Enkrod @ Enkrod @feddit.de

Webdeveloper from Germany, nerd, gamer, atheist, interested in nerd-culture

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1. It is spelled Dachshund (Dachs-Hund, German, lit. Badger-Dog, as the breed was created to hunt foxes and badgers in their burrows)
2. It is pronounced Dax Hunt (good example by a native german speaker: https://youtu.be/6aveG0N6Jtc?si=mzCsfrVA95VJZggG )

Neverending Story flashbacks

Inventor was Wilhelm Frank, 1937, Stuttgart, Germany

I see you know about our bureaucracy

Enough Malarkey

Steven Crowder, the assshole from Louder with Crowder. If you don't know about him you're lucky.

The louder one.

Natural rights are those that are not dependent on the laws or customs of any particular culture or government, and so are universal, fundamental and inalienable (they cannot be repealed by human laws, though one can forfeit their enjoyment through one's actions, such as by violating someone else's rights).

Myself, I'm more with Jeremy Bentham and George Carlin in this:

Rights don't exist, there is no such thing as a natural or inalienable right. Rights are flimsy fantasies, they are nothing but societal agreements, contracts to treat with each other on a common set of core-values. Which makes it all the more important that we defend these rights and enforce those social contracts.

And with those rights come the duties to respect those of others, like the right of the litigant to not have their trial disrupted.

Edit: Marking the quote.

Every. Single. Day.

My cars bluetooth is broken, so I connect my phone via headphone jack. This way I can still use my cars speakers and mic to receive phone calls and listen to music or audiobooks on my one hour drive to work.

I also despise bluetooth headphones. My phones batteries last longer since I don't use bluetooth anymore and I can't be bothered to not lose them and always have them charged when I want to use them.

With my good wired Bose headphones I pay a third of what the wireless crap would cost, have better sound and they are always ready, easily to take care of and at worst slightly tangled from being crammed into a jeans pocket.

I donated 266€ (250 plus me covering fees) and I don't like how my money is used.

Basically every great and complex work ant colonies are capable of is an emergent property of simple rules that are simple instinct in simple creatures, yet the interplay of lots of individuals following these simple rules begets complex behavior. This is the easiest to grasp example imho.

Flocking birds, schooling fish, hell we can write computer programs where complex behavior emerges from simple rules, Conway’s Game of Life is the best example for how simple the rules can be and how complex the emergent systems.

But emergence is everywhere, the cells of your lungs don't breathe, but they arrange themselves in a way and are embedded in a system that can exist because lung-cells do arrange the way they do.

Life itself is an emergent property, the atoms that constitute us themselves aren't alive, they don't run, breathe or think, all of those are emergent properties from the right collection and arrangement of atoms into molecules into cells into a multicellular organism.

Thinking is no different than running, it is something that happens through the complex interplay of matter but transcends the single building blocks.

A single ant can't be a colony, a single cell can't breathe or run and a single neuron can't think, but if you bring them together in the right amount and arrangement, new properties emerge.

And most importantly, if you disturb that arrangement, if you destroy some of that constituting matter or rearrange it, the emergent properties change or vanish. That it can simply stop to emerge is imho the best prove that it is an emergent property.

Regardless if you are religious or not, misuse of authority by anyone occupying such a position out of their own free will is always wrong and they always should be held to a higher standard.

"An emergent phenomenon of the way our biological hardware works" is one possible, entirely rational and most importantly sufficient answer. And even if we did not have an answer, that doesn't mean that there is not an entirely materialistic explanation for the phenomenon, even if we didn't find the answer yet.

Because we have hundreds of thousands of examples of previously unexplained phenomena being sufficiently and completely explained by purely naturalistic, materialistic causes.

On the other hand we have exactly zero previous examples of a phenomenon being sufficiently explained by anything supernatural.

Since we observe consciousness solely bound to the existence of, reliant on the configuration of and changeable through the change of physical properties of physical matter, we can conclude that it is an emergent property that has arisen like other properties emergent from biological matter through the well known, well defined and observable process of evolution.

Could there be an alternative explanation? Yes!

Is the god-hypothesis in any way an explanation for consciousness? No! In fact it would raise more questions. It is neither sufficient, nor rational. What it is, is a god-of-the-gaps argument, another turtle on the way down.

Margerine under Nutella!

Well they really took their time to get there and in many things, i think they haven't even started walking, but at least they are there in this now.

But yeah, Texas isnt cough cough the most progressive place cough cough, which makes "too racist even for Texas" very meaningful.

No, fuck the current Israeli government.

Fuck Likud, fuck National Unity, fuck Shas, fuck Religious Zionist Party, fuck United Torah Judaism, fuck Jewish Power, fuck Noam!

Those are the parties forming the thirty-seventh government of Israel and many Israelis have been protesting against it since the election. It's a government of the extreme far-right, made up of religious goons, nationalistic Zionists, jewish Supremacists, kahanist Fascists and Terrorists.

Yes! Terrorists, the "Jewish Power" or Otzma Yehudit Party is the successor organization to the prohibited Kach Party the same party that was designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the U.S. State Department in 2004.

Kahanist parties have actually been outlawed in Israel since 1985 but war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu will tell you that "Jewish Power" aren't actually racist, supremacist, nationalist, zionist Terrorists (in short, Kahanists). If you ask him, they are "normal conservatives".

In this case at least, the State of Texas is on the right side of history, they passed the Crown Act to protect black students from this BS school policy shit.

It's the school that's actually... get this... too racist for the State of Texas.

Jews for Hitler was a German Jewish organization during the Weimar Republic and the early years of Nazi Germany that eventually came out in support of Adolf Hitler.

If you really want to piss off the Austrians: https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A4gerschnitzel#J%C3%A4gerschnitzel_aus_Jagdwurst

but "lead pipes" is unlikely to be a US specific health issue like was originally insinuated

With this I agree wholeheartedly, the biggest factors for differences between the rest of the developed world and the US, including USians being considered more agressive, less intelligent, less patient and with less empathy are definitely located in different fields.

Imho. culturally religiosity, difference in education, worldlyness and levels of societal cohesion are the biggest factors, along with good old prejudice against the militarily superior.