German and potentially other train stations have smoking areas indicated by a yellow line on the ground, circling the area.

They are frequently completely ignored with some people lighting their cigarette while the train they are exiting is still opening its doors.

Probably because trains are limited in both weight and volume compared to ships and also less efficient. If you have this short route and know it'll need this amount of cargo shipped it likely makes sense.

This single ship can carry more containers than any train could be expected to pull, likely by at least one order of magnitude.

All in all I'd guess the advantages are roughly:

• Reduced staff
• reduced energy use (land based shipping is less efficient almost by default)
• no need for infrastructure except ports (if you assume there is no train line or this shipping would move existing lines over capacity building this ship is likely cheaper or at least in line with 300km of rail)
• simpler logistics (loading / unloading)

Disadvantages:

• Speed (a train would likely move at 3-5x the speed)

I would also not expect the risk for catastrophic fires to be all that high. This ship has the batteries be containers. So once you've designed a container that is a large battery, you've already spent so much that a proper BMS including proper battery fire suppression as well as proper breakers/contractors are things you've built into it without even thinking about cost. The separation provided by building containers as the battery is the next line of defence if one container fails spectacularly, it also allows the batteries to be maintained on land, much cheaper than if they were part of the ship.

Altruizine" – a substance that allows individuals within a limited area to completely share all feelings and emotions, including both pain and joy. The idea behind Altruizine is that people who feel each other's pain as their own should treat each other as they would themselves. Altruizine. Klapaucius produces a large quantity of the substance and sends the above mentioned hermit (who is eager to help others) in human guise to experiment on the population of a single planet. Some of the results include villagers feeling the birth pains of a cow, depressed people being violently attacked and driven off and a crowd storming the house of the newlyweds to vicariously participate in their unaccustomed sensations. Eventually, the hermit is identified for a robot (because he does not feel the humans' pain), is thoroughly beaten and tortured, then shot into outer space via a cannon. He then lands near Trurl's house, where the story began. Concluding his tale, the hermit assures Trurl that his thirst for altruism has vanished. src

This is the somewhat harrowing conclusion Mr lem comes to in the cyberiad when confronting this same issue in one of the short stories.

Not to say anything against the sentiment, I largely agree just found it noteworthy. Especially if you've never heard of them give them a read/listen.

Both are abused by criminals and narcos and dictators

Everything is subsumed and used by those hungry for power, and with the means to solidify it. That doesn't mean that the content of their claimed political thought doesn't have meaning, or that we can never conclude anything about humanity or its ideologies from looking at history, understanding theory, analyzing culture, power ...

Maybe understand why people here seem 'extreme' left, instead of just writing nonsensical, and obviously bad faith or confused arguments.

Because they don't have a perfectly fine business model. They get squeezed hard by both the oligarchs of music publishing UMG, Sony Warner who negotiate the price for the music. And from the other side by the tech giants google and apple who can cross service subsidize their own streaming.There exists essentially no space for them to make any profit in streaming music. So they have to go other places.

The only reason they'll probably exist for the foreseeable future is because the rights holders are able to use Spotify to have more negotiating power against Google and apple.

Jup wenn man sich sein Saatgut nicht selber zurück halten darf aufgrund von Lizenzen für Saatgut, und Gefahr läuft verklagt zu werden wenn Pflanzen von benachbarten Feldern zu einem überspringen. Dann hat der ganze Kram schon wieder niemandem geholfen.

The Adam smith institute is a right wing free market think tank with likely very questionable donors. wiki It likely doesn't really do research but takes sources that support their preexisting believes and retells them.

Certainly it was at least very hard to make the capitalist exploitation of the worker so all encompassing before the invention of the mechanical watch (Although there was likely a ton of housework and the general situation was garbage what with feudal lords and all that) . It then likely exploded with the industrial revolution and at least in places where the working class managed to emancipate themselves got somewhat cut back. Now especially for countries outside of the west and increasingly also the US and parts of EU it's likely getting worse, especially with multi employment and precarious employment(gig work, semi self employment, 0h contracts, mechanical turk ...).

Generally i feel work where you or your peers get to keep the total output of your work isn't really a problem, it's a problem when your work gets appropriated into this terrible machine and as a result you are alienated from the work.

als "demokratischer" Staat mit einer so offensichtlich überlegenen Militärmaschine anzufangen zu argumentieren das man Kriegsverbrechen ja Kriegsverbrechen entgegenstellen muss. Das war bei den amis in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan genauso ne falsche argumentation wie auch schon immer in Israel. Wir sind halt weiter als die Alt-testaments Auge um Auge Zahn um Zahn regel und Israel sollte das auch sein.

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• Andrewism - hopefull Philosophy / Politics
• Eisenbahn in Ö, D, CH - Trains (in german)
• carykh - AI and various
• jan Misali - Conlang + various + Mashups
• Marco Reps - Electronics and EE
• Then & Now - History/Philosophy
• NeverKnowsBest - Lengthy Video Game reviews/ History of Gaming
• BobbyBroccoli - Science scandals
• Applied Science - Various science and Eng
• Asianometry - Semiconductor / Engineering / Taiwan / History / Economics (very frequent uploads)
• RMTransit - Transit (NA focus)
• Tom Nicholas- more politics
• Junferno - Software Development in sarcastic weeb
• Oliver Lugg - I don't even know
• People Make Games - Video Game Journalism

I tried to only pick stuff <1M subs excluding game play and news.

2016 Brexit referendum -> Turkish coup-> trump presidential win

It reinforced all my feelings about what was important in this world and simultaneously made very clear we are actually living in an age of sliding back, not of Progress. I was already very interested in politics by that point but with just about the knowledge to grab the weight but no proper explanation this summer half of 2016 felt like falling into chaos and uncertainty 3 times. In retrospect the outer two likely had much more influence on my life thereafter, but the middle one was the more jarring to watch unfold at the time.

Layers in paint is huge tbf

Man kann natürlich 85% der deutschen Bevölkerung ignorieren, wenn es um deusche Gesetze für Deutschland geht. Die deutsche Bevölkerung ist der Souverän der deutschen Bundesrepublik. Erklär mir mal die Logik die deutsche Bevölkerung ignorieren zu wollen? Das ist absolut undemokratisch. Klingt als würde man hier eine Diktatur anstreben für die Ziele. Zumindest liest sich so dein Kommentar.

Zunächst ist die 85% Ablehnung gegen die Protestform nicht die angestrebten ziele. Zweitens werden reale Mehrheiten für spezifische Positionen in der Politik ständig ignoriert, alleine schon durch Parteipolitik z.B. gab es während der Großen Koalition auch eine Mehrheit für z.B. Legalisierung, Vermögenssteuer..., RRG hatte faktisch im Bundestag die Mehrheit, durch Groko Koalitionsvertrag aber alles nicht passiert. Die Parteipolitik alleine für hinreichend demokratisch zu halten aber leicht störenden Protest nicht als teil des Systems Demokratie zu akzeptieren ist die wirklich Autoritäre Denkweise.

Das also als argument gegen LG oder ProcurementCat anzuführen halte ich für sehr Kurzsichtig vor allem da mindestens mal LG dies auch versteht und mit dem viel gehassten und auch schlecht verstandenen Gesellschaftsrat dort einen Lösungsansatz bietet. Ansätze in Richtung mehr direkter Demokratie bieten potenziell die Möglichkeit gleichzeitig die deadlocks der Parteipolitik zum Klimawandel zu durchbrechen und die Sorgen der Menschen über Bevormundung auszuräumen, ist natürlich alles schwierig zu erreichen wenn (fast) alle Parteien/Firmen/Organisationen sich nicht ernsthaft für Demokratischere Prozesse einsetzen, da diese zwangsweise ihre Macht einschränken.

Sprecherin Lina Johnsen rechtfertigte die Aktion am Donnerstagabend in den ARD-“Tagesthemen“: „Wir steuern auf eine unglaublich große Katastrophe zu, und die Bundesregierung schafft es nicht, auf die Bremse zu treten.“ Auch sie fände die Blockaden nervig und gönne allen Menschen ihren wohlverdienten Urlaub, sagte Johnsen. Zu einer Umfrage, nach der 85 Prozent der Deutschen die Proteste der Letzten Generation ablehnen, betonte sie: „Unsere Rolle als Protestierende ist es nicht, Mehrheiten für den Klimaschutz zu schaffen, die sowieso schon da sind. Es scheitert an der Umsetzung der Lösungen, nicht an Mehrheiten in der Bevölkerung.“ taz