Demokratie ist, wenn ich zu jedem Thema irgendwelche kindischen Maximalposition und gehypten Idealvorstellungen vertreten muss, weil ne moderatere Position im Meinungs- und Propagandakampf gegen die andere Seite mit weniger Zurückhaltung untergehen würde und damit selbst die moderate Position unmöglich machte, es sei denn, die Maximalposition ist tatsächlich vernünftig, dann ist sie verboten.
Die Manege macht Clowns aus uns allen. Sad Honk.
In El Salvador, there are billboards everywhere that say “El dinero alcanza cuando nadie roba” which translates to “there’s enough money when no one steals.”
I spend a month or two there every year and it’s beyond words what he’s been able to accomplish in such a little time.
And it makes all the fraud here feel 100x worse because it’s proof we could stop/prevent it if our “leaders” really wanted to.
We could have Utopia. Don’t let anyone tell you differently.
Ausländer ins Land zu lassen ist eine Art Erbschaftssteuer im Großen. Meine Ahnen haben mit ihrem Blut den Osten gehalten, haben als Ingenieure und Bauherren wortwörtlich das Land aufgebaut, haben als Künstler zu seiner Kultur beigetragen. Und ihr Werk soll jetzt an Fremde gehen?
Idk man, it's just weird as hell that the entire western world, even Japan, is just all in on harboring barbarically violent tribal third worlders regardless of the people's wants and needs
It's weird as hell to watch ultra racist nations go all in on bending over backwards for third worlders seemingly out of nowhere all together at the same time.
It’s amazing Western leaders aren’t ashamed to pretend they’re so helpless. In reality, if we saw the real limits of what our will and imagination could achieve, we would stare in speechless awe, unable at first to comprehend it. The fucking French built 34 nuclear plants in five years during the 1980s, get yourselves together!!!!
Many people don't understand just how brutal diminishing returns in theoretical physics were.
Physics barely existed before 1820. After 1970, there was essentially nothing left to discover.
In 1819 there were probably less than 100 full-time paid physicists in the whole world.
By 2026 there are probably about a million physicists across academia and industry, and that number was already huge in the 1970s when physics sort of "ended" with QCD and electroweak unification.
A small, brave band of gentlemen-scholars and amateurs worked out the most important parts of physical law in the 1800s. People doing it as a hobby!
Today, vast armies of professionals equipped with supercomputers toil away in the quantum gravity dungeon, unable to make progress.
Diminishing returns are brutal.
The US Secretary of War announced that an American submarine had torpedoed an Iranian warship, and that "this is the first torpedo sinking of an enemy ship since World War II." He was clearly proud of it.
The fact that this happened off the coast of Sri Lanka means that the war with Iran no longer has regional boundaries. From now on, it is a global war. This has a downside: the US is far more vulnerable than Iran to strikes outside the theater of operations. In an all-out war, it would suffer far greater losses.
But more importantly, at this moment, the entire world once again saw that the US knows no bounds. They kill and will kill anyone, simply because they believe it benefits them.
Hegseth's boastful speech will damage the US's reputation as much as all of Trump's somersaults.
Good places have no black and brown people in them.
The more of them there are in an area, the worse that area is. There are no exceptions to this and there never will be.
There is no way to separate the "good ones" from the rest. As soon as you let in one, the rest are following close behind.
French take: only unrefined cuisine rely on dousing their foods with seasoning.
If making your food good is based on seasoning, you have no cooking skills. Good cuisine rely on texture and the alliance of the flavours of the underlying ingredients.
Your reliance on magic powder to give tastes to your cuisine is just a skill issue.
A good carbonara? You only need a bit of salt and pepper.
A good tartare steak? Same.
A good purée mousseline? Same.
And because Germans are a people of order and holistic hierarchy, they were the centripetal force of occidental Europe, which was ultimately destroyed by anglo-french »liberty«, leading to oikophobic revolution, social alienation, the exhaustion of Western European nations in colonial enterprises that only served a hostile elite, that ultimately destroyed Europe in the 20th Century.
I find it funny that Benjamin uses the same old psychological cliches that Carroll Quigley and all the other apologists of US-Globalism have used to pathologize ethnocentric Europeans. Especially since the UK is as much of a repressive regime as is the EU.
Monatlicher Reminder, dass wir die Masse des Elektrons auf die 10. Nachkommastelle genau bestimmt haben, aber niemand weiß, was die durchschnittliche Strafhöhe für Körperverletzung in Deutschland ist.
@ClickingSeason The guiding principle of respecting the outdoors is leaving no trace. The little Reddit Rock Towers violate that, it is really that simple.