trompete

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[–] trompete@hexbear.net 22 points 2 years ago

There are multiple crises and policy failures, leading to the usual right-wing "solutions" getting promoted by all sorts of opportunists. Couple this with the fact that the there is no opposition to the left of the current centrist government, so there is no institutional support for protests or media campaigns and so on.

The peace movement used to be linked to the Greens (and that whole complex of Green-aligned media and institutions), which have gradually moved part of it into the imperialist camp, while the rest is marginalized. The SPD has done the same for the worker's movement since forever. The Greens have also played the environmentalists, though they at least are still protesting and increasingly denouncing them. The regime and media have recently become increasingly xenophobic and hostile to immigrants. I assume they think they can stop the rise of the far-right AfD this way. Again, the Green leadership have kneecapped the movement by switching sides and endorsing "compromise" (= capitulation) with the fascists. The base seems pretty unhappy, but this has happened before and I don't expect anything to come of it.

Meanwhile, The Left party has split into a nationalist, anti-"woke" and kinda anti-imperialist liberal socdem party, and a kinda pro-imperialist "we want to govern" liberal socdem party, which surely would repeat the Green party trajectory if it had any traction. There might be some invisible socialists hiding among these people, maybe. The media and schools have done an amazing job of teaching enlightened centrism and moralism, so there's not a lot them anyway.

Meanwhile, the issue with the Ukraine war etc. has been taken up by the far right, making the radlibs afraid of saying anything, lest they be seen agreeing with them. The media encourages this framing in an attempt to stifle left-wing opposition. Same for mainstream media criticism: They've successfully rallied those people to defend the fucking genocidal propaganda machine from far-right "Lügenpresse" allegations.

The AfD also takes public anger over mounting problems with wages, inflation, infrastructure etc. and blaming it on immigrants, environmentalists, some big "globalist" conspiracy and so on. The Greens get a lot the anger, though for the wrong reasons. It's actually quite the symbiotic relationship, that one: the Greens can pretend to defend the environment and immigrants from the far right, while doing absolutely the opposite, and the AfD can rile up the bigots with a nice willing scapegoat.

[–] trompete@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I've been trying to figure this out in my head, but I don't know anybody who does or is interested in track and field at all. Philosophical question: Can a group of zero people be part of a class?

Except for long distance running of course, which seems to be a PMC thing more than anything. It is around here anyway.

[–] trompete@hexbear.net 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

IDK about the the technological superiority argument. The imperialists clearly do a whole lot of interference and coercion to force shitty policies onto periphery countries, to enable them to be better exploit labor and resources, and to perpetuate this unequal exchange. If wage disparity was overwhelmingly thanks to technological superiority, why would they need to do that?

[–] trompete@hexbear.net 22 points 2 years ago

Different media environment probably. I think El País frequently has different takes from Anglo media. Has something to do with it being founded to be anti-Franco and Spain in general being a bit less infiltrated than e.g. Germany. Also the Spanish-speaking world is just really big, they're just less dependent on regurgitating NYT takes like a lot of European media.

[–] trompete@hexbear.net 31 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Some modern shells—including those guided to targets using satellite navigation and others propelled by mini-rocket engines—have already been deployed in Ukraine and Israel.

They're making special long-range rocket shells with satellite guidance to lob <5 miles onto random apartment buildings in Gaza.

It's an admission that they're testing weapons on civilians in Gaza.

[–] trompete@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

https://www.buerger-geld.org/regelsatz/

First line of table says 502 € in 2023 for a single-person household, plus rent and heating. People also get health insurance paid for.

https://buergergeld-zahlung.de/buergergeld-miete/#Burgergeld_Mietobergrenzen_in_Berlin

The max rent varies by location (set I guess by some local government and is roughly based on the rents in that area) , and it's a soft limit. This means they might pay more, but they can tell people to move into a cheaper apartment if they're above this limit. E.g.:

Berlin: 426 €, Munich: 781 €

This is Bruttokaltmiete, meaning rent and rent-related additional costs (e.g. water, maintenance). Heating and warm water will be paid on top of this (within reason). Electricity, telephone and internet have to be paid from the regular 502 €.

[–] trompete@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago

Mannerheim Recording, Finland, 1942

[–] trompete@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago

This could be any component, including MB, CPU, GPU, power supply. This could be damage that temporarily fixes itself once the thing cools down again. You'll want to remove as many components as possible, and swap out the rest with alternatives, or swap your components into another computer. Maybe you know someone you can visit to swap stuff out with?

Also, have you tried running memcheck86 on the RAM? There's also other diagnostic software for other components.

Just running a stress test like a benchmark might reliably trigger the problem, so you have a reproducible way of triggering the issue instead of just waiting for it to happen.

[–] trompete@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

How did you manage that Pacman ghost prompt?

[–] trompete@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago

Also someone should fix the site CSS, it looks wrong af to not have any space between a list and the next paragraph.

[–] trompete@hexbear.net 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I do not want to watch this for my own sanity, but there's a sort of formula for speech intros by German politicians when visiting Nazi-occupied places. It goes something like this:

  • My opa was here back during WW2.
  • This was bad obviously. We all know that now.
  • Look how far we've come since! Look at how we're all getting along now!
  • European cooperation/integration is the greatest achievement in post-war history and will prevent war in the future.
  • We Germans (or alternatively: all of us Europeans) have learned our lesson: Never again!
  • Look at us being so humble and enlightened and tolerant! We're the best! Hooray for us!

Baerbock probably cocked this up somehow, since she's not capable of having or expressing an original thought (she's a known plagiarist and she sounds like she was grown in a lab in the basement of the US state dept). So my guess is she tried to follow this formula, but skipped a few steps or phrased it weirdly.

[–] trompete@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I live in Germany and I'm scared. There's a genocidal hate couched in moral superiority, which is incredibly disturbing. Try to bring this up with the radlibs: it's like it doesn't actually register with them. They're just embarrassed and silent for a moment, and then they're hellbent on ignoring the whole thing. Maybe if they look away aggressively enough it'll all just go away. And so it does, eventually: out of sight, out of mind. How the fuck am I supposed to live with these people?

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