Ah okay. Ne so richtig Ahnung habe ich nicht, aber ich wollte den Film vor 10 Jahren mal schauen und hab natürlich erst mal der vollständigsten Version gesucht. Ein bisschen was von der Recherche ist in einer dunklen Ecke meines Gehirns hängen geblieben.

Hier mehr dazu, zwei Szenen sind wohl nicht mehr zu retten. Ja, finde das Thema auch grundsätzlich super spannend. Weniger die Medien an sich, sondern die verrückten, teils nicht mehr nachvollziehbaren Wege, die diese hinter sich haben, z.B. die zwei verlorenen Dr. Who Episoden, die für HongKong bestimmt waren und in Nigeria aufgetaucht sind.

Metropolis war bei einem Filmsammler in Argentinien und leider auch in sehr schlechtem, teils nicht mehr restaurierbaren Zustand.

Habe letztens erfahren, dass die Originalaufnahmen der Mondlandung verschwunden sind. Also nicht der Bums, der im TV ausgestrahlt wurde, sondern die unmittelbaren Aufzeichnungen der NASA. Völlig verrückt, das war doch das positive Ereignis des 20. Jahrhunderts.

Ne danke, du kannst die auch ohne Gegenleistung haben.

Hab mich unklar ausgedrückt: es handelt sich um den gemeinsamen Garten in einem MFH. Ich bin dafür, das Ding umzupflügen und eine Wildblumenwiese zu sähen, aber das wird sich nicht durchsetzen, weil sie fest davon überzeugt ist, dass das mehr Aufwand ist als der dämliche Rasen.

…und meine Nachbarin möchte, dass ich auch mal den Löwenzahn aus dem Rasen pule.

“You are right. We are tiny sacks of flesh and bones on a tiny rock floating through the infinitely bigger space we call universe. The impacts of our actions only matter to the few close to us. The absolute overwhelming majority of creatures on this planet doesn’t know us, doesn’t care about us, won’t notice any effect when we vanish. Our lives, our selfes, our material possessions will be forgotten in a time frame that is in itself nothing compared to the age of the universe and what is going to come. You should give me a raise.”

Die Wehmut um die Atomkraft in Deutschland ist fast so intensiv wie die Wehmut der Lemmings hinsichtlich reddit.

Leider nein.

Relevantes Zitat:

"Positionen gegen die offene Gesellschaft und die liberale Demokratie sind unter AfD-Wählenden jedenfalls sehr weit verbreitet und vor allem stabil. Insofern halte ich den Begriff Protestwähler für komplett verharmlosend. Damit versucht sich die institutionalisierte Politik seit jeher zu beruhigen.

Die Vorstellung, die verloren gegangenen Wähler kämen zurück, wenn man kurz mal die Begriffe der Rechten übernimmt, ist irrig. Jene Mentalitäten, die die Menschen dazu bringen, AfD zu wählen, existierten schon lange vor ihrer Gründung, waren aber parteipolitisch ungebunden. Nun haben sie eine feste Anschlussstelle."

Junge Männer machen es mir generell schwierig, junge Männer zu akzeptieren. Das ist einfach mit Abstand die anstrengendste Bevölkerungsgruppe.

/nextfuckinglevel is so annoying when it gets to /all. Usually it’s some trivial activity that is executed well or someone just doing their job. Nothing “next level” about it at all.

Also any of the large subs that get flooded with fucking TikTok videos. In the beginning everybody pointed out the shitty songs or fake laugh tracks etc, now it seems everyone just gave up and accepted it.

Die haben doch angeblich so viele Überstunden und sind so schlimm überarbeitet. Wie passt das zusammen?

Democracies rarely go to war with each other. Add mutual economical dependency to that and you have a strong base to avoid armed conflict. The EU is a good example for that.

Sounds coherent. Would you say there are any effective tools to counter that problem? I wonder what the central banks can do at the moment, because it seems they are kind of in a deadlock regarding the control of inflation.

Apparently it’s called “Mäusebunker” (= mouse bunker). It was just recently approved for preservation and further usage. The decision will be presented in detail in two days and there is an ongoing exhibition for usage concepts of the Mäusebunker and other large buildings in Berlin: https://berlinischegalerie.de/beitrag/empfang-suddenly-wonderful/

Can’t find the package “bullet”, I guess i’ll need to google it. Oh, there are dependencies i need to install first. Can’t find them via apt though. After three hours of googling I find a forum post from 2008 that describes how to compile the dependency yourself. My question in a Linux forum is already locked because there was a similar question in 1997 in which neither of the commands nor software packages or links even exist anymore. I try compiling myself, but it seems i need another piece of software for that. That thing was abandoned in 2012, replaced by another one, then another one in 2018. It doesn’t compile though, no matter what i do. I read somewhere that the whole distribution i use is not up-to-date enough and i need to install a nightly bleeding edge upgrade that contains the needed dependencies. I do. After reboot, my audio doesn’t work anymore, the resolution is 500x133, there is smoke coming from my mouse and coffee pouring out of the buttons of my screen. I decide to use a completely different distribution, because the one i chose was for noob losers anyways. Three hours later, after three failed attempts of installing because seemingly i exhaled in the general direction of the USB-stick while it was written, I manage to install the right boot manager so that my windows partition isn’t lost in the abyss, install the correct drivers for everything, set the keyboard to german three dozen times so i don’t become psychotic when i try to use the terminal, save the princess from the evil lord and provide the village with enough resources that they survive the next winter, i finally open up the terminal to install “bullet”.

There are dependencies I need to install first.

I really hope it’s different now, but about a decade ago I tried to use Linux for multiple years and I really tried to like it, but it has always been a pain in the ass as soon as you try to set up something that is a little more fringe/advanced like software for music production.

Tomatus, tomatos.

I miss the times where every post was about how shitty reddit is. Now it’s only original content. It’s really going downhill fast.

Now the governmental situation plays into their hands. It’s the first government that consists of three parties that in parts have diametrically opposed ideologies and policies. It was clear from the beginning that there would be a lot of friction happening. They openly argue about urgent topics, most recently about a proposed heating-reform, now passing over to a debate about the EU migration reform. While you can dislike aspects of the form of these debates, in my opinion they are, in essence, a sign of a healthy democratic culture. But the problem is that the former mentioned morons are unsettled by these debates and see them as a sign of a weak government. So what they do, instead of trying to understand what is happening or trying to take part in shaping these debates, is that they succumb to their feeling of fear and look for someone who paints themselves as a strong leader and give them a feeling of stability, paving the path for the group mentioned in 2.

Things like inflation and the Ukraine war of course don’t contribute to the confidence of the population with their governments, but the morons fail to grasp that these things aren’t in full control of a single government, so they spout shit like “the greens made gas expensive” or “the greens keep the Ukraine war going with weapon deliveries”. It’s always the greens, because they seem to be the only party that is far enough away from the AfD ideologically to not have significant amounts of voters moving over, so they are perfect for negative projection.

*This is also the reason why neither the “collective movement” approach nor the “big tent” approach work for the left: There are too many factions who believe their doctrine is the only relevant truth and they are neither able to make compromises or subordinate their faction under another one. This can be seen as a good thing democracy-wise, but it’s a shit precondition if you need to prevent fascism.

It’s bad, but you could see it coming for a couple of years. It’s only a matter of time until they manage to win a state. I guess it’s going to be Saxony and/or Thuringia.

In my opinion there are two rules of thumb regarding voting population and politics in Germany and probably western countries in general:

1. A third of every population consists of morons who are easily deceived by right wing populists who manage to present themselves as the rebellious underdog. UK, France, USA, Sweden etc., you can see that everywhere. These people, for some reason I still fail to fully understand, are unable to make a connection between their legitimate feeling of betrayal through our current system (aka capitalism) and factual solutions. Instead they follow those who do not offer solutions and instead propose to make everything worse, but, like I said, manage to present themselves as the ones who “fight the system”. All right wing populists have something in common: They do not publicly say too much about what policies they are effectively going to implement, resulting in them being a huge canvas for every kind of projected wishes their voters have. That’s why Trump worked for conspiracy nuts, libertarians, religious extremists, right wing extremists, moderate conservatives, economically liberals and unpolitical dumbasses alike. Everyone of these factions could project what they wanted for society into what Trump would do, because aside from singular statements, Trump was actually pretty vague in what he wanted. The whole stupid “drain the swamp” theme is a perfect representation of what I mean. The AfDs motto in the last general election was “Germany, but normal”. The proposal of Brexit basically functioned like that, too. It was going to solve all the problems for whatever reason and enough people believed it.

2. About 10% of the German population (huge overlap with the proportion mentioned in 1.), and it might be the same for other western countries but i don’t know, are more or less openly fascist. These are the ones who profit from a “collective movement” that manages to assemble different parts of the political spectrum. This is different from a “big tent” approach where a compromise between related groups is thought to give them all a political representation.* This is not a new invention. The NSDAP functioned just like that. They managed to gather a huge chunk of the political spectrum around them, from nobility over capitalists over nationalists to liberals deep into the the political left. There were even former social-democrat and communist groups that merged into the NSDAP. I had a pretty illuminating chart about that, but i can’t find it online. The AfD works just like this. They have a fascist wing (literally called “Flügel” = “wing”), evangelicals, nobility, conspiracy nuts, economically liberals, former SPD and Linke-politicians and voters. They are united in their refusal of migrants, but that is pretty much all they can agree on. The new district leader of Sonneberg is a member of the “Flügel” and I’m sure all of the future ones will be, too. The “Flügel” is pretty effective in bullying everyone else out of important positions or even the party.