For me it's Metal music. It's just absolutely not my genre but an overwhelming amount of metalheads I met were just the nicest, most wholesome and fun people all around.

I recently read an article that suggested the best retaliation would be to stop enforcing US intellectual property in the EU. One of the biggest exports they have is media, if we would stop enforcing their copyright it would cost them a lot of money.

We had to flip the mouses around at the end of every computer class so the teacher could check all the mouse balls were still there.

I still can't wrap my head around who this is meant to be for. Fans that are old enough to have grown up with the original series are never going to like this and fans that are younger will still have seen the old series. It's not like it's so old it's unwatchable.

I don't understand how anybody in an executive position thought this was a good idea, especially because there is loads of stuff you could make a show about in the wizarding world universe (cough marauders cough).

So it was 30 years ago. I feel like, even though things are far from perfect now, nowadays a comment like this would draw quite a few more critical looks than back then.

Love how the dog is like "No, the other cat" even though the cat didn't say anything. It's just the wrong cat in the Panel lol

One of the most important numbers? I'd argue the most important number in computing is either 1 or 0...

Steuerhinterziehung ist natürlich nie gut, aber ich bin ganz ehrlich, solange hier amerikanische Milliardenkonzerne überhaupt nicht zur Kasse gebeten werden, tue ich mich schwer mich über den Handwerker, der keine Rechnung rausgibt oder den Dönermann, der nur jeden zweiten Döner verbucht wirklich aufzuregen.

Ich weiß, das ist ein bisschen whataboutism, aber das sind echt so gravierende Unterschiede, was da wirklich an Schaden für die Gesellschaft passiert.

I also work in 3D and I wanna say yes. If we're talking solely about the technical aspect, real-time render today can definitely hold up to, or even surpass, the quality of renders from 30 years ago.

If it would look exactly the same and how much work it would be to recreate the entire movie in a real time engine is another question.

The key card thing is seriously infuriating, both from a consumer standpoint and from a media conservation standpoint.

Basically you own a game cartridge, but as soon as Nintendo shuts down their servers for whatever reason it becomes a useless piece of plastic. They really don't want us to own anything anymore.

Holy shit what is up with the reddit mods? I posted a screenshot of a Mastodon post there yesterday, that basically said if youre switching us big tech for eu big tech you're not doing enough and that we have to support decentralized tech. Deleted in 5 minutes because it "posts should be relevant to european made products"

Been saying this for years. Todays rich people are fucking bad at being rich. It's truly a skill issue.

The orange trashbag who ran every bussiness he owned into the ground didn't get the egg prices down? Well, color me suprised.

It's important to note that this isn't a hunch. This has been studied and proven. We know this is happening and nobody is doing anything on a political level to stop it.

I've been saying that for years. So many fantastic FOSS applications are obviously made by engineers for engineers.

I'm glad this is finally being looked at because I've been saying this for years and I feel like the vast majority doesn't realize how bad this is.

If you look at social media use and the rise of the far right over the last 15 years, they pretty much go hand in hand. Sure, that isn't proof for anything, but it's alarming and needs to be studied further.

In Germany, we have safeguards that prevent a single media outlet to gain too much power over controlling the public opinion. We have this for TV stations, news papers etc. Just not social media. Because social media wasn't even on the horizon when this law was put in place.

I think it's insane that we just let foreign profit driven companies steer the public opinion and discourse in our society and we finally have to start to heavily regulate them.

I've been following the German election campaign very closely and the only time social media was even mentioned was when a young lady in one of the town hall formats asked if there were any plans to deal with the danger of social media in the context of impact on young people's development. The question was put to Alice Weidel. Her answer was basically “No idea. I haven't dealt with it yet”.

That was it. Otherwise, the topic wasn't even mentioned in any discussion round.

But every single discussion round opened with “the topic that every German is talking about”: migration migration migration migration. Wonder why everybody is talking about that?

I would like to emphasize this sentence from the article because it is simply true:

What we do in these next few months will determine whether Europe's liberal democracy survives or is lost for ever.

Something has to happen NOW, but nobody is talking about it. It's really exasperating.

It's called "Theory of Mind". It's basically the concept of understanding that other people know things that you don't and it starts when children are around the age of three. VSauce talked about it in one of is videos. It's incredibly interesting: https://youtu.be/evQsOFQju08?t=5m50s

This. Also, he apparently still doesn't understand how tarifs work. Is he still under the impression the country he puts the tarifs on pays them and not the company who imports from them?

Good boy. Maybe too good.