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  • Ah verstehe. Ja wenn man eh nen Takt früher fährt, kommt das evtl. dann noch dazu, wobei man das zu den Unwägbarkeiten zählen könnte, weswegen man ja eh schon einen Takt früher fährt. Ich würde deswegen jetzt mein Verhalten jetzt nicht so ändern, und trotzdem nur einen Takt früher nehmen, wenn’s wichtig ist.

    Ich hab mal drüber nachgedacht: Also, wenn die S-Bahnen jetzt nicht mitunter zwei Minuten zu früh fahren würden, würde auf der verstopften Stammstrecke glaube ich hin und wieder ein Slot ungenutzt bleiben, was dann zu chronischer Verspätung bei sehr vielen S-Bahnen führen würde. Das würde dann vermutlich deutliche mehr Passagiere betreffen, als die eher vernachlässigbare Zahl, die ihren Anschluss verpassen, weil die S-Bahn zwei Minuten zu früh dran war. Davon profitieren alle anderen. Und sogar die Leute, die deswegen den Anschluss verpassen, werden vermutlich regelmäßig davon profitieren, wenn zu einem anderen Zeitpunkt die S-Bahn weniger Verspätung hat wegen dem System.







  • gnuhaut@lemmy.mltoEurope@feddit.de2024 Oslo Freedom Forum Videos
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    4 months ago

    So that’s just a clearly factually inaccurate statement right there, makes me question the validity of the entire thing if they can’t get something that simple correct.

    It is not. The article is from 2013. Back then, that linked worked and shows exactly what the article is saying: he’s the only staff member listed. That was 8 years after the founding btw.

    And since the guy is clearly rich and has lots of political connections, you’d figure he’d have sued EF by now if there was anything incorrect in that article.


    Oh you launched into a whole defense of working with the far-right. Figures.

    Believe it or not, people on the “far right” can care about human rights too

    Yeah they care about human rights when they can weaponize them to pressure or topple governments that resist exploitation. Which is what the Oslo Freedom Forum is all about.

    Hmm… I wonder if living under an autocrat might have made him care about human rights and free expression.

    That or he’s pissed that they took his father’s Telco empire, and now he wants to topple the Venezuelan government and get his “birthright” back. We may never know.

    Also you avoided the whole part of in the article about what he was up to before the HRF. That guy was clearly an activist conservative bigot at the very least, and so he naturally evolved into a Mr. Human Rights Guy. He doesn’t just take money from far-right dipshits, he himself is a reactionary.


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    https://electronicintifada.net/content/oslo-freedom-forum-founders-ties-islamophobes-who-inspired-mass-killer-anders-breivik/12451

    Who is Halvorssen? He is best known as the founder and CEO of the Human Rights Foundation, where he is listed as the lone staff member. The Oslo Freedom Forum is his brainchild, a confab he has sought to brand as “a Davos for human rights.”

    Founder and only staff member is this son of a Venezuelan oligarch. Sounds like a completely normal human rights group.

    The Electronic Intifada has obtained Internal Revenue Service (IRS) 990 forms filed by the Human Rights Foundation that include previously undisclosed information about its donors.

    The forms show that the Human Rights Foundation received approximately $600,000 in donations from the Donors Capital Fund from 2007 through 2011. Based in Northern Virginia, Donors Capital Fund is essentially a slush fund for the cadre of rightist donors who bankroll the conservative movement.

    Don’t disclose all their big donors. Kinda sus.

    “Since the fund handles money from multiple donors and donors names aren’t disclosed, contributions made through the Donors Capital Fund are difficult to trace,” the Center for American Progress noted in its 2011 landmark report “Fear, Inc.” “Potential donors are required to open a minimum $1 million account to utilize the fund’s services.”

    In 2009, Donors Capital Fund channeled $60 million to various conservative causes and from 2009 through 2011 a whopping $21,318,600 “to groups promoting Islamophobia,” according to the Center for American Progress.

    Peter Thiel is also one of the big donors.

    But a look at the early stages of Halvorssen’s career, which he spent as a conservative operative combating gay rights initiatives, feminism and multiculturalism on US college campuses, suggests otherwise.

    That checks out.




  • What a shithole country

    Well that’s not very nice.

    Russia, formally knows as Muscovy, was culturally defined by the mongol horde

    Do you think Mongols are bad?

    Muscovy wanted to align itself more with the west and was envy [I assume this is supposed to say envious] of the more modern and more sophisticated culture of the Kievan Rus in todays Ukraine

    I guess they must be since “western” Kiev was more modern and sophisticated.

    From your other comment:

    They apply the asian concept of “never talking about weakness” as russia is the brackish gradient to asian society.

    Yeah well your racism is showing. “Brackish gradient to asian society”??? Like do you come up with this yourself or is there some race theorist you’re reading? Is it called Pop Psychology for the Sophisticated Bigot by Dr. A. Whitey?




  • gnuhaut@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.mlWhat is your favorite terminal emulator.
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    Just tried this again. Kitty takes like maybe half a second to start on my machine (maybe yours is faster?). Not sure how to measure this. xterm starts almost instantly. I can type “Super+Enter ls” and it’ll work. Doesn’t work with kitty, the keystrokes just disappear. Is this actually important? Probably not, but it feels annoying. Like slow internet.

    I might have imagined the typing latency, since it feels the same as xterm now. Maybe I’m remembering wrong. I was on the old Debian when I last tried this though, so something could have changed.


  • The article links to this tweet here as a source.

    I don’t speak Russian, but I’m transcribing the English subtitles:

    Interviewer: How long will the war last?

    Mordvichev: I think there is plenty of time to spend. It is pointless to talk about a specified period. If we are talking about Eastern Europe, which we will have to… of course, then it will be longer.

    Interviewer: Ukraine is only a stepping stone?

    Mordichev: Yes, absolutely. It is only the beginning. I think all kinds of ideologists and instigators of this war will not stop here.

    Since he’s a Russian general, I assume that by “instigators and ideologists of this war” he means someone higher up in the US or NATO. Certainly he’s not referring to Putin or the Kremlin. And he’s saying they will not stop here.



  • XTerm. I used to use rxvt-unicode, but it only supports 256 colors and gave me grief when I tried to get some emacs color theme working. There’s only one thing I miss, which is that rxvt-unicode reflows lines when you resize the terminal, which xterm won’t do. Oh and urxvtc starts very slightly faster, but no big deal.

    I also looked at kitty, and I like that the author of that one tries to champion new features, like full keyboard support on par with X11 apps. But it takes noticeably longer to start and the latency also feels worse.


  • Better acceleration, steeper inclines, tighter curves at same speed, better ride quality and less wear. As someone has mentioned below, normal trains could go a lot faster than they do in practice, because the ride quality, wear and wind resistance get atrocious, and the tracks need to be exceptionally straight. Making a maglev go fast is more feasible, though you still have the wind resistance issue obviously.