sndrtj @ sndrtj @feddit.nl

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These days I'm getting increasingly difficult puzzles.

Because German culture despises progress.

German bureaucracy is notoriously obtuse, inflexible and old-fashioned. Think Little Britain's "Computer says no", but then on a countrywide scale.

For a whole host of reasons. In summary, quality of life for those remaining is going to crater, together with some form of social collapse.

1. Most social insurances (e.g. pensions and welfare) depend on young, healthy, working people paying for those in need. As the population pyramid gets inverted, eventually this will become completely unsustainable. Meaning those who are young now will not be able to benefit from a pension in the future.
2. Health care costs are going to soar to unsustainable levels. To some extend, this has already happened. Again, old people tend to require health care a lot more frequently - even permanently, usually- than young people. As the population pyramid gets inverted, this means ever fewer young people have to care for ever more sick people. As an example, my country estimates that by 2050 we'll need to spend 40% of GDP and 1 in 3 working people on health care if we want to keep the service level at today's standards. That's of course completely unrealistic. To some extent this is already starting to deteriorate.
3. Ever fewer people will have to maintain essential services. Think sanitation, sewage, construction, rail services and so on. Again, unsustainable.
4. The gerontocracy will mean society will become increasingly inflexible, rigid, and stuck in the past. Young people drive change, old people like to keep things as they are. Opinions don't usually change. Instead, they die one funeral at a time.
5. The economic challenges caused by an aging population will require tough choices. But with the gerontocracy, such choices will likely not be made. Or they will only be passed on to next generations (who get no say in the matter, as they will be too small a voting bloc). Ultimately this will necessarily lead to some form of social collapse.

I am very conflicted about Arch. I similarly disliked it for actual use, because it's so unstable. On the other hand, the arch docs are a goldmine.

I think it just depends on what you want to do with your system. Do you like to tinker? Arch (and similar distros) are great. Do you just want things to work mostly out of the box? Use an Ubuntu flavor or an Ubuntu derivative.

Dit. En bij veel hotelketens kun je je ook gratis aanmelden voor het loyaltyprogramma waardoor je al snel goedkoper uit bent dan via de grote boekingswebsites.

Het vertrouwen die de geïnterviewde heeft in de winkelier vind ik ook wel erg hoog. Alsof het winkelpersoneel ook nooit een fout maakt.

Welkom (terug)

For me it's back to the pirating era.

People should have more children in the West. Especially Europe is demographically killing itself by decades of low birth rates.

Pink?

I see light blue and gold.

Ellen was also quite infamous among her crew.

What would the Romans have hoped to gain by letting someone proselytize that notoriously incompatible-with-the-pantheon religion to the layfolk?

They are the state at this point. So same thing.

So when the Chinese do it it's scary, but when the Americans do it it's just "established practice"?

Curl. Especially as Firefox' network tab lets me copy every request in curl format. I only use postman for complex POST/PUT/PATCH requests. I've used httpie in the past.

Grammarly is basically a keylogger anyway, with every stroke send to their servers. Why ANY business even allows their employees to use this is really beyond me.

You're not getting many answers yet regarding nitrogen.

As a preface: When it comes to climate and environmental concerns with respect to agriculture, the word "nitrogen" does usually not refer to the completely harmless atmospheric nitrogen (N2). Instead, it refers to various compounds that contain nitrogen.

Nitrogenous pollution from cattle comes in two shapes:

The first is methane (NH3). A single cow burps and farts out about 100kg of methane each year. Methane is a greenhouse gas that's 28 times as potent as CO2. This means a single cow is responsible for as much as 2800kg equivalent in CO2 each year due to burps and farts alone. For reference, the CO2 per capita emissions globally are about 4 tons (4000kg) per year, for all sources combined. Cows, relatively speaking, therefore produce a huge amount of CO2 equivalent.

The second is all the nitrogenous compounds in their excrements. This acts as a fertilizer on soil and in the water. While that sounds good, it leads to various unwanted effects. One is that agricultural runoff causes algal blooms in water that then ends up killing a significant amount of marine life. Another is that nutrient-rich soils tend to seriously decrease plant species diversity. Many native and wild plants actually need nutrient-poor soils to thrive. Those plants will get outcompeted by a small group of fast-growing plants that do well in all the cow-poop-infested soil. These compounds also tend to travel far, via agricultural runoff or even via the air, so ecosystems far away from farms are also impacted.