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  • So you replied to the first sentence and ignored the paragraphs in which I describe why supporting either is misguided to malicious.

    I understand the arguments that are constantly being spewed about the evil western imperialists, and they are of course true for the most part. Only that this doesn’t in turn validate or justify the human rights violations, atrocities or even genocides committed by either Russia or China; they cannot be guides or aides on the path to the desired egalitarian utopia.

    If either of them had their way, would that do us in the west any good? The answer is no.

    China desires a global hegemony under their sino-centric ideology, and to extend its control structures outside its own national borders. They employ the same imperialist strategies and methods to acquire influence and resource access in emerging countries as the west has or is doing. Russia currently displays its own imperial ambitions by its war of aggression on Ukraine. At least they don’t even bother with any greater good pretense, and are straight up about it.

    The only real option is to consolidate the west in ethical and ideological opposition to these totalitarian parodies of their former goals, to create a new economic system that works for the people and not the reverse, without sacrificing our freedoms and individuality in the process.

    One that truly represents what socialism is about.


  • But the speed doesn’t really matter, so it shouldn’t be very energy intensive at all. Just gather up some junk, launch it at the sun with an expendable thruster, and be done with it. If it travels at a couple hundred kph, or even less is completely irrelevant. Let it take a couple hundred years to get there, it is supposed to burn up anyway no? And if it collides or is otherwise destroyed en route during that time won’t matter much either.


  • Tankies are so fucking weird to me, and I would consider myself a progressive socialist as well.

    How can they so unapologetically support Russia and China, when both nations are objectively not socialist in any sense of the word.

    China does state capitalism, just because they have a one party state installed by the communist party doesn’t automatically mean they still are. All that is left is intense authoritarianism, with dystopian ambitions on global hegemony.

    Russia is a failed state in the grasp of a kleptocratic oligarchy, with an extreme degree of corruption and disturbing moral decay in all levels of society. The only thing communist about it today is the old soviet ordnance they make their conscripts die in at the ukranian front.

    Modern China and Russia are antithetical to actual leftist ideals, and any tankie supporting them just screams misinformed idiot or foreign propaganda shill and should be dismissed by default.



  • I don’t know much about it myself, but I would guess it is negligible. Maybe for small propeller machines with a fairly limited amount of fuel capacity; but larger planes, especially commercial ones, have reserve fuel for quite some time.

    Situations where landing at the destination is temporarily unavailable, air traffic requires the plane to circle for some time, or they are even rerouted to a different airport can always occur and are accounted for. A minor increase from rainfall shouldn’t make a dent. I would think.





  • I just yesterday saw a post how disabling downvotes for an instance that still acts as part of the greater fediverse causes issues and unfair advantages with posts being created there that can achieve a high score very easily, even on accident.

    I would expect Lemmy to rework that function to avoid these issues so that up- and downvotes are either mandatory or can only be disabled together. I would not recommend trying to find an instance based on if they practice this most likely not here to stay functionality.



  • I think there is also the molars and general jaw shape to consider. Carnivores are not just identified by their fangs, they have generally a different structure and layout of their jaws that is made to lock into a prey animal or tear out pieces of flesh.

    In contrast, many herbivores have teeth laid out to grind down plant matter (think cows or goats) and their mouths are laid out to chew off vegetation with very articulated lips to assist. Even if these camels have pointy fangs, the rest of their mouth would indicate they eat primarily plants.


  • While I agree that certain state sponsored actors and private interest groups are most definitely involved in discourse manipulation on reddit, Lemmy simply isn’t big enough for this yet.

    If we go by the numbers stated in the original post, the whole of Lemmy has less than 500k users at this point, whom are overwhelmingly <40 years old tech affine early adopter nerds from the United States and Western Europe.

    Too insignificant to spend resources on, and also largely sceptical of corporate interests and authoritarian governments (except the tankies of course); so by default critical of the two top potential manipulators.



  • Not who you replied to, but I always assumed that she sort of knew about her second personality from previous occasions when this had happened. The terraformer with the god complex (whom i found the real star of this episode, LET THERE BE LIGHT!) tells sisko about it, so it is implied that she is even aware herself whom she mr. Hydes into to some degree. She may not have the memories, but should know about her second personality.





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    11 months ago

    Absolut, 6 Monate u-Haft sind ein kompletter Witz für sexuellen Angriff. Dass für einen 23 jährigen das Jugendstrafrecht irgendeine Rolle spielt ist auch blanker Hohn.

    Und weil ich weniger Einblick in die Details des Falles genieße als ein Strafverteidiger darf ich dazu keine Meinung haben oder kundtun?

    Habe selten so viel haarsträubenden Unsinn in so kurzem Text gelesen.


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    Mit Verlaub, muss man da Spitzfindigkeiten bemühen? Es ist ein sexualstraftäter. Er ist wiederholt polizeilich aufgefallen aufgrund sexueller Übergriffe. Das letzte Opfer war minderjährig.

    Ich plädiere nicht für Selbstjustiz, sondern für dem Verbrechen angemessene Rechtsprechung. Wenn das Gesetz erlaubt jemandem aufgrund von Alter oder kulturellem Hintergrund wiederholt statt Strafe nur tadelnd auf die Finger zu klopfen ist das doch nicht gerecht.

    Weder im Sinne des Wortes, dass jeder die gleiche Strafe für das gleiche Verbrechen bekommt, noch im Sinne moralischen Rechts. Ich würde mich wundern wenn die junge Frau aus dem Artikel mit dem Strafmaß und der geradezu lächerlich geringen Summe Schmerzensgeld auch nur entfernt das Gefühl hat dass die Gesetzeslage ernst nimmt was ihr angetan wurde.