1.4% (I live in Germany)

It sure is easy to portray your country as successful, clean and beautiful if you don’t allow any free press to contradict you.

It’s not like I hate other operating systems, I just really like the idea of FOSS and try to use it whenever possible.

No, I just have very different ideas what progress is.

Progress in my eyes is made when a society becomes more democratic, and when we solve conflicts without bloodshed.

In that sense, sure, the GDR was a step in the right direction, but nazi germany didn’t exactly set the bar very high.

The idea of socialism is nice, but you hardly have any progress if the system (be it built on free markets or planned economies) doesn’t work to improve ordinary citizens’ lives, but only to keep the powerful in power.

Personaly, I don’t care much about free markets or planned economies. I think the best approach, as so often, is a kind of blend, a social market economy that allows independent companies in a framework that protects workers, consumers and the environment.

Thing is, the specifics of the economic system aren’t important. What matters is that the people are the ones who decide them.

There is nothing wrong with pursuing a utopian society, but ultimatly you have no control over what happens in the far future (neither should you, future societies need to be ruled by future people).

The only thing you can control is the present and the near future, so what really matters aren’t the ends you strive for, but the means you employ while doing so.

Ah yes, my grandparents, the landlords. Wait hol’ up, they were working people, not landlords. GDR fucked them regardless.

“bUt tHAT wASn’T rEaL ComMunIsM” If neither the USSR nor China could achieve true Communism, then maybe it isn’t so much a realistic goal as a utopian ideal, a convenient justification for all kinds of crimes against humanity that occur in its pursuit.

Exactly this. One major reason I’m on here is that SDF lets me choose for myself what I wanna see and what I don’t.

I know that the industry commonly uses malt extract, sugar beet syrup, caramel syrup, or roasted malt

Nah, I’m vegan, and eating meat shaped like an animal is like eating two animals at once.

If this surprises you, you never had to worry about how you are going to pay next month’s rent

->go to sleep

->mobilization is announced

->wake up

->too late, go to prison

I really enjoyed Watch_Dogs, despite the shit it got at the time.

Not exactly like the ones you oncluded, but I really like this one: Challenger - Lemmino

Another ressource that might be useful: https://distrochooser.de/

I think that can’t be answered categorically like that. Some species can survive being completely frozen, like the wood frog, others can’t. Interestingly, there are also some mammals that can survive extreme cold, the arctic ground squirrel can survive a core temperature of below 0°C

I guess it’s as doctors say: “You aren’t dead until you’re warm and dead”

Yeah, I’m gonna need a source on that.

I’m all for rehabilitation. But according to the University of Adelaide, almost half of prisoners released in 2018-19 returned to prison within two years. Not much rehabilitation going on there. Also, if we’re talking about rehabilitation, fixed lengths for prison sentences make no sense. A prisoner should then be released into society when they have been rehabilitated, not after a fixed amount of years.

“Murder in Victoria carries a potential maximum sentence of 15 years in prison.” Now that’s wild.

I’d asume someone downvoted, then removed the downvote. The original downvote didn’t get through, but the reversal did. Something like that

Maybe, the point still stands. I’ve read awesome books with boring covers and vice versa. Its really a good saying that does apply to most areas in life.

If you want to get rid of spam bots, ban them on your own instance and defederate any instance that doesn’t do the same.