Webdeveloper from Germany, nerd, gamer, atheist, interested in nerd-culture, biology of everything creepy, evolution, history, physics, politics and space.

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  • The cuteness of the creature being a factor is something I absolutely understand. Although I’m entirely in love with arthropods and reptiles and all those creepy crawlers, I would still feel worse about the bunny.

    It’s an instinctual thing, as mammals we’re genetically programmed to love baby mammals and protect them. We usually empathize more with them and some of us even tremble with good feelings when watching or touching them. It is inherently rewarding to pet them and to show them kindness. So it’s no wonder we can easily crush something like a roach or a fish. It’s harder with chicks and even harder with rats or baby kangaroos since they check more and more of the boxes activating that instinct.

    Instincts just that though, we are completely able to ignore it, desensitize or rationalize. Luckily we’re (mostly) ruled by our minds and not our instincts.


  • He get’s two more rounds of voting, and will likely be elected in the third round. Otherwise the CDU/CSU will have to forward another candidate, since the election was for the party, not the candidate, they remain the strongest party and could propose anyone to be elected chancellor. But this might crash out the proposed coalition government if they think that the SPD cannot keep its promise to vote for him.


  • And the inevitable decline of neoliberal politics. People have been taught and indoctrinated by the media, that the right is economically proficcient but hindered by the left. And now they double down on neoliberal bullshit politics because not going hard enough didn’t help them and going more left is generally presented as an economically worse choice.

    The sad truth is: Going more left would leave “the economy” (the stocks / rich peoples wallets) worse of but help the real economy by giving expendable income to people who right now, cannot spend what they don’t have.


  • An answer like this is

    a) not a yes or no, and thus usually not allowed in such dilemmas. That’s also why “I just tap it lightly on the head” is not a real answer. There is no valid “outside the box” answer for dilemmas. Your valid answer seems to be “no”, since you would not kill that animal, the rest of your answer is just … unimportant to the question asked.

    b) disregarding that you’re going to jail for murder and aggravated robbery. You have just taken your own life (to jail)


  • Enkrodto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneDilemma Rule
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    I do eat meat, yes.

    Edit: Meaning I’m not going to pretend that an offer like that would not sway me. I’ll be unhappy about it, cry and have a bad conscience for a very long time until I successfully rationalize it. But seeing as I do eat meat, I feel it would be a lie to pretend that I’m not capable of rationalizing killing an animal for my own indulgence. And uncoupling myself and everyone I love from the horrors of capitalism by simply elevating them above… that’s quite a strong incentive. I could even spend a billion dollars on environmental causes, saving millions of bunnies and still have enough left to make everyone I love a multi-millionaire.

    I don’t actually know where my price is… would I do it for 1000 Euros? No, definitely not. For a million? Likely yes… somewhere between those numbers is the price for my conscience. I hope I never find out where exactly, it’s a ghastly thing to know about oneself.







  • Because the servers are subject to their respective national laws and regulations and the governments are all to happy to take down uppity servers full of people who are opposed to those governments.

    The rules regulating speech on our servers are not there to protect the rich or the system, they are there to protect the servers, so we can continue to call for direct action, even if we can’t outright call for violence.

    It’s either regulated speech or no speech at all.


  • depends on your Distro, for Linux Mint it’s just the Driver Manager.

    To access the Driver Manager in Linux Mint, follow these steps:

    1. Click on the Menu (Taskbar) in the lower-left corner of your screen.
    2. Navigate to Administration.
    3. Click on Driver Manager.

    Load Device Manager for Nvidia Drivers on Linux Mint

    Once you have opened the Driver Manager, follow these steps to install the Nvidia drivers:

    1. The Driver Manager will prompt you for your password. Enter your password and click on Authenticate.
    2. The Driver Manager will scan your system for available drivers. Once the scanning is complete, you will see a list of available drivers for your graphics card.
    3. Select the recommended Nvidia driver from the list.
    4. Click on Apply Changes to start the installation process.

    Then reboot.

    source

    For most problems you can really just google stuff like “Linux Mint Nvidia Drivers”






  • This seems to be a mostly false tale, though it is based on evidenced reports.

    From the archives of the French Police, in a memo sent on 15 June 1810 to Savary, the newly-appointed Minister of Police for 15th June 1810.

    15 - Boulogne. Escaped Englishmen. The customs officers arrested near Boulogne the names Mogg, Lewis, Partson, Altsford, English prisoners of war who had escaped from Arras ; they intended to embark on a skiff that they had managed to build with canvas and ropes that they had brought with them, and wood that they had cut in the forest where they had hidden ; they had made this boat waterproof by means of a thick layer of tallow. These prisoners, from Arras to the wood in which they had hidden near the coast, had walked only at night, using the moon and the stars to guide them. The administration of the Navy tested the canoe made by these four prisoners; 6 men embarked, steered it with oars and held the sea without a drop of water entering. This invention was generally praised. These prisoners told the general commissioner who questioned them: “If the Emperor knew the boldness of our undertaking, he would grant us our freedom”.

    In the archives of Napoleons correspondence however, we can find that the imperial family stayed in Boulogne at the end of May 1810, leaving on the 26th, but Napoleon did not set foot there after that, as he was in Saint-Cloud and Rambouillet doing governing stuff for the rest of the year. He did however correspond regularly with Minister of Police Savary about even small local events.

    It is possible that Napoleon read the plea of Mogg and his companions, and it is imaginable that he ordered that they be set free, but there’s no mention of that in his letters to Savary, despite an amazing display of micro-management. There’s no way Napoleon took a couple of days to go to Boulogne and talk to the sailor in person though.

    Most probably, what happened is that the true story of the daring attempt of the four sailors, and their remarkable plea to Napoleon, may have been famous in Boulogne, and that it somehow morphed into a much better “Napoleon freed a British sailor, gave him money, and sent him home” story with its fairy-tale ending, and that it was this story that circulated both locally and among British sailors, and was reported to Las Cases by his sailor acquaintance. Las Cases says that Napoleon confirmed the stories but, as we saw, some are indeed true.

    There are, however, real tales of Napoleon’s generosity towards British sailors, and I’ll conclude this answer with the following anecdote told by Lewis (1962), which took place a few months after the Mogg story.

    On December 27, 1810, the Indian country-ship Elizabeth, Captain Robert Eastwick, drifted on to a shoal off Dunkirk in a terrific gale. Of a total complement of 380, only twenty-two, including Eastwick, braved the appalling surf, and reached the shore more dead than alive. They were instantly carted off to the town gaol and locked, white officers and lascar seamen together, in a foul cachot. But the Dunkirkers, who were known to have secret sympathies with the British, were, openly for once, furious. Having watched with their own eyes the survivors’ long and desperate fight for life, and having spontaneously cared for them and revived them with the most solicitous kindness, they were scandalized that they should thus be hauled off to a dungeon: and their rage and shame were further increased when it came out that one of the survivors had been foully murdered. Edward Tench, a lieutenant in a Ceylon regiment, was a passenger. He was not with Eastwick in the boat, but had somehow managed to swim ashore alone. There, exhausted, he was found by a soldier and a customs officer, who promptly dispatched him for the sake of the money he carried. This was too much. With one voice they appealed to Caesar, the commandant himself leading.

    The Emperor, just then, was in the throes of his argument with the British Government; squirming, wriggling, cheating right and left, and loudly proclaiming in public that he would not give way an inch to the utterly unreasonable demands of the enemy. Not a single Englishman would be exchanged until their rulers mended their vile ways. In fact, the Moniteur had only just printed a message from the imperial pen declaring as much. Add to this the well-known fact that His Majesty did not like Dunkirkers, who, as he knew very well, did not like him. Save perhaps for the Bretons, they were the last people whom he would willingly oblige. None the less — and to everyone’s surprise, including Eastwick’s — he sent for the petition as soon as he heard of its arrival, read carefully the account of the shipwreck, and, with that same hand which had written so recently to the Moniteur, signed an order for the immediate and unconditional release of the whole party, the French Government to bear all expenses. He did not demand, or even hint at, any exchange. But of course he got one. Before he left for home, the grateful and far-sighted Eastwick held a consultation with the leading Dunkirkers, who presented him with a list of 150 of their townsmen who were prisoners in England; and the first thing he did on reaching London was to visit the Transport Board, where he told his story. Instantly twenty-two Dunkirkers departed for France, and they were the ones picked by their own folk as being the most deserving of release.

    original, sources and text I am mostly repeating here | r/AskHistorians Reddit



  • That entirely depends on the other parties.

    As long as they have less than 50% the other parties could (in theory) band together against them and create a coalition government.

    The problem arises when that coalition has to become more diverse. As you can imagine the populist right would rather work together with the far right than with the populist left, so the coalition becomes shaky, paralyzed because they cannot come to agreements. The common denominator will be so small that basically nothing gets done, and the oppositional party will profit from that.

    Shaky coalition governments can lead to government breakups and snap elections which in combination with the resulting loss of trust and inability to do anything of the government will likely lead to an even stronger opposition and even more shaky governments or right out majority for the plurality party.

    Also, the leader of the opposition usually chairs important committees like the Budget Committee, the opposition also gets important roles in the committees for Foreign Affairs, Internal Affairs and Defense. It also gets priority in debates, which is usually a good thing, since this works as a check and balance to hold government accountable, but when this role is in the hands of populists, they will certainly use it to further their own narrative.


  • Chick Publications has produced over 250 different titles, about 100 of which are still in print and available in over 100 languages.

    Millions of these are getting printed every year.

    Chick Tracts have successfully created a very real current of evangelical hostility vs. Catholics, Mormons, Jews, Muslims and other faiths, but especially against women, the poor, social liberalism, queerness, modernity, science, scepticism, atheism, freemasonry, and racial equality, but also rock music, D&D, the british, immigrants and (of course) Europe in general.