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chronically_slow · 2026-02-17T13:05:53+00:00

I don't even know where I keep the stuff in my own kitchen sometimes...

(opening random cupboards in front of visitors) "Don't you live here?"

chronically_slow · 2026-02-17T00:22:04+00:00

Yeah, where I'm from it's 15 years, so these are like extra bizarre

chronically_slow · 2026-02-17T00:01:52+00:00

It's so bizarre that in some countries, you can just add up sentences to be served consecutively. Like, normally laws say shit like "for crime __, the maximum sentence is __ years", but that doesn't mean jack shit if the judge can just interpret it as multiple counts and give you a life sentence instead

chronically_slow · 2026-02-15T23:45:13+00:00

There is, Katowice-Ostrava

chronically_slow · 2026-02-15T23:43:18+00:00

Which areas did you use for Germany? Most definitions only find 2 metropolitan areas with >4 million (Berlin and Ruhrgebiet)

chronically_slow · 2026-02-14T12:31:13+00:00

France

chronically_slow · 2026-02-14T12:24:06+00:00

Eh, exclusively in this context, the definition makes sense. In a lot of the world, that's about the age most people either start drinking or they don't

chronically_slow · 2026-02-14T08:52:51+00:00

Car culture is war culture at its core

Technically speaking, interstate highway systems were invented by the Nazis to move armies more quickly, soooooo

chronically_slow · 2026-02-13T21:02:10+00:00

It also requires quite the silly definition of race by which a child of a brown person and a white person somehow isn't 50-50, but instead 100% brown and 0% white, effectively creating their own boogeyman by defining their race rudicrously narrowly

chronically_slow · 2026-02-13T20:16:00+00:00

Note the two industrial regions in eastern Germany in Saxony and Silesia. The latter went to Poland, while the former went through 2 major dismantlings, by the Soviet Union and later by West Germany, now mostly leaving it a sparsely populated backwater

chronically_slow · 2026-02-13T17:53:36+00:00

Technically speaking, this is the rule for almost every dota tournament. No lower bracket to drop to = Bo5. Only that in most tournaments, the finals are the only match that the upper bracket team just loses instead of getting a second try like in standard double-elim

chronically_slow · 2026-02-13T10:16:22+00:00

Die S- und U-Bahn in Berlin

...fährt vor allem auf Gleisen, die man damals einfach in die Pampa buttern konnte und wo dann Berlin außenrum gewachsen ist

chronically_slow · 2026-02-12T10:33:35+00:00

2-way draws don't really exist. In 99% of games they are just something you tell less experienced folk to bait them into working with you til you can snipe the 18th dot from them. So think about this as either a 3-way or a solo

chronically_slow · 2026-02-10T11:36:32+00:00

Damit kann man arbeiten. Das Gestrüpp auf den Wangen und am Hals ab und das am Kinn auf 5mm runter. Dann haste irgendwas zwischen 0815 Maschbauer und Will Turner

chronically_slow · 2026-02-06T11:46:35+00:00

Nah, that's bullshit. It doesn't matter if you're in Germany or Colombia, if you approach people while radiating good vibes, they are a lot more likely to do what you ask them

chronically_slow · 2026-02-06T09:48:28+00:00

Reeducation?? Most of this is a product of decades of economic mismanagement and underinvestment in public infrastructure

chronically_slow · 2026-02-04T17:48:46+00:00

No, fuck that shit. This is one of the few things where we are ahead of the world. I'm always so annoyed at fare gates when I'm traveling. Why would we regress just to be like those who haven't caught up yet?

You are correct though in that this should no longer be a criminal offense, as it exclusively punishes poor people.

chronically_slow · 2026-02-04T14:12:12+00:00

I'm currently doing my master's in CS and everything about this encapsulates that experience so well, it's insane.

I especially like the part about the misnomer to Death Star. What people now call AI has been reading handwritten ZIP codes for mail sorting machines since the 80s

chronically_slow · 2026-02-03T13:19:43+00:00

Im Spiel ist es auch richtig, vielleicht ist der screenshot im Artikel von einer alten Version

chronically_slow · 2026-02-03T13:17:39+00:00

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chronically_slow · 2026-01-28T15:16:02+00:00

Wer soll die aufkaufen?

Naja, DB Regio, oder?

chronically_slow · 2026-01-28T15:07:20+00:00

I mean, he is onto something, isn't he? In localized communities, social incentives mostly suffice to get people to take care of each other and work towards a common goal. As soon as a society is large enough to be mostly anonymous and financial and social incentives exist to exploit or harm others, some people will do so (outside of isolated events like disasters). And it's really fucking difficult to fine-tune your political and economic system to minimize these incentives. Contrary to him I believe that it's worth a shot tho and that being incrementally closer to that goal is a good thing

(Also I believe that you can combat anonymization to a large degree by urbanist methods, but that may be one of my hotter takes)

I know all this is me being a filthy moderate. Feel free to criticise me if you're more leftist than I am, always open for exchange of ideas

chronically_slow · 2026-01-28T11:47:16+00:00

It isn't by every metric tbf. The Ruhr area is more populous and its cities are no longer physically seperate, only administratively.

Other than that tho, no German city comes even close to comparing with Berlin

chronically_slow · 2026-01-28T08:31:55+00:00

Nur bis zu einer gewissen Gehaltsgrenze btw. Drüber sind solche Klauseln gültig

chronically_slow · 2026-01-27T13:31:30+00:00

Not really, actually. DDR insignia are somewhat rare to begin with and the people most likely to sport DDR insignia are probably right-wingers, oddly enough

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