I'm amazed at the American obsession with voting machines. A properly organised hand count has an amazingly low error rate. I distinctly remember an article about 20 years ago stating, that even the then newest scanning vote counting machines had an error rate higher than hand counting.

Yes "a human" makes mistakes. But multiple humans paying attention at the same time and also keeping each other honest do a tremendously good job.

And, as a bonus, the old school method has a tremendously low error rate.

I remember an article in a renowned computer mag about 20 years ago measuring error rates. The newest and greatest voting machine, at the time, still had way worse error rates than hand counting. Never mind everything that was around before. Maybe the most modern systems can achieve the same error rates as hand counting, dunno, haven't been keeping up.

I was absolutely floored with how bad the error rates of lever operated mechanical machines used to be. How anyone accepted those anywhere near a democracy was beyond me.

I see where your confusion comes from. You think you have a pancake there =) To me that looks more like a Austrian Kaiserschmarrn. Delicious, but how are you supposed to put a spread on that and roll it up?

Though your point stands that pancakes are just close approximations of proper crêpe. =)

Vor allem glaube ich Habeck, dass der nicht Klientel-Politik gemacht hat, um sich oder Nahestehenden die Taschen voll zu machen. Ich glaube Habeck, dass er tatsächlich Wirtschaftspolitik für ganz Deutschland machen wollte. In der Art, wie ich es anderen eben nicht glaube.

Hier finde ich den japanischen Ansatz charmant: man darf sich da nur dann ein Auto kaufen, wenn man einen eigenen Stellplatz dafür nachweisen kann. In der Straße von meinem Elternhaus hat einer gewohnt, der hatte bei nur einer eigenen Einfahrt einfach mal vier Autos besessen und Anspruch auf die gesamte Bürgersteiglänge in der Umgebung seines Reihenhauses erhoben. Dass seine Nachbarn jeweils vor ihrem eigenen Haus mal ihr eigenes Auto abstellen wollten oder gar Besuch empfangen wollten, wollte der nicht einsehen.

The American use of the word "moderate" irks me anyway. An American "moderate" Democrat passes as a non-rabid conservative elsewhere. The Overton-Window has been shifted to the right to an extent that's not funny anymore.

Gute Nachrichten. Die Schokoladenration wird von 40g auf 20g erhöht.

Only if there are ways out for the elite. Otherwise it's essentially a defense co-op. If you believe your country is using the military in ethically wrong ways, that's the actual problem, not the draft.

It's in a lot of ways a modern equivalence to a Peeping Tom. People vehemently don't want to be recorded without their consent. Doubly so if it's done underhandedly.

100km/h in those contraptions? Those were some truly courageous mad lads.

It's not about whether a perpetrator deserves to live or not. It's about the reliabilty of the judicial system. Even this day and age with our amazing forensic techniques, plenty of innocent people get indicted instead of the actual perpetrators. It's also about what executing people does to the society doing the executions. Honestly, I have tons of sympathy for the character Hawkeye in Avengers: Endgame. However in this sort of fiction the people getting killed absolutely certainly are guilty. Reality is much more messy than that.

Imo dürften Marken gar nicht übertragbar sein. Unternehmen oder Produktion gekauft? Herzlichen Glückwunsch, jetzt steht dein Name auf der Umpackung. Das ist ja, was eine Marke sein sollte: die Bezeichnung der Herstellerfirma. Und Tochtergesellschaften, Holdings und so ein Müll sollten egal sein. Namen des letztendlichen Eignersndrauf und gut.

Würde mich echt interessieren, ob die keine Beratung in Anspruch genommen haben

Die haben wohl pünktlich vor dem Krieg Ihre Nahost-Experten entlassen. Quelle: https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2026-03-19/state-department-cut-jobs-with-deep-expertise-in-middle-east-as-iran-crisis-escalates

Ich denke nicht, dass der innere Zirkel Beratung in irgendeiner Art und Weise zu schätzen weiß.

It's the other way round. Trump repeated again and again and again that the borders were a problem until people believed it and believed it was something important.

That gave him something none substantive to run on without coming up with real policies.

Check out the Powel Memorandum. From the 70s moneyed interests started to systematically shift power to the wealthy and large corporations. They created think tanks like the Heritage Foundation to give the project the veneer of scientific legitimation. Reagan was the first to accept a policy blue print from Heritage. Since then they have been working to stack the courts, form government policy and legislate a shift if money and power to the few. Trump is reaping the benefits of what has been prepared since Reagan. Trickle down economy was one of the greatest scams of all time.

Sounds like they are reinventing the main frame, just without the specialized hardware support that guarantees things go right.

Some would argue it misses the topic, but I'll offer the Unix text editor wars. Vi vs. Emacs is pretty much the epitome of a pointless religious war in people's favourite activity, though for some that's obviously their job.

Why do I mention it? Because most would just look at it and say: obviously none of the above, what are you even talking about? But those in the know have been heatedly debating the topic since at least the 80s.. (I'm team vi for what it's worth)

Well, Andor seems to be worth the watch. But I'm not subbing to Disney for that and generally share your sentiment. One of these days I'll find Andor in Discs...

Naja, wenn staatliche Strukturen aufgelöst werden, wird das Machtvakuum ja nicht bestehen bleiben. Thiel strebt keine Anarchie als solche an. Er will nur selbst in keiner Weise durch einen separat legitimierten Staat ausgebremst werden. Ich vermute es werden Konzerne die Lücken mit nicht demokratisch legitimierten Strukturen füllen. Thiel sprach doch auch von neo-feudalen Ideen. Ob er ein theoretisch reiner Faschist ist seinmal dahingestellt. Aber er will irgendwas mit einem starken Mann an der Spitze.

"was ist der Unterschied zwischen einem Millionär und einem Milliardär? - Ziemlich genau eine Milliarde"

Der einfache Millionär ist fast schon Mittelschicht. Leute, die mit einem Partner zusammen auf 4k bis 5k kommen halte ich für obere Arbeiterklasse, nicht Mittelschicht.

Ich weiss nicht, ob die sich bewusst sind, wie gut 3k-4k bereits sind...