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  • In German there is this kinda obscure phrase „Pferde vor der Apotheke kotzen sehen“, which translates to „seeing horses puke in front of the pharmacy“ used to denote something highly unlikely, because horses can’t puke and especially in front of a pharmacy where they could get something against their nausea.

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    Linux May Be the Best Way to Avoid the AI Nightmare
  • I had a conversation with a friend about iPads lately related to the „just lacking the OS“. The newer iPads with M-chips have all the computing power an average user could need but it’s crippled by the mobile-ish OS, so all the computing power is for nothing basically. An iPad running MacOS (with some adjustments for the Touchscreen) would be awesome. But we concluded it won’t happen anytime soon, because then basically no one would buy MacBooks anymore

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    So true
  • I live in Augsburg, Germany. We have „the king“. He just declared himself king of Augsburg about 30 years ago and everyone just went with it. He spends his days walking through the city looking after the wellbeing of his people. Here’s a video-portrait by the local newspaper for his 70th birthday (in German)

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    Amsterdam Excluded From Netherlands’s Legal Cannabis Experiment
  • AFAIK the Dutch model so far (consumption and sale somewhat allowed, but no growing or importing) has created huge criminal organisations that also started to do a lot of other crimes (bc what’s there to lose if you’re going to jail anyway basically) and a big goal in designing the new German law was to not mess it up like the Netherlands have

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    Seals
  • Wasn’t there a study on cats that concluded something like „cats know when you call their name but just don’t care“?

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    How do I find organisations that support causes I want to fight for?
  • You say you hear about protests and community action. They have to have been organized by someone. Is there a way for you to find out by whom? Then you could they to reach out to them

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    I've been robbed!
  • I know this a a joke but in case some people are actually curious: The manufacturer gives the capacity in Terabytes (= 1 Trillion Bytes) and the operating system probably shows it in Tebibytes (1024^4 Bytes ≈ 1.1 Trillion Bytes). So 2 Terabytes are two trillion bytes which is approximately 1.82 Tebibytes

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    Mobile web browsing in 2023
  • Not sure atm what the extension I use for safari on iPhone is called, but it works great for me. I‘ll look it up when I get to it

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    Apt
  • Fun fact: O.K. actually originated as the abbreviation for „oll korrect“ because people in the 1800s thought it was super funny to misspell things

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    Yes, I'm aware that doctors and scientist use it.
  • I think the message is „Landlords and Murderers are bad people but even they are disgusted by people who use the term female to refer to women“

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