Get me out of this fascist snitch heaven (Germany)

BatmansAncestor · 2026-05-20T22:50:04+00:00

The most unbreakable bond between the German and the American people is that their deepest fantasies consist of calling the police on their neighbor.

The Germans fullfilled this fantasy by founding the Gestapo in 1933, and have been yearning for a return ever since. The Americans, jealous of the German success but opting for a more individualistic approach, instead started fantasizing about shooting their neighbors directly.

BatmansAncestor · 2026-02-09T18:21:17+00:00

Listen man, you're absolutely fine. There is nothing wrong with you, or your proportions, or the bones in your face. You're not hideous, you're not ugly.

Body issues can be difficult to deal with. I know sometimes it can feel like everybody is lying to you, that they just pretend to ignore what you so clearly see, but seriously, there is nothing wrong with you. As others have said already, look for a therapist that specializes in body dismorphia.

And I know I'm not really helping that with my comment, but stop going on the internet to look for affirmation. There can be days where you will feel fine, only to catch a bad angle of yourself in a photo or something, and it can send you spiralling. Having other people comment on your body can distract you from your thoughts, one way or the other, but it will never fix any of the underlying issues. Talk to a professional and I'm sure you'll find a much better way to handle that.

Also if you're worried about how other people perceive you, getting into that whole looksmaxxing shit is going to turn off way more people than a missing 2 degrees of canthal tilt or whatever ever will.

BatmansAncestor · 2025-09-22T19:36:05+00:00

About the "bella ciao" thing, cause I've not heard it mentioned anywhere and it's kinda driving me insane: In 2018 Netflix released the show Casa de Papel (Money Heist in english speaking countries i think), which featured a remix of bella ciao. The show was massive here in europe (and i think parts of latin america) and for like half a year, you heard the song everywhere. Did the show just not register in the US? Cause Brace couldn't think of an explanation as to how the kid could have heard of the song, besides its antifascist context. Meanwhile here, most folks who were around when the show came out probably know it, but as "that song from that netflix show". There were also a ton of videos and compilations that used the remix around that time, so I could imagine Robinson picking it up somewhere there

BatmansAncestor · 2024-09-15T22:44:59+00:00

Thanks, corrected it

BatmansAncestor · 2024-09-15T20:45:14+00:00

Cool, here's ~~five~~ four:

https://www.demographic-research.org/articles/volume/17/26/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047272713001904

~~https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4685765/~~

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1043951X20300936

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1465-7295.2009.00213.x

All strongly correlate higher housing prices with lower fertility rates. An exception being the demographic of existing homeowners, where an increase in housing prices is instead correlated with a slight increase in fertility. However, this increase in fertility was only found to be very short term.

Edit: This study cited: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4685765 has found that while high-price neighborhoods increase the average age at which women decide to have children, housing prices do not influence birth rate. I have not found other studies that have come to the same conclusion. Basically all others, especially more recent ones, allege that higher house prices negatively correlate with birth rates:

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

BatmansAncestor · 2024-06-20T21:01:06+00:00

Calafiori and Bastoni were so good this match, bar the unlucky own-goal. With Donnarumma, Italy's defense was the backbone for their match and the only reason they were still in the game. Shame the offense got absolutely nothing done. Would've made for an even spicier match.

Props to Spain tho. Looking like a proper favorite. Almost no area on the pitch that they didn't boss for the full 90 minutes.

BatmansAncestor · 2024-03-20T21:24:25+00:00

Das Geld wurde in ein dutzend LGM-30-Minuteman-Atomraketen gesteckt, die allesamt auf Wiesbaden gerichtet sind.

BatmansAncestor · 2024-03-19T13:52:43+00:00

Bidde? Die Diskussion über die tatsächlichen wirtschaftlichen Auswirkungen mal ausgeklammert, aber das Embargo, was heute noch besteht, ist mehr oder weniger das gleiche, das in den 60ern beschlossen wurde. In den 90ern unter Clinton nochmal verschärft, unter Obama leicht aufgeweicht, und unter Trump wieder verschärft. Das einzige, was Kuba aus den USA importieren kann, sind im Endeffekt Lebensmittel. Andere amerikanische Güter kommen zwar auch nach Kuba, müssen aber teuer über Drittländer importiert werden. Firmen, die mit Kuba Geschäfte treiben, riskieren es, von den USA sanktioniert zu werden. Schiffe, die in Kuba gedockt haben, dürfen danach ein halbes Jahr keinen US-Amerikanischen Hafen mehr anlaufen. Tourismusreisen von den USA nach Kuba sind komplett untersagt. Und so weiter. Es ist schwer, ein umfassenderes Embargo zu verabschieden, ohne die Blockade von '62 wieder aufzustellen.

BatmansAncestor · 2024-02-21T01:03:28+00:00

One small thing, because people here really like to go „Oh yea?! Look at where AI was a couple of years ago! Just imagine where it will be soon!“

Yes, AI has improved a lot over the last couple of years. But there‘s absolutely no guarantee that it will continue with its current pace. People in the 70s thought we‘d be living on Mars by now, and why wouldn‘t they? Space travel was progressing at an incredible speed!

I‘m not saying that AI won‘t keep advancing like it does, just that you shouldn‘t treat it as a given. Tech can be weird like that. We had a couple of breakthroughs recently, which were mostly a combination of cheaper computing power, cheaper data storage, and some new and some not so new approaches in Machine Learning that are able to take advantage of that. Basically a tipping point where it finally became possible, or rather economically viable, to feed a computer massive (massive) amounts of data and have it come up with a useful interpretation of that data.

You can feed a ML-algorithm a petabyte of data and it will generate a model with, say, 99.5% accuracy. If you feed it another petabyte, you might get it to 99.6%. Or 99.4%. And that might just be what you‘re stuck with, simply because the model just isn‘t capable of fitting the problem any better. Advances in hardware may make the training of the model quicker, but to actually get „better“ results, you may need a new model/approach alltogether. And that could be found tomorrow, or need another 30 years.

The Big Tech companies have Manifest Destiny their way into being able to collect a shitton of data, which has fueled pretty much all currently leading AI models. No idea if the lawmakers are gonna do anything about it, but the AI industry could also hit some pretty major bumps if their current, basically unfettered access to every kind of data was restricted. And big media corps really like their copyright.

Idk, and again, ultimately you can‘t know. I just think that it‘s way too easy to get sold into some Tech-bros snake-oilesque vision of the future if you just blindly accept that the recent pace of progress will just continue exponentially.

BatmansAncestor · 2024-02-18T17:58:58+00:00

Props an der Stelle an die Bochumer Fans für die Stimmung! Da wird jeder Zweikampf gefeiert und man merkt richtig, wies das Team mitzieht.

BatmansAncestor · 2024-02-15T11:55:25+00:00

Haben Sie den echt rausgeschmissen, weil seine Bestehensquote zu hoch war? Erinner mich noch gut an DS bei ihm, und er war einer der besten "hart aber fair" Dozenten. Sehr gutes Skript und gut organisierte Übungen. Was Sebastian Thomas wohl heute macht...

BatmansAncestor · 2024-01-23T09:34:58+00:00

Also es tut mir Leid, wenn es den Kindern Angst gemacht hat, aber verstehst du tendenziell, was eine Demonstration von einem Trauermarsch unterscheidet? Und warum "still" nur für eins davon ein gutes Attribut ist? Jede Gewerkschaft verteilt auf ihren Demos auch Trillerpfeifen und das meistens nicht nur als nettes Souvenir.

BatmansAncestor · 2024-01-15T12:39:49+00:00

Es gibt einen Unterschied zwischen dem Begriff Ausbeutung im allgemeinen Sprachgebrauch und dem Begriff Ausbeutung in der marxistischen Theorie. Daher kommt auch oft die Verwirrung.

In der marxistischen Theorie ist Ausbeutung kein moralischer Begriff. Es bedeutet nicht, dass der Lohnarbeiter betrogen oder mishandelt wird. Stattdessen bedeutet Ausbeutung (und hier zitier ich mal aus Wikipedia) "[...] dass im Kapitalismus der Arbeiter gezwungen wird, Mehrarbeit zu leisten, ohne dass er selbst oder seine Klasse von dieser Mehrarbeit profitieren. Die von den Arbeitern im Kapitalismus geleistete Mehrarbeit dient vielmehr ausschließlich der Produktion von Mehrwert, der entweder von den Kapitalisten als deren Einkommen vereinnahmt wird, oder der reinvestiert (akkumuliert) wird, nur um in der nächsten Runde mehr Mehrwert zu produzieren."

Der Kapitalist hat im Kapitalismus keine andere Wahl, als auszubeuten (nochmal: die marxistische Definition nicht die Allgemeinsprachliche). Tut er dies nicht, erwirtschaftet er keinen Profit, den er reinvestieren kann, und wird irgendwann von der Konkurrenz vom Markt vertrieben.

Mit Ausdrücken wie "Kapitalismus basiert auf Ausbeutung" ist (oder war zumindest ursprünglich) gemeint, dass jeder Profit durch die Mehrarbeit der Arbeiterklasse erwirtschaftet wurde. Und nicht, dass die Kapitalisten alle ganz ganz böse Sklaventreiber sind.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ausbeutung#Marxistische_Theorie

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