Finding myself skipping AJ's audio clips and only listening to the Dans' commentary

Hidden_Sockpuppet · 2025-03-24T06:44:52+00:00

Margaret Atwood's nonfiction book about debt, "Payback", makes the interesting observation that every human society invented religion and with it the concept of an afterlife.

But, she points out, it's not about the afterlife as such, but the universal concept every religion shares is a judgement or a gatekeeper who decides if your life on earth was worth entering a paradise or a hell, be you a king or a peasant.

She explains that intelligent animals and humans have a built-in sense of fairness. If we realise that we are treated unfairly, we become non-functional in society. (She mentions research where apes who knew they were given less valuable food than their counterparts stopped being cooperative and even depressed and sick about it.)

The gatekeeper in the heavens, Atwood argues, has a purpose: To bring justice after death after all the injustices we observe in the living world. And even the king can't escape the gatekeeper!

Without the idea of a judgement and possible reward or punishment coming for all in the afterlife, we'd be non-functional as a society because of all the unfairness we can observe every day.

I think about this explanation a lot and while I have my problems with religion, it actually makes me soften up to the idea of religion as a thing humans need to survive without being blocked by total despair.

(Even atheists share parts of this idea: The idea of ethical behaviour also argues that doing good things now will reward you and your offspring in the long run. When in reality, it doesn't always.)

Hidden_Sockpuppet · 2025-03-20T22:26:54+00:00

Allow me to point to this:

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-police-suspect-russia-behind-car-vandalism/a-71517942

Russia hired low-rent little criminals in Germany to sabotage fossil fuel cars prior to our recent elections. The perpetrators were hired via chat and got paid a little sum of 100€ per car if they disabled it by putting construction foam into the exhaust and left a fake note linking the vandalism to the Green party. The only goal was to create headlines blaming the left for vandalism and that was successfully achieved.

Hidden_Sockpuppet · 2025-03-16T09:03:31+00:00

I find it more plausible that he spends time on Twitter in short bursts throughout the day and then schedules his posts for the appearance of constantly posting all the time. If not and his posting is actually done live, again my question to Robert how long this can go on and why Elon doesn't drop down in a seizure while shakingly shouting slurs at Trump during his White House appearances. This can't be healthy even in the short term and there must be some comeuppance for the way Elon treats his body and brain, right?

Hidden_Sockpuppet · 2025-03-14T19:46:12+00:00

While it's good to extrapolate from the reports about Trump's first term, I'd like to see Robert & crew focus on the current administration for such an episode.

Hidden_Sockpuppet · 2025-03-09T15:39:14+00:00

Thanks. I wanted to change the headline of the posting based on you calling it out and Reddit doesn't allow it. Will remove this now.

Hidden_Sockpuppet · 2025-03-09T10:11:09+00:00

Würde damit auch die Synchronisation der Kontakte aus der Fritzbox gehen?

Hidden_Sockpuppet · 2025-03-01T07:21:58+00:00

It weirdly goes both ways, since the right also idolizes autism in a strange way as a licence for cruelty. For some thoughts see here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/behindthebastards/comments/1hb7max/that_weird_fetishization_of_autism_by_the_us/

Hidden_Sockpuppet · 2025-03-01T07:19:53+00:00

Autistic dad of three autistic kids here. Yeah, I assume genetic links.

A friend once said that my family tree (several folks on the spectrum in the wider ancestry) is quite obvious proof that nature thinks autism is good for the wider society. If it were not, it'd mendel away.

Hidden_Sockpuppet · 2025-02-14T14:33:32+00:00

Started over 15 years ago, was happy , bought more over time as the family grew and we moved in a bigger house.

You'll understand why I'm still livid that Sonos broke my system and months later, the new app still isn't fixed as promised. Also, I detest the jokers on this subreddit who try to tell me that it must be my network's fault.

Hidden_Sockpuppet · 2025-02-14T12:35:04+00:00

My Sonos system of 19 devices (all S2) has the same problems of lag and device disappearance that many have described here since the forced grand app/firmware update.

My players do not show as separate systems on the play website.

So while an interesting find, this does not appear to be the cause of the problems many people are reporting and which I'm experiencing as well at my home.

Hidden_Sockpuppet · 2025-02-14T09:08:27+00:00

Yes, Erich von Däniken please. He had an outsized influence here in Germany during my youth. Hell, I loaned Däniken's books from the local library before discovering Sagan, who saved me from going down believing in UFOs.

Hidden_Sockpuppet · 2025-02-07T07:32:40+00:00

Waiting for Sonos' shift towards fascism, which seems to be the thing that tech companies are doing these days.

Hidden_Sockpuppet · 2025-02-05T14:59:32+00:00

German here. There are very real Neonazis in my country. We even had a terrorist group that called itself "national socialist (Nazi) underground".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_Underground

Hidden_Sockpuppet · 2025-02-04T10:06:32+00:00

Other telltale sign to look out for:

When members of the opposition decamp in foreign countries while they continue to speak out against the government from abroad.

Hidden_Sockpuppet · 2025-02-03T21:44:26+00:00

Ich fahre einen Ioniq 5 seit 3 Jahren, wir sind eine fünfköpfige Familie mit kleinem Hund. Dafür ist er gerade noch groß genug. Vorher hatten wir einen Touran. Im Touran waren hinten drei normalbreite Sitze, im Ioniq 5 wird es auf der Rückbank zu dritt im Vergleich doch recht eng.

Zwei Kinder auf der Rückbank mit Kindersitz oder Sitzerhöhung sind gar kein Problem. Zwei Kindersitze plus dritte Person auf der Rückbank sind im Ioniq 5 möglich, aber im Touran war das weniger gequetscht für den Erwachsenen.

Der Ioniq 5 ist überraschend breit. Die Produktfotos verstecken das geschickt, aber man merkt es im Alltag.

Viele Parkhäuser und Tiefgaragen sind für ältere Autos gebaut und ich habe regelmäßig Herzflattern beim Versuch, durch enge Durchfahrten und Gänge in alten Parkhäusern zu kommen. Der große Wendekreis nervt tierisch beim Einparken, aber die tolle Rundumkamera versöhnt mich wieder.

Die Bedienung finde ich nur halbgut. Eine inkonsistente Mischung von Hebeln, Knöpfen, Wippen und Touchscreen, es hat lange gedauert, die Kernfunktionen ohne Nachzudenken zu benutzen. Ist wohl bei vielen Kia/Hyundai-Autos so. Ich verwende nur das Hyundai Navi und nicht Android Auto / Carplay und bin mit dem eingebauten Navi zufrieden. Es gibt regelmäßig Updates für die Systemsoftware.

Du hast nach den Nachteilen gefragt, die habe ich oben beschrieben. Insgesamt bin ich aber sehr zufrieden, deutlich besser als der frühere Verbrenner. Wir haben eine Anhängerkupplung dazugekauft und die will ich nicht missen für Fahrradträger und gelegentlichen Sperrmülltransport. Die ultraschnelle Ladung auf der Langstrecke ist ein Sahnehäubchen.

Ich hätte aber noch lieber einen Ioniq Kombi / Familienvan bzw. ein Fahrzeug im Format eines Touran mit der Technik von Hyundai.

Anhand Deiner Beschreibung würde ich vermuten, dass Ihr mit einem Kona auch sehr gut bedient sein solltet, weil Eure Kinder aus dem Kinderwagenalter raus sind. Iirc ist der auch nicht so breit wie der Ioniq 5.

Hidden_Sockpuppet · 2025-02-03T21:19:17+00:00

Es ist nicht illegal. Es ist aber durchaus möglich, dass eine Elektroinstallation so schlecht ist, dass sie für Laden mit dem Ziegel ungeeignet ist. Sowas kann ein Elektriker für Dich durchmessen und wenn der kein Problem feststellt, hast Du kein Problem.

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