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- Comment on Why are there so many german communities on Lemmy? 5 days ago:
This is correct. If found a club (“Verein” in German) under German jurisdication you will be rehistered as a so called e.V. and get some benefits. The biggest one is that the club will not pay taxes (or at least pay less taxes) for earned money. However, there are some downsides. You have to have a legal statute, you need several formal representatives (one who is responsible for finances, and usually two who are legal representatives of the club). These have to be elected each year on the mandatory club member meeting. The protocol from this meeting has to be signed by a lawyer. AFAIK there are also limits on how much money you are allowed to have your bank account. This due to the the nature of the “e.V.” label, which means that you are a non profit organisation and this means, that you can’t just hoard huge amounts of money.
Ling story short: you have to do quite a lot of bureaucracy in order to save money on taxes. It definitely is nothing that is worth for playing a bit of football and chugging some beers with 3 people every two weeks
- Comment on You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind can't comprehend this. 6 days ago:
To be fair the mindset that a car means freedom is also quite common in Germany too. Especially in the countryside (tbf its often required if you dont want waste a lot of time due to shitty public transportation)
- Comment on You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind can't comprehend this. 6 days ago:
So do Americans.
- Comment on Good morning to sovcit vanifestos, and only sovcit vanifestos. 1 week ago:
At This point he doesn’t even need a license plate anymore. Just tell the cop “you know who it is when you see it”.
- Comment on It's just loss. 1 week ago:
I gonna intercept here for a bit. The Problem with “shutting down single farms” is, that this virtually has no effect at all. The entire conventional farming sector is quite fucked up. Everything gets optimised for the highest possible efficiency. This means, that everything that falls out of set norms will be eliminated.
What I mean by this is, that, as example, piglins that didnt grow that well are simply killed by the farmers, because they can’t be sold. This happens because no farmer will give you the same money for a piglin that has half the weight of the others and is much more likely to get targeted by the rest of the group. Since its illegal to kill piglins without a reason the farmers do it by themselves and then dispose them with the piglins that die when during, or shortly after, birth. Nobody notices, and it is not possible to control this (at least not realistically). The problem is, that this whole system so fucked up that by shutting down single farms you only combat symptoms of the system and not the root cause. By this I do not want to say, that we have to shut down the entire animal farming sector, but that we have to drastically reduce the intensity of the sector to shift production to quality instead of quantity.
Source for the stuff I said: I grew up on a farm (not with piglins) and had to work in a piglin farm for 4 weeks. I have seen the stuff I said first hand and I devinetively did stuff that I’m now deeply ashamed of retrospect. The stuff I saw also matches the tuff I have heard from other sources.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 2 weeks ago:
Fair enough
- Comment on Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car 2 weeks ago:
Well yes, but actually no. BYD has quite of an advantage (also because China subsidies it), but american (and also European) companies have no incentive to actually design good quality products if BYD gets left out. At the same time CEO will try (and currently do it) to force us into working more and more for less money with less benefits while swimming in billions of dollars.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 2 weeks ago:
Also you need to castrate the males a month before you eat them or they’ll taste off
That sounds like someone has experience with this…
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 2 weeks ago:
I gonna be honest: Tofu is a completely underrated food. If done right it tastes absolutely fucking awesome. You can also put it onto bread and there are plenty of different flavoutlrs that you can easily buy in a supermarket.
- Comment on YSK that fracking is not safe. People living near fracking sites are more likely to develop serious diseases 2 weeks ago:
Ok, fair enough. I also absolutely agree that we shaould have went for nuclear instead of coal, but now its to late and its faster to replace coal with renewables, than replacing it with nuclear.
- Comment on YSK that fracking is not safe. People living near fracking sites are more likely to develop serious diseases 2 weeks ago:
You know that renewable Energy exists? In the time we would need to replace follils with nuclear we can insted build renewables and Storage capacitys and we would be way cheaper.
- Comment on YSK that fracking is not safe. People living near fracking sites are more likely to develop serious diseases 2 weeks ago:
I should mention, that building new nuclear reactors is not financially a viable option.
- Comment on YSK that fracking is not safe. People living near fracking sites are more likely to develop serious diseases 2 weeks ago:
You didnt but the person you replied to
- Comment on YSK that fracking is not safe. People living near fracking sites are more likely to develop serious diseases 2 weeks ago:
Except that nuclear is not economically viable.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 2 weeks ago:
Fair enough with the Stasi. I could see how why, but I Am not capable of comparing the effectiveness of both.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 2 weeks ago:
Ah, thanks for the info.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 2 weeks ago:
While this is true, there are still various degrees of how much the police is used as a tool of oppression and the shit we see in America is miles away from what we see in Germany.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 2 weeks ago:
We did it the best from 1933-1945, but currently we are nowhere near the american police state.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 2 weeks ago:
Is Palestine Action a specific movement/group or is palestine Action literally just supporting Palestine? Asking from a non UK perspective.
- Comment on Thank you, Thor! 2 weeks ago:
Nowadays its also quite common to design speeches around short form videos, so that you can then edit as much as possible into short little segments that are optimised for short form content. The right wingers do it a lot and, at least in Germany, our leftist party realised that this is a strategy to not miss out on.
- Comment on Yellow from the egg! 2 weeks ago:
Probably not, because the saying is probably way older than the toy.
- Comment on yeey 3 weeks ago:
And since everything eventually decays into lead…
- Comment on But I am mighty!! 3 weeks ago:
And then theres me who does not go outside that often, never uses suncream and doesnt get a sunburn when I decide to go outside for longer times.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I devinetively had some principles. Anyone who stated that they are rightwing, believed in some form of conspiracy theories, looked like they just need someone’s money to spend, whose profile looks like whose whole personality is how they look like and people that I simply didnt thought looked attractive did not get a right swipe. This sorted out about 20% or so of the people the Algorithm showed to me. The rest got a right swipe, because they looked somewhat attractive and had no really obvious dealbreakers. They might have some things that I may not really like, but would be willing to overlook (e.g. smoking).
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I used them for maybe 3/4 of a year to one year (dont know exactly) and it was the biggest time waste I have been part of. I usually spent about 1 hour per day swiping all potential partners the app suggested me. I swiped almost everything right, as long as they did not have any obvious red flags or they didnt looked like a person I could be attracted to. I had the radius set to 50km what meant, that I was getting potential partners from 2 larger Citys.
The result of this about 1 year of using the app was probably like 10 matches, maybe 2 actually good chats that resolved into me having to pull everything out of the others nose in like 3 days. That’s it. No exchanging numbers, no dates nothing. It only made me feel more lonely due to my “obvious incapabilities to attract a partner” (of course not, but that’s what it felt like). There devinetively is a chance of them working (one of my best friends found his GF on a dating app), but that’s like saying “theres a chance to win in the lottery, and it could be you who wins it”. It is not impossible for the apps to work, but for the majority of people dating apps are an absolute scam that are actively hurting you. After realising, what a time waste these apps are I just decided to give up on dating, because there is a zero percent chance of me actually being able to find a partner in real life. I never dated, I dont know how to do it and at this point I honestly do not fucking care. If by some miracle I might get the chance to get into a relationship I won’t say no, but until then I’m fine the way I currently life.
- Comment on YSK: Non-violent protests are 2x likely to succeed and no non-violent movement that has involved more than 3.5% of the country population has ever failed 5 weeks ago:
Yeah. 3.5% would be about 2.8m people. This number has been exceeded easily last year when the AfD scandal happened. Absolutely fucking nothing happened.
- Comment on I've hated donald trump since day one but then I saw this and thought.... 1 month ago:
That’s devinetively one hell of an image. This goes hard.
- Comment on I'm something of an expert myself 1 month ago:
Check if maybe any dust got into the connectors. Prone to thus is the PCIE connector on the motherboard, when removing the GPU. Just blow into it to make sure its dust free. Happened to me more than once.
- Comment on BlackRock is Suing UnitedHealth for Giving “Too Much Care” to Patients After the CEO was Murdered 1 month ago:
- Comment on Trump says a 25% tariff "must be paid by Apple" on iPhones not made in the US, says he told Tim Cook long ago that iPhones sold in the US must be made in the US 1 month ago:
Tariffs can also be an effective way of balancing buisness advantages. An example: Germany has quite high standards in its farming sector. This applys to what pesticides you are allowed to use, how much fertiliser you can use, what conditions animals have to live in and so on. Everything that you have to do to comply with these rules costs money, so in order to still make a profit you need to charge quite high prices. If you then compare these with the almost non existent standards of, as example Brazil, you quickly realise, that they are capable of producing goods much cheaper (who could have guessed, that its cheaper if you can just imassively increase your land by land grabbing, giving a shit on everything and using the most efficient, but very cruel, ways to feed and hold your livestock). Due to this, beef that gets imported into Germany from Brazil, thanks to Mercosur without any tariffs, will be magnitudes cheaper than locally made. This kills your local farming sector and also does massive damage to Brazil’s citizen and enviroment (its a massive brainfuck how farming works there). If you want to counteract this you could charge tariffs, so that the consumer starts preferring locally made products, because they are cheaper. This also is an incentive for Brazil to better regulate its farming industry.
