Not gonna lie, that’s such a boring, corporate term.

Germans use the much more creative expression of travelling to Balconia.

Seit wann ist -0 nichtnegativ? Neutrale Zahlen gibts bei Gleitkommazahlen doch nicht.

Nur für ungesignte Zahlen, wenn’s gesigned ist ist es -8 und -7 🤓

Und wenn’s FP4 ist, dann ist es auch irgendwas im negativen Bereich.

Is it mean that I want to slowly turn up the faucet to see how long the cat(s) would be able to handle it?

The issue isn’t that states are responsible for education. Mostly.

Germany’s constitution prohibits the federal government from nearly everything relating to education as a defense against a possibly fascist federal government. So much in fact, every time the federal government wants to subsidise anything - even as simple as aiding in school renovations - a constitutional amendment has to be passed.

The reason it works (for the most part) is because of the Kultusministerkonferenz - the conference of ministers of education. While there are still somewhat significant differences between the states, they have standardized vast parts of education amongst themselves. This ranges from mandating the teaching of English as a second language to outright changing German orthography in 1996.

As a result, basically all universities in Germany have similar prestige. Sure, some of the larger one’s are better known but you have pretty much free choice where you want to study without hampering your future employment. The exceptions are private universities – everyone will believe (for good reason, may I add) that you basically purchased a degree and are incompetent.

Though now I wonder: Does the US actually have any voluntary body of states that makes standardized decisions for anything? Like education, justice, police, etc. Or do you states insist to do everything their own way because talking is communist or something?

Huh, that’s weird. Isn’t highschool sufficient for general education?

Thinking about it, it might not be. I’ve just checked and at least in Germany a US highschool diploma (including passing tests like SAT or ACT flawlessly) doesn’t (generally) qualify you for entering university here. That is, you are literally prohibited by law from enrolling.

I’m genuinely glad this isn’t part of university education here. I mean, I’m attending lectures because I have interest in a certain subject - not because I want even more general education after finishing secondary education.

Same here.

A pattern in almost every song, book, poem, movie?

Like greed? Antisocial behavior? Populism? Lies? Belief in your own supremacy? Capitalism?

Honestly, my first thoughts were they witnessed Cthulu. Though I suspect they intentionally chose to phrase it such that it invokes this analogy.

If we ignore the pattern aspect they mentioned maybe how history repeats itself? How tyranny emerges and sustains itself on fear and oppression?

I have no clue. It’s so vague.

Most people don’t?

I mean why would anyone not studying biology (or related fields) have to take biology in college? Or is that a US-American thing?

Health insurance here covers up to 78 weeks within 3 years per illness. Only (up to) 70% of your salary though (at most 128€/day right now). Afterwards unemployment insurance takes over and it gets more complicated than I want to research for a comment.

They are literally both space heaters though.

I mean, Intel’s strategy for increasing year-over-year performance was to push another 50W in and hope nothing breaks.

*so’m Ding

Bitte konsistent bleiben!

That sounds surprisingly low to be frank.

Germany has 6 weeks of fully paid sick days, after which your health insurance takes over.

No. But it will force companies to make their unhealthy products less unhealthy to remain competitive.

Just halving the amount of sugar in sweets and soft drinks would probably add months to the average life expectancy and reduce healthcare cost drastically (especially dental expenses).

Public health is also very important though.

Unhealthy food should always be less convenient than healthy food.

When I met Ralph, he actually gave me enough fentanyl to overdose every day for a century.

(I haven’t met Ralph [A false precondition says nothing about the truth of the postcondition])

According to the German (I have not found an EU equivalent) office for statistics, you are part of the top 1% of full-time workers if you earn >213,286€ per year:

https://www.destatis.de/DE/Presse/Pressemitteilungen/2025/04/PD25_134_621.html

Sure, this doesn’t include billionaires who don’t work but there just aren’t enough of them to matter. It’s not like there are hundreds of thousands billionaires in Germany.

Earning 400,000€ in two years makes you part of the 1% though?? Where else would this guy be? Upper middle class?

Do we know this?

I suspect they usually compress videos at most a couple times (for each resolution) and then keep the results cached somewhere. At least for popular videos that combined take up 99% of bandwidth. For 0 views videos I’d imagine they only store the highest resolution and compress it further down on demand.

I’d argue DRMing all those popular videos would take up so much computing power it cannot be offset by ads.

DRM is expensive. Very expensive in fact because it is basically non-trivial encryption.

A website with as much traffic as YouTube cannot afford to DRM every single video stream. There just isn’t enough processing power and electricity available.

Netflix et al. have a tiny fraction of YouTube’s traffic with more income per user due to subscriptions.

Plus YouTube’s storage demands are many orders of magnitude larger. A maximum upper bound for Netflix is 1 PB I’d imagine. Archiveteam alone has selectively downloaded more than 3 PB. YouTube has, I’d imagine, a double digit exabyte amount of data stored + backups.

Can you tell any German company that doesn’t explicitly mention their history in that period?

Note: These are highlighted quotes only.

VW:

The first group of such slave labourers were Polish women deployed at the company’s main plant.

https://www.volkswagen-group.com/en/volkswagen-chronicle-17351/1937-to-1945-founding-of-the-company-and-integration-into-the-war-economy-17354

BMW:

BMW bears a major share of the responsibility for these crimes as well as a burden of guilt from its involvement in them.

https://www.bmwgroup.com/en/company/history/BMW-during-the-era-of-national-socialism.html

Bayer:

I.G. Farben starts building the company’s own Buna-Monowitz concentration camp in 1942

https://www.bayer.com/en/history/1925-1945

ThyssenKrupp:

In all, the Krupp Group employs at least 100,000 foreign and forced laborers. The conditions under which the forced laborers live and work are often inhumane and contradict law and morality

https://www.thyssenkrupp.com/en/company/history

(Note: You need to press “>” a couple of times)

Siemens:

During the entire period from 1940 to 1945, at least 80,000 forced laborers worked at Siemens.

https://www.siemens.com/global/en/company/about/history/company.html

Those are the first five companies I was thinking of by the way and not selecively chosen.

In comparison:

Toyota:

https://www.toyota-global.com/company/history_of_toyota/75years/

No entry between 1938 and 1947.

Nintendo:

1933 The company was established as an unlimited partnership, Yamauchi Nintendo & Co.

1947 Mr. Yamauchi began a distribution company, Marufuku Co. Ltd.

https://www.nintendo.com/en-gb/Hardware/Nintendo-History/Nintendo-History-625945.html

Toshiba:

As the war intensified, the company grew rapidly by filling state orders for radios, vacuum tubes and other military supplies, and also producing generators. However, production capacity was crippled by bombing raids targeting factories

That’s it. No mention of their role in WW2.

https://www.global.toshiba/ww/outline/corporate/history/chronology.html#y1940

Honda:

History starts at 1946, no mention of how the money came from to found the company.

https://www.honda.com/history

Mitsubishi:

Despite the spirit of internationalism and social justice he engendered, at the outbreak of hostilities following Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, Koyata Iwasaki stated at a speech given to the assembled top executives of each Mitsubishi Group company: “Now our nation has come to a decision. And although my personal ideas regarding diplomacy depart from those of the nation, we are all now called upon to follow the order of our Emperor, to be united and to endeavor with all our strength for the nation.” A small voice of reason in a time of turmoil and growing call to arms, Koyata urged the nation to look beyond the current state of affairs, and envision a time when internationalism and peace would prevail. [ Several sentences of further praise omitted ]

Some German companies above also championed their founders/leaders as opponents of war. None of them solely focus on how they were a lighthouse of peace in times of uncertainty though. This reads like satire.

https://www.mitsubishi.com/en/profile/history/outline/

I haven’t chosen the Japanese companies selectively either. They were the first one’s to come into my mind as well. But none of them even offer remotely even a fraction of the “honesty” of seemingly any major German company. And that’s even with the German companies doing the bare minimum!