Fair, but those were volunteers. Obviously he is referring to Americans deployed by the government in some form, nobody died in the line of duty so to say.

I generally agree, but as long as there is no safe way to prevent malware spam posts (of which I reported plenty whenever I encountered them) I find it a minefield that is uncomfortable to navigate when I just want to browse some content lying in bed.

So you replied to the first sentence and ignored the paragraphs in which I describe why supporting either is misguided to malicious.

I understand the arguments that are constantly being spewed about the evil western imperialists, and they are of course true for the most part. Only that this doesn’t in turn validate or justify the human rights violations, atrocities or even genocides committed by either Russia or China; they cannot be guides or aides on the path to the desired egalitarian utopia.

If either of them had their way, would that do us in the west any good? The answer is no.

China desires a global hegemony under their sino-centric ideology, and to extend its control structures outside its own national borders. They employ the same imperialist strategies and methods to acquire influence and resource access in emerging countries as the west has or is doing. Russia currently displays its own imperial ambitions by its war of aggression on Ukraine. At least they don’t even bother with any greater good pretense, and are straight up about it.

The only real option is to consolidate the west in ethical and ideological opposition to these totalitarian parodies of their former goals, to create a new economic system that works for the people and not the reverse, without sacrificing our freedoms and individuality in the process.

One that truly represents what socialism is about.

But the speed doesn’t really matter, so it shouldn’t be very energy intensive at all. Just gather up some junk, launch it at the sun with an expendable thruster, and be done with it. If it travels at a couple hundred kph, or even less is completely irrelevant. Let it take a couple hundred years to get there, it is supposed to burn up anyway no? And if it collides or is otherwise destroyed en route during that time won’t matter much either.

Tankies are so fucking weird to me, and I would consider myself a progressive socialist as well.

How can they so unapologetically support Russia and China, when both nations are objectively not socialist in any sense of the word.

China does state capitalism, just because they have a one party state installed by the communist party doesn’t automatically mean they still are. All that is left is intense authoritarianism, with dystopian ambitions on global hegemony.

Russia is a failed state in the grasp of a kleptocratic oligarchy, with an extreme degree of corruption and disturbing moral decay in all levels of society. The only thing communist about it today is the old soviet ordnance they make their conscripts die in at the ukranian front.

Modern China and Russia are antithetical to actual leftist ideals, and any tankie supporting them just screams misinformed idiot or foreign propaganda shill and should be dismissed by default.

One thing I dislike about Lemmy so far is the amount of highly suspicious links no one has ever heard of, that are constantly being shared. Makes me as a user really paranoid to touch any links before examining the url closely, which is good practice I guess, but makes the whole content browsing process a bit stressful.

I don’t know much about it myself, but I would guess it is negligible. Maybe for small propeller machines with a fairly limited amount of fuel capacity; but larger planes, especially commercial ones, have reserve fuel for quite some time.

Situations where landing at the destination is temporarily unavailable, air traffic requires the plane to circle for some time, or they are even rerouted to a different airport can always occur and are accounted for. A minor increase from rainfall shouldn’t make a dent. I would think.

Finden wir asylbetrug jetzt gut? Also bitte.

Natürlich ist es nur offensichtliche stimmungsmache und Zuckerbrot für die brexit Wähler. Asylbetrug ist trotzdem eine Straftat und dagegen vorzugehen ist schlicht normale Aufgabe eines funktionierenden Staatsapparats, auch wenn die Strafen ziemlich überzogen sind.

War ja auch gut verständlich, sonst hätte ich dir nicht antworten können

There are plenty of repair shops for most smartphones available, with varying degrees of “officialness”, ranging from apple stores to backrooms with a workbench and someone with heavy slavic accent taking 20 euros to change a broken display.

Of course this applies mostly to urban areas, elsewhere there will be fewer.

Absolut, 6 Monate u-Haft sind ein kompletter Witz für sexuellen Angriff. Dass für einen 23 jährigen das Jugendstrafrecht irgendeine Rolle spielt ist auch blanker Hohn.

Und weil ich weniger Einblick in die Details des Falles genieße als ein Strafverteidiger darf ich dazu keine Meinung haben oder kundtun?

Habe selten so viel haarsträubenden Unsinn in so kurzem Text gelesen.

Mit Verlaub, muss man da Spitzfindigkeiten bemühen? Es ist ein sexualstraftäter. Er ist wiederholt polizeilich aufgefallen aufgrund sexueller Übergriffe. Das letzte Opfer war minderjährig.

Ich plädiere nicht für Selbstjustiz, sondern für dem Verbrechen angemessene Rechtsprechung. Wenn das Gesetz erlaubt jemandem aufgrund von Alter oder kulturellem Hintergrund wiederholt statt Strafe nur tadelnd auf die Finger zu klopfen ist das doch nicht gerecht.

Weder im Sinne des Wortes, dass jeder die gleiche Strafe für das gleiche Verbrechen bekommt, noch im Sinne moralischen Rechts. Ich würde mich wundern wenn die junge Frau aus dem Artikel mit dem Strafmaß und der geradezu lächerlich geringen Summe Schmerzensgeld auch nur entfernt das Gefühl hat dass die Gesetzeslage ernst nimmt was ihr angetan wurde.

Den migrationshintergrund mal außen vor, wie kann es sein dass so jemand der sich wiederholt übergriffig gegenüber Frauen verhalten hat, und die Betroffene sogar noch minderjährig ist, sich nicht schon längst auf lange Zeit im Knast befindet?

Alter ist keine Ausrede, ich hab es auch geschafft keine Frauen zu vergewaltigen und erwachsen zu werden, ist ja nun wirklich keine große Kunst. Was für eine Farce

Die Leute die die AfD wählen sind aber auch die Leute die von normalen Informationsquellen nichts wissen wollen. Lügenpresse usw.

Persönlich finde ich aber auch dass das der falsche Ansatz ist. Die afd hat Zulauf nur aus einem Grund, weil die deutsche Immigrationspolitik bei zu vielen Leuten auf Ablehnung stößt. Kann man zurecht scheiße finden als linksliberaler weltoffener Akademiker bei dem alles soweit okay läuft, ignoriert aber das Problem dass ein großer und wachsender Teil der Bevölkerung das offenbar nicht so sieht. Einfach weiterzumachen wie bisher und diese Leute nach Rechtsaußen zu stellen und deren Sorgen abzuwerten treibt sie doch erst zu proto-faschistoiden alternativparteien.

Vorbeugend: Mir reflexhaft hinterherzubrüllen was für eine reaktionäre braune scheißhaltung das ist, hilft auch keinem, weil ich kein AfD Wähler bin.

German infrastructure has been neglected for several decades. In the past, the whole phone grid was nationalized under the Deutsche Telekom, which eventually got spun off into a regular company.

For some insane reason the government basically let them keep almost all of the existing telecommunications infrastructure, giving them a quasi monopoly for many years and the lobbying power to delay upgrading the grid to modern fibre connections in favor of squeezing marginal improvements out of the old copper wires.

Even today the upgrading is going slowly, but at least in cities the connections are reasonably fast, I have about 300 mbits in a fairly small town (about 200k people)

… he thought to himself, then proceeded to post it on social media

Car stickers are never a good idea, ever. Not only do they look ridiculous, they give random strangers access to important information about you and your life situation. Do not volunteer personal Information.

And then there is the uniquely stupid prospect of a piracy car sticker. What in the fuck gave you the idea that is somehow a good addition to your car? The activity ranges from unsavory to straight up illegal depending on where you live, why would anyone advertise they are doing that irl?

As i argued in another comment, there are many useful bots for certain niche communities that I really think have a place here, even though I am generally wary of AI accounts infesting the fediverse as well.

Good examples for good and very useful, yet not mod work related bots are on TCG/CCG subs like magic the gathering and hearthstone to provide context to card names, or convert deck codes into a nicely formatted table of the used cards. Or on the Lego sub, returning any set number as a link to the proper bricklink entry. This kind of bot should be allowed and even encouraged to be used where appropriate.

Then there are the plenty of irrelevant and annoying bots we really can do without, like the alphabetical order bot, haiku bot, the dozens of bots quoting LOTR or Star Wars characters, and so on. Like most reddit jokes they stopped being funny fairly quickly and now add nothing to the conversation, but are being kept around for karma.

And then there are the more insidious bots that are about to become widespread, being harder to detect the more their refinement advances. It is going to be a constant arms race between bot detection and bot deception skills.

His name is Prince. And he is funky.

Honestly this, I’m not hating on anime fans here but to pretend the overwhelming majority of people who consume anime content are not also massive weebs is dishonest.