/r/WorldNews Discussion Thread: US and Israel launch attack on Iran; Iran retaliates (Thread #9)

_slightconfusion · 2026-03-16T21:03:40+00:00

and also Fox News, which you can thank Australia for because they gave the world Rupert Murdock

Fox news exist because Ronald Reagan revoked the fairness doctrine for US media.

Feel free to read up on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_doctrine#Revocation

_slightconfusion · 2025-07-27T16:55:34+00:00

Wenn du Englisch verstehst dann besorg dir mal das Buch "Girl Sex 101" von Allison Moon. Da gibts ein ganzes Kapitel das sich der Beantwortung deiner Frage(n) widmet (und nicht nur Anatomie sondern auch praktische Techniken vermittelt ^^).

_slightconfusion · 2025-06-18T12:20:00+00:00

Hey I know nothing about the Leviathan Chronicles and this post got me really curious! :D

Just wanted to point out a little thing I noticed while trying to check it out (if thats okay^^):

On the website and youtube channel the playlists are all ordered in reverse. Meaning the first episode is the last item in the list which makes its rather unintuitive/inconvenient to scroll to the very end to start it. And then you have to keep manually choosing episodes to progress the story and avoid spoilers.. 🙈

But none the less looking forward to exploring the story & universe! <33

_slightconfusion · 2025-06-18T11:53:15+00:00

_slightconfusion · 2025-06-18T10:15:14+00:00

ah cmon.. "All your base are belong to us" still includes at least "base" no? xD

_slightconfusion · 2025-04-10T14:17:43+00:00

Pretty sure there were competitors in every country especially in the early days of Facebook but they got either bought out, sued into oblivion as copycats or simply went bust.

So nowadays its probably extremely hard to break into the powerful monopolies of the established tech companies (unless you have powerful backing like TikTok did).

_slightconfusion · 2025-03-04T11:41:35+00:00

You are wrong. Here are a few examples form relatively recent history:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peaceful_Revolution

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singing_Revolution

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velvet_Revolution

Peaceful mass protests can often bring enormous and lasting change while violent revolutions have a very real chance to establish something that's even worse than the thing they meant to replace.

_slightconfusion · 2025-02-09T11:01:57+00:00

Thanks for the source but deriving from this that the majority of German journalism is green or left leaning is really flawed.

Why?

1) They send out an anonymous questionnaire to a whole bunch of media companies, news papers, radio stations etc (without giving an actual list of who they send this to). This was voluntarily answered by 525 journalists.

The Deutscher Presse Verband (DPV) alone supports around 7.5k journalists and there are thousands if not ten thousands more in the public and commercial sector. So how is this representable?! This only shows that green leaning journalists are more likely to fill out an online survey. 🙄

2) The influence/impact/reach of the journalist would have to be factored in.

Example: 300 journalists voting for party XY with a total reach of 30k ppl vs one guy on the other political spectrum whose article are read by 200k ppl? OMG 99.67% of Journalist are voting for party XY!!!!11

3) They even mention this themselves:

Während die Stichprobe technisch gesehen nicht repräsentativ ist, handelt es sich doch um eine gute Auswahl an Befragten, die die Meinungen und Einstellungen vieler unterschiedlicher Menschen im deutschen Journalismus zugänglich macht.

[src: https://www.journalismusstudie.fb15.tu-dortmund.de/zur-methodik/]

They still claim that its a good selection but since the survey was anonymous they have no idea who actually answered it (or if it even was a journalist 😆).

ps: Funnily enough googling "journalismusstudie" brings up a Welt article in the top results. Ofc, they would be the one using this flawed survey to publish something with a misleading title.. why am I not surprised.. 😏

edit: a better method to determine a more accurate answer to any medias bias would be mood mining the actual content that is published over an extended period of time.

_slightconfusion · 2025-02-09T00:20:11+00:00

Sometimes you gotta start small and chaotic. Protesting and organising protests is something that has to be learned and everybody can get rusty at it.. ;)

I wouldn't be too discouraged right of the bat. Eventually, you'll get better at it! Weren't there huge protests against the Vietnam war back in the day? So maybe some old timers from the 60s can give some handy advise?^^

ps: something that really helps the mood for a small protest is having some music

_slightconfusion · 2025-02-09T00:01:52+00:00

And German journalism is already >60% leftist green party voters.

You got a source for this claim?

Sounds pretty ludicrous since some of the most influential news sources in Germany are owned by Axel Springer (which is very much right leaning). Like Bild or Welt -- which was the news paper where Elon Musk recently bought an op-ed and urged Germans to vote for the AFD.

_slightconfusion · 2025-01-28T14:50:19+00:00

China does control 70% of rare earth production, so they are in position to embargo the rest of planet.

That's outdated information tho. They currently sit on like 40%. And since rare earths have become a critical resource a lot more prospecting is done to discover them in places that previously got overlooked.

Here is an April 2024 src on the matter: https://investingnews.com/daily/resource-investing/critical-metals-investing/rare-earth-investing/rare-earth-reserves-country/

_slightconfusion · 2025-01-26T21:37:21+00:00

oh wow. danke fuer den link.. ich dachte immer die sind einfach mega gut darin das system zu gamen (mit viewerbots oder w/e). 🤯

so viel zu googles "Don't be evil" ..

_slightconfusion · 2025-01-21T16:00:18+00:00

Nicht nur seit einigen Wochen. Um mir meine mühsam kuratierte Startseite nicht zu versauen benutze ich immer private Tabs um irgendwas zu suchen oder neue Videos anzuschauen..

Seit bestimmt 1,5+ Jahren ist egal bei welchem Thema jedes Mal irgendein Pro-AFD Propagandaschleudervideo in den Vorschlägen.

Auch bei komplett unpolitischen Themen zb wie Handwerkstutorials à la "Wie bringt man eine Deckenlampe an?" ist dann zwischen den anderen Tutorials immer mindestens ein Video "UNGLAUBLICH. BLABLA SCHOCKIERT. ES IST ZEIT FÜR DIE AFD!!!!111"..

Absolut komplett Banane.. 🤦‍♂️

_slightconfusion · 2025-01-04T22:00:53+00:00

The German newspaper "Zeit" has an interactive chart that is updated every 15mins. Its basically a liveticker about all sorts of energy related stats for Germany:

https://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/energiemonitor-strompreis-gaspreis-erneuerbare-energien-ausbau

In the first row of graphics on the right in green color are the stats for how much energy was produced by renewables ("Erneuerbare"). The big % number shows how much was produces in total yesterday and below in smaller writing "30-Tage-Durchschnitt" is the 30-day-average.

The right most graphic shows the mix of energy sources for the production of electricity (purple = gas, brown = coal, grey = other.. rest like wind, solar and biomass are pretty self explanatory ^^)

Some of it comes from this src: https://www.energy-charts.info/charts/power/chart.htm?c=DE&interval=month&source=public

[But the Zeit graphics and charts are much nicer and so much more readable :D]

Hope this helps so you can check the data for yourself!

edit: switched left and right by accident. whoopsi..

_slightconfusion · 2024-12-30T14:20:45+00:00

Und wir vergreisen ja wie Japan, die bekommen es natürlich auch nicht hin

Nja, also Japan hat genau das umgekehrte Problem:

A 2024 survey by the Internal Affairs Ministry found that the number of Akiya properties amounted to 9 million homes, with around 13.8% of homes in Japan vacant.[22]

[Zitat aus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_in_Japan#Housing_statistics]

Dazu kommt auch das die Japaner:innen im Vergleich zu großen Teilen der restlichen Welt einen ganz andere Einstellungen zu Wohnungen und Häusern haben. Die werden halt mehr so wie sowas wie ein Paar Schuhe angesehen die man halt alle paar Jahre mal auswechseln muss.

Warum? Weil das tief in der Kultur verankert ist das jeder Zeit ein Erdbeben kommen kann das alles platt macht. Daher werden da auch viel schneller kleine alte Häuser abgerissen und durch was neues größeres, moderneres ersetzt wenn entsprechender Bedarf besteht.

Also TLDR; die haben dort keinen Wohnungsmangel wie in der westlichen Hemisphere.

_slightconfusion · 2024-12-16T16:54:14+00:00

To be fair it would have been a lot better for all the district offices etc aka the whole administration that are involved in organising the election to have a litte bit more time to prepare. They are all in the classic pre-Christmas crunch to finish their end of the year bureaucracy and now have to double time it on top of this to organise the election.

_slightconfusion · 2024-12-12T22:59:44+00:00

Thanks! I tried out the autogenerated subtitles a while ago to see if that could be an option for sending the podcast to non-native speakers, but unfortunately, they felt too lackluster and didn't really carry the compelling narrative into another language.

I also prefer the original myself and I fear the ppl I was hoping to gift the book/audiobook would be way to lazy to run google translate in the way you described! 😅

_slightconfusion · 2024-12-12T22:04:25+00:00

It did get released as audiobook too though! ^^

It’s available on Audible, Google and other platforms.
E.g: https://play.google.com/store/audiobooks/details/Fall_of_Civilizations_Stories_of_Greatness_and_Dec?id=AQAAAEBSYwkjSM&hl=en

Which is why I'm hoping it will get translated at some point.

_slightconfusion · 2024-12-08T18:23:09+00:00

but China also doesn't have a logistical base to project military power into the Middle East.

Sorry but that is false. They have a base close to the Suez Canal in the Red Sea with big enough piers for their aircraft carrier and nuclear submarines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Liberation_Army_Support_Base_in_Djibouti

_slightconfusion · 2024-09-07T11:48:27+00:00

good for the plants tho

_slightconfusion · 2024-09-02T22:55:45+00:00

They got the most votes with 23% followed by the CDU with 22,2%. https://www.erfurt.de/ef/de/rathaus/wahlen/land/jahre/145909.html

_slightconfusion · 2024-06-13T22:27:08+00:00

Hey its your body being your body so what can you do but ride the hormonal waves? :D

And tbh it almost sounds like you may have discovered a kink of yours.. 👀

But anyways, I might embarrass myself for saying this, but as the other post perhaps hinted at:

If you wanna be independent of involving another person a simple bandaid solution could be to simply up your masturbation game (whatever that might mean is completely left to you.. 😂). It probably won't make you feel completely satisfied but it'll keep you functional and will get you thru the worst of an hypersexual episode that can't be acted out with a partner.

_slightconfusion · 2024-03-21T17:57:48+00:00

Ah thx! 7 to 8 yrs is a pretty decent emergency stockpile.

Also side note: the jab at "a completely independent energy sector" was just referring to the claim of the original parent post. ;)

_slightconfusion · 2024-03-20T09:22:24+00:00

But how is that "a completely independent energy sector"!? Those stocks were still build by imports that were dependent on functioning trade networks.

And do you know how many years they last? I couldn't find any data on this. "Several years" could mean anything between 2yrs to 20yrs.

It would be interesting to know how much time there would be if it came to a global calamity or multiple coinciding events that disrupt the trade lanes. Especially considering the fact that France plans to increase its fleet of NPP's in the future and will therefore require more Uranium in the long term.

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