Devial

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[–] Devial@discuss.online 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

You do realise that reproduction involves more than just the mother, right ?

[–] Devial@discuss.online 10 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Imagine being so sexist that you even blame women for a group men of being cunts.

[–] Devial@discuss.online -2 points 1 week ago

Way to demonstrate the emotional maturity of a 5 year old.

[–] Devial@discuss.online -1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Seatbelt sensors, automatic brakes and back up cameras are not annoyances dude. They LITERALLY fucking save lives.

Reverse roll overs are on of the most common types fatal car-pedestrian accidents involving children, and they can be entirely avoided by having rear cameras, and or/lidar with auto braking.

Driving a car is incredibly fucking dangerous. In fact, for the average person, driving a car is likely one of the most dangerous and risky single actions they are ever going to take in their lives. And it's concerning that you seem to think it's like riding a bike, and the safety features are overkill.

[–] Devial@discuss.online 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I absolutely think they should. Seatbelts are legally required to be worn in almost every western country. It isn't, and shouldn't be up to you if you wear it or not. And whilst a lot of people do it, something heavy enough to trigger the seatbelt sensors should absolutely NOT be unsecured in your passenger seat, because it absolutely IS going to turn into a lethal projectile if you crash. Heavy items need to go in the boot, tucked in the foot space, or be belted in.

A crash without seatbelt is going to lead to far worse injuries, which will put a bigger strain on emergency services, hospital infrastructure, you're more likely to require organ or blood donations for injuries that could have been trivially avoidable, blood an organ which are already in short supply, and then can't be used on someone who actually COULDN'T have avoided their injuries, and the accident can be far, far, far more traumatising and mentally devastating for others involved if you go flying 10 m through your windscreen and your mangled body wraps around a tree.

If you're willing to accept all that just because you don't like a bleeding seatbelt, frankly you deserve more than to be dinged at.

[–] Devial@discuss.online 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (8 children)

Witch nanny systems specifically only annoy you if you do something unsafe ?

[–] Devial@discuss.online 2 points 1 week ago

Given how famously unreliable AI detectors are, and how often they FP, I'd say there's a decent chance a few students just lied, and falsely "admitted" to using AI, because they didn't want to risk flunking the class over a FP.

[–] Devial@discuss.online 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Führer might only mean leader in Germany, but it's rarely used outside of refering to Hitler nowadays.

Leader, in modern German, would be translated as "Anführer", not "Führer" specifically because of the connotations. Also, using the term fuhrer in English, instead of translating as leader, clearly means it's being used as a title, rather than a factual descriptor of what he was.

You can use Führer in context, but as it's a title that was specifically created by and for Hitler, and never used before or since, it's generally not used as a title for him, because people don't want to give him the post mortem respect of addressing him by this title.

And for context, the entire German language Wikipedia entry of Hitler, calls Hitler Führer a total of 17 times. 8 of those are in direct quotes, 3 in indirect quotes, 2 of them are describing his official title "Führer und Reichsanzler" (outside of quotes only, to prevent double counting), 2 use the literal meaning of "leader" in the context of the party, NOT his title as dictator, 2 of them are talking about how he saw himself, and one is drawing a linguistic analogous link between "Führer" and "Geführten" (Leader and Followers).

Outside of quotes, there is not a single use of the term "Der Führer" as an actual honorific title ("The Führer") for Hitler in the entire German language Wikipedia page (which is 30-40k words long).

[–] Devial@discuss.online 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

That's like a principal letting the bully keep all the lunch money they stole from someone, let the bully chose what lunch they're allowed to buy in future, in exchange for the bully pinky promising to stop bullying the victim, and then acting surprised that the victim doesn't fall on their knees in gratitude for this amazing feal

[–] Devial@discuss.online 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

the rest of the "civilized" world was essentially keeping Germany permanently poor, living under such misery breeds a certain...psychotic world view.

Jup. There's a very strong argument to be made that had the terms of the treaty of Versailles not been so unfair and hostile towards Germany, World War II would have never happened.

Rehabilitation and reconstruction is ALWAYS the best option for the winning side of a large war to extend to the losing side, regardless of who/how/why the war started. Heavily penalising and fucking over the loser for years and years after the war is just going to foster resentment and discontent amongst the population, and make them feel (arguably, with a degree of validity) that conquering th countries fucking them over is the only way their country will see prosperity again.

[–] Devial@discuss.online 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I mean the layout in terms of functions is generally standardised between PS and XBox style controllers (i.e. "back" is the right hand button, "confirm" is the lower one...) it's just that the buttons have different symbols for those functions across PS and XBox style controllers.

[–] Devial@discuss.online 10 points 1 week ago

I don't think Elmo has an ego small enough to independently even consider the idea that his sycophants might be largely fake.

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