volume, it’s like having twice as much oxygen in it. Then, as you ascend to the surface, the air in your lungs expands again, turning the concentrated oxygen into regular oxygen and then it’s just not enough anymore and you pass out.

That’s why it’s recommended to always have someone with you who stays at at the surface and who can step in if you pass out, keeping your head above the water. It has never happened to me, but I’m really a beginner and I still have an urge to breathe that forces me to go back to the surface after a short while.

You can go much deeper than 10 fathoms without supplemental oxygen, half the people reading this right now could do it with some training.

The world record is 117 fathoms on a single breath.

Für mich sind das richtig gute Nachrichten. Das 49€-Ticket hat den Kreislauf von “Die Bahn ist schlecht - > keiner fährt Bahn - > kein Geld für die Bahn - > die Bahn ist schlecht” durchbrochen. Durch den günstigen Preis und den Comfort fahren die Leute trotz schlechter Leistungen. Jetzt muss der nächste Schritt kommen: mehr Geld für die Bahn. Das wird schon schwieriger, weil die FDP alles blockiert was gut für Deutschland wäre und ich für die nächste Legislaturperiode noch weniger Hoffnung habe. Aber je mehr Leute Bahn fahren, desto mehr Gewicht hat deren Stimme auch. Jeder der 11 Millionen (?) Menschen, die ein Deutschlandticket haben, hat ein großes Interesse daran, dass die Bahninfrastruktur ausgebaut wird.

Gut ist auch dass in der Platte ziemlich viele Leute in einem flächenmäßig kleinen Viertel wohnen. Dadurch gibt es eher Einzelhandel, ÖPNV, Kitas, etc. in der Nähe, weil es sich bei mehr Menschen eher lohnt.

If it really happens that often, maybe get it checked out. Speech therapists also deal with swallowing disorders, which can be a sign of (potentially treatable) neurological conditions.

I think both torx and pozidriv have their place. Torx for any screw that needs a lot of torque, is in a hard to reach place or for really small screws.

When I have lot of screws in a simple application, like driving them directly into wood, I prefer pozidriv though. Due to the conical profile, the bit just automatically slides in correctly. Also, torx just has way too many different sizes.

Fuck Philips. Pozidriv is so much better.

I think it also has a lot to do with the influence of patiarchy and toxic masculinity on the grieving person.

If you managed to push back against some of society’s expectations on men, know how to express more emotions than “angry” and “horny” and have shown vulnerability in the past, people will find it much easier to approach you.

On the other hand, if someone is working super hard to keep up their “manliness”, you may realize that they’re struggling, but you’ll have reservations about tearing down the crumbling facade they’re desparately trying to preserve.

People don’t dislike neoliberalism, they dislike the effects it has on society. But they fail to connect the dots.

I think one of the main problems is that there’s no “home” for people leaning left. The SPD has long dropped the “S” from it’s name, it’s just another conservative party representing those who are already well-off, without any ideas or plans to improve life for those who are exploited in our current system. Die Linke is completely detached from reality and too busy with fighting between themselves to address the giant issues that they should have the answers for. Greens are a climate/environment party first and they’re too elitist to pick up any of the angry people who (rightfully) feel like they’ve been cheated by the system.

So when you have a well organized, populist party on the far-right that provides (wrong) answers for those people, it’s no wonder they flock to them. Of course, you’ll always have those who are actual fascists and will always vote for a fascist party, but a strong left could easily draw a lot of the other voters away from the AfD.

In the same vein, freediving is easy to learn up to a certain point and safe as long as you don’t hyperventilate and stay away from caves. Most people can learn to dive to 10-15m and look around a bit before they have to resurface. That’s far from breaking any records, but enough to have fun and see some cool stuff that you can’t see from the surface.

Plus, you don’t need any special gear, besides snorkel, mask and fins.