Fun fact: Knecht and knight share the same origin but actually mean very different things.

The German Knecht is a (lowly) servant while the higher class defined themselves by their ability to provide their own armor, weapons and horse as “Ritter” (lit. Rider).

In English the same people defined themselves as their liege’s highest servants (=knights).

So in the end both “Knechte” and “knights” an indeed servants but the cultural context and their position in a feudal hierarchy are extremely different.

PS: The personal servant of a knight would be a “Knappe”, the German equivalent to a “squire”. Basically a knight’s apprentice…

if you have accepted the premise that “a Free Palestine Must Necessarily Mean The Extermination Of Jews”

Yes, a free Palestine ranging “from the river to the sea” while at the very same time -just like Israel- staunchly rejecting the idea of a two-state solution is exactly that.

Out of the two insane and genocidal sides of that conflict none can claim moral superiority.

(For reference: see §2 of the Hamas charter that clearly defines the borders of their “free Palestine” that covers 100% of Israel, West Bank and Gaza…)

Yeah, it’s really shameful to lament a genocide while advocating for a genocide… but your propaganda-induced brain damage causes impressive cognitive dissonance.

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Blame the Germans… the printing press reached England at the absolutely worst time to standardise spelling: right in the early phases of an ongoing vowel shift.

it’s centrists and progressives who arguably have more money who are buying these cars

What are they to buy alternatively? The basically non-existent sanely sized cars?

You are wrong… they need to increase their profit margins even more, so they can afford the neccessary protection for themselves while they watch everyone else’s skin melt.

Ich denke nicht, dass sich die Anspruchshaltung groß verändert hat. Auch früher haben Menschen z.B. darüber nachgedacht, ob sich 'ne weitere Mühle lohnt, oder sonst nur die meiste Zeit unbenutzt rumsteht und die Kosten nicht wieder reinholt.

Was sich tatsächlich geändert hat ist, dass jetzt eine ganze Industrie existiert, die Geld damit verdient, aber auch wirklich alles negativ zu framen, weil Aufreger und Katastrophenmeldungen besser klicken.

Oder um es am hier erwähnten Beispiel dazustellen: Negative Strompreise sind beabsichtigt, erwartet und gewollt, um wiederrum Anreize für privatwirtschaftlich für Speicheraufbau zu schaffen. Und dass Solarstrom vom Steuerzahler subeventioniert wird, liegt irgendwo zwischen Lüge und Halbwahrheit, denn die Wirklichkeit sind die Regeln längst geändert und die Einspeisevergütung fällt weg, während die Strompreise negativ sind.

Warum also dieser Bericht? Na, weils klickt!

No.

If I tell my lawyer about a child I abused years ago he can do exactly nothing as there is no imminent crime to prevent that would allow him breaking confidality.

If I tell my priest the same applies.

If you want to change that, change the laws binding those people. But don’t pretend that the church is going out of its way to protect child abuse by in reality doing nothing and applying the same rule indiscriminately exactly like they did for a millenium.

or you have so little faith in your church

I will tell you a secret: Not everything in the world is about tribes or team sports. I personally deem any organized religion as an abomination.

But when a “remember that the confession’s confidentiality is absolute, has been exactly like this for nearly a millenium and you are beholden to god’s/church laws first an foremost” (so the same unchanged statement as always) is reframed as the church somehow explicitly going out of its way to protect child abuse specifically people should actually notice that they are being manipulated.

Are you seriously arguing that child abusers should be protected by the church because of historical precedent?

No I’m arguing that it is well within your rights to argue for changes in that basically ancient church law. If that’s what you want to do, go one. I would actually agree.

But if you instead pretend that this is not about the seal of confession but hallucinate how the modern church is somehow going out of its way to protect child abuse (like a lot of commenters here do) you have completely lost the plot.

No, I am arguing for a church law established nearly 1000 years ago and upheld ever since that indiscriminately protects all confessions. If you want to argue for changing this (as you should) go along.

But pretending that this is about protecting child abuse or even -as multiple comments here do- hallucinating how the catholic church “goes out of its way” (by doing exactly the same aus in the last ~900 years) is insane.

The Catholic Church is going out of its way to protect child abusers

Nearly 1000 years of a confession’s confidentiality being absolute and the punishment for violating it being excommunication, is the exact opposite of “going out of its way”.

Nuclear is a fairy tale told by lobbyists. Those working in nuclear and those trying to keep fossil fuels active as long as possible by inducing constant idiotic discussions.

Worldwide solar/wind/hydro made up ~86% all newly constructed energy production (and rising… those where numbers of 2023, I expect >90% for 2024 but haven’t seen newer data). Renewable deployment as well as battery storage is growing exponentially because no other method of production can actually compete with those low costs anymore.

Nuclear is an option for all the countries that already have massive capacities build (so basically France, that’s it). Or for those with a demand increasing so rapidly that they use all available options in parallel anayway (see: China, but even there nuclear is in regards to capacity a tiny fraction compared to renewables).

For every other country it’s basically a choice between starting to lower your emissions now and steadily over the next 1-2 decades via renewables or doing nothing for at least the same time period while nuclear power (that also needs all the costs upfronted now btw) is build. (PS: Nuclear also doesn’t work without long-term storage via produced gas btw… That’s the reason France is the other country in the EU beside Germany pushing for a scaled up green hydrogen market. In fact hydrogen production via electrolisation is the only reason their nuclear plans work economically, because that production gets better economically with a more constant power supply compared to a pure renewable setup - see RTE’s study about power production in 2050).

That’s the point. The backup needs to produce (close to) 100% of the demand 2% of the time.

And coal plants are incredibly bad at quickly reacting. It takes a day just from ignition to working temperature, several days to establish the transport chain constantly providing the huge amounts of fuel needed (bonus points for a lot of them being ship-based and possibly suffering from low water levels).

Also there is a lot of industry that will already need climate-neutral gas produced by green energy as their only valid way for electrification. And in the end it’s also a cost issue. If the industry already needs huge amounts of gas and the transport network anyway (of which a lot already exists - refitting natural gas networks for hydrogen has already started) the state doesn’t need to pay much than just the power plants. And they are comparably cheap (the exact opposite of nuclear where constrution is expensive but fuel and operation are cheap).

No, that’s a rather conservative estimate. My federal state alone has more than 20GW in total capacities. And the backup for the rare days when neither solar nor wind produce relevant amounts needs to be able to cover the demand.

The actual point is having those power plants yet in the end never using them aside from those few days a year. And then producing the gas for them climate-neutrally with reneawable overproduction from the remaining 98% of the year.

PS: That the positive thing about solar and wind prices nowadays. They are actually so low that other production methods simply can’t compete and won’t be used more than actually needed.

PPS: That also the actual economic reason why nuclear is a bad idea. You also need enough production capacities for a cold winter night without solar and wind… but then producing less the remaining time of the year doesn’t actually save you money because fuel is a miniscule part of nuclear costs. Have you never wondered why the two countries in the EU pushing for a properly scaled green hydrogen market are Germany and France? Because both models only work economically with peak-burners based on greenly produced gas.

Congratulations. You fell for propaganda by stupid framing.

This is not actually about child abuse per se. It’s also not about “warning” priests.

This is a simple and factual reminder: Confessions are part of a protected sacrament and the seal of confession is absolute and always has been (or at least for nearly a millenium). To violate it means excommunication.

I wonder if you would react with the same outrage when this was a bar association reminding their lawyers of the disciplinary consequences of violating confidentiality agreements.

No need to wonder. Axel Springer SE is nothing but a source for desinformation and agenda pushing (mainly right-wing, pro-US and pro-fossil-fuel actors, including their main shareholder KKR).

unterstellen Linke der Union Faschismus

Nein.

Ich hab nur explizit und tatsachengetreu beschrieben, was die CDU plant und wie sich sich, in den letzten Jahren in der Opposition nur rhetorisch, jetzt auch bei der Umsetzung, konstant Richtung AfD Inhalte bewegt.

Ob aus Dummheit, Machtgier oder was auch immer, ist mir dabei vollkommen egal. Ich muss nichts unterstellen oder nach den Gründen such, wenn jeder, der sich die Fakten ansieht, ohnehin zu dem selben Schluss kommt.

Soziale Ungerechtigkeit gepaart mit Desinformation sind die Treiber für rechtsextremistische Stimmen (nur um sicher zu gehen: Nein, das ist keine “Unterstellung” meinerseits, sondern gut belegt). Die CDU arbeitet offen daran, erstere zu vergrößern, während sie sich vermehrt unwahrer populistischer Narrative bedient. Du kannst also einen Haken an beides machen. Wo ist “die CDU bringt uns auf den Weg in den Faschismus” also bitte eine Unterstellung?

Eine “erfolgreiche” Regierung dieses Kabinetts des Grauens bedeutet aber letztendlich nur, dass sie genau das tun, was sie angekündigt haben: sinnfreie rechte Symbolpolitik, viele Geldgeschenke an ihr reichen Freunde, Zerlegung des Sozialstaats usw.

Also schon interessant wie du dir damit praktisch für “das letzte Aufgebot des demokratischen Deutschland” wünscht, dass sie das Land möglichst schnell kaputt machen. Ich persönlich würde mir ja wünschen, dass das System an sich funktioniert und die CDU in ihren Möglichkeiten stramm gen Faschismus zu marschieren einschränkt… Aber ich schätze, “macht den Laden einfach so schnell wie möglich zu, es hat keinen Sinn mehr” ist auch 'ne Einstellung.