I generally agree, but as long as there is no safe way to prevent malware spam posts (of which I reported plenty whenever I encountered them) I find it a minefield that is uncomfortable to navigate when I just want to browse some content lying in bed.

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.

One thing I dislike about Lemmy so far is the amount of highly suspicious links no one has ever heard of, that are constantly being shared. Makes me as a user really paranoid to touch any links before examining the url closely, which is good practice I guess, but makes the whole content browsing process a bit stressful.

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.

Normal games just use any actual name they like and put a disclaimer that any similarities to existing people are unintentional

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.

Holy shit those names are fantastic.

Dwigt Rortugal must be my favorite. Mike Truk

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.

There isn’t a product in the world, even my most used and beloved, that makes me care enough to bother looking up beliefs of involved executives.

War ja auch gut verständlich, sonst hätte ich dir nicht antworten können

There are plenty of repair shops for most smartphones available, with varying degrees of “officialness”, ranging from apple stores to backrooms with a workbench and someone with heavy slavic accent taking 20 euros to change a broken display.

Of course this applies mostly to urban areas, elsewhere there will be fewer.

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.

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.

Den migrationshintergrund mal außen vor, wie kann es sein dass so jemand der sich wiederholt übergriffig gegenüber Frauen verhalten hat, und die Betroffene sogar noch minderjährig ist, sich nicht schon längst auf lange Zeit im Knast befindet?

Alter ist keine Ausrede, ich hab es auch geschafft keine Frauen zu vergewaltigen und erwachsen zu werden, ist ja nun wirklich keine große Kunst. Was für eine Farce

Die Leute die die AfD wählen sind aber auch die Leute die von normalen Informationsquellen nichts wissen wollen. Lügenpresse usw.

Persönlich finde ich aber auch dass das der falsche Ansatz ist. Die afd hat Zulauf nur aus einem Grund, weil die deutsche Immigrationspolitik bei zu vielen Leuten auf Ablehnung stößt. Kann man zurecht scheiße finden als linksliberaler weltoffener Akademiker bei dem alles soweit okay läuft, ignoriert aber das Problem dass ein großer und wachsender Teil der Bevölkerung das offenbar nicht so sieht. Einfach weiterzumachen wie bisher und diese Leute nach Rechtsaußen zu stellen und deren Sorgen abzuwerten treibt sie doch erst zu proto-faschistoiden alternativparteien.

Vorbeugend: Mir reflexhaft hinterherzubrüllen was für eine reaktionäre braune scheißhaltung das ist, hilft auch keinem, weil ich kein AfD Wähler bin.

German infrastructure has been neglected for several decades. In the past, the whole phone grid was nationalized under the Deutsche Telekom, which eventually got spun off into a regular company.

For some insane reason the government basically let them keep almost all of the existing telecommunications infrastructure, giving them a quasi monopoly for many years and the lobbying power to delay upgrading the grid to modern fibre connections in favor of squeezing marginal improvements out of the old copper wires.

Even today the upgrading is going slowly, but at least in cities the connections are reasonably fast, I have about 300 mbits in a fairly small town (about 200k people)

… he thought to himself, then proceeded to post it on social media

Considering a lot of his financial backing for the acquisition was from the saudis, and since he already was upset about people making fun of him on Twitter paired with him being an immature manchild kept afloat by generational wealth and public money it makes sense he simply bought the platform to destroy it. The Saudi autocrats didn’t like the free speech issues it caused for them, and Elon just wanted his critics under control the devaluation and destruction are not much of an issue for him.

Why is being disrespectful towards religions even an issue? I do not respect them and have in fact strong contempt for religions. I consider islam a new cancer growing, after we finally managed to largely push Christianity out of policy making and into the realm of personal choice in the west.