Also a great track by a great band

Mr. Battlestation that is running one GPU, but has the combined cooling to run a nuclear power plant

Articles in German make no real sense honestly. Deutsch is neuter, but since it’s mostly an adjective the article is that of the accompanied noun. The German language is female, the German court neuter and the German football field is male (the stadium is neuter though)

I am betting everything on them not being sharp nor particularly tall - just needs a few tries to work

Basically all languages east of Germany. In Russian it’s niemcy or something, also meaning mute. And AFAIK it was less nit being able to learn but rather not willing. Germans formed their own communities and stuck together - or still to this day do.

Himbeere oder Pflaume?

Honestly Saxonian ist the worst. I automatically assume I am talking to a Nazi and brace myself. The fact that that I am right in about 1 of 2 cases doesn’t really help either

50 Pfennig? Das sind x,xxxx % der Staatsverschuldung der DDR. Mit den bisherigen Spenden hätte man die DDR um x,xxxx% entschulden können.

Bekomme ich jetzt auch eine Schnapspraline?

It redirected me to support saying they could deactivate it - they can’t is what support said.

Once again fuck AI

Pretty neat, thank you

How the hell are you reading homophobia into the original comment?

Karma? I’ve been on lemmy for 9 months and I don’t know that there is karma? Pls tell me mine

Plus quite a few luxuries are now necessary, like a good smartphone, laptop/computer and a car (in more rural areas).

The few sort of luxuries you splurge on are what keeps you from losing your sanity

In German penal law there were discussions on how to treat those that act under orders. Many Germans did act under orders and even in accordance to law in WW2 but also in regard to the Mauerschützen (the soldiers that shot dissidents at the inner German border)- meaning that there were difficulties persecuting them as it was technically legal. There were way too few persecutions, however something called the Radebrechtsche formula was developed. Paraphrasing it says, something that is morally wrong to every morally thinking being cannot be legalized or excused. It is simply illegal to act on orders that are naturally wrong.

It would not even be possible to annihilate humanity if you kill a 1000 people a day.

About 368000 people are born daily. About 150000 die daily. Which means the bad guys would have to kill about 219000 people per day to annihilate humanity in 22000 years

Also, the journalists they employ are obviously beneficiaries of the freedom of press as well as of opinion, which drastically limits the influence of the government on their reporting.

Now legally speaking, they are an independent legal person of the public law. Meaning they have been granted a degree of freedom in the DWG (Deutsche Welle Law), § 68 DWG states that there is no legal way of taking influence on their journalistic work.

Now, any further legal dive would be too much to really follow, plus I am too lazy. They are however quite a unique legal product that is a beneficiary of the constitutional rights as well as having to follow them themselves

I didn’t mean to say it in a demeaning way. DW is certainly a better news outlet than many others, especially major US ones. And how much sway the government actually has is unclear to me as well. Nevertheless their conception from day one has been and still is to be a spokesman for the German state in its entirety.

Am 3. Mai 1953 geht die Deutsche Welle von Köln aus als Hörfunksender mit einer Radioansprache von Bundespräsident Theodor Heuss erstmals auf Sendung. Gegründet von der Bundesregierung, soll sie dem Ausland die junge Bundesrepublik vermitteln und die Wiederaufnahme Deutschlands in die internationale Staatengemeinschaft medial begleiten. Taken directly from their website.

Or for those not German speaking, paraphrasing loosely: Founded by the federal government their mission was to tell the world of the young federal Germany and to help reintegrate Germany into the international community of countries medially.

My goal was not to belittle their work - I really like their work from what I’ve seen so far. However I wanted to point out that the media outlet that was founded to paint Germany in a positive - though often critical- way, is now apparently more trustworthy than a majority of major (sort of independent) US news outlets and gets cited alongside the Guardian.

But because you’re still correct on my style of writing to be quite a bit to placative, I will add a disclaimer to my initial comment.

You guys know that DW is basically German “propaganda” it is literally the German government’s news outlet. And I don’t mean in a public broadcasting kind of way.

Edit.: because this comment could be and has been seen as to placative and one-sided, pls. also take regard of my answer below.

Yeah that restriction is probably also why LOL is not on there

Russian men irl are NAFO Fellas?