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  • FIFA drops anti-racism, anti-discrimination messages for Club World Cup

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  • Flashback: Once upon the time, 2014, the DFB (German football association) required the FC St. Pauli to "neutralise" their grounds as they were having the national team as guests for training before their friendly against Poland. As far as the club understood the thing, that meant obscuring all the sponsor ads, fair enough. The DFB interpreted it differently: Also any and all political slogans shall be obscured, and St. Pauli, famously, sports a big "Kein Fußball den Faschisten" in the stadium, installed permanently. ("No football for fascists" -- as in they're not supposed to have any at all, not this football isn't for them). The DFB then improvised and, with limited means, covered the slogan to read "no football". It was a draw, nil nil. Uninspired, one might say.

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  • No union without social interaction to found and preserve it. It's why small businesses are much worse at ganging up on big businesses that exploit them than workers are at ganging up on bosses: Businesses aren't people, they don't have social interactions. Workers are and do, thus unions can and do form.

  • Order of magnitude is a hell of a drug

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  • Order of magnitude is a hell of a drug

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  • "Modern" is a bit misleading, x87 had fldpi. The whole x87 part of the standard has been deprecated with x86_64 in favour of the whole sse series of instructions and those don't come with pi. You instead load a constant from program memory, just like any other.

    As processors (as of yet) still support those legacy modes they will also contain the constant somewhere in probably microcode storage, calculating it on the fly makes literally no sense at all: It's (for x87) 80 bits of data, much shorter than any imaginable program, smaller than any circuitry able to compute it so you'd be spending time to save no space which is pointless.

    ARM, RISC-V etc. come from the RISC tradition so they wouldn't be caught dead including such an instruction. Both have zero registers though as zero is an absurdly useful constant, simplifying things drastically, both on the hardware front as well as within the instruction set (move is add zero to source, save to destination, clear is add zero and zero, save to destination)

    Now, that's finite constants. In particular, it's about floating point arithmetic, which is a wonder of maths and a deep rat's nest of numerology, but has finite precision, it's not true real arithmetic. Real real arithmetic is undecidable, in particular comparison and expansion to decimal form are undecidable. Printing infinite strings of digits is usually not what we want to do, and limiting precision of comparisons is... not ideal, but better than having limited precision at every operation: You can decide once you're comparing how accurate you want things to be and don't have to worry while writing down your formula (btw Herbie exists, and that's why packages like this exist. In that case pi is not a constant but a formula, which can be expanded as needed. Quite slow compared to floating point hardware but when you need it you need it and even if you don't it's still useful as a sanity check, gives you an idea of how far off the floating point results are without having to call in a favour with a mathematician.

  • 'Unprecedented Mass Deployment' of Warplanes Across Atlantic Fuels Fears of US War on Iran | Common Dreams

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  • Also Hitler was Austrian. Also Austrians are Bavarian.

    Coincidentally, the current German minister of the interior is Bavarian and facing multiple criminal complaints regarding inciting subordinates to commit crimes.

  • 'Unprecedented Mass Deployment' of Warplanes Across Atlantic Fuels Fears of US War on Iran | Common Dreams

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  • It's not a world war if it's not from the Austrian region of Germany, otherwise it's just sparkling aggression.

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  • Humour is a defence mechanism. Altruism is a defence mechanism. And with those two, camaraderie is a given.

    Also it would be a sorry state of affairs if workers under capitalism had their defence mechanisms, but not canalisation workers shovelling literal shit.

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  • I guess it's a poor choice of words but there's definite value in workplace camaraderie. Don't let your jadedness fuel the bosses' union busting.

  • Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering

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  • You don't understand that's just Hanseatic understatement.

  • German court sentences Syrian doctor to life in jail for crimes against humanity

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  • That's two different things there:

    • Life imprisonment is a sentence of indeterminate length and minimum of 15 years until you can even apply for parole, unless the court declares special gravity of guilt and ups that term. Average is parole after 19 years (median: 17), 13% serve 25 or longer, including actual life. Record is 59 years, died shortly after parole, age 85. The previous record holder died in prison. Well, prison hospital.
    • Preventive detention is separate from that, and doesn't just apply to life sentences. It applies after the sentence is over or has been paroled and is essentially an asylum for the not criminally insane, that is, people who can comprehend their guilt.

    In short: He's been sentenced to therapy until healed or life, whatever comes first, and minimum 20 years (or such I didn't read the verdict, but German press mention special gravity of guilt).

  • Being an Anarchist is being the corpse on the Road that gets run over by both

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  • Right-out tankie. But then broken clocks are right twice a day.

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  • I know what they mean when clutching their frozen peaches. It also never works out as they imagine because paradox of tolerance.

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  • Those instances weren't breaking laws. At least not American ones. It is not illegal to be an incivil assclown, but you are going to get thrown out of the bar.

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  • You can also look into the long, long list of defunct instances because they got defederated by basically everyone because noone wanted to deal with their shit. Hexbear and lemmygrad don't care if they're defederated because they're platforms to themselves, the instances I'm talking about were basically 4chan, kiwifarms, whatever, chuds getting banned on ordinary instances setting up their own and trying again. When that didn't work the instances collapsed as harassing others was their only purpose.

  • Liste von Organisationen, die jetzt schon Widerstand leisten

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  • Was heißt denn Wiederstand? Das ist ein Wort mit einer sehr großen historischen Bedeutung.

    Widerstand bedeutet ein absichtliches Entgegenwirken durch genau da bleiben wo man ist. Wider: Entgegengesetzt, stand: Nunja, stehen.

    Bleibt man z.B. in Angesicht einer Verlockung standhaft und lässt sich von dieser nicht willfährig hinfort geleiten, so hat man ihr widerstanden.

    Und auch wenn man das fast schon widerwillig wiederholt wider den Umständen tun muss so sind wider und wieder immer noch zwei komplett verschiedene Wörter.

  • ‘Venice is worn out’: locals see Jeff Bezos wedding as symbol of city’s ills

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  • Honestly not so uncommon with inland shipyards. Bridges etc. are built to deal with everyday traffic while the shipyard might only send out a ship per year or such so it's fine having to do some manual work to get it past infrastructure.

    E.g. the 2006 European blackout was caused by the operators messing up the comparatively routine shutdown of a power crossing. The lines are high enough so that the cruise ships the shipyard builds can drive under them, barely, but they can't be energised while doing so.

    That's not to defend Bezos having a yacht, billionaires shouldn't exist, but this probably happens with any other ship that the shipyard builds. Not to mention the uncountable number of street signs which have been temporarily dismantled to let windmill blades through.

  • Strawberries are nuts 🍓

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  • Like, the periodic tables mapping isn’t arbitrary or alternate.

    Neither the biology nor culinary mappings are arbitrary, they have their rhyme and reason. Also biology would be the alternate one? Because the culinary definitions were definitely first.

    Did you know that there's quite extreme disagreements on what metals are? Chemists will tell you one thing and not be particularly unified in their response around the topic of semimetals, while astrophysicists have a very simple definition of metals: Anything that has more protons than helium.

    Who is right? This has nothing to do with metaphysics (I've read a bit down the thread) as in "what is beyond physics, god, and stuff", but how we interpret our (scientific) observations. Neither definition of metals is more correct than the other, they're both maps drawn by scientists caring about vastly different things. Neither side says that the other is wrong -- they just don't care for it.

    Back to the periodic table itself: Defining elements by protons has quite some predictive power but at the same time it's a vast oversimplification of what actually goes on, ask any quantum chemist. It is rooted in quite hard science, but that doesn't make it ground reality. Actual reality is something we can't observe because to observe anything we first have to project it into our minds. All perception is modelling: Ask any neuroscientist. Or, for that matter, Plato.

  • Strawberries are nuts 🍓

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  • Isn’t the rejection of post-modernism like a very Jordan-Peterson–like thing to do?

    Peterson is kinda the embodiment of post-modernism, that is, he does all his ideology building by questioning everything else into oblivion.

    Of course, not knowing what he's talking about is also something very Jordan-Peterson-like so that all tracks.

  • Strawberries are nuts 🍓

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