Hannes

Yeah but 4 years ago we already had a warmer average temperature worldwide than 40 years ago

If anything it proves my point that the last record was this recently and not decades ago.

If you want to be cynical at least this weather becoming more regular will eventually help with the financial problems of the retirement- and healthcare-systems in an aging European population by lowering life-expectancy again

Tbf climate change can also lead to crazy cold weather from time to time as both extremes get more extreme due to more humidity in an increasingly warmer air

Tbf even if it IS the punisher skull that’s still a massive dogwhistle.

I have yet to meet someone showcasing that that also wasn’t showing fascist tendencies…

The problem is that many issues today aren’t as simple and require a lot of compromises to happen which then makes it way more complex if an issue to vote for something.

I agree that the way it is today is absurd. A couple of years ago there was a speech of a politician in germany congratulating his party for making so hard to read laws that it often take weeks for critics to even understand and explain what’s happening in that law and by that time they could farm support for it.

I guess that’s a slightly different issue to yours though.

That’s why you have all those MAGA Barbies with enough plastic-surgery to cross into uncanny valley territoriy

I mean it’s kind of important to be more mindful about the choice of words in general as many people say pedophile but mean child predator.

There are many people born with that attraction to kids that never act on it or even actively seek help.

The whole “let’s call everyone a pedophile” is doing more harm than good as it creates a huge stigma preventing people from looking for help.

That said: they are 100% not caring about that at all and just moving the goalpost…

It’s the go-to strategy for fossil fuel companies to stay in the market as long as possible

They know it’s not possible, they don’t want to build new ones but the discussion alone is slowing down renewables and makes it less likely that the current fossil power plants can be shut down soon.

Also just look how hard it is to find spots for renewables

Surely there will be no NIMBYs preventing atomic power plants and storage spaces for the used material from being built…

Shiftphone is a good alternative but it’s also on the more pricey site.

You could get lucky and get a used one for cheap? Since the battery can be replaced and is usually the only part needing regular replacements every couple of years you should be fine?

Until the computer heats up enough to set fire to the paper 😅

Why does a vending machine even have AI in the first place?

So you can see mastodon posts on bluesky and bluesky posts on mastodon?

I wonder what kind of securities Taiwan needs in order to bargain with china about it.

Joining NATO, being able to be officially recognised as a sovereign country without immediate sanctions by China against whoever did that? Permanent stationing of western troops?

I feel as if China giving up the claim to Taiwan in exchange for Taiwan’s product capabilities to be made available within the mainland China would lead to China becoming the new global superpower for sure.

Yeah I’d argue it was the most precisely targeted attack possible on such a scale.

But of course - since it’s Israel people use every angle possible to criticise it.

Or a kgb agent in the hotel room next to someone that just fell out of the window

Netanyahu is actively supporting Trump because he knows he’ll enable him to be way more aggressive inside Gaza.

People that still use this are just Trump-Bots that want to seed doubt so less people vote for Harris

No of course not - Trump’s a huge buffoon that loves dictators just for the fact that they are dictators. I was just referencing the “Are You Really Going to Elect a Guy Who Has Good Things to Say About Hitler?”-Part, since that in itself for me is not automatically a negative.

Ignoring that Hitler had positive traits, too, and pretending that people voted for a guy that was evil in all aspects is convenient but very dangerous - especially since it enables people voting for populists like Trump to pretend that he can’t be as bad as Hitler (which is probably the case - but if Hitler is painted as this absolute evil it’s actually very easy to make this claim without a second though. If you see Hitler as an opportunistic asshole that wasn’t inherently evil just for the sake of it then that comparison is a lot closer.

Demonizing Hitler as some kind of comic-book villain is ignoring how complex the situation leading up to him becoming leader of the Third Reich was and how people didn’t see him for how bad he was until it was too late.

It was just an example because just last week someone was claiming Germany should stop using the Olympiastadion in Berlin only because it was constructed for propaganda reasons.

The fact that Hitler is responsible for that doesn’t necessarily make it bad. A horrible person can also do a few things right. You can acknowledge that without praising the guy.

There are people that get off on other people suffering and that want to create as much suffering as possible.

Those people are evil.

Hitler had an agency that saw people suffering as a means to an ends. That doesn’t excuse any of it and taking that route to get to that goal certainly is an evil decision, but that doesn’t automatically make the goal a bad one (in this case it was since the Holocaust was pretty much the goal and not just the way there).

Perhaps I’m using the wrong words as it’s not my native language but I think there are things he did that aren’t automatically bad just because it was Hitler who did them. That’s not praising the guy - it just acknowledges that even a broken clock is right twice a day and not always showing the wrong time by default.