brot

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[–] brot@feddit.org 10 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

I'm actually shocked how different this case is being reported than others. Some migrant with psychological problems is killing people with knifes or his car? This is headline news for days. A german serial killer being discovered who killed 9 people? Nobody really cares as if old people are not real people or so.

[–] brot@feddit.org 8 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

There's also this alternate view from the top:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GotCNOgMN80

And let's be honest: Whoever uses a weapon like that in a crowd like that is playing with lifes. That can led to a crowd panic, which will kill people.

[–] brot@feddit.org 7 points 1 day ago

So if you start your work life at 16 and retire at 67, that will give you 51 years working, 14,5 years in retirement and 16 years as a child. That is the "best" case here in Germany, most people won't work that long, other countries have lower retirement ages and many people are doing additional schooling and university. But even that means that you have to put away / pay into retirement fund 14,5/51 = 28% of your income during your work life to support your retirement.

[–] brot@feddit.org 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Let's be honest: We knew that Elon was an asshole and totally batshit insane after the thailand caving incident. That was in 2018. Everybody who bought a Tesla after that didn't pay attention

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/15/elon-musk-british-diver-thai-cave-rescue-pedo-twitter

[–] brot@feddit.org 6 points 1 day ago

You don't need a kill switch. If you're flying F35 and the US decides to cut you off, you won't get replacement parts. Some repairs are only available in the US, so your fancy bird won't fly much longer

[–] brot@feddit.org 59 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There is an oversupply and China is reducing imports to protect their own industry:

https://www.euromeatnews.com/Article-China-will-investigate-beef-imports-as-oversupply-squeezes-prices/8068

It's also a great way to mess with Trump (and other conservative governments worldwide) as farmers are some of their most loyal supporters. And since the Trump gov won't do much against H5N1, it's also a great way to protect yourself.

[–] brot@feddit.org 41 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Reddit is calculating its MAU differently. They seem to be counting even not-logged-in users coming from search engines - without that numbers like "1 billion monthly active users" really don't make any sense and even that is a crazy metric, if you think about it. There is no way that 1/8 of humanity is browsing on Reddit in a month. Lemmy seems to count only users who are doing something (submitting, commenting, upvoting)

[–] brot@feddit.org 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The problem is that many companies can't do that as they can't give you their custom server code. The only solution here would be to change design from the beginning so that devices can work without servers and are also so secure that they don't need security updates

[–] brot@feddit.org 6 points 2 days ago

There is a difference between me reading a book and learning from it and one of the biggest companies in the world pirating millions of books for their business. And it really gets bad when normal users are getting sued for tenthousands of dollars when they download a book or a MP3 and Meta is getting defended for doing the same thing, but in a much larger scale.

Yes, we know that copyright is broken. But if it is broken, it has to be broken for all