Flauschige_Lemmata
@Flauschige_Lemmata@lemmy.world
- Comment on 2 days ago:
Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. That’s Good Omens
- Comment on Finally we learn the real story on the origins of Easter 5 days ago:
Chocolate eggs? We always hide real eggs. Cooked and painted.
- Comment on The news is sugarcoating how revolting the Epstein files are 1 week ago:
There definitely is such a thing as sex with a child. At least if you count teenagers as children.
If you are within the bounds of the standard creepiness rule, don’t have a position of power and if all parties consent, it’s definitely sex. And that’s not uncommon. Even if many people would like to pretend it is.
Also, if a teenager convincingly lies about their age, I wouldn’t call it rape either.
- Comment on Rent is theft 1 week ago:
I’d definitely like more of that. But for such a legal mandate, the government would also have to pay for it. That means rising taxes. I’m okay with that.
But at the moment, we are quite far from that. I’d already be pretty happy if the government would stop selling their governmental buildings. Especially to foreign investors.
- Comment on Rent is theft 1 week ago:
If the housing market gets so unprofitable that people aren’t building enough apartments, even though enough land is zoned for building, prices are too low.
That just leads to homelessness. - Comment on Rent is theft 1 week ago:
If you all think landlords make that much money, why don’t you guys all get together and form a housing association? In fact there are plenty of housing associations that sell shares.
With building and repair costs at an all time high, being a landlord isn’t as profitable as it used to be.
And the high interest rates make it even less profitable. It’s more attractive to invest elsewhere. And impossible to pay off a mortgage with rent.
If more people were able to build apartments, we would be able to reduce the housing shortage and rent would go down.
The one thing landlords do that I would consider theft is lobbying (bribing) for NIMBY policies. Especially zoning laws.
- Comment on Finland's Ministry of Justice is considering halting its plans to start using US-hosted cloud services 1 week ago:
And perhaps one of our states leaves the country.
- Comment on If Bill Gates get involved in a scandal, is it now called a Billgate? 1 week ago:
It’d be the Gategate. It would only be called Billgate if Bill was a woman.
- Comment on Why do horses allow humans to ride on their backs? 1 week ago:
Usually we teach them from the time they are 3 years old. So basically when they are teens
- Comment on Why do horses allow humans to ride on their backs? 1 week ago:
Breaking in is just how the process of fostering trust and getting the horse slowly used to a rider in many little steps is called.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Even worse: They are hoping that LLMs in training don’t realize that it’s an ad
- Comment on Finland's Ministry of Justice is considering halting its plans to start using US-hosted cloud services 1 week ago:
Hosting with close allies isn’t a problem.
Within the EU, I still don’t care in which country the data is hosted
- Comment on Finland's Ministry of Justice is considering halting its plans to start using US-hosted cloud services 1 week ago:
I wouldn’t say forever. But it will take a long time to rebuild.
- Comment on We need libraries, but instead of books, you borrow musical instruments. 1 week ago:
Food is at the bottom. With all the other physiological needs that form the foundation for the other, less important, needs.
That’s how pyramids work.
- Comment on If you receive a high medical bill, don't pay it immediately. Ask for an itemized bill first. 1 week ago:
Universal healthcare providers sometimes choose to cover drugs or treatments that have slightly worse outcomes instead. The treatment that was state of the art 10 years ago probably still works.
Patents last 20 years. But most of the time, a drug is in trials.
Providers can also choose not to cover other drugs by the same company, if they refuse to budge. Not being able to sell any drugs across an entire country would be a big problem for companies.
- Comment on We need libraries, but instead of books, you borrow musical instruments. 1 week ago:
Then even a well stocked instrument library probably won’t have it
- Comment on We need libraries, but instead of books, you borrow musical instruments. 1 week ago:
Ants farm. So farming is a hobby?
- Comment on We need libraries, but instead of books, you borrow musical instruments. 1 week ago:
Imagine all the terrible music we were spared because talentless randoms couldn’t just pick up an instrument for free.
Have you installed bugs at all of your neighbors houses or something?
Probably not, because if you did you’d be more annoyed at people who play their instruments well. That requires hours of boring exercise that don’t sound well at all. And even when they practice a piece, they’ll usually practice 4 bars on repeat, for an hour.
- Comment on We need libraries, but instead of books, you borrow musical instruments. 1 week ago:
Self actualization might be at the very top of the pyramid of needs. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t have it.
- Comment on We need libraries, but instead of books, you borrow musical instruments. 1 week ago:
With most woodwinds, you probably have to get your own reed for ~3,50€. But the rest can be cleaned well enough.
When my concert band lends out instruments they have to get a professional service at the local music store when you return them. They’ll replace any consumable parts that are missing, if you haven’t already.
Of course that would probably be a bit more difficult in a library setting, where the lease lasts only a very short time.
- Comment on People espousing that unions don't work should have a look at police unions. 1 week ago:
I just added the link just seconds ago. Apparently looking up terms people don’t know is too difficult.
- Comment on People espousing that unions don't work should have a look at police unions. 1 week ago:
I’ll have the feeling the voters in this tread have no idea what a company union is. There’s a reason they are banned by international labor law!
- Comment on People espousing that unions don't work should have a look at police unions. 1 week ago:
And company unions do as well.
- Comment on People espousing that unions don't work should have a look at police unions. 1 week ago:
Company unions don’t work.
And if union busting is encouraged by the government, being part of a regular union might not be worth the sacrifice.
- Comment on Can anyone explain why? 1 week ago:
Not really. Teenagers and young adults used to party a lot, and those parties used to have a lot of alcohol
- Comment on Can anyone explain why? 1 week ago:
I actually rather like the taste. Although it’s certainly an acquired taste. Like salminak
- Comment on If you receive a high medical bill, don't pay it immediately. Ask for an itemized bill first. 1 week ago:
I thought generics were handled relatively similarly in the EU and the US, but apparently the US does grant a bunch of exclusivities, on top of patents.
However the biggest difference between those health systems still seems to be how providers bargain for lower prices.
In the US, insurances bargain for rebates. That means that if you buy a drug with insurance the insurance only pays a small percentage of the drug price. They are still allowed to demand copay on the list price. So often the insurance makes a profit in that transaction. But if you try to go around insurance you have to pay the full list price and will pay even more.
Over here, the universal healthcare providers bargain with the pharma companies to lower the list price. And with a much greater bargaining power to boot.
- Comment on We need libraries, but instead of books, you borrow musical instruments. 1 week ago:
My concert band does that. You can borrow an instrument and we arrange for cheaper tutoring. You just have to promise to play in our band a year later.
The local music school (the place where you go to get a tutor. Not a school for general education) and the local instrument store also lend out instruments.
- Comment on Can anyone explain why? 1 week ago:
That would be a reason for more alcohol
- Comment on Can anyone explain why? 1 week ago:
Because alcohol is bad for you?
Our parents were still told that a glass of wine a day was healthy.