What else am I missing?

The fact that 90% of people don't give a shit about ads, privacy or their operating system in general. They want a machine to open a browser, that's it. If Windows comes pre-installed, they'll use Windows.

The only realistic chance we've got is that MS shoots itself in the foot once more by all that Recall crap and businesses drop Windows. But that's a long shot.

Thing is, statements like the one in the post are just as ignorant as the claimed "enemy".

You know what else takes 28 days? A moon cycle. We have absolutely no context, what this means. A period tracker bone is a perfectly valid hypothesis, but without any proof or context nothing more than this. It could have been used for moon phases, sheep counting, trade, or simply for testing stone knives.

Even if ai took over 90% of all coding work, that still wouldn't affect more than maybe two hours a day.

Wait until you hear about languages where everything is gendered.

We're currently debating, whether BürgerInnen, Bürger:innen or "Bürgerinnen und Bürger" is the proper way to address all citizens. This is not even about anything LGBTQ, it's simply acknowledgement of the concept of non-male people (which is really hard for some conservatives).

Distörbing.

That's kind of its point, isn't it?

Ok, real talk: is that actually legal? It's definitely fraud, but can you fraudulently sell illegal substances?

I know this is meant as a joke, but I have to say, it's incredibly hard to get proper audio equipment without paying idiot tax like crazy.

I want neither China crap, nor overengineered German CD shavers (those really exist, BTW), but just decent audio. If you look for reviews, everything under 2000€ is utter garbage, apparently, and you should be sterilized for even thinking about spending less than that. Or you go on Amazon and even a brick wall will have stellar reviews, because it sounds really awesome and even has Bluetooth!

Extremely frustrating. No middle ground.

Paying 420€ per month at most for comprehensive healthcare and 49€ per month for regional/urban public transportation nationwide is really a chore.

And additionally, I even have to live with the burden of getting my master's degree almost for free! It's horrible over here! I can barely enjoy my 30 vacation days thinking about the situation!

Formerly Frederik Twitter.

It won't. Some people will scream bloody murder, most people will ignore it.

SO was in decline anyway. Most answers you'll find are several years old and outdated, because some idiot thought the new ones are duplicates.

So now a few people will leave, the spamming idiots will keep spamming the platform with low effort nonsensical answers and its relevance will dwindle just a bit faster.

Look at Reddit. Last year there was a huge outrage and today it's pretty much the same as before.

Most people don't care. Most people feel so powerless, that they'll accept every privacy scandal, every exploitive business strategy, every sellout of their platform.

I have to say, patents are my only real concerns regarding GMOs.

Most of the other concerns can be tested/ruled out, but patents could absolutely fuck up entire continents and literally enslave millions of small farmers.

It's 100% within the realm of possibilities that Monsanto puts a gene drive in their crops so suddenly every plant in a 20km radius produces "patented" seeds.

Killbots have a hardwired kill limit.

Energy prices are higher than in many other countries here, but not super high - especially not for businesses.

The real problem is that Germany is an gerontocracy that got complacent. Literally every change, whatsoever, will find at least 50 people arguing against it, because it could slighty affect their bottom line or their view. The result is a country that ground to a halt.

This is true in the business world, politics, science, administration. There are just too many old people that are afraid to lose anything.

Our car manufacturers straight ignored anything electric until Tesla built a factory literally on their door steps, our politicians willfully sabotaged wind and solar power (where we were world leading, at the time!) in favor of coal, because coal workers are somehow 10x more important than anyone else, our administration is still using paper everywhere, everything takes tons of useless paperwork, just because fucking Annegret thinks computers are a fad, our immigration system is almost nonexistant, since "we're not an immigration country" despite something like 25% of the people here migrated, we don't let refugees work, despite having literally too few workers to stock shelves at Aldi for 15% above minimum wage.

As a young German, I have to say, I'm afraid this country is fucked. But not because of any grand economical failure, but because the Germans as a people are idiots - luckily we're only killing ourselves this time.

Sounds a lot like alcoholism.

So you chose war?

.... And they're able to make chips good enough for their military.

Russia's military is in large parts only slightly refurbished soviet gear. For a T72 or even T90, a 90s era chip is still good enough.

Why do you think they dismantled all those washing machines? The microcontrollers in there aren't high tech at all.

They probably cost next to nothing to produce, so even a small audience will make them profitable.

I wonder, if you could just cycle through the same 5 movies without anyone noticing.

Thing is, you have to measure from the user base on the underside, this graphic obviously uses the wrong method.

Ich frage mich jedes Mal aufs neue, warum Merz von den Medien überhaupt noch dargestellt wird. Ganz ohne jede Polemik kann man mittlerweile sagen, dass die allermeisten seiner Aussagen schlicht falsch sind. Ob gelogen oder unwissend ist dabei egal.

Warum findet dieser Mann ohne meterlange Einordnung noch statt? Wie kann die ARD einen offensichtlich falschen O-Ton von ihm einspielen und das einfach so stehen lassen? Was machen diese Journalisten eigentlich beruflich? Einordnung ja schon mal nicht.