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If there is life out there, it would be rather unspectular. It would exist in the form of microbes, probably not even visible by the human eye. There are theories that suggest that there is a high chance of life on Enceladus.

One of the reasons that life could develop into complexity on Earth is that it could develop over the course of millions of years relatively undisturbed. There were no outside events like supernovae that swept Earth out of exsistence. The Primordial Soup could be cooked long enough to result in complex and intelligent life forms. Other places in the universe probaply have not that advantage, so that the development of life didn’t come that far yet.

I suspect that there is a higher chance that life in other places of the universe will be tainted by humanity than the other way round.

Das ist wirklich schwer. Ich kann die beiden auch nie voneinander unterscheiden.

Die Simpsons haben also auch dieses Ereignis vorausgesagt.

I don’t know how the procedere would be executed, but I imagine that police could have the phone present during an interrogation and try to nlock it there (possibly by making you to look at the phone to unlock it, if the phone has been set up to unlock this way). Once unlocked, it would be sufficient to have a peek into the camera roll or messages, until the phone locks again. I don’t know about the law, but I can imagine that if a police officer had a look into your phone, even briefly, it may be held against the one who is being interrogated.

Once rebooted, you need to enter your PIN to unlock the phone (and the SIM as well). Before that it is not possible to unlock the phone with biometric credentials (face ID or fingerprint).

As far as I’m aware, police can force you to hand over your biometric credentials (they can hold the phone to your face to unlock it when you have face ID enabled, or can move your finger to the fingerprint sensor). But they can’t force you to reveal the PIN number.

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Here we go again. It’s fine, just drink some bleach /s

something about leopards and faces

Mittlerweile ist man schon so abgestumpft, wenn man wieder von solchen “Einzelfällen” hört. Ich empfinde es nicht mal mehr als schockierend, wenn sowas wieder mal rauskommt.

Waren nicht auch der AfD nahestehende Leute im Kreise des Reichsbürgerprinzen, die den Umsturz geplant haben? Bei dem Remigrations-Treffen in Potdsam Anfang des Jahres waren doch auch AfD-Leute dabei.

Aber das muss eine Demokratie wohl aushalten… /s

Als ich mit dem Studium angefangen habe, gab es in meiner Stadt eine Videothek, die neben DVDs auch noch VHS-Kassetten verliehen hat. Das war 2007. Viele Filme gab es sowohl auf DVD als auch auf VHS. Bei nur 30 Cent Leihgebühr war das sehr entgegenkommend für das Studentenbudget. Dafür hat man auch das Zurückspulen in Kauf genommen.

This is a 1972 documentary about the life in the year 2000. It is in German, but English subtitles can be set up in the video settings. It turned out to be a bit different, but some predictions back then came to reality.

The red area is the equivalent of a stadium seat that is obstructed by a column:

Worst part of this is that there is a demand. There are 20 people applying for one mattress sleeping pod (name everything as “pod” and it sounds futuristic and elite). How is this place ventilated? Can you imagine the unbeareable stench the tenants emit while dwelling there? No wonder it violates city codes. The “privacy curtain” is a joke, you can’t leave your stuff there unattended. It will get stolen in no time. It’s like staying in a youth hostel.

It’s a snat. They are not easy to catch, because they are fast. Also, they never land on their shell.

It looks like a male specimen of Tegenaria domestica. Its habitat spreads over Europe, Asia and Northern America. They are harmless to humans.

it’s generally super weird how everyone tries really hard to convince you that you are wrong about it

My theory is that (volontary) childless people are less predictable to others. If you only have to take care of yourself, you need less resources (read: money) for that. An employer that knows his employee has children to care for can be treated worse in terms of working conditions and salary/ wages, because the employer knows that this employee can’t afford to quit the job, because of the responsibility for the child(ren).

If an emloyee is known to have no children, it makes him unpredictable. He could get up after a good yelling at the workplace, say “fuck it” and leave. He only has to take care for himself. Also, that employee can accumulate more money since it has not to be spent on the needs of children. That means, the employee has a bigger and longer lasting financial cushion.

Something similar applies when credits/ loans have to be paid. Having debt is a considered a “good” thing, since people are less prone to quit their jobs. On a personal level, the goal should be to become debt free as soon as possible. Not only it will result in financial freedom, it will also enhance your “fuck-it-ablilty”.

Another theory for those convincing people is that they envy your lifestyle of tranquility and spontaneousness. These people have been bullied into having children by their peer groups, because “that is the thing to do”, and “you owe grandchildren”. There are so many parents out there who would be better off if they never had children, but their relatives had convinced them otherwise.

Im Prinzip gebe ich dir recht, aber:

Es kommt nicht nur allein auf die Art der Heizungsanlage an, sondern auch, wie das Gebäude gedämmt ist. Je besser die Gebäudehülle gedämmt ist (und das schließt auch Fenster und Türen mit ein), desto höher ist der Mietpreis für die jeweilige Wohnung. Jedes Gebäude verliert an Wärme, die dem Gebäude im Wesentlichen durch Heizen zugeführt werden muss. Je besser die Dämmung ist, desto länger dauer es jedoch, bis das Gebäude merklich ausgekühlt ist. Es muss also permanent “gegengeheizt” werden, auch wenn man nur Raumtemperaturen von 18 - 20 Grad erreichen will.

Ich habe mal in einem Altbau ohne merkliche Dämmung gewohnt. Wenn die Heizung aus war (zumeist ausgefallen), dann war es nach einer halben Stunde kalt. In der derzeitigen Wohnung ist auch mal die die Freitags Heizung ausgefallen, wirklich gemerkt hat man es aber erst am Sonntag abend.

Die Art der Heizung und die Ausführung der Dämmung spiegeln sich im Mietpreis wider. Das zur Verfügung stehende Budget insbesondere für Bürgergeldempfänger schränkt daher die Auswahl ein. Aus diesem Grund brauchen wir wieder einen staatlich subventionierten Sozialen Wohnungsbau.

“Dann können die Leistungsempfänger entscheiden, ob sie eine kleinere Wohnung beziehen und wie sie heizen”

Genau, weil man sich als Mieter ja auch genau aussuchen kann, wie man heizt. Abgesehen davon, dass das Angebot an (nicht nur) mit Bürgergeld bezahlbaren Wohnungen deutlich bescheidener ausfällt, als das Angebot an Wohnungen, die Herr Lindner sich leisten könnte.

Ich kenne einen, der hat sich eine Wohnung gemietet und der Vermeiter hat noch eine zweite Wohnung für Umme dazugepackt, weil die ja sonst nicht weggeht. /s

Really? My laptop doesn’t. Maybe it depends on if the battery is designed to be removed by customer or if it is hidden inside the laptop, making it accessible only with tools.

Since laptops are equipped with a battery anyway, they lack of a coin cell (mostly a CR2032 cell) to keep track of time. This means that your laptop will not be able to estimate the correct time and date when powered with energy outside of the original battery, and these settings have to be made manually each time your laptop will be used.

It will work fine without the correct time set, but you might have issues with files that are created “in the future” (from your laptops perspective).

I have an old laptop (still in use occasionally, because I have a scanner that is too old to be operated with current software) where I replaced its battery once. The sign the battery was dead was that the OS issued a warning the laptop was not able to tell the correct time.