kharak

Late reply, apologies. And let me first thank you for the provided context.

My notion is, that anything labeled as solidarity has to be an act of free choice. Using Solidarity for a forced "choice" is an example of doublespeak. For context, another example for doublespeak is the "USA Freedom Act" policy that brought mass surveillance.

To answer your question for a word I'd prefer: How about an ontologically expressive word like "collectivity principle" / "Kollektivitätsprinzip". Coincidentally, I just googled it, "Kollektivitätsprinzip" is used in Switzerland instead of the word "Solidaritätsprinzip". Becks the question why Switzerland is honest where Germany uses doublespeak?

To finish, you can see that I am not arguing against the "Solidaritätsprinzip", no, I argue against the dishonesty of using doublespeak. A futile undertaking, but sometimes I cannot help myself.

Not op, but it’s solidarity if money is freely given, let’s call it something else when money is taken without consent.

I have become utterly obsessed with creating a 2D top down mech game. I have not worked this intensively on anything else in my life. It's really silly in some way, wish I'd have this obsession for something more valuable. Alas.

I would have never started this game without agentic coding, but now, I cannot stop working. It's amazing. So this is how some of you have felt all your life about tech or other subjects? I'd always believed it, but now, I experience the difference first hand. Before, discipline is what I needed to start working. Now, discipline is what I need to stop.

The ignorant part is claiming we have workable alternatives to AC. Now you one-up your previous statement by claiming people thrive(d) in these temperatures. Even if you had mistaken thrive for survive, it would still be incorrect, indicated by excess mortality during high temperatures.

I'd grant you that you didn't explicitly advocated for restrictive AC regulation, but I claim your dismissive attitude is implicitly part of the reason AC regulation remains restrictive.

This is the kind of ignorant comment we thankfully see less and less.

You can no longer shift your activities when the weather reaches 35C (95f) every day for weeks without noticeably cooling down in the night.

And even if activity shifting was possible, which again, it is not anymore, the authoritative, fatalistic poverty mindset required to demand that one does not actively cool during hot hours is a European mentality not many other cultures, if any, understand.

Lovely blend of analogue and digital elements.

I am not into cars and I will certainly not pay for a luxury car anytime soon, so not the most relevant opinion. Still, when I buy a car again, I'd love to have this interior design. The exterior on the other hand, I don't know what they tried to achieve here.

Designers seem to struggle with exterior electronic car design in general. Are they trying too hard to be iconic?

I've always had excellent model building functionality for abstractions and got the "physics" of a subject rather quickly, be it economics, biology, certain mathematical subjects and more.

Then, I met software and computer science abstractions, they all seemed so arbitrary to me, I often didn't even understand what the recipe was supposed to cook. And though I have gotten better over time (and can now write good solutions in certain domains), to this day I did not develop a "physics" level understanding of software or computer science.

It feels really strange and messes with your sense of intelligence. Wondering if anyone here has a similar experience and was able to resolve it.

Sometimes interests intersect.

I'm in the opposite camp. Programming has never been fun to me, and LLMs are a godsend to deal with all the parts I don't care for. LLMs have accelerated my learning speed and productivity, and believe it or not, programming even started to become fun and engaging!

I will never, ever go back to the time before.

Could you elaborate on the differences in the healthcare systems?

Not sure why you are downvoted. Social market economy is the self-description in Germany, it's what you learn in school and how German politicians name the system.

The goal of social market economy is to 'correct undesirable effects' of free markets. Depending on your perspective, you categorize it as capitalist, socialist or in-between system.

To be honest, I do understand some people preferring pastures in front of their home. But we can't have nice things if individuals are capable of blocking projects for that. Personal preferences should not be a valid reason to block projects. Unmitigated negative externalities are reasonable objections, but even then, you have people "finding" this one protected snail type living there and - boom - project can't be realized due to environmental protection laws. There needs to be a re-balance of the commons, but try getting that through legislation.

To add to this, I know person a farmer who wanted to use part of his farmland for solar panels. The project failed. Reasons: lack of power grid connection, no one wanted to takeover the costs for added capacity; and local resistance from residents. „I want to see the nature in front of my home“ is all what’s needed to fail consent.