do you know whether dementia also affects simpler routines, such as making coffee with coffee powder and a boiling pot? it’s:

• boil water
• add coffee powder

done

me on most days for most things

what if they actually have to work (like, repair) on the lines? how do they make sure nobody’s feeding into the grid? do they go from house to house and ask everyone to unplug their balcony solar plants?

what if somebody’s on holiday and only comes back in 2 weeks and forgot to switch off their infeeding?

Das ist ein lustiges Argument (upvote dafür) aber die Vorteile der Schrift sind halt so überwältigend dass selbst eine verminderte Gedächtnisleistung dagegen unbedeutend ist.

Schrift ermöglicht nicht nur den Wissenstransport durch die Zeit, sondern auch durch den Raum. Durch Schrift wird es möglich, zu wissen, was jemand ganz weit weg sagt und denkt, und das ist so viel wert. Denn dadurch kann globale Kohärenz geschaffen werden, große Reiche existieren, und weltweite Verständigung existieren. Und das prägt die Welt so sehr, dass man sogar die Geschichte der Menschheit mit der Geschichte der Schrift gleichsetzt (also ich zumindest neige dazu). Denn alle großen Reiche, die Erinnernswertes hinterlassen haben, nutzten die Schrift als ihren wesentlichen Kulturträger dazu.

to be fair, completely restructuring global economic systems sounds like fun; much more fun than recycling or reducing my carbon footprint, at least.

i think the biggest problem with electron is that it doesn’t just use some system-provided browser library, instead every electron app ships its own browser environment, which takes up a lot of space each time and makes the whole system a whole lot less efficient. shared libraries exist for a reason.

Support for Windows 10 ends on October 14, 2025.

Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer.

But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again?

https://endof10.org/

I struggle to see how you could say it’s more comfortable

easy, i don’t have to focus on the street for 50 minutes. that’s a big win for me.

It’s not even just about sustainability. It’s also largely about comfort (public transport is just 10x as comfortable as any car could be), price to the end consumer (public transport is typically much cheaper to the end consumer than cars, and that’s even by a lot), space management (compare how much space cars need vs. public transport) and all these things. it’s not just climate change.

I’m not familiar with NixOS

However, short reminder that the internet was largely funded by the US military. It’s not uncommon that the US military brings significant developments for the internet. This is nothing new. The latest outcry is solely because the US is sliding into fascism, not because of the involvement with the US military.

Because it has been apparent that MAGA is about nothing but money and control since they came on the scene a decade ago. Since then, they have become indelibly tied to treason, corruption, pedophilia, racism, misogyny, ignorance, stupidity, and virtuosic incompetence. Bad Faith is their core value.

the leadership yes, but the people voting for them? I’m not so sure.

I know this is a lot of text all at once, but while i’m here, let me tell you that i think that it’s important that there’s a heavy investment in human spaceflight and especially in settling mars.

I’m not saying that for some delusional reasons of science fiction, but because of the very real and very heavy economic advantages that it has. A massive spaceflight program would create a lot of jobs (if you invest $1b in spaceflight, where does the money go? it goes towards companies that try to build the rockets and necessary machinery, and a large part of that money goes towards jobs and construction materials, so the money continues to circulate in the country.)

And jobs are one of the two very important things that people need to live: food and jobs. Let me illustrate this:

As time progresses forward, we have more resources available (because our production systems work better, as they get improved all the time). but at the same time, a lot of production systems get automated and that reduces the number of jobs. Since people need jobs, new parts of the market need to be developed continuously.

What i’m saying is that if there’s a massive push towards spaceflight, somebody will have to build all of the necessary machinery, equipment, and such, and that would create a lot of jobs. It’s especially important for american people to have jobs, because americans are typically biased towards enterpreneurship and such, and that’s only possible when there’s business to be done. i think that’s a very important aspect of american society. also, martian human settlement would have the advantage that there’s real progress (new lands being explored) and that would also have some positive consequences.

They have created all these imaginary enemies attacking them on every front, and they think THEY are the ones living real life, and the rest of us side with their imaginary enemy.

I think that their ENEMY is actually poverty, i.e. many people struggle economically to make a living. This is due to the progress of time (automation leads to fewer jobs), but since time itself is invisible to many people, they try to find a material, outside enemy. And that’s why they blame (brown) immigration and queer people, because they appeared at the same time (in public, in the case of queer people) as the decline of living standards. So people see that and conflate correlation with causation, and blame these groups.

What’s important to me is whether people think about the situation and try to make good conclusions and proposals. What matters to me is whether MAGA actually tries to improve people’s living condition, instead of just mindlessly trying to hurt people. If they actually try to improve things, i can talk to them and find meaningful paths forward. If they’re just trying to hurt people, such a thing is impossible. So to me, it very much matters why they’re doing this. That’s what i’m researching, and also how to make meaningful plans that are in their interest that actually bring the country forward, instead of just creating more difficulties.

Everything they stand for is in direct opposition to the America ideals.

I beg to differ. The “american ideals” are to be economically prosperous, to open and run your own business, to take what is other’s (indian land), without regrets or looking back.

What i’m saying is that’s exactly what Trump thinks he’s doing. He’s not actually helping american businesses but he and his voters probably think that’s what he’s doing. So, the people themselves see it as very american.

damn, i gotta check out that place later. i wonder how MAGA will interact with the fediverse. like, how can you be anarchistic and bootlicking at the same time?

edit: this is hilarious.

bootlicking: check ✅️

“especially towards Americans”

well, at least this one i can understand. Now i have to think about What the Turtle said to Achill, somehow.

this gotta be a troll account. Why is there an “antifa” community on the https://maga.place/ instance?

Es ist ebenso hypothetisch dass der Arbeitsmarkt weiterhin große Nachfrage haben wird.

Das beruht auf der Einschätzung dass die Wirtschaft der Zukunft nicht die menschliche Produktivkraft als limitierenden Faktor haben wird, sondern natürliche Beschränkungen.

Durch fortschreitende Automatisierung (wir sehen das gerade im Bereich KI) wird der Bedarf an menschlicher Arbeitskraft abnehmen, was potentiell zu sinkenden Löhnen und Massenarbeitslosigkeit führen kann. (Man muss bedenken, dass das nicht absurd ist, weil es das in der Vergangenheit schon gegeben hat.)

In so einer Situation mit hoher Arbeitslosigkeit wäre es absurd, zusätzliche Arbeitskräfte aufzunehmen, weil dadurch die Arbeitslosigkeit weiter wächst, was die Krisen die dadurch verursacht werden noch weiter verschärft.

Die Immigration seit 2010 verursacht den Menschen in Deutschland wahrscheinlich ca. 4% höhere Lebenshaltungskosten. Das errechnet sich daraus, dass ca. 3 Millionen Menschen immigriert sind in ein Land mit 80 Millionen Einwohnern, das bedeutet die Bevölkerung wächst deswegen um ca. 4% und damit teilen sich die Ressourcen in dem Land auf 4% mehr Menschen auf, wodurch jeder ca. 4% weniger hat.

Nur zum Vergleich: Eine einfache Vermögenssteuer mit einem Vermögenssteuersatz von 3% jährlich ab einem Freibetrag von 10M€ könnte ein bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen finanzieren, das jeder Person in Deutschland 300€ monatlich auf die Hand gibt. Das finanziert ca. 30% der Lebenshaltungskosten (je nachdem wo und wie man lebt) und ist damit die deutlich effektivere Methode zur Senkung der Wirtschaftlichen Belastung des einzelnen.

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Eine Vermögenssteuer würde der Wirtschaft nutzen. Wenn damit ein bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen finanziert wird, dann gibt es Konsum (weil die Verbraucher Geld haben) und das stimuliert die Wirtschaft. Unternehmen sind nur etwas wert, wenn sie einen Umsatz machen, und es gibt nur Umsatz, wenn es Konsum gibt.

rein technisch ist das Client-Side-Scanning wahrscheinlich sowieso nicht umsetzbar. Es wird dann halt zu jedem größeren Anbieter “inoffizielle” Varianten geben ohne das scanning. Wahrscheinlich werden die inoffiziellen varianten sogar von den großen Plattformen selbst in Umlauf gebracht, damit sie halt keine Nutzer verlieren.