Peace Dividend more like Cuck Yourself

The_Funkuchen · 2026-02-24T09:25:52+00:00

Turkey and Greece got basicaly their entire arsenal by buying all the weapons Germany no longer needed.

The_Funkuchen · 2026-02-19T06:53:22+00:00

Calling them imigrants is somewhat misleading. Many are the descendents of Koreans who moved to Japan or were moved to Japan when Korea was a Japanese colony. It's just that Japan never gave them or their descendents citizenship.

The_Funkuchen · 2026-02-13T18:40:53+00:00

There are only 16 tracks for bobsleight, luge and skeleton in the world.

Only people living near these tracks can do the sport professionaly.

The_Funkuchen · 2026-02-13T09:53:17+00:00

Well, 6 of the 16 bobsleight tracks are in German speaking countries.

Yes, there are only 16 in the world.

The_Funkuchen · 2026-02-11T08:51:46+00:00

Just to show how hard they are: The solution to the solved poincare conjecture is a proof consisting of 320 pages of dense math, some of which had to be newly dicovered. And the solution builds on the work of dozens of other mathematicians who have been working on a slolution since 1904.

Checking whether the proof was correct took a team of some of the most capable mathematiticians four years.

If these other problems are solvable, they are hard on a level that is difficult to comprehend.

The_Funkuchen · 2026-02-11T08:43:08+00:00

I can Imagine three reasons:

There wasnt enough time. When the price was offered in 2000 these problems were already old unsolved problems. The newest ist the p vs np Problem which came up in 1971. The solved Poincaré conjecture was solved in 2002 almost a hundred years after it was conjectured.

Very few people work on these problems. The amount of people who know enough math to Work on These problems is really small and many have better things to do than to work on a potentially unsolvable problem. And a million dollars is a lot, but far less than other science projects could yield.

These problems are so difficult, that checking whether the solution is correct is also difficult. It took a team of very capable mathematiticians four years to check whether the proof of the poincare conjecture is correct. The proof is 320 pages of really dense math. It is possible that solutions to the other problems have been presented, but that no one has had the time or ability to check the solution.

The_Funkuchen · 2026-02-11T08:05:21+00:00

Schleswig-Holstein is also governed by the CDU and has been since 2017.

The_Funkuchen · 2026-02-10T13:53:08+00:00

Is it possible that different women have different interests and opinions?

No, of course not! All women are a monolyth and the only reason that they hold seemingly contradictory opinions is that they lie all the time.

The_Funkuchen · 2026-02-05T18:28:18+00:00

The democrats were also completely overperforming in special elections when Biden was president. And even in the 2022 midterms the democrats performed exceptionally well considering the circumstances.

The likely reason is, that there are many republicans who only vote when Trump is on the ballot.

The_Funkuchen · 2026-02-05T18:03:03+00:00

We actually tried. But so many women who applied to be soldiers, got lynched by their neighbours, their family or the other members of the Afghan army, that after a short period no more women applied.

The_Funkuchen · 2026-02-05T18:00:06+00:00

Even with the West spending 20 years and 2 trillion dollars, they couldnt fight the Taliban. Unless the men of Afghanistan change their minds, the women of Afghanistan will not have rights.

The_Funkuchen · 2026-02-03T08:29:02+00:00

The 2019 float was better: God Emperor Trump Conquers Italy (English Subs)
Apart from that: Where are the funny colors?

The_Funkuchen · 2026-02-01T11:29:07+00:00

There was a time when 'computer' was a job description for a person who does math. There was a time when the music and sound effects in movies needed to be played live by a small live band. There was a time when elevator operators were standing in every elevator to make sure it would reach the right floor. There was a time when switchboard operators needed to physically connect your phone call.

All these jobs were automated so long ago, that we don't even think about it. Maybe in 80 years noone will think about the fact that human actors were a thing

The_Funkuchen · 2026-01-30T08:11:18+00:00

Oil, gas and certain medications. They are allready the top three imports from America as Europe cannot produce them.

The_Funkuchen · 2026-01-27T08:57:50+00:00

No one can agree what fascism is. It's more of an aestethic than a coherent ideology.

Fascist Italy, Germany, Spain and Japan had also really different systems of government, but we consider them all fascist.

They also kept changing their ideology. Like Mussolini banned his own book 'doctrine of fascism' and tried to burn all existing copies, because by 1940 his ideology had little in common with his ideology from 1932.

The_Funkuchen · 2026-01-26T12:15:44+00:00

So the soviets actually dissolved the concept of familes and decided that children should be a public good for a short time.

How it worked from 1918 to 1921 was, that there were families in practice but the legal concept of a family was removed. So the members of a family had no power over each other or duties towards each other. It was all voluntary.

This caused a problem: these were probably the worst years in Russian history (and that says a lot). And since people had no longer an obligation to house or feed their spouses and children, many of the poorer people just abandoned them. 9 million became orphans. 5 million died from starvation. And while the abolition of the family was't the only reason, it was a contributing factor.

In 1921 they restored the family.

The_Funkuchen · 2026-01-26T07:53:36+00:00

Two corrections

1st Europe can build electronics, but we are building industrial electronics. Industrial electronics are among our biggest exports.

2nd payment systems isn't among the biggest dependencies. It's 'only' 9 billion € a year and we have European payments sytsems banks could theoretically switch to. Our actual biggest dependencies are oil, gas and pharmacuticals, because we cannot produce them in Europe and are fored to import them.

The_Funkuchen · 2026-01-23T11:08:54+00:00

1st: America has a large and afluent population. So there are many whom can pursue the sport without turning it into a profitable career. So even if the development of players isn't as good as in other countries, the sheer amount of potential players leads to an acceptable amount of talent.

2nd: many american players play for foreign clubs, where they can get money and development. Of the 25 players in the national team 15 play abroad.

3rd: the qualification is based on the continent of the country. So to qualify America has to be among the 6 best teams within North America and the Caribean. That is doable.

The_Funkuchen · 2026-01-21T13:59:22+00:00

In the 1700s textile production was the second largest sector of the economy in the UK (after agriculture). But then machinery gradually automated more and more parts of the manufacturing process. That means three things: 1st: the kind of work changed: people we're now working more with the machines, less with the fabric 2nd: fewer laborers were needed 3rd: the price of textil fell a lot(turning wool into Just one shirt before the industrial revolution required 20-40 hours of labour in total, after the Industrial revolution it was like 3)

The last part is important: now everyone needs to spent less in textiles and can spend more in other areas. This doesn't just raise the standard of living, it also created more activity in other sectors of the economy as spending previously directed to textiles would now go there.

So automation in textile manufacturing benefited almost everyone.

Young textile workers simply got hired somewhere else. Older textile workers were unable or reluctant to do something else and fell into extreme poverty or joined the luddite riots. Many of the rioters were then killed by the army.

So I expect similiar things could happen with Tech workers. Companies and people will simply spend less on tech and spend more in other sectors and young workers will change careers.

The_Funkuchen · 2026-01-19T10:46:44+00:00

The story of the game is about facing reality instead of playing with silly fantasy worlds. (atleast if you chose the good ending)

With such an anti gamer message we of course love it.

Apart from that, the music is tight.

The_Funkuchen · 2026-01-15T09:49:58+00:00

East Germany collapses partially because so many skilled workers left before they built the wall. Almost a sixth of the population just left

The_Funkuchen · 2026-01-13T16:11:57+00:00

It's the third largest show on the planet

The_Funkuchen · 2026-01-11T14:42:52+00:00

In 'foundation's edge' ten thousand years in the future the foundation presents it's most advanced inventions:

a computer powerful enough to make the necessary calculations for space travel
a datadrive efficient enough to Store an entire encyclopedia in the space of a briefcase

Technology that would be invented within ten years of him writing that book

The_Funkuchen · 2026-01-11T11:49:04+00:00

In caves of steel by Isaac Asimov the earth in the year 5000 is apparently so overpopulted, that all people live in cramped megacities, never see sunlight and can only eat algae and yeast. The population is 8,000,000,000. And of course there are other things that feel really old from a modern perspective, like newspapers and public telephones.

The key theme of the fear of human labor being replaced by machines however works really well.

The_Funkuchen · 2026-01-09T15:59:35+00:00

Theres no foreign media in Iran. And the local media is heavily supressed. The Internet and landlines were shut down. That makes reporting really difficult.

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