DrFuggles @ DrFuggles @feddit.de

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I can't help but feel like your sampling might be skewed.

Vollautomaten (I. E. Fully automated coffee machines that brew espressos and cappuccinos etc) tend to make worse coffee, I agree. That's why I don't use the one in the office.

Having an experienced barista grind you an exactly measured dose fresh for your coffee at a good Café is quite nice, on the other hand.

But that's nothing to do with Germany or Australia.

If you'd read the linked sources, you'd know that it's not just speculation. Regardless of Telegram's user base, it cooperates with Russian authorities. That remains true whether or not Ukranians use it to communicate. I'm not blaming Telegram for cooperating with Russian authorities as it's well known that not doing so leads to drastic authoritarian measures.

But don't take my word for it: Wikipedia: Blocking of Telegram in Russia

Sure, WhatsApp exposes you to US jurisdiction and Meta bullshit. At the same time, Telegram is very friendly with the Kremlin and associated intelligence services. So it basically comes down to whether you want to be spied on by Russian or US entities.

Source: Wired cover story

Wired story from a year ago about the FSB using Telegram to track down political activists.

translating animal languages

"How to Use AI to Talk to Whales—and Save Life on Earth With ecosystems in crisis, engineers and scientists are teaming up to decipher what animals are saying. Their hope: By truly listening to nature, humans will decide to protect it."

Wired Magazine August 2023

It's already been taxed, yes, but it's also passively generating income by investing it. You tax that income with a capital gains tax.

You can further impose a let's say 1-2% tax on wealth above let's say 5 million, so you only have to pay 1% on 2M if you are worth 7M.

That should be easily covered by your investing gains if you play at that level. So, in essence, no harm done to personal wealth. You just get richer less fast while urgent social and infrastructure projects receive better funding.

I think part of it is that movies are edited differently now. We've become used to much faster pacing, much denser storytelling and sweeping drone shots of everything, so older movies generally feel a bit lame now

I don't understand the part about not censoring calls for genocide. I feel like calling for the death of a group of people should not be covered under free speech. There's obviously a limit to free speech and this seems like a good example.

On the other hand, I don't write see what uni presidents can be expected to do about something that is or should clearly be handled by govt authorities.

You might want to look into Loqseq and Appflowy. I hear the cool kids today are using notion and obsidian and these two are FOSS alternatives to those.

I mean yeah, but it's mainly funny because I had absolutely no idea what I was looking at. The color, pattern and lighting meant I really absolutely had no idea what I was looking at. A back? A sweater? A cat? A crotch? A knee? An ass? Something else?

So yeah.

https://feddit.de/c/cannabis ?

Meine Notizen später die Woche wenn ich nicht gerade auf Arbeit bin per PN 😊

I've just fallen down that rabbit home in expectation of the legalization here in Germany. It you want I'll send you my notes.

The short of it: growing outdoors might be really difficult in Germany, as you have to make sure the plot isn't visible to passers-by or your neighbors and their kids. At least that was how it was phrased before the new revision today.

That being said, there are a number of strains that grow outdoors in Scandinavia. Professional Seed retailers like royal queen seeds have dedicated info pages and/or filters for that usually.

Googling "grow cannabis outdoor cold climate" should set you off in the right direction.

May I suggest Maylene and the Sons of Disaster?

Might be a bit harder than most other things suggested here, but definitely a redneck southern vibe to it. Can't vouch for all the lyrics though 😊

It's not "da costs", it's actually really, really really expensive to build new nuclear reactors. Most of that comes from increased labor costs, which in turn have ballooned largely due to increased regulation and oversight requirements, which I would argue is not something we should do away with.

I wouldn't necessarily mind having a reactor or two acting as base generators especially during the winter, but

1. In Germany we've been searching for a secure waste site since the first reactor went online in 1957. If we haven't found it yet, we never will.
2. There's not really a reason to hope for cost reduction of reactor construction once we do it at scale, because requirements and local acceptance are too heterogeneous to implement any sort of scaling construction. Every jurisdiction will have its own risk assessment and usually the locals are none too happy about a reactor close to them. I just don't see something happening in that regard. Wind turbines and solar panels on the other hand can be churned out in factories at scale, which is why they're so cheap, comparatively.
3. Therefore, personally I'd rather invest in green H2 as an energy storage solution. We can easily generate an enormous electricity surplus during the summer months, but lack long-term storage of the electricity. So we shut off solar and wind farms when they're over producing. Wouldn't it be neat to instead let them keep generating and use that surplus energy to power power-to-gas plants E. G. with H2? It's an enormously power-hungry process, but if you do it when power is basically free...

Oh wait, we're already doing that and it's already cost-effective. Now, if we were to take that process and build it at scale... for example by not spending 12-20 Bn 💶 to build another Flamanville, Olkiluoto or Hinkley Point C... I think that might actually work.

It will never not be funny to me how scared some people are of any transportation that's not a car.

And Germany!

Not to shit on your parade (and congratulations for losing that weight!) buuuut for anyone reading this thinking "juicing" is a shortcut to a healthy life:

It really isn't.

Fruit juices like apple or orange juice especially when bought contain a ton of sugar and often lack all-important fiber as OP points out.

In fact, drinking a lot of (fruit) juice has been linked to increased risk of type 2 diabetes (see "health effects"). There is absolutely no indication that juicing is in any way superior to just eating fruit and veggies and to the contrary quite some indications that juicing is actually inferior.

And not to put words on your mouth OP but juicing proponents often overlap with detox proponents, another fad which has absolutely 0 base in reality.

Hart versucht das am Montag zwischen all die tanzenden Kaffeetassen und Montag morgen GiFs in den Team-Chat zu posten

I can't tell if you're trolling or not. Well done.

I wish, then I'd have at least some explanation. Although it'd be kinda weird still seeing as how I have a German IP address

Yeah, I've been geofenced from certain apps for forever for some reason. Google knows I'm German, Google knows I'm in Germany and yet I can't download the official German gov Covid tracking app because "it isn't available in your region". So I've gotten quite familiar with the aurora store instead 🤷‍♂️