It works by applied statistics.

When you littered before - with the old cap - you’d have two pieces of plastic, now they are connected and it’s only one piece.

I’m only mildy annoyed by the new lids and got used to them, but it’s the bottle cap regulation is one of those that’s purely better for statistics.

It reduces littering by bottles to around half, just because we count the pieces differently now.

Maybe we should better just start taxing by the amount of plastic used in food packaging, as a lot of the packages get bigger and bigger just to display the contents more visibility.

I saw your username first.

Then I misread the rest as a Mallard Reaction.

TACO

Trump applies Chinese outsourcing.

But try not to get the Stainless Steel Connect. The App in the App Store is outdated and you can’t connect it to your WIFI anymore.

I’m living in a 15 floor apartment building with a single stairwell. (Germany, the building is from 2015)

There’s two elevators, one of them is equipped for firefighters (manual control possible after inserting the firefighters’ key, windows)

The single escape stairwell is isolated from the rest of the house by double doors (kind of an airlock against smoke). The escape stairwell is isolated against smoke and fire.

Also on every floor there’s a kind of glass cage in front of the elevators with a normally open door, in case of fire this will isolate the elevators against smoke.

In case of a fire alarm all the doors will automatically close (you can still open them. manually), additionally huge fans will be pulling clean air through the stairwell and the elevators.

We have individual fire alarms in every room - and a common system, connected to the fire department, in the shared areas.

So it’s a “put all of your eggs into one basket, but have a damn good basket” concept.

Btw, I’m on 8th floor, so too high to jump and probably already out of reach of the FD’s “extensible ladder” car.

In elementary school my son would not memorize addition and multiplication and just use strategies like this.

That became a problem later on as we just can handle a finite number of intermediary results in our brain, so just memorizing the tables reduces a lot of mental load for calculation in your brain.

Another thing that helped him a lot was just writing down intermediaries on a piece of paper.

Btw it was a bit similar for me, I just got the table memorized perfectly and got faster doing simple calculations in my mind than using a calculator when I was training the multiplication and addition tables with my son.

It’s so easy, just post false information, someone will correct it.

In the 30s people didn’t have phones to record and identify you. If there were, I’m sure they’d have worn masks.

I recently visited a friend and noticed her laptop was turning into a spicy pillow. I opened it up, showed her which replacement battery to order and call me when it’s here to install it.

Next week she called me, she had successfully installed the replacement battery herself. “Ah I saw where it went, I just tried”

Typically it’s not hard, you just need to know where to look and not be afraid “ooh it’s tech”.

Watching the initial Falcon launches, it gave me so much joy when it flew successfully and I was sad when it exploded.

Watching the Starrship launches it gives me so much joy when it explodes, and I’ll be so sad if it makes it to space one day.

Just like the SA once was, over here.

Tschulligom, hab jetzt die URL in URL kopiert, passt? Nächstes Mal muss ich’s offenbar abspeichern und nicht per Kopierpaste übernehmen.

Wait, Italians also meme about the Pissplatte?

Espresso does not mean fast but is from “cafe espresso” - pressed out coffee.

It’s not the coffee express.

Btw, in the morning I get up go to the coffee machine, turn it on, take my meds, sit on the sofa while the coffee makee heats up.

I start browsing lemmy, forget the coffee maker, the timer turns it off again, while I answer to some posts.

I get up, turn it back on, sigh and wait until it is heated up (which is quicker the second time)

So my morning cup espresso takes about 30-45 minutes to make.

Oh wait, let me check for my coffee.

GROAAAAAAN.

Die Sache ist halt die - vor Gericht müssen Dinge bewiesen werden, d. h. wenn man auch nur halbwegs eine halbscharige Geschichte konstruieren kann, warum es “anders” war kommt man davon.

Am Ende ist das auch eine gute Sache, dass wir diesen strengen Regeln folgen um nicht möglicherweise Unschuldige zu verurteilen, auch - wenn wie hier - so offensichtlich ein Arschloch sich rauswinden kann.

Das ist oft frustrierend, weil es ungerecht wirkt. Schützt aber (zum Teil) vor politisch motivierten Urteilen.

https://youtu.be/yx5xhlwUxxA

There were A LOT of songs about nuclear war in 80s music. German youth in the 80s was very aware that in nuclear war Germany (being a huge part of the east west border) would just be ground zero to be vaporized in WW3.

Thinking about Germany people associate the Autobahn, what some don’t know - there were pre-built detonation chambers so key sections and bridges could be mined with atomic demolition munitions in order to stop the east bloc tank armies from advancing.

ChatGpt translation of the song lyrics:

When in the Canale Grande submarines drop anchor
And on St. Peter’s Square in Rome missile launch pads stand
When a carpet of bombs floats over the bazaar of Ankara
And from the hills of Olympus a Pershing II rises

Then everything is long too late
Then, when nothing works anymore
Visit Europe
As long as it still stands

In front of the old Cologne Cathedral a mushroom cloud rises into the air
And the sky is filled with the scent of neutron waffles
When in Paris the Eiffel Tower bows westward in a final salute
And near Big Ben a gentle Alpine glow appears

Then everything is long too late
Then, when nothing works anymore
Visit Europe
As long as it still stands

When haute cuisine turns into a witch’s cauldron
Where the cook from overseas flambés his old world
There’s laughter and applause, even the waiter gets a kick
What’s left to us but culture — we wish you bon appétit

Then everything is long too late
Then, when nothing works anymore
Visit Europe
As long as it still stands
Yes, then everything is long too late
Then, when nothing works anymore
Visit Europe
As long as it still stands
As long as it still stands, as long as it still stands
As long as it still stands, as long as it still stands

“Race” was invented by racists. There was a lot of fake science here in Germany in the 30s to “prove” that not only “human races” exist, but even so that they have different worth.

So this is what I always still hear when someone is using the word - and commonly they are racists.

I do understand where you’re coming from, and I totally agree that there are a fucking lot of supremacist people and yes - if I had been a teenager in the 30s, people would have seen I’m blonde, blue-eyed and tall. So I would have that privilege and still it is a privilege in the modern world.

Prejudices about skin color exist, I absolutely agree. Racists exist, I agree. Just “race” - every time I hear that, it’s like something out of the Nazi textbooks my grandfather had to use at school.

I can stand carbonated water and hate plain water. When I was a kid, my family wouldn’t drink water but other beverages.

My kids (17 and 20 now) grew up with drinking water at home. Water was the thing to drink if you are thirsty, everything else was allowed but “something special” like a sweet. Going to a restaurant also was special, they could choose what they like.

While I still struggle with water - I manage, but I still drink sugar free soda as well, my adult kids can’t understand how I like that sweet stuff all the time.

So I firmly believe your preference is what you grew up with. You can change it, but it takes effort.

Deine Mudda is so fett, dass man für sie mal nen Betonmischer braucht als Urne.