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Du Spaßbremse bist sicher super beliebt auf allen Parties.

It’s not only funny, it also stabilizes the mantelpiece during an earthquake and prevents the urn from toppling over.

And this is why we not only need to reduce our dependence on China in the long run but also our dependence on the US.

There’s just no way a sovereign state live while depending on US monopolies.

There’s no way individual donations from ordinary people could match Google’s. They’re also likely to be less reliable.

Thank god. I do really believe all the Google money is actively stifling innovation at Mozilla. The only thing they can’t do is building a better browser than chrome is, for fear of becoming a viable alternative again.

So they use the money for some CEO pay. and weird projects while Firefox further falls from popularity.

I hope for the day Firefox’s market share has dropped to a level tha Google just won’t pay any money anymore for the default search engine deal.

That day - and not one day before - innovation will resume.

I did. I rage-signed up for a monthly contribution to the Servo project the last time I read about something Mozilla did.

Recently I go fucking annoyed by Mozilla that I rage-contributed (monthly payment) to Servo.

Mozilla is such a shit show.

I would probably cum from laughing.

For a long time I didn’t like Nihilism because of the implied negativity. There’s no god, no reason no ultimate judge. So it says behave as you like, and I somehow read it as “don’t care about anyone else”.

Just I feel better when I treat people nicely, when I’m not an asshole. Not out of fear, but because I like to.

It was so eye opening when I found out this is known as optimistic nihilism.

This is the world. Shit happens, good things happen. There is no deeper reason behind it. Things are not important. I can make the world my hell or my playground.

That’s what I was thinking looking at this meme. Being both is the only logical thing.

Intra Courtyard Ballistic Missile

I don’t have a lot of VR experience, but for me being “in” a scene does it for VR, while 3D Glasses are still meh.

Try non-stereoscooic VR by just closing one eye while using your headset - it’s still great. The difference is the one between stereoscopic tvs and normal ones.

Oh, and the 3d tvs are non-interactive. Move your head a bit, you still don’t see around things. But that’s what makes a lot of 3d effect for me.

I had a TV that was 3D capable along with a PS3. I think I played 30 minutes of 3D games on that TV before I got a headache from the flickering shutter glasses and then they staid in the drawer below them tv for a year ar or two. Next time I wanted to try the batteries were empty.

I also saw a number of 3D movies in the cinema but it’s more for block busters and after a while it just is “meh”.

It’s a wow cool effect in the beginning, but in the end it’s just a gimmick. IMO it’s not more immersive but rather distracting from the movie itself.

Oh fuck, I had a MacBook years ago and one day the touchpad wouldn’t register any clicks anymore.

After one angry hour I found out I didn’t turn off my magic mouse before I chucked it into the laptop bag and a book was resting on it, “holding” the button down.

I tried this on “Can you read this”, pasted the result in chatgpt. It told me it’s zero with noise mostly. I asked it to decode that - and it did. This is as useful as posting with thorns, but more wasteful.

In my fourth semester im Uni I could choose whether to take numerical analysis or probability theory.

Most students took numerical analysis, even if the exam typically had a 80% failure rate. (Yes, one of five successed)

It was a completely different with probability theory (Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung). Oh, having chosen it due to these reasons now I know why: The prof loved teaching and was really good at explaining.

Ultimately this shows, people have no idea about probabilities.

Edit: fixed the nunerical typo. No it was not about catholic nuns.

Oh interesting, I knew this joke in a “Budweiser” form, but not that it originated from Monty Python.

So I bow to them.

I’m living in Munich and we also have a bit of a connection to beer. Of the famous Munich beer brands Paulaner and Hacker are partially held by Heineken and Spaten, Franziskaner and Löwenbräu by Anheuser Busch.

Fortunately there are still good independent few. (Augustiner, Hofbräu, Giesinger)

I always want to go to the Paulaner or Hacker beer gardens and put a sticker to the urinal “This is where they make Heineken”

What’s the difference between Foster’s and having sex in a canoe?

There’s none.

Both are fucking close to water.

Applying “kinetic sanctions” to Russian oil exports will wean the world off oil and save CO2 in the long run.

In totally unrelated news, here in Germany - after the political clusterfuck of the last years about heat pumps has silenced - in 2025 heat pumps more and more become home owners heating system of choice.

And I don’t worry about blowing these depots up to drive back the aggressor in a war in an manner of ecology, I do worry about fossils still being one of our main energy sources.