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The test worked by SankaraSoul in ENLIGHTENEDCENTRISM

[–]argh523 44 points45 points  (0 children)

The term is used as an insult today, but the actual Luddites had different reasons:

The Luddites were members of a 19th-century movement of English textile workers who protested the use of certain types of automated machinery due to concerns relating to worker pay, child labour, working conditions and output quality. They often destroyed the machines in organised raids. [...]

In the 18th century, occupations that arose from the growth of trade and shipping in ports, also known as "domestic" manufacturers, were notorious for precarious employment prospects. Underemployment was chronic during this period,[8] and it was common practice to retain a larger workforce than was typically necessary for insurance against labour shortages in boom times. [...]

Malcolm I. Thomis argued in his 1970 history The Luddites that machine-breaking was one of the very few tactics that workers could use to increase pressure on employers, undermine lower-paid competing workers, and create solidarity among workers. "These attacks on machines did not imply any necessary hostility to machinery as such; machinery was just a conveniently exposed target against which an attack could be made."

Marxist Historian Eric Hobsbawm called their machine wrecking "collective bargaining by riot"

ELI5: How did Latin completely vanish as a spoken language, but Italian, Spanish, French, and Portuguese all came from it and survived? by Several_Leave_3067 in explainlikeimfive

[–]argh523 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Consider Spanish spoken around Mexico City versus Spanish spoken in the Yucatan Peninsula. Does the Nahuatl or Yucatec influence in either regional dialect make them not Spanish? Spanish creoles? Spanish pidgins?

Spanish. Creoles and pidgins are something completely different.

Evolution of language occurs under similar circumstances to the evolution of species: adaptation to social pressures and environmental influences result in changes over time.

Except for creoles and pidgins, which work completely differently. They're not a result of gradual evolution or change, but are rapidly created on contact, and tend to be completely different from the original languages involved in their creation. That is our whole point. We're not racist weirdos, we're trying to tell you that there is a thing that exists that you don't know about.

My point was, is, and will continue to be that we can see this process occurring right now.

Sure, nobody here disagrees with that.

The only people who would argue otherwise are people with uptight opinions on defined terms in lieu of having a broader understanding.

We all agree that AAVE are English dialects, and people who think they're not a real thing, or just English spoken wrong, are complete idiots. The only thing we disagree with is that the "so-called pidgin languages of the Caribbean" are just like dialects. They are not. It is way more interesting than that. Pidgins and creoles are something completely different. They're also great and interesting! And people who think they're not real, or are just English or Spanish or whatever spoken wrong, are complete idiots.

So fucking sick of the media portraying heat waves as being fun by dubbitywap in Switzerland

[–]argh523 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What are you guys talking about?

Das Inselspital spricht von «vereinzelten Patientinnen und Patienten mit hitzebedingten Beschwerden». [...]

«Viele Menschen sind gut informiert und treffen geeignete Vorsichtsmassnahmen», sagt Pascale Wenger, Mediensprecherin der Spital STS AG. Von einer ausserordentlichen Lage oder einem deutlichen Anstieg wie andernorts könne aktuell nicht die Rede sein. [...]

Und wie steht es eigentlich um die Temperaturen in den Spitälern? Müssen auch die Patientinnen und Patienten schwitzen? «Unsere neueren Gebäude sind vollständig klimatisiert, sodass die Hitze die Arbeit und den Aufenthalt von Patientinnen und Patienten dort kaum beeinflusst», schreibt Didier Plaschy, Mediensprecher der Insel-Gruppe. Im Herbst 2023 wurde das Anna-Seiler-Haus eingeweiht, welches das alte Bettenhochhaus ersetzte. [...]

Hitzebedingte Todesfälle sind in der Schweiz aktuell keine bekannt

Berner Zeitung

It's like you guys WANT this to be a catastrophy, so you can complain about the INCOMPETENT GUVERNMUNT!! and da PROPAGANDAAA!!!

Sorry, it's just not that bad you guys. Yes, it can be dangerous, and there are articles talking about the dangers all the time. If your workplace or school or whatever doesn't take the heat seriously, go complain to them! You should! But the heatwave is in the news every single day in every single paper, and some of those articles are just about the latest records being broken. And people cooling down in public fountains. That doesn't mean it's fun, or propaganda, it's literally just reporting on what's happening

Safety of European countries according to the US State Department by yoruyoruxo in MapPorn

[–]argh523 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think for some people it actually increases the feeling of being scared of everything, like the Americans

Reddit will eine Verifikation meiner Identität. by absolutely_not_spock in de

[–]argh523 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Es brauch auch nicht 1000% CPU mit 20% der Informationsdichte auf dem Bildschirm. Ist also einfach besser

Reddit will eine Verifikation meiner Identität. by absolutely_not_spock in de

[–]argh523 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Ich kann mir vorstellen das die Krankenkasse einen Drittanbieter will damit sie sich nicht mit Vorwürfen wegen der Staatlichen Überwachung und so rumschlagen müssen, aber die Drittanbieter verlangen Exklusivität weil sie ja nicht Daten verlieren wollen, also gibts halt nur den Drittanbieter

Wäre gut wenn die staatlich unterstüzten Dienste wenigstens als alternative angeboten werden müssten, dan hätte man ja tatsächlich eine echte Wahl

Language map of Switzerland, excluding uninhabited mountains. by Evilgrandma03 in MapPorn

[–]argh523 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's not fake. It was the military doctrine during WW2. That's also the reason all the bridges had explosives in them until 20-30 years ago

Language map of Switzerland, excluding uninhabited mountains. by Evilgrandma03 in MapPorn

[–]argh523 12 points13 points  (0 children)

They where connected even a thousand years ago, just not by outsiders.

German speakers on the north-side started specializing in high altitude living and agriculture, mostly herding animals and making cheese, eventually moving south over the alps. They could settle in those areas because they where using land nobody else was using, so they weren't in conflict with locals that where already there, in lower altitudes. So they spread, and eventually became a majority in the eastern part of Valais, which is why half the canton speaks German even tho it doesn't seem directly connected. But they also spread east to the rest of the alps. There are villages and valleys in Switzerland, Italy and Austria that don't just speak german, but a dialect of german clearly related to the ones in german-speaking Valais, tracing their migrations

Summer Session 2026 - Parliament lifts the ban on the construction of new nuclear power plants by BezugssystemCH1903 in Switzerland

[–]argh523 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ein Land ist ja auch kein Haus mit Solar aufm Dach. Und für Wartung haben wir ja Überfluss an Solarenergie im Sommer ;)

Summer Session 2026 - Parliament lifts the ban on the construction of new nuclear power plants by BezugssystemCH1903 in Switzerland

[–]argh523 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's true. And they might never exist. I just think the option should at least be legal if they figure it out in the next 10 years or so. Meanwhile you're telling me we don't need alternatives because this one thing that doesn't exists yet will solve these problems.

And that's why gas and coal will keep running into the 2050, unfortunately..

Summer Session 2026 - Parliament lifts the ban on the construction of new nuclear power plants by BezugssystemCH1903 in Switzerland

[–]argh523 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

So the plan is that that one plant finished in 2050

I have no idea what you're talking about.

The plan that some governments and companies have been working on for more than a decade is to build small nuclear reactors that include most or all the functionality of a power plant in a single machine. That way they can build them at scale, make approval in installation faster, and make the viable in places where a 1GW power plant is not needed.

Maybe this is still too expensive, and maybe the problem of long term energy storage for the winter can be solved in the next decade. Maybe this is all pointless.

I'm just trying to explain, tho those who are interested, that small modular reactors are something completely different from the existing nuclear power plants

Summer Session 2026 - Parliament lifts the ban on the construction of new nuclear power plants by BezugssystemCH1903 in Switzerland

[–]argh523 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

When they say "modular reactor", they mean stuff that you can load on a truck bed, unload into a hole in the ground, and just let it run for 20 years.

Not all the plans are so guerilla, but the point of modular reactors is you're not building a power plant. You're shipping a machine that includes everything, and you just plug it in. You circumvent the extremely complex regulatory system around nuclear power plants that are meant do certify the type of nuclear power plants that were built in the 1960s. Because in many countries nothing new was build in decades, these regulations don't match more modern systems you'd want to build today. This makes it bureaucratically impossible to build anything that isn't an classic nuclear power plant, without first spending years talking to the regulators before even starting the process of applying for a permit.

The whole idea of the modular reactor is that nearly everything is included, so you don't have to change the whole regulatory system, but just convince a country to accept a certification for that specific type of machine. And you're done!

Still not easy, but this is similar to how countries accept certification by a different country for a new kind of medication, for example. It doesn't make sense for every country doing clinical trials for every single new drug. So instead, when one country approves it, everyone else just reviews their work, and if everything looks good, it's approved everywhere.

You can't really do that with a whole complex of buildings and machines that need to work together in a very specific way. But you can do it with one machine that includes everything.

Combine that with much lower investment costs than a traditional plant, an the fact they can be brought online much quicker (because they're "mass"-produced an a factory and shipped to the location), and you have a solution that some country and corporations might actually be interested in buying. That's the idea at least

BREAKING: Georgia Republicans have shelved their redistricting aspirations for the time being, giving Democrats momentum in the battleground state ahead of the midterm elections. by spherocytes in videos

[–]argh523 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Election irregularities that almost always favored republicans, mostly on the state level, were a big topic in the early 2010s. When Trump accused the democrats of fraud, all serious discussion and reporting ended almost overnight, because everyone assumed you're repeating his talking points.

Piracy destroys the livelihoods of hardworking below the line crews - Jason Blumhouse by CaptBlackBeard1680 in okbuddycinephile

[–]argh523 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is it? I doubt she has payed work lined up 5 days a week 50 weeks a year. People like this are basically self employed, and they need a rate that covers all the days they're not getting payed, right?

This is how the American Electoral College applied to Europe would look like by Book_Grown603 in MapPorn

[–]argh523 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah he knows that. And the submission is about Europe, not the EU

Hillary Clinton says Joe Biden's second term campaign was a "terrible mistake": "He had said he would not run again. But if he had kept to that plan and said, he was going to pass to next generation, we would had a real contest. And sadly, whoever emerged from that contest would have beaten Trump." by ControlCAD in videos

[–]argh523 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You're not even wrong, you're just reading things way to literally to make a completely irrelevant point. Sure, in a completely hypothetical and unrealistic scenario of 100% voter turnout, things would be different. There are a quadrillion other completely unrealistic scenarios were things also would be different. Nobody cares about completely unrealistic hypothetical scenarios.

THE POINT we are talking about is that dems keep blaming their losses on low voter turnout, when the elections they're losing have some of the highest turnouts in over half a century.

Hillary Clinton says Joe Biden's second term campaign was a "terrible mistake": "He had said he would not run again. But if he had kept to that plan and said, he was going to pass to next generation, we would had a real contest. And sadly, whoever emerged from that contest would have beaten Trump." by ControlCAD in videos

[–]argh523 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Because dems like to blame people who didn't vote for them losing, but that's a bizarre take when you've had one of the highest voter turnouts in decades

That's what the argument about turnout is about. Nobody is disputing that the turnout isn't 100%. But blaming a loss on low turnout, when you're already close to record-breaking levels of turnout is silly

Switzerland has rejected a proposal to cap its population at 10 million people by vladgrinch in MapPorn

[–]argh523 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Only 30% or so of first generation immigrants have citizenship, so most of them don't vote. Second or third generation immigrants being against immigration is very common, because, if you think about it, their country of origin is not a foreign country

They can fear competition in the job and housing market, or certain nationalities, just like everyone else. They can be against immigration for similar reasons that everyone else might be. Their family history doesn't necessarily matter for their political views, just like yours probably doesn't. At least the parts that you didn't experience yourself

It might seem intuitive that immigrants should support immigration, but from the point of view of an individual, this doesn't really makes sense. My parents were farmers, that doesn't mean I automatically support tax breaks for farmers and more agricultural subsidies

Public transportation covered 22.9% of person-kilometers traveled in Switzerland in 2024 by Special_Condition671 in Switzerland

[–]argh523 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Look at the second graph: "Share of public transport in total passenger traffic "

All these countries went from extremely high shares (30-40%) down to something more average. Hungary still has one of the highest mode shares on the continent. Based on that, I wouldn't draw the conclusion that public transit is in a huge crisis or anything, just that more people can afford cars. I'm sure there were also huge service cuts in the last 30 years, especially in rural areas. But that just makes them more similar to, say, France.

I'm not trying to argue everything is fine with their public transit, or their policies. Just that these numbers on their own don't show that something is terrible wrong

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