fun fact: whole-grain bread is probably healthier than soft white bread anyways due to an increased content in fiber, so there’s that …

could use some vegetables. 8/10 because lack of said vegetables.

what about Margaret Thatcher?

i mean it would be better if we had a community where you can just write the sentences yourself. unfortunately that doesn’t seem to be very widespread today?

would be good to just have sth like /c/postmyopinion or sth

the news are so bad at reporting epstein files because literally everyone who could report about them is either in bed with trump or has some other interest in not talking about it.

it’s like, you know, people who run companies would like to keep their power so they just nod along and say “trump is a saint, nothing to see here, go away”.

you know, i’ve always been wondering about whether that is secretly a covert plan of the wife so the husband works longer hours, makes more money and makes the family richer. i’d seriously not put that past some people i’ve met in my life …

be the woman you want to see in the world

back then it wasn’t about political independence from the US.

the EU has made a lot of noise in the last 2 weeks about getting off of US platforms. Here’s a few examples:

https://apnews.com/article/europe-digital-sovereignty-big-tech-9f5388b68a0648514cebc8d92f682060

https://ecfr.eu/publication/get-over-your-x-a-european-plan-to-escape-american-technology/

There’s many more. The movement is significant.

sounds like a good thing. man do i miss actually going out and meeting people. i mean, i can go out, but i’m mostly alone, idk where everyone else is, the world feels so empty, devoid of people in it

the best security is to not be in great conflict of interest with great powers

I’ve started thinking that it’s not so much about blackmail after all, instead it’s about connections and relationships.

Consider this: Epstein clearly had thousands of customers. I don’t have any actual number in my head, but clearly it must have been a lot and seemingly everybody knew about it. Like, if you look at how many people are related to all this, it’s impossible to think that nobody knew anything. Probably, a very large number of people knew what was going on; but nobody bothered to do anything about this. Why? Because they didn’t care. To them, it was just business as usual, everybody’s all in on this anyways, those that aren’t have no actual power, so who’s gonna do anything?

Like, even if it did get public, i’m pretty sure most of the people involved felt certain enough that nothing bad would happen anyways. Considering there were mostly no consequences till today, they’re mostly right, i’d say.

Instead, they just used the parties and connections as a networking platform, getting to know other influential people and stuff. That’s IMHO the bigger reason why mossad is involved in all of this. Not for blackmailing purposes, but to be in the center of a network of connections that gives them a lot of strategic influence in the world.

Realistically, that doesn’t happen. At least not if we consider mathematics to be the useful kind of mathematics. The stuff that helps you do statistics/finances/engineering. Because that type of mathematics is based on reality and for the mathematics to be inconsistent would mean that reality is inconsistent, and then we have much much bigger problems.

As for the higher abstract maths (which is closer to philosophy anyways) yeah such things have happened many times and led to revolutionary insights each time. An example is when we started basing everything on set theory (which in medieval times did not really exist). But that’s a philosophical question, not one that concerns daily life.

fediverse partner finder when?

“God says: Believe in me. Satan says: Believe in yourself.”

The Pentagon (US military headquarters) is too!

I mean i’m sorry you get downvoted so heavily, idk why, you have a point.

I was gonna say we have the best shitposts because we have the most loose assholes but ok.

This also applies to renewable energy btw. Some people seem to think we can’t start with the energy transition before we’ve figured it all out, including storage for the winter and at night.

Let’s just build solar panels and wind mills and see how far we can go with that :D much more productive that way.

Just to continue on this: Ok, i see now that the concept of “identity” has at least two aspects.

One is to prove that one has a certain private key, the other is to own a globally unique username.

A globally unique username can be derived from the DNS system (i.e. @gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de is derived from the discuss.tchncs.de hostname). That is something that you cannot generate from your personal computer alone.

Thanks, i wasn’t aware of that.