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Cake day: July 30th, 2024

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  • If you know both words why ever use the less specific one except to evoke a negative reaction. Why use the broad category if you know the subtype. If you know precise technical language and your Interlocutor is familiar with the same language, why use the more broad term unless you specifically mean the broad term. Why use the name of a set to talk about a subset of that set. Why convey less meaning in a word rather than more.

    I just don’t really get using cartoon when talking as and with people that know the concept of anime. Its not really perceived as an insult, but it does imply either yourself or your Interlocutor to not be capable or willing to distinguish the categories, which if both of you know both, will either come of as you insulting their intelligence or their preference, because if you both know both terms, the expectation is for the fastest and most precise word you’d both be expected to know to be used, with a deviation from that expectation at the very least causing friction.






  • I have two ways that i semi regularly use:

    Onion fine dice, oil in pan, sweat onion till translucent, dice tomatoes, herbs incl garlic and chilli flakes in the oil for a short while(dealers choice), tomatoes in, lid on for 10min, lid off until you’re at the right consistency, salt, maybe add sugar if not sweet enough.

    Same ingredients in a glass backing dish, oven at 180°C for 35+ mins.

    I don’t care to remove tomato skins so I never do.





  • That is an implementation detail and at least here in Germany typically not the case for glass and thick walled reusable plastic. Cleaning glass bottles and reusing them is the norm here and the system exists country wide so it is literally workable at scale and other countries could if they wanted just copy legislation and the physical infrastructure for this to happen.

    It apparently also has some flaws ( regulatory capture will do that to laws under capitalism) but the last sentence of the Germany section basically is enough evidence that this kind of system works and reuses bottles.

    At any given time, an estimated 2 billion beer bottles are in circulation in Germany, each of which sees an average of 36 reuses.

    Moreover even if not reusing deposit still gives way better return rates than any other method of recycling, at the very least keeping trash in a managed somewhat circular system. The Car battery recycling structure is also deposit based and very successful in recovering the toxic lead in these things. So even non reuse deposits have great upside to the alternative of not having deposits.



  • It was at one point the phone company arm of deutsche post (the German post office) of which both Telekom and DHL were spun out to be privatised. Both kind of natural monoplies turned private companies which were able to fund large expansions into foreign markets essentially on the backs of German taxpayers and later users of their respective services in their home market.

    Holy am I glad that I live in a place where there is a non Telekom ISP well established. Telekom in Germany is a service and troubleshooting hell like you wouldn’t belive if you haven’t had the pleasure of dealing with them.




  • Idk the BND and its French equivalent can largely buy up the exact same data sources the Americans are buying as well.

    I agree that it’s kind of a waste in terms of why would we want mass surveillance at home. But believing the EU can’t do this from a tech /resource perspective is rather shortsighted. Now a German French co-production running super smoothly especially at the start is also unlikely but they probably will get there at some point.