There’s the BSW which has the social policy of the left, the economic policy of neoliberals and the reactionary policies of the nazis.

They are hardly better than full blown nazis and vote in lockstep with them on topics concerning minorities.

How about the burning dog in the burning café?

I was moreso referring to people who either plan to be able to flee the country or who plan on doing some “legal-if-jury-nullification” actions themselves.

After all, none of the small German resistance during the nazi era would’ve been able to do anything had their identities been known to the regime. The same applies to guerilla warfare against far more powerful enemies. Remaining low profile allows for dealing the most damage possible.

Being loud and public only works for democracies, not for fascist dictatorships.

Honestly? I’m just continuing to survive for the most part. While not everything you wrote applies to me, a lot does. For me life is approximately a 3/10 - a passing grade for a difficult exam (Analysis 1 & 2, my behated. I got a 43% though 😎).

Plus I’ve got a lot of plausible deniability left since I haven’t actually started seeking help which provides a lot of hope actually. I’d actually prefer keeping it over trying and failing to find help which isn’t really a great incentive for reaching out.

I also realize that there’s not a lot that can be worse than it is right now. Maybe drug addiction? Still, the only real paths I see ahead are further stagnation or improvement. And while the though of remaining alone forever hurts (badly), I’ve got plenty of time left alive and therefore an incomprehensible amount of chances as well.

Finally, as stupid as it sounds, what gets me through my day is a comfortable bed. I genuinely know no pleasure greater than snuggling up under a warm blanket on a cold night. Bonus points if you’ve got plushies to keep you company. Hell, I’m even typing this on my phone while buried under a layer (or two) of plushies an hour after waking up. It does make getting up more of a challenge though.

Tl;dr Plushies and hope. At least the first one is reasonably easy to obtain.

Just in case any Americans need to hear it:

You may not necessarily want to donate to this fundraiser, depending on your future plans. You will almost certainly face increased monitoring after donating and you may want to remain low-profile in a fascist US.

Eh, America would ally itself with Russia anyways. Might as well invest into weakening the Eastern front first.

Me and @[email protected] (we were both equally as creative when naming our accounts)

Section 230 doesn’t apply to lemmy.world already because their instance is hosted in the EU and has to comply with laws that make them responsible for what’s posted already. Or rather, responsible if content isn’t removed quickly.

It’s also why comments supporting Luigi Mangione’s alleged murder are removed as they would make lemmy.world liable.

It was a 24 year old man from Afghanistan.

Germany is now almost guaranteed to have a far-right majority after the next election

This doesn’t explain why a truck can drive at double digits mph with the trailer up.

That’s like the most basic safety mechanism the manufacturer could implement.

I’m not sure whether that difference is statistically significant though since there are only a couple of left sources included.

Ah, we’re both right.

I assumed that the tax would result in whole numbers but upon further inspection (i.e. trying it out it in a calculator) it turns out that few prices would result in values that don’t have overhanging millidollars.

The solution is obviously to force prices to be whole dollar and to further allow sale taxes only in increments of 5%.

No?

Say there is a tax of x and someone purchases both a and b.

The total would be:

total = x * (a + b)
      = x * a + x * b

As long as all items result in an amount that doesn’t have to be rounded if purchased individually then the combined amount will not have to be rounded either.

Ah, turns out I’m somewhat wrong. From what I can tell, the city centers in the US are denser but if you include the entire city Europe has generally denser cities.

Most US cities are significantly taller in the center due to skyscrapers and highrises. Most European cities are more “horizontal” in that regard by having many multi-story apartment blocks instead of a handful of highrises.

Sure, but I’d argue the largest aspect is cultural.

There’s a reason France’s protests are significantly more disruptive than those of other European nations, despite similar social resources and significantly worse police brutality.

I mean, the US has denser cities than most of Europe. It’s not impossible to have large-scale demonstrations with hundreds of thousands of protestors in them.

I suspect it’s just that most Americans aren’t all that interested in changing the status quo for the better. The amount of apathy is perhaps only topped by Russia.

You can’t take days off for protests in Germany either.

Which is why protests are almost always held on the weekend to allow as many people as possible to join them, since significantly fewer people are working.

It’s a win-win either way.

Although I’m almost rooting for Meta just so that copyright is weakened at all. The damage copyright has done to culture and science might even exceed Meta’s damage to society.

Are you sure? From everything I’ve heard MP3 bitrates at 192 or above are generally considered to be transparent.

In case you want to do it more scientifically, try ABX testing. It’s a bit time consuming but it should provide clearer results.

not having enough therapists or having too many people who seek them

Neither actually. The health insurances are allowed to decide amongst themselves how many therapists are covered. And this number hasn’t been adjusted (much) since 1999 even though demand has skyrocketed since then.

Approximately 50% of therapists in Germany cannot accept public health insurance. Yet there is enough demand from the 10% of Germans with private health insurance ( + those who pay for therapy thenselves) to keep those therapists afloat.

In other words:

12.5% of Germans have been diagnosed with depression => 9.5 million people officially diagnosed which is certainly an underreported figure.

There are ~24,000 therapists in Germany.

As a result, there are 396 people with depression per therapist - meaning if every therapist worked 40 hours per week with 1 hour per client you’d have to wait 10 weeks between sessions.

Now add all other mental illnesses which would require therapy and you’d get an even larger number.

Sure, not everyone diagnosed with depression requires therapy. But this doesn’t excuse the obvious lack of paid therapists - which is openly acknowledged by the public health insurances but they are not legally required to change anything.

I think that was the main ingredient (some ring at least) but there was definitely an -ol in it as well because I read the back.