Considering you said you’re german, I think the whole Idea of “Ehrenamt” and subsidiaries of it runs counter to the entire system that has been built. If we monetize everything, I think it’s fine that people get paid for taking time out of their day and bodies to do good shit.
Basically, don’t do unpaid labour in this system?
IR Smoke Detectors with IOT would do the trick here and seem a likely choice on account of they didn’t include some bullshit about AI recognition, but it also makes them hilariously easy to game. Just spray some axe near it, you know us teenage boys, we smell. Or hell, dust.
also bypasses anyone in the IT Department having a shred of conscience because you don’t even gotta really connect to the local network
One of the worst things you can do to the environment folks. Don’t bear children. Don’t invite another being into this madness and suffering.
As is continuing to live so why don’t you follow through on that line of thought here
Like me personally or like societally?
I’m like 50:50 on whether I’ll live to see the FRONTEX Iron Curtain because given what the EU is, where do you go from here? I mean you’re not going to un-neoliberal the EU so I’m kind of wondering what the options here are
It seems largely fallen out of favour but I’m genuinely wondering how Teamspeak is still going and hasn’t succumbed to enshittification
Buddy the other option here is not them managing to deal with it, psych health care in germany is abysmally absent, it’s becoming alcoholics
I switched from Shotcut to Kdenlive as it seemed a lot more feature rich to me, still FOSS obviously
YMMV on the CDU vis a vis being fascists but I’d argue you can look back at Adenauers “Radikalenerlass” (“Radical Decree” or something) that purported to stop extremists from both sides from holding certain important jobs and somehow managed to find 1000 left wing extremists for every right winger in '70s germany.
Doesn’t matter, judiically. The german parliament approves it, therefore it’s fine.
If North Korea brought this case I’d take a similar double-take and ask questions.
What makes you think Nicaragua is similar to North Korea?
Not even international law, but their own civil laws.
Speaking for germany I’m unsure as to what you’re getting at here on a judicial level. Any arms sale has to be approved by the parliament, as such I don’t see much hope for a civil law suit here.
made me realise that this place is a piece of shit with absolutely zero empathy for anyone.
Is every person the king of england or how do you get to this conclusion?
was the handlebar fine tho
Yeah I’d argue this is probably true for bigger pets but the LD50 of stuff on your 2lb guinea pig is hit shockingly fast. Gotta watch out for the small, furry comrades
Buy the cheapest version of it and of you use it enough to either break it or figure out what parts of the design you don’t like it’s a good sign spending a little extra on a better version isn’t a waste.
Agree’d, albeit with the caveat that if it’s about screws, you wanna spend at least some money on the part that actually connects with the screws, so, the bits. Doesn’t really matter all that much if your harbour freight e-motor on your drill burns out, if you fuck up all the screws on whatever you’re working on with shit bits that’s gonna be a hassle.
But even then, that’s like “pay more than the $0 free offer on alibaba” territory of spending. After that, the dimensions and tolerances are fine, it’s just gonna be longevity.
Most stuff on a bicycle for the average person unless it’s carbon, plastics or electronics. Including safety stuff. Some caveat if you wanna huck yourself off a mountain or do like 100kph descents on your roadbikes.
But for the most stuff? The cheap shit works absolutely fine because at it’s core it’s bits of formed metal with threads attached connected by steel wires. Very hard to fuck any of that up to the point it becomes dangerous. I keep seeing parts being rated as SAFETY LEVEL 5 E-BIKE READY as if the metal rod that is my handlebar usually disintegrates once I hit the ludicrous speed of [checks notes] 25kph. Your $2 Alibaba Special V-Brakes are, at worst, gonna have garbage springs so it doesn’t return to not-braking great, but you’re not gonna like snap them in half even if you were a gorilla riding a bicycle.
I’m not arguing pro ICE cars over EV cars, I’m arguing against cars, be they EV or ICE
All I’m getting out of this is further proof that the “general publics” sense of safety exists entirely removed from anything fact based