master-lincoln

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Comment · 3 hours ago
There is no Nobel Prize for economics: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/

Alfred Nobel did not name economics in his will and it only started to be given out 70 years later by a bank in memory of Nobel.

Putting a single person in charge will always corrupt them

Comment · 3 hours ago
That would be news to me. Which country are you referring to?
Comment · 1 day ago
what is this even supposed to mean?

Is every software dev who instructs agents regularly now an agentic engineer?

Don't people feel bad about misusing the engineering term so badly?

Comment · 3 days ago
not democracy, but capitalism
Comment · 3 days ago
Comment · 5 days ago
> Our voters don't want to pay higher taxes, so that's the state of things.

So the alternative is to act against the law and not answer FOIA requests? You should demand high enough taxes to fulfill your obligations. If voters are unhappy about their height, they should elect people who make different laws the next time.

Comment · 10 days ago
I am not chinese and I assume neither are you. Yes, I believe there is also no coherent chinese culture. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_China

As far as I understand there are groups in China accusing the Chinese government of ethnic erasure. China’s "Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress," which took effect on July 1, 2026, codifies the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) policy of cultural assimilation.

> Yet to deny the existence of Chinese culture or Chinese people would not only be extremely offensive, it would be genocidal language.

Please read the definitions of genocide and ethnic erasure again. I do not deny anything, I just say i believe it didn't exist.

Comment · 11 days ago
> I don't care at all about ethnicity ...

> concerned that the German culture get erased within a few generations

It seems to me that you do not know what ethnicity means.

> They are concerned that the German culture get erased within a few generations, because to many people with a too different cultural background enter the society

I addressed that by saying there has never been a coherent German culture

Comment · 11 days ago
Arguments like these are what hateful racist say.

Germans are people having a German passport. They will not be a minority. There is already no single German ethnicity as the history and culture has been diverse regionally.

Stopping legitimate refugees is extreme in my view (against human rights). What you are doing is classic right wing rhetoric mixing legitimate refugees and illegitimate into one pool.

Comment · 12 days ago
Seems unlikely to me that 20% of the population were connected to a terrorist attack by someone who would be executed.

Even if, I don't see how seeing one of the perpetrators getting killed many years later would give relief.

I also believe eternal prison is a bigger punishment than execution.

Comment · 12 days ago
seems fair. As a meat eater I am for it
Comment · 12 days ago
So you don't think if employers collect private data about employees there should be limits on what they can do with that?

not an attack on you, but I am thankful to have guardrails for greedy scrupulous corporations

Comment · 15 days ago
Why are you not sure?

To me it seems like if they logically know the smell can not cause harm having a strong emotional fear reaction is illogical. Of course most emotions are so that's not meant to be a blame or anything...

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