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VWs Gewinn

Kurz gesagt geht es dem VW-Konzern (Vorstand, nicht Mitarbeiter) darum, dass sie sehen, dass der Verbrennungsmotor an sich ein Auslaufmodell ist, und die Konkurrenz aus China was E-Autos angeht, stark ist. Daher rechnen sie damit, in den nächsten 10-20 Jahren starke Gewinneinbußen zu machen, weswegen sie jetzt schon "zu sparen anfangen" wollen (wohlgemerkt nur bei den Mitarbeitern, nicht bei den Dividenden).

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no debate.

it's actually the other way around. pornhub makes my gut wrench from how bad the quality is. xvideos is mostly smut but has some good stuff.

edit: i should clarify. it's not entirely true what i said. but pornhub tends to have "commercial" porn which is mostly from the US and is reaaaaly bad. they treat women worse than cattle in a slaughterhouse. if you look at stuff from asia in general (china / japan), you see the difference in quality. amateur stuff is also mostly good because people are in it voluntarily, instead of because they need money.

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Merz‘ Lob für China geht in der Volksrepublik viral

In einer Chatgruppe chinesischer Mieter wurden die verbreiteten Merz-Zitate derweil ebenfalls geteilt, breit diskutiert und ironisch kommentiert. „Haben Sie von China gelernt, die Work-Life-Balance zu ruinieren?“, wurde der Kanzler gefragt. Ein anderer bemerkte lakonisch: „Auch das ist ein kultureller Export.“

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It was just a kid's toy, you know.

fun fact: low doses of radiation are actually known to reduce cancer rates. there's quite a bit of research into it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hormesis#Radiation

In Taiwan, recycled radiocontaminated steel was inadvertently used in the construction of over 100 apartment buildings, causing the long-term exposure of 10,000 people. The average dose rate was 50 mSv/year and a subset of the population (1,000 people) received a total dose over 4,000 mSv over ten years. In the widely used linear no-threshold model used by regulatory bodies, the expected cancer deaths in this population would have been 302 with 70 caused by the extra ionizing radiation, with the remainder caused by natural background radiation. The observed cancer rate, though, was quite low at 7 cancer deaths when 232 would be predicted by the LNT model had they not been exposed to the radiation from the building materials. Ionizing radiation hormesis appears to be at work.

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Migrants say Germany's 'welcome culture' has soured as far-right parties rise

short anecdote:

I met a girl from afghanistan recently and it kinda made me understand why it's so important to accept these people. they've really been through a lot and not accepting them would be a bad mistake.

It's how people say: you're against migration until you've actually met some migrants.

Still, it sours me that we talk so much about migration and migrants and so little about the reasons for migration, which are the horrible wars that the US and allies have fought in afghanistan and nearby countries for long time for practically little to no reason. honestly, it's the US's fault, and they should take some responsibility and actually care for these people, even if only financially.