I clap really loudly. I cup the fingers off my right hand and bang them into the palm of my left hand. Sometimes people are annoyed by my choosing because it’s so loud. But we’re clapping? It’s supposed to be loud?

I mean no offense - what’s the difference between being certified in nutrition and being a nutritionist?

How did you become a nutritionist?

I mean, you’re going back a to true/false dichotomy.

How did you jump from a discussion about opposing perspectives on a single, unknowable truth to “one must be right and everything else a lie”?

Very much this. I was an exchange student in the US in 2005 and my US history teacher (yes, their history classes are commonly split between us and “rest of the world”) exclusively worked with excerpts from Zinn.

I understood once I leafed through the official textbook. It was about as bad as you can imagine.

So yes, Zinn is far from “objective” or “neutral”. It’s a deliberate choice because

a) it’s supposed to counterbalance the terribly whitewashed school books and b) there’s a case to be made that no text, not even scientific ones, is ever truly objective or neutral because reality is a construct.

The latter is a more philosophical debate, but nonetheless an important one. Since there is no single objective truth, you’ll usually dare better by considering varying interpretations of “truth” before making your mind up.

In other words: you’ll never get the full picture, but if you assemble enough puzzle pieces you increase your chances of understanding the bigger picture, and, more importantly, you’ll gain a sense for when somebody is just off their rocker.

A 7 months old random fediverse account is a bot? You know that the entirety of the fediverse is like 0.001 percent of the user base of the social media giants?

That would be money really badly spent on astro-turfing bots.

I can’t help but feel like your sampling might be skewed.

Vollautomaten (I. E. Fully automated coffee machines that brew espressos and cappuccinos etc) tend to make worse coffee, I agree. That’s why I don’t use the one in the office.

Having an experienced barista grind you an exactly measured dose fresh for your coffee at a good Café is quite nice, on the other hand.

But that’s nothing to do with Germany or Australia.

translating animal languages

“How to Use AI to Talk to Whales—and Save Life on Earth With ecosystems in crisis, engineers and scientists are teaming up to decipher what animals are saying. Their hope: By truly listening to nature, humans will decide to protect it.”

Wired Magazine August 2023

I think part of it is that movies are edited differently now. We’ve become used to much faster pacing, much denser storytelling and sweeping drone shots of everything, so older movies generally feel a bit lame now

You might want to look into Loqseq and Appflowy. I hear the cool kids today are using notion and obsidian and these two are FOSS alternatives to those.

I believe in you.

https://feddit.de/c/cannabis ?

Meine Notizen später die Woche wenn ich nicht gerade auf Arbeit bin per PN 😊

I’ve just fallen down that rabbit home in expectation of the legalization here in Germany. It you want I’ll send you my notes.

The short of it: growing outdoors might be really difficult in Germany, as you have to make sure the plot isn’t visible to passers-by or your neighbors and their kids. At least that was how it was phrased before the new revision today.

That being said, there are a number of strains that grow outdoors in Scandinavia. Professional Seed retailers like royal queen seeds have dedicated info pages and/or filters for that usually.

Googling “grow cannabis outdoor cold climate” should set you off in the right direction.

It will never not be funny to me how scared some people are of any transportation that’s not a car.

I can’t tell if you’re trolling or not. Well done.

Anyone else kinda wish for a video instead of that one kinda lame comparison picture?

Who on the left and where did they switch to H2? Because that’s news to me. Germany tried to carve out an “E-Fuel” subsidy in the EU thanks to its libertarian DOT minister, but that’s a) literally meant as a drop-in replacement for gas and b) pretty much dead on arrival.

Everything I’ve followed so far seems to indicate that while BEVs have problems, H2 ist just massively less efficient to produce, store, distribute and burn.

Lustery.com exists, fyi

I used to drive a 30yr old converted fire engine as a camper /truck thing and let me tell you they don’t like to get cold. Called ADAC (german AAA) four times in as many months before learning that these exist. From then on out come temps meant starting they motor from a power bank, not calling for help.