Freiheit für alle politischen Gefangenen!

Liebe es

Leuchtet mir ein. Das maimai bezog sich auf diese Meldung, wo Merz als Bundespolitiker um mehr Geld für seinen Wahlkreis gebeten hat: https://www.t-online.de/nachrichten/deutschland/innenpolitik/id_100298294/fredrich-merz-cdu-chef-richtet-bittbrief-an-robert-habeck.html

Kardamumma!

Wie unterscheiden sie sich, also in ihrer Wirkung?

And it’s 100% in accordance with international law.

That sounds about right.

Und diese ganze absurde Debatte vor dem Hintergrund dass ca 20% des Bundeshaushaltes als Zuschuss in die Rentenkasse fließen. Das sind ca 50% (113 Mrd. €) der Ausgaben für soziales im Bundeshaushalt verglichen mit ca 23% (43 Mrd. €) ALG2 Leistungen (Zahlen 2022). Dazu kommen die Ausgaben der Kommunen für Miete, Kita, etc. für ALG2 Empfänger. Wobei der Bund inzwischen einen Großteil der kommunalen Kosten für KdU übernimmt, das also schon im Bundeshaushalt zu großen Teilen enthalten ist.

Die Erhöhung des Bürgergelds ist ein winziger Bruchteil davon. Es sind peanuts mit denen sich niemals auch nur annähernd die Milliardenlöcher der ausbleibenden Verschuldung gestopft werden können und jede Debatte darüber verbietet sich, ist ehrlos, populistisch, appelliert an niederste Instinkte und ist volkswirtschaftlich blödsinnig. Die Abschaffung perverser Subventionen muss oberste Priorität haben. Das ist auch keine “versteckte Steuererhöhung”, wenn man eine Subvention auslaufen lässt…

Ganz schön butthurt sind manche. Also von mir aus musst du nicht zu hexbear :D

Would be nice to be able to pick out individual source polluters for a range of substances

We can already do that today with inverse modeling of atmospheric substance transport and the satellites you mentioned. Heard a talk about the topic on a conference 4 years ago. That’s how scientists could pinpoint the emission source for some illegally emmitted CFCs in China (and afaik the Chinese govt acted accordingly). With high resolution data you can also use these methods to detect methane leaks in gas pipelines etc.

+1 for such an extensive, well-founded rant

Interesting read. The statements by SJP are really disgusting and the Maoist revolutionary rethoric is repulsive to say the least.

For a stranger kind of fantasy: Gormenghast books by Mervyn Peake

Fuck Hamas, enemy of palestinians.

Payback is fair? Even though these very digital megacorporations are just now facing antitrust lawsuits for very good reasons? The only argument for having to use these platforms as a content creator is reach. But if Google, Amazon, Meta, etc. only got their market-dominating positions by illegal means, nothing is fair about wanting payback.

I am paying money to people creating content for me directly, even for some YouTube channels. If I were to abide by Google’s rules, I’d have to pay double. For the infrastructure & the people actually producing the content. Sorry… Why would I? I will not pity a monopolist because of their lost profits as long as I can circumvent it somehow.

He knows that he’ll lose power once that war ends. He will prolong it as long as he can. Of course he doesn’t care about the lifes of his own people, never did.

I think some of these requirements have a lot to do with bots and trolls. If Lemmy were as popular as Reddit, we’d probably see way more rules like that.

We have all kinds in my city: Medieval cobblestone, brick roads and asphalt. As a cyclist I have to tell you that I hate all kinds of brick roads that I have encountered. Even when they’re not the horrible middle age version, they will often get deformed by roots or depression of the ground quite rapidly, making them even more bumpy. For this reason I think, I saw in Sweden in an otherwise bricky city center that they had a narrow asphalt lane on the side of the road for cyclists. I was just amazed that someone would spend that much thought into what’s great for cyclists. As a cyclist I really love asphalt :D

But the whole meme is pointless. Seems like calling out that these people shouldn’t have been allowed to be part of a new society after the nazi state was destroyed. It’s not that easy no matter how much people like to draw history and the world as a whole as black and white.

For example Hallstein: He was never a member of the NSDAP. Yes, he fought in WW2 for the Germans but after the war he was a leading figure in the new democratic German academia and afterwards worked towards having Germany integrated into international institutions.

For anyone who thinks it’s a good idea to punish every last one who was part of a criminal, even cruel and inhumane movement: Look at Iraq. So many people who were part of Saddams party, even teachers, bureaucrats and whatnot… They where mostly expelled from society and a potential rehabilitation. And the direct consequence of these actions was the formation of ISIS because these people didn’t have a perspective in the new state and society. So being very consequential, as all things, can have very unforeseen (but actually quite forseeable) consequences.

Afaik still the least toxic shit we’re using. Neonicotinoids are worse for the biosphere but are very rarely in the public spotlight.