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It is far from perfect, but a big step in the right direction.

Some would say, Danke Merkel Karl.
Others might say, Bubatz soon.

Lots of stuff you can criticize about the German government, but they are still way better than more of the same would have been.

What are you saying?

Isn't Colorado pretty blue anyway?

Getting tossed in a state like Florida would absolutely kill his chances though.

First off, thank you for the detailed response.
I recognize that you know more about this than me so I am happy to learn.

There are a couple of points in your post though that I want to reply to.

Determinism as used here means behavioral determinism.

That is explicitly not what I want to talk about.
I might have misworded my first post or misunderstood op but I understand determinism as the view that with perfect information over any system it can be predetermined what will happen in the future of this system. Wikipedia says: Determinism is the philosophical view that events are completely determined by previously existing causes.

I thought that to be the case for a long time.
If I could control all the variables I could roll a die to a 6 every time or at least tell the outcome as soon as it's thrown if I know everything else there is to know.

I also recognize that my understanding of modern physics is minimal at best.
But a physicist friend of mine told me that there is stuff that is truly random, so in gross simplification if I throw the exact same die in the exact same way under the exact same conditions it could still show different results making it impossible to predetermine the result.

If that is the case I don't think this world is a system where it is possible to determine the future even with perfect information.

And maybe you are right that my knowledge is just too superficial to hold a real opinion in the debate between determinism and indeterminism, but I also don't really have a horse in this race.
Just if you were to ask me as a layman I would think indeterminism to be more plausible given the (grossly simplified) information above.

The OP that I replied to described himself as a determinist, so I was just curious of their response.
But now I got a lot of other input to think about so I am happy either way.

Again, none if this is meant to attack you and I realize to someone more informed this might just seem as random rambling, but I was just honestly interested so thank you again for the response.

I am not sure you replied to the right comment since I never mentioned free will at all but was more interested in how a person believing in determinism handles the current state of science that at least suggests the existence of true randomness.
In my eyes true randomness contradicts a deterministic world, but I am interested to learn more from anyone who is more educated on this topic.

If I understand you correctly I agree with you though that what might be called free will is what happens in an individuals brain when they make a decision.
The discussion whether this decision making process in the brain can be truly free is a very interesting one, but not the one I wanted to have.

My personal layman's opinion is that my brain has enough uniqueness to it that the decisions I make are individually mine and there are other unique people that make their own individual choices.
If those choices and decisions are truly free matters less to me as long as they are truly individual.

I actually got a spot in the closed alpha this month.

It feels pretty good so far even though unfortunately I can't play as much as I would like due to my job and aspects of my personal life taking a lot of time right now.
I plan on getting at least a couple more games in this weekend.

I am genuinely and in good faith interested what you think about quantum mechanics and that there seems to be an element of true randomness there.

I was pretty much a determinist until an actual physicist that I know and respect told me that he is totally convinced that there is stuff in quantum mechanics that just cannot be predetermined.

And if anything can be undeterminable then by influencing other things there would exist true randomness and then a fully deterministic world cannot exist in my eyes.
But I am very willing to learn more if you know a good counter-argument since I always thought determinism is quite an elegant view of the world.
I just cannot follow it if I am not convinced it is true.

Usually I am against huge mergers like this because they rarely benefit the customer, but ActiBlizzard was about as bad as it gets anyway.

Selfishly I hope maybe at least one decent RTS might come from this before everything gets enshittyfied again.
I realize though that OG Warcraft/Starcraft were not the big motivators for MS so the chance is probably slim.

I get hungover way less since I drink a lot of water after or ideally at the same time as getting drunk.

If I get hungover anyway it's greasy food, weed, sweet drinks like soda or juice schorle and couch with a series or a silly movie. Probably a cat or two with me on the couch. Let's be honest, probably only the one, the other only really loves my SO. Normal stuff I guess.

Or if it's summer festival time maybe countering with beer might be another option to kill a hangover.

the same way we know that 'T' is for 'Tuesday' and 'Th' is for 'Thursday.'

As a non native speaker I have to admit I actually didn't know that.
But in German you also use two letters for all the weekdays.
Mo, Di, Mi, Do, Fr, Sa, So.

But it is a popular riddle for children to ask M, D, M, D, what comes next?

You won't convince me by just making statements as if they were facts.

You cannot resolve this by increasing the green capacity, because all of them have same dependencies.

If this were true you might be correct but it simply is not.

If you increase cheap green capacities enough and build a strong large area grid with some form of energy storage there could easily be enough enough energy in the system to last over any natural fluctuation.
And the nice thing is that if we at some point enter a state where the sum of green energy produced becomes vastly higher than the energy need it becomes less important that different forms of energy storage like water turbines are not very efficient and the storage can be ramped up to make the whole ecosystem even more stable.

This is all perfectly possible and quite possibly cheaper than building new nuclear reactors.

So even if you think nuclear energy is safe and the management of the waste products is not a problem (which are two things I would disagree with, but let's not get into that for now) I still don't see why any country should invest in nuclear energy over green energy.

Robust large scale energy grids and some form of energy storage are things that society wants (and probably needs) anyway, so even just from a strictly economic view green is just the way to go.

Just because I wanted to be sure I am not being mistaken for some reason I just googled a couple different search terms for motivations to buy a new car.

None of the results is even close to confirming your ludicrous quote from above.
So again I am baffled by how confidently wrong you keep on posting here.

If you care to google for even one minute you will see that Germany has reduced coal to a historic minimum even while reducing nuclear power.
But that doesn't make as good of a headline to rave over.

And if the conservative former government of 16 years hadn't slowed actual green energy infrastructure as much as they did Germanys energy bill could look way better even.

More often than not people buy a new car [...] trying to lessen their carbon footprint.

This seems very hard to believe.

Oh Gymmie, do you really want more national attention?

Who am I kidding, off course he does.

I call you an asshole.

And to answer the stupid question of the panel, it is educational reading.
It is young people that are most open to education and humanity has to bet on its young generations for progress.
There is truth to the saying that humanitys progress advances one funeral at the time.

Oh and there are progressive readings for adults as well, they just don't make it to the media. So the "meme" is not only stupid but also built on lies.
The right just can't meme.

I would also pick fight club, even though I completely 100% disagree with your argument.

I had so much fun watching this film multiple times and seeing new stuff.
Granted Fight Club is not a movie that I watched analyizingly in my armchair but rather a movie that I watched beerdrinkingly with my buddies.
But I think that is a better way to watch it anyway.

How I miss the days when I disliked Republicans just for being slimey shitweasles and not literal fascists.

So?

Shia very unsurprising.