Just plant the tree on the neighbours property ;)

Mhm. Please quote me where I said anything about that. You are projecting.

Tbh, I don’t recommend beginners to try out multiple distros in the beginning. Realistically, if you don’t have in depth Linux knowledge already, all you’ll be able to differentiate is the look of the DE and the wallpaper.

I find, too much choice tends to confuse beginners more than it helps them.

So I’d rather recommend something simple like Ubuntu and let them try out the flavours with the different DEs.

Choice is better for later when people actually understand what they are looking for.

While you are right, it is important to consider that Hamas has very low support in the population of Palestine, similar to Netanjahu and his fascist government having rather little support in the Israeli population.

The corrupt and criminal leaderships of both countries are fighting a war for their own advantage and civilians on both sides (though ~20x Palestinians than Israelis) are dieing for a war they just want to end.

To the first point: no. There is no wide-spread hunger yet. People on the very low end of the income scale are suffering and many are homeless, but that’s not what the majority of the people experience. The middle class currently mostly takes hits to their savings or to their comfort, but they still have a roof over their heads and they still don’t suffer hunger.

To the second point, I can only speculate. I think the EU has a rather stable system. Individual countries might shift to the left or right, but the whole system of the EU is made to prevent anything really bad. Secession from the EU is something that no current member state of the EU can afford and after Brexit not even rightwing extremists want to seriously leave the EU.

The USA isn’t setup nearly as stable, since they are still running one of the earliest democratic systems in the world. I see two (not mutually exclusive) options there.

• A republican dictatorship, which is not too difficult for them, because all you really need is the president and the surpreme court being corrupt enough to want that power.
• Secession of multipe states. Texas is testing the waters, and if they actually seceede, other states might follow. This might either lead to a new edition of the civil war, or multiple rogue nations with nukes. Either way, the USA’s status as an economic and military superpower would be gone. This again would destabilize Europe, since the EU currently doesn’t have the military power to defend itself without NATO. What will happen from there on is anyone’s guess.

All of these happened in the wake of major crises.

Apartheit in South Africa ended, because of massive protests in the country (including violence), massive international pressure (the UN labelled apartheit as crime against humanity and lots of countries banned imports from South Africa), and the South African economy was collapsing due the price of gold dropping a lot.

East Germany collapsed because of massive economic problems. Storming the border crossings was just the last push. If that would have happened 10 years earlier, the police would just have shot the first row of people trying to cross the border and the rest would have fled. The DDR was already collapsing at that point. And the press conference that caused the storm on the border crossing was actually about East Germany opening the border in a month’s time. So even without the storm on the border crossings, the same thing would have happend, just a month later.

The Sovjet Union, again, collapsed due to economic problems. Their economiy completely collapsed and with it their power over all the different SSRs. Russia, being the largest and most powerful SSR, being able declaring itself independent of all these other countries that really didn’t want to be part of the USSR without having to use violence is really not surprising.

It’s kinda as if Great Brittain declared itself independent of the Brittish Empire.

All these situations you mentioned where already under way for a decade or so, before the events you mentioned did the last push. And all of them where only possible to massive crises.

A Fairphone 4. Got it at launch and it’s a terribly buggy mess.

Describing all the issues would make a huge wall of text.

The sad part is that the hardware is ok. But they don’t seem to have any software QA at all.

My goal was to carry it until 2027, when replacable batteries will become standard, but since I can’t even use the phone for calling, I am trying to at least carry it until the Galaxy S55 launches.

Mostly though through revolutions, wars or some other extreme crisis.

The problem is that only people who came into power using the current system would have a chance to change the system. And why would anyone want to change the system that brought them to power?

A squadron of military planes is a bit hard to come by as a private person.

But I wonder if people would also be that fascinated after 25+ years if I flew some DJI drones at 1-2km height in the night with bright LEDs on their bottom and dropped some pyrotechnics from them.

This has been confirmed independently multiple times as two groups of A-10 military aircraft dropping flares with parachutes for training purposes.

And still you see videos titled “Still no answers 26 years after the lights appeared over the valley”. Well, no answer that these guys want to hear.

And what it looked like is quite easy to check, since there are tons of photographs of that incident.

Schwierig.

Das Problem ist, dass Populismusanfälligkeit nicht an den Themen hängt.

Populismusanfälligkeit kommt an der Kreuzung aus “hat generell viel Angst”, “hat nicht die Fähigkeit/Geduld/Willen anständig zu recherchieren”, “ist leichtgläubig” und “lebt Angst als Wut aus”.

Das sind grundlegende Charaktereigenschaften, und die sind nicht abhängig vom Thema um das es geht.

Man kann also Populismus-Whack-a-Mole betreiben und es eventuell schaffen, erfolgreich gegen einzelne Themen zu argumentieren. Aber kaum hat man eines dieser Themen vom Tisch, kommt die betreffende Person mit fünf weiteren Spinnereien ums Eck.

Und während man lange Recherchen und gute Argumente braucht, um so einen Mist zu widerlegen, braucht die betroffene Person nur eine halbe Überschrift oder einen 3-Zeilen-Post auf Telegram lesen, und der nächste Blödsinn ist da.

Wichtiger ist es somit, sofern der Draht zu dem Gegenüber gut genug ist, ihnen zu helfen, ihre Angst in Griff zu bekommen.

Kleine Anekdote von meinem jüngeren Ich: Vor gut 10 Jahren war ich mal in einem mäßig besetzten Bus unterwegs (längere Strecke). Da steigt ein offensichtlich erkennbarer Neonazi ein und fängt an, die Leute anzupöbeln. Ich schau ihn an und sag “Hast einen schlechten Tag heute?”

Er war etwas baff und hat erst gedacht, ich wollt ihn provozieren. Ich hab meine Frage wiederholt und ihn gefragt, ob er darüber reden will.

Er hat sich dann neben mich gesetzt und hat mir seine ganze Lebensgeschichte erzählt. Beginnend mit seiner alleinerziehenden, gewalttätigen Mutter, seinem Versagen in der Schullaufbahn (inklusive heftigem Mobbing), bis zu der Neonazigruppe, die wohl die einzigen Menschen sind, die ihm gegenüber positiv waren und ihn aufgebaut haben. Und schlussendlich dazu, dass die gemeinsam letztens wen verprügelt haben und er dafür demnächst zwei Jahre einsitzen muss.

War der Typ ein gewalttätiger Neonazi? Ja, klar. Ist das verabscheuenswürdig? Auch ja.

Aber dahinter ist doch noch ein Mensch, der eben seine Angst in Hass umwandelt.

Ich weiß nicht, ob ich ihm helfen hab können. Hab ihn danach nicht wieder gesehen. Aber ich hab es zumindest versucht. Und ich kann nur hoffen, dass ihm diese Begegnung noch immer so präsent ist wie mir.

Solche Leute verlieren ihre Angst nicht dadurch, dass man die Verbindung zu ihnen kappt. Deren Hass ist ein Symptom, nicht die Ursache. Begegnet man ihnen mit Hass, dann trifft man damit nicht ihren Hass, sondern ihre Angst, die dadurch verstärkt wird.

Das hier ist natürlich kein Aufruf, fremden Hasstätern alles durchgehen zu lassen, weit davon.

Aber wenn man so wen im familiären Umfeld hat, der einem eigentlich nahe steht, dann hilft es zu wissen, dass man gegen ihre Angst angehen muss, nicht gegen ihren Hass.

Sadly (or luckily, depending on how you look at it), GTP is much much worse at writing code than media would make you think.

It’s about at the level of a young teenager who knows nothing about coding except how to copy code they found on google.

Man könnte alle Nazis nach Sachsen schicken und dann Sachsen aus dem Bund auskoppeln.

Entweder sind die dann ein eigenes Land, oder man stuft Sachsen vom Bundesland zum Territorium herunter, ähnlich wie Puerto Rico. Da kriegen sie dann keinen deutschen Pass, dürfen nicht auf Bundesebene wählen, dürfen aber weiterhin Steuern zahlen und müssen sich an deutsche Gesetze halten.

Und visafreies Einreisen nach Deutschland und die EU wär dann auch Geschichte.

Happens in most languages.

Also, many languages have a link between deafness and lacking intelligence, e.g. dumb meaning “not able to speak” and “not intelligent”.

In general, being sensitive to people with disabilities (both physical and mental) is a rather young concept, hence anything that would make someone not be able to be part of society is often also an insult.

That’s also why e.g. terms linked deafness/muteness are often an insult to someone’s intelligence, while e.g. terms linked to blindness are not. Blind people might be unable to perform some things seeing people are able to, but blindness doesn’t necessarily limit someone’s ability to be part of a society unaccomodating to people with disabilities.

https://m.xkcd.com/1013/

Dafür würd ich den Admin (Wintermute) normal direkt anschreiben.

Yeah, same here. I was just making a joking advocatus diaboli argument.

Put books under it.

I dodged it as a youth, no point starting it now.

No, I am only one man, not more men.