Shhhh! We keep up that reputation deliberately so not even more people come here and worsen the housing crisis ;)

They might be nicer, but they won't change their political views. Voters in Germany generally have their basic needs met (thanks to Art. 1 GG). Around 80% of them are still explicitly supporting right-wing political parties on the federal level, whose policies will leave most Germans poorer than they were before.

The unfortunate reality is that a lot of people - even when they don't want to say it - have an underlying belief in a hierarchy of "betters" and "others" that they want to uphold. And sadly, no amount of education has proven suitable to fix that.

To anwer what I consider your deeper question, there are generally only two paths to financial security:

1. Inherit (either your own family or marry into one)
2. Invest in your own human capital to maximize the income you can earn per work hour, then start saving enough of that income into buying partial ownership of the economy (e.g. via stock market capitalization-weighted index funds).

Working more hours, which "passive income" strategies almost always equate to, just robs you of what little free time you have on this planet. Almost nobody thinks on their deathbed "I wish I had spent more hours of my life working".

school pretty much failed to teach me the right way of life.

The education system's job is giving you the opportunity to maximize your human capital. It may have failed you there, but that doesn't mean you need to abandon that pursuit.

Is it possible to make some form of passive income from sidehustles?

In the binary way you worded this: No. You must always leverage something to generate income. Different methods require different levels of activity, though.

Die dem zu Grunde liegende Realität, derer sich mMn viele Deutsche verweigern, ist dass sie rechts sind. Die Parteien bieten ja für alle einsehbare und seit mehreren Legislaturperioden ziemlich konsistente Wahlprogramme an. Außer vielleicht Erstwählern kann niemand behaupten darüber nicht informiert zu sein. Und ja, ich bezog mich u.A. auch auf Agenda 2010.

Mein persönliches Problem liegt auch nicht darin, dass rechts gewählt wird - das gehört halt zur Parteiendemokratie dazu. Was mich ankotzt sind die ganzen Leute, die (wie der Mensch dem ich antwortete) hier online oder auch gerne in Wählerbefragungen behaupten das sei ja gar nicht rechts.

Und ja, mir stößt Antisemitismus auch auf. Aber wer (nicht der dem ich hier vorhin antwortete, aber schon genug gesehen) bei einem Bundeskanzler, der einfach mal alle Juden als Ausländer abstempelt, oder dessen Partei mit der AfD zusammen neue Stolpersteine verbieten lässt, nichts sagt, aber bei Israelkritik die Schnappatmung kriegt und bei Vergesellschaftung nach Art. 15 GG von der DDR schwafelt, entlarvt sich halt als jemand, der mit zweierlei Maß misst.

Wasting it, if it can at all be avoided.

Now do the same for generic/vacuous travelling pictures in a majority of womens' dating profiles ;)

Finally someone who at least knows the difference between the WWW and the Internet...

My parents grew up in the ruins of post WWII Germany, so that has certainly impacted their raising of me.

But even setting that aside, deliberately wasting food is a disrespect to all the life that needed to end for you to have it. Be it flora, fauna, or fungi.

With gnupg, git, and a hardware security token. Also known as "pass".

"Wir gehen in den Reichstag hinein, um uns im Waffenarsenal der Demokratie mit deren eigenen Waffen zu versorgen. Wir werden Reichstagsabgeordnete, um die Weimarer Gesinnung mit ihrer eigenen Unterstützung lahmzulegen. Wenn die Demokratie so dumm ist, uns für diesen Bärendienst Freifahrkarten und Diäten zu geben, so ist das ihre eigene Sache.

Vielleicht Mal zur Aufklärung: Links vs rechts ist die Achse des ökonomischen Klassenkampfes (arme) Arbeitende vs (reiche) Vermögende. Bei jeder Bundesregierung, an der die Bundesgrünen beteiligt waren (und hier ging es um den Bund, nicht die Länder), haben die Vermögenden mehr von der Wertschöpfung der Arbeitenden abbekommen, als vorher.

Es war zwar ein geringerer Anstieg als er bei nur noch rechteren Parteien gewesen wäre, aber die Bundesgrünen nicht als rechts einzuordnen ist Realitätsverweigerung zu Gunsten von Identitätspolitik.

The new Framework Desktop with 192GB unified memory, specifically for LLM inference. I've looked at the numbers and there's no scenario for me in which it's economically sensible to upgrade from 20GB gpu vram + rent EU API inference for larger models. Even if the tokens became more expensive by factor of 10 overnight, by the time the hardware paid for itself it would already long be obsolete.

It's an impressive machine, but I just can't justify the purchase.

German neoliberals (which most CEOs of our larger corporations are) and empirical data don't really mesh well. It's why most of them still clutch the neoclassical "school" of economics, which has zero empirical data behind its basic assumptions.

If only there was a mechanism for new companies to challenge and outcompete dinosaurs. Unfortunately, the regulatory capture emerging from capitalism and explicitly supported by our electorate means barriers of entry are drawn such that it's almost impossible to challenge entrenched wealth, unless being backed by rival entities of comparable wealth.

Should've just used the Thrawn Trilogy as Episodes VII through IX. But that would've eventually lead to ::: spoiler spoiler Chewie dying on Sernpidal ::: and think how much that would've hurt merchandise sales...

The solution is to stop treating politics like a brief interruption of your normal life around election time, after which you go back to being a passive pawn - which is what most people in the USA have been doing since Reagan at the latest.

Join a union, stand for local elections, organize strikes. All year round. If you cannot afford to do so right now, start/join local mutual help communities designed to save enough collective time for one of their members to do so. Reject the hyperindividualism injected into your culture by the wealthiest few permille specifically to hinder your ability to gain collective bargaining power.

Your only bloodless path towards victory is creating a convincing enough economic threat to the personal wealth of elected politicians as a balancing counter force.

Continue to fail to do so (as a people) and all voting for the lesser evil does is buy you time you're then wasting.

Ah, yes, the duality of USA's foreign policy w.r.t to the EU: We want you to pay (us) more and take on more responsibility for your own defense, but only in such a way that we still get to keep all our soft and hard power over you.

This may have become more obvious under Trump, but this is nothing new to anyone paying attention since the late 90s / early 00s.

Status condition recovery items are even worse, because you have to stock them, just in case there's ever a fight that you really need them in, but then finish the game without ever having needed even a single one.

I don't know, but his death was the primary reason they killed the Expanded Universe. The merchandise aspect is my cynic interpretation, because the stated non-reason why it'd be a problem makes zero sense.

Have you been aware of it? Have you tried it?

I've been aware of it more or less since the beginning of the project. General thoughts:

• They seem to have looked at XMPP and thought to themselves "let's reinvent this, but with an even more complicated tech stack and less clear specification".
• When asked about allowing proper account deletion their response was... well, judge for yourself.

Are you an active Discord user?

No, it's a proprietary system with an unacceptable privacy policy.

Are you an active Matrix user? If so, what do you like/dislike about it?

No. Their approach to privacy is unacceptable to me in any circumstance other than being paid to use it (as part of a job).

Broadly speaking, do you think there is value in what Matrix is doing?

In general? Sure, it has users that could be using something else, so it seems to have value to them. To me personally? No.

How do you see it fitting in with the rest of the Fediverse?

Afaiu there are bridges people can use to connect services, should they want to. So, like every other part of a federated network?

Personally, I'd much rather use Zulip or Mattermost, given the option.

The cruelty.

Revel in the hedonic treadmill for too long - with nearly every human experience available to you at a moment's notice - like the wealthiest few tend to do, eventually the only joy you can feel comes from dominating other people.