I consider myself pretty left (at least in comparison to the average German), but that lifestyle sounds quite tempting to me. I’d skip chicken though.

Next question is what happened that made one ‘a piece of shit beforehand’.

From a philosophical perspective, I find it quite difficult to measure a person’s evilness objectively.

Assuming a person is born evil due to their genetic material, is it then actually their fault? Shouldn’t that be considered rather as a medical condition?

Assuming a person is not born evil, but they turned evil due to outer influencing factors (parents, society, economic situation, luck, bad luck…), is it then actually their fault? Or are the outer factors the ones to blame in such a case?

I agree to the ‘the crack was always there’ statement. But personally I think that all of us humans naturally have this crack. Given the right parameters, this crack can heal to a level where it’s barely notable. But under less optimal conditions I guess more or less every human can turn (be turned) into a monster.

In terms of billionaires my opinion is that a) we should implement measures to avoid them in the first place and b) find ways to take away their power.

But other than that I would prefer a way to heal their (often abnormal) crack and try to make them again valuable members of society again. Revenge and punishment (especially death penalty) should never be the focus of corrective measures, no matter the crime or misdemeanour.

I think the unfortunate truth is that many non-evil people would be just as evil if given the opportunity. Or to frame it slightly different: I believe that too much money and/or power is what turns most people evil over time.

The Lemmy picture is blue/black for me while Wikipedia is white/gold. Is it the same picture? Or is because Lemmy fully supports dark mode while my browser doesn’t?

It’s still there, give it another go. ;)

cut-my.life/into/pieces

Question is how many of them do see Trump and his party at fault now and how many still blame the democrats, antifa etc.?

I think chaotic instances without a clear focus are superior in terms of a stable fediverse. If you have a ‘main’ instance for programming stuff, queer topics, German content etc. you’re always at risk that the instance goes down and all content and communities die along.

Instances going down is a realistic scenario. Hacking / DDOS attacks, government takedown requests, copyright issues, hosting issues, admins losing interest… The more distributed certain topics are across instances, the more resilent they are against all these vectors.

In before all life going extinct due to a massive drought.

You only listed things she doesn’t wan’t to do with you. Are there other activities she enjoys doing together and do you enjoy these things as well? Like do you hang out with each other in person / at home or is she avoiding contact in general? Would you both enjoy to intensify these kind of activities? Are you both intested to find new activities that you can both find fulfillment together in like hiking, sewing, reading etc.?

I think scientific research is quite clear that a permanent standard / winter time is healthier and objectively the better choice.

Personally, I’d still prefer a permanent summer/ daylight saving time. During summer, when days are long, I don’t really care. But in winter it’s usually still dark when I start working and already dark when I finish. With permanent summer time, it might be slightly harder to get up in the morning, but I could at least get a bit of light in the afternoon.

+1

Wild memories! As a child I had a PC, but no internet connection and played that song quite often!

Hang / Hand pan and Hurdy Gurdy!

Are there really people willing to buy Putin’s personal yacht? Even at a huge discount that sounds like it might end up as a dangerous trip.

Building muscles is more effective than cardio to burn fat. The more you have, the more calories you burn passively just by having them. Kind of like compounding interest. Cardio is healthy and good, but will ‘only’ burn fat during and right after the workout.

Thanks for your insights. Personally, I’d prefer to pay a wealth tax like that compared to a system where it’s up to the individual to save for their retirement.

But almost 1% of Alphabet’s revenue in 2024 (350 billion USD) and around 2.5% of their earnings (112 billion USD). Won’t ruin them, but definitely hurts. And bear in mind that the revenue and earnings are worldwide while the fine is EU-specific. If you compared to EU earnings, the number would be even higher.

https://abc.xyz/assets/a3/91/6d1950c148fa84c7d699abe05284/2024q4-alphabet-earnings-release.pdf

I just hope they really stick to the fine and won’t drop the charges…

Yes, I think women face more inquality than men. And queer people face even more discrimination than women. But also cis-men that don’t fit well into the traditional gender roles, can face discrimation. I do not object the ideology behind femism. I just don’t like the term.