The number for Germany seems to also include Lohnfortzahlung and Krankengeld (employer only pays part of a sick employee’s salary, rest is paid by health insurance) maybe that’s why. Germany is also a world champion of unnecessary surgeries.

Whoever phrased this headline has already lost their mind to a stochastic parrot

I would like to recommend to you this 20 min explainer of the exact issue by one of my favourite youtubers:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=aQxP_Ftz2RE

Steile These? Nee Du, common knowledge in der Industrie. Ich hab für Dich den flachestmöglichen Artikel rausgesucht, aus der Fachzeitschrift “Stern”: https://www.stern.de/digital/technik/akku-technik--kochsalz-statt-lithium---batterien-werden-billiger-36093202.html

If you’re watching text in a book and understand what is written there, it’s called “reading”.

Von “unverzichtbar” kann insbesondere bei Elektroautos und stationären Batterien überhaupt keine Rede sein. Bis das Lithium wirtschaftlich erschlossen werden kann, wird es nicht mehr benötigt werden.

I mean yeah it doesn’t come naturally. You have to train for it, everybody knows that.

You’re staring at the headlights instead of planning the resistance. Stop sharing their propaganda, share ours.

Es gibt mittlerweile so viele Angebote auf dem Markt, die auch deutlich günstiger sind, dass Du grundsätzlich für diesen Preis auch bei einer Handwerksfirma anrufen und sie alles machen lassen könntest.

Gute Einsteiger-Informationen gibt es bei der Stiftung Warentest sowie hier: https://balkon.solar/kauf-und-anbieter/

Es gibt auch schon Verbände, z.B. https://www.pvplug.de/

So 30.000 ms. Should be doable :)

How is “undo send” supposed to work? I would never trust a mail server that honours a request to delete a mail from a user’s inbox.

Edit: Just read that it means “stop it from being sent”. I don’t know in how many milliseconds you’d have to click that button, but that’s fine.

I just read the article from the German consumer organisation “Stiftung Warentest” about that, they write (translated with deepl):

Some products say “without octocrylene”. What do we make of this?

Octocrylene is an approved UV filter that became the subject of debate some time ago: initially, critics feared that it could interfere with the hormone system. The EU’s Scientific Committee on Consumer Safety (SCCS) has reviewed the scientific studies. According to this, the maximum permitted concentration of octocrylene in cosmetics is still considered safe - it is 10 percent of the total product. It has not been exceeded by any sunscreen product in our tests since 2018.

Scientists have shown that sunscreens with octocrylene can also contain benzophenone - as an impurity or, over time, as a cleavage product of octocrylene. Benzophenone is considered a probable carcinogen. The SCCS demands that suppliers should strictly control their sunscreens and keep the benzophenone content at trace levels.

We test all products containing octocrylene for benzophenone and only found elevated levels once in 2025, in an already defective product. In our test tables, we indicate which products contain which UV filters. This allows consumers to decide for themselves whether they want to use a sunscreen containing octocrylene.

Important: Always dispose of products containing octocrylene after the season. The benzophenone content can increase during storage.

I don’t follow this topic regularly and I can’t say anything about the mechanisms. From a superficial search I would claim that there is good evidence that Tylenol use during pregnancy can make the development of asthma in the child more likely. There is also some indication (at least one large cohort study from Icahn medical school) that it may cause delayed language development.

That would be enough evidence for me to discourage use during pregnancy for treatment of discomfort or light pain, when safer options can be tried.

Ich empfehle der Bäckerei, die überzähligen Brötchen zu verschenken, denn das ist gut für die Seele, und der Ärztin, ihren Rasen selber zu mähen statt nochmal ne Stunde in der Praxis zu hocken und den Spaß outzusourcen.

That’s not what the comic says, it implies that reprimanding someone for a thing they believe a little bit (as indicated by the small fraction of the pie chart) will make the formerly little thing they believe take more space in their believe system. I think that is often true, as calling out the little thing will make them think about it more and make it a bigger part of how they identify and dissociate from others. They will also dislike being reprimanded and will dislike the person doing it and everything they say from then on.

It’s often smarter to focus on how you agree on most things and to reflect about how that small thing is a part of the other person’s edifice of ideas but not yours and how that might have happened.

Yes, lots of sources. They’re easy to find if you start by thinking about who would know the most of a subject.

Angela Rasmussen has been a great bullshit-deflector during the pandemic, love what she’s doing

I’m telling you that if nothing is done about it, global warming, the extinction of species and other factors will raise the likelihood of humanity’s extinction to a higher level than it has been in tens of thousands of years, over the course of the next few hundred years. We can only speculate about how earth will be like in three hundred years and if there are places left that remain inhabitable for humans.

The inuit rely on fish, which are on track to become extinct in this century even. People survive in the Sahara by bringing lifestock/food and water with from elsewhere, but the desert grows from year to year.

Extinction doesn’t need to happen in seconds, like when a big space object collides with earth. It can also happen gradually. Major environmental alterations like weakened amoc and global warming will make many more regions of the earth uninhabitable, for example when the temperature rises over 46°C regularly or when there are regular droughts or floods. A lot of land where hundreds of millions of people currently live on, will be completely submerged, desertificated or barren. And these changes won’t just affect humans, but also whole ecosystems that we need to survive, for example fishing grounds, forests or, if you think about the extinction of species, especially insects, arable land in all parts of the world.

Our civilization as we know it right now can not survive catastrophes like these in the long term, and we cannot be certain that human life will remain possible on the planet without being completely dependent on artificial habitats, food, water sources etc.

Can someone explain to me who these people are? What were they doing before they’ve been ordered to DC? Are they a standing army, training while they’re not ordered somewhere? Or are they reservists? Or police from elsewhere?