Ich glaube ja, dass wir die Ölkonzerne nicht verteidigen müssen. Ja, die machen das nicht aus reinem Vergnügen, sondern wir kaufen denen Öl & Gas ab, um damit zu Heizen, Rumzufahren, Fliegen und so weiter.

Aber: Die großen fossilen Konzerne verhindern und sabotieren gerade aktiv die Energiewende. Schau dir an, was die Koch-Brüder in den USA angerichtet haben. Wie Putin & Schröder agiert haben, um Gas zu verkaufen. Wie die Ölstaaten politisch wirken. Wie die großen Konzerne EEG-Gesetze sabotieren, wie deren Klagen Sand ins Getriebe streuen und wie sie Anti-Windkraft-BIs finanzieren und dann noch schicke Werbekampagnen schalten. Die sind genauso schuldig wie all die Mörder aus der Tabakindustrie.

Yeah, but VW is not the norm, but a really special case

It’s not “Germany”. It’s german factory owners, who are chasing profits. That is a big difference and we should use the correct language here.

Yeah, that’s really crazy. Russia is really great at finding fault lines in societies and, well, they are pushing a lot of East - West propaganda. You can, of course, discuss stuff that went wrong during reunification, but you shouldn’t do this on the basis of the narrative Putin is pushing.

TBH, I’m sceptical about fairness to content creators. Spotify for example is paying exactly nothing to your favourite artists. They get around 2-3€ per 1000 streams, which means that you can listen to them quite a lot without them getting rich. Go to some concerts, they will get more money than from spotify

I’ve returned to piracy as well. Setup a plex server, filled it with MP3s and videos and it’s great. No fucking subscription. No ads. Nobody except me can delist anything. If I want something to be there, it will be there and not on some competing streaming service. And when you take into account that Spotify will pay Rednex 0,00286€ when you stream Cotton Eye Joe, you’re also not really hurting the artists.

Hinweis: Die Regelung hat ihren Sinn genau wie alle anderen Regelungen aus dem Arbeitszeitgesetz. Das mag euch persönlich jetzt nicht perfekt vorkommen, aber ohne so harte Regeln würden skrupellose Firmenchefs ihre Leute dann komplett ohne Pausemöglichkeiten runterrocken. Wie sie es getan haben bis die Regel eingeführt wurde.

Ich glaub, dass ich das sogar bauen könnte. Spracherkennung -> ChatGPT -> PenPlotter -> Stift schreibt ChatGPT-Antworten auf die Folie und wirft sie an die Wand. Sollte sogar recht smooth zu bauen sein, ich will nur keinen Tageslichtschreiber hier stehen haben

Why should I get another damn subscription? Why not just block teamviewer.com on the router?

Yeah, that’s stupid and also how fascists like Melonis party in Italy operate. Take one minor issue, which really is not important at all, and blow it up and use it to spark tensions. Point to historical injustices. Whip up the people. Refer to ancient injustices from the Napoleonic wars. Don’t bother dealing with real problems.

That is the problem with the whole CO2 footprint. You chosing not to fly is reducing your CO2 footprint, but airline companies will respond with ad campaigns and cries for state help and then other people will take your seat. But if you think it from a CO2 footprint perspective, you are responsible for CO2 produced by your actions. You take the decision to take that long-distance flight to Bali and that adds to your lifetime CO2 emissions. You put solar on your roof and that reduces your lifetime CO2 emissions considerably. And yes, an additional human on this planet will produce a lot of CO2 in his lifetime. And you as a couple are deciding to put him onto this planet - so from that perspective it is totally a good way to reduce your direct CO2 impact by deciding to birth another human.

Can you explain why me not having a child would directly harm people with disabilities? I really struggle to see the logic here - even if you want to point out that we need younger generations in order to care for the elderly, there is still a record number of humans living on the planet right now and I struggle to understand what an individual child would change here