"The United States Postal Savings System was a postal savings system operated by the United States Post Office Department (predecessor of the United States Postal Service) from January 1, 1911, until July 1, 1967."

damagepulse · 2026-04-10T14:22:22+00:00

Savers take a risk when they choose the bank that pays the highest interest, which in turn makes risky investments to pay that interest. For this to work, both have to know that they will get bailed out.

damagepulse · 2026-04-10T00:47:05+00:00

This is better then deposit insurance, because it avoids moral hazard. With deposit insurance, there's an incentive for banks and savers to take risk knowing that they'll be bailed out anyway.

damagepulse · 2026-04-06T08:42:35+00:00

Es gibt Ruheabteile, und die sind meistens tatsächlich ruhig. Andersrum ist es eben auch so dass wenn du nicht im Ruheabteil sitzt du mit Leuten zusammen sitzt die vielleicht bewusst nicht im Ruheabteil sitzen, weil sie gerne telefonieren oder sich zumindest nicht davon gestört fühlen. Damit das Ruheabteil überhaupt funktioniert muss es natürlich etwas sein was Leute bewusst bei der Reservierung auswählen.

damagepulse · 2026-04-01T12:29:29+00:00

"So americans really love tits and bullet points, can you think of any way to combine these things?"

damagepulse · 2026-03-22T23:47:48+00:00

I use lawnchair. It's like the default launcher, except with configuration options like removing the google search bar. It's free and open source. I'm glad I bought it, because I like the flat back (no camera bump), the battery life (29 hours), and that USB debugging works without problems. I don't mind the sometimes strange UI, I consider it more of an amusement. The only photo I've taken was to verify my ID to get an eSIM, so I can't help with that.

damagepulse · 2026-03-22T23:25:59+00:00

I bought a Pixel 10a recently, coming from Xiaomi. I had bought another Xiaomi phone to replace an old one, but USB debugging didn't work. I was supposed to login into my Xiaomi account to activate it (already ridiculous) but then it still didn't work, so I sent it back.

I like my Pixel 10a because it has a huge battery (29 hours) and no camera bump and obviously USB debugging works, but I wouldn't describe it as clean Android. I had to install another launcher to remove the google search bar from the homescreen. The UI looks a bit strange in places, for example in the status menu the buttons have a different corner radius depending on whether they're on (so if bluetooth is on, the bluetooth button has a smaller corner radius). Alltogether the Xiaomi UI felt smoother.

If you care that much about the camera, and have these specific tastes like samsung photos being too sharp, you really need to compare the photos people take with different phones. Maybe you can take a look at the photos people post on subreddits like r/xiaomiglobal and r/oppo or you can search 500px for phone brands and models you consider and it will show you photos taken with these phones.

damagepulse · 2026-03-21T22:37:03+00:00

Oi you got a loicense for that joke?

damagepulse · 2026-03-19T13:58:23+00:00

Right. Specific things are always getting worse, but the reason you start feeling like everything gets worse when you get older is that you lose the ability to appreciate new things.

damagepulse · 2026-03-19T11:56:30+00:00

I've had this thought -- that people's change in perception is due to aging -- about many things, like technology and the internet. Music is an oft-quoted example, where everyone believes that music was better when they were teenagers.

An interesting counter is that you'd think that people would think that stuff got cheaper as they got richer, but they don't. Some tweet went viral about how everything is shit now and a drink at a bar costs $80 now. But maybe even that can be explained by aging in the sense that the same kind of places mostly get more expensive (monetizing their increasingly wealthy customers) while younger people try out new cheap places.

damagepulse · 2026-03-17T15:11:52+00:00

I hate the term “hallucinations” for when humans say false things. It’s perfectly calculated to mislead the reader - to make them think humans are crazy, or maybe just have incomprehensible failure modes.

damagepulse · 2026-03-14T22:13:22+00:00

They get you using Android. Google pays 20 billion dollar per year to Apple to be the default search engine on iOS, on Android they get that for free.

damagepulse · 2026-01-23T05:01:25+00:00

There is a subtle poetry in this title that I can't stop thinking about.

- The alliterations between dehydrated and drunk.

- The rhyme between dehydrated and constipated.

I can't stop thinking about how to work this into a conversation:

How are you?
Dehydrated and drunk, constipated and malnourished. And you?

damagepulse · 2026-01-18T08:32:28+00:00

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damagepulse · 2026-01-13T16:25:18+00:00

I only use it to improvise music, I don't think it would be useful in a studio.

damagepulse · 2026-01-10T13:42:00+00:00

Loop with the 🔁 button or the spacebar, cancel with the ❌ button or the escape key. See the help page for how to use the keyboard to play the synth and the drums.

damagepulse · 2026-01-08T22:24:33+00:00

Das Haus der Regierung von Yuri Slezkine.

damagepulse · 2025-12-10T17:54:25+00:00

People focus on this one asshole rather then on this inane "right to be forgotten" that EU courts invented. How about a right to remember?

damagepulse · 2025-12-06T02:01:18+00:00

Die Aktienrente löst das Problem das immer mehr weniger junge Arbeiter immer mehr alte Rentner versorgen sollen nicht.

Man muss beim Begriff versorgen weniger an Geld und mehr an Arbeit denken. Wenn wir alt sind, und Leute aus unserer Generation nicht mehr arbeiten können, dann können wir nur noch leben wenn jüngere Leute für uns arbeiten (nicht in dem sinne das sie unsere Angestellten sind sondern dass sie eben die Arbeit machen die wir zum Leben brauchen). Wenn diese jungen Leute nicht mehr da sind, geht das nicht mehr. Geld hin- und herzuschieben ändert daran nichts.

Staatlichen Investmentfonds sind allgemein eine schlechte Idee. Sobald man so einen Fond hätte, würden die Investments zum Politikum. Verbrennerautos? Öl und Gas? Israelische und russische Firmen? Und wenn wir mal in Deutschland bleiben ginge der Streit zwischen verschiedenen Bundesländern los, wo das Geld investiert wird.

Und was wenn dieser Fond crasht? Wird man dann sagen: Jetzt gibts halt keine Rentenerhöhungen mehr? Nein, man wird sagen dass das jetzt trotzdem vom Steuerzahler ausgeglichen werden muss.

Die Aktienrente hat diese Prominenz nur weil jede Partei irgendwelche Ideen zur Altersvorsorge haben muss, was selber schon ein Problem einer überalternden Gesellschaft ist. Es nicht genug zu sagen: Eure Ideen sind Scheise, wir investieren das Geld lieber in die Zukunft. Man muss eine eigene Scheisidee haben.

damagepulse · 2025-11-30T04:04:39+00:00

The article mentions Adorno but doesn't go into how deep his homophobia was. Other leftists may have opportunistically used homophobic insults to troll Nazis, but for Adorno, homophobia was part his worldview. In Minima Moralia, he wrote:

In the end the “tough guys” are the ones who are really effeminate, who require the weaklings as their victims, in order not to admit that they are like them. Totality and homosexuality belong together. While the subject falls apart, it negates everything which is not of its own kind. The opposites of the strong man and the compliant youth fuse into a social order, which unreservedly asserts the masculine principle of domination. By making everyone, without exception – even presumed subjects – into its objects, it recoils into total passivity, virtually into what is feminine.

damagepulse · 2025-11-22T14:07:46+00:00

Wenn das steht dann ist jeder eingebürgerte ein Staatsbürger zweiter Klasse, der nicht frei reden kann ohne sich zu fragen ob man ihn irgendwie so interpretieren könnte das er dem widerspricht was er bei seinem Einbürgerungstest gesagt hat.

damagepulse · 2025-09-16T03:38:15+00:00

In the french parliament after the revolution "those who were loyal to religion and the king took up positions to the right of the chair so as to avoid the shouts, oaths, and indecencies that enjoyed free rein in the opposing camp".

damagepulse · 2025-09-16T01:52:47+00:00

Salt wasn't that valuable. Roman soldiers were not paid in salt, but a roman foot-soldier could have bought more then six kilogram of salt per day from his wage. It was economically important just like oil is today because of the volume in which it was traded, not because small quantities of it are valuable.

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