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Cake day: July 14th, 2023

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  • Und nein natürlich gibt es solche Menschen (Arschlöcher würde es eher treffen) nicht bei jeden Arbeitsort. Nur hast Du jetzt gerade das Pech in einem Unternehmen gelandet zu sein wo ein solcher Mensch sitzt und von der Unternehmensleitung akzeptiert wird

    Natürlich gibt’s die. Wir haben 20% Nazis in Deutschland. Es muss nicht der direkte Kollege sein, aber irgendeiner ist immer dabei. Schon statistisch. Viel eher hast du wohl Glück, wenn es bei dir keine gibt.

    Ich widerspreche solchen Leuten konsequent. Wenn die kein Kontra bekommen, glauben sie nur, es sei ok was sie da faseln. Habe mich dabei allerdings auch noch nie in meiner Sicherheit bedroht fühlen müssen, und bin eine klassische Kartoffel. Ob ich das jedem in jeder Situation raten würde, weiß ich nicht.





  • the companion back stories are rich, and full of tragedy.

    The thing is, they’re mostly exposition dumped at you. All of them already went through the worst of it and tell you about it. To me, Larian fell in the old TTRPG trap of making up those elaborate grandiose backgrounds for your characters and expecting the other players to be impressed instead of writing the story of their adventures during the actual game.

    I was there when Jaheira found Khalid’s corpse. I accompanied Nalia when she came back to a ruined home and a dead father. I broke Imoen out of the wizard’s asylum.

    Karlach told me how bad the hells used to be and we proceeded to make a few trips to the blacksmith together. Wyll told me of his pact and his crazy adventures, the rest just happened to us at camp. Gale told me he banged a goddess and I got to make a persuasion check at the end. Astarion told me of the torture he suffered, and the resolution was done in 2 fights after we met zero vampires before the last room (BG2’s Bodhi and her lair were so much ahead of this it’s not even funny).

    Shadowheart is the only one I felt had a story that I actually experienced with her and wasn’t just politely informed of. Oh, and Minthara, but the evil play through really got the short straw in any other way.








  • Classical green cope pattern, btw: “The people have a good heart but the devil of carbon is whispering in their ear”.

    You’re misrepresenting me, I never said anybody had a good heart. People are hypocrites. In theory they are all for the greater good as long as their own personal cost is zero.

    Secondly: Sleeper trains and ferries exist. In principle you can fall asleep in Spandau and wake up in Alma.

    And how is that relevant to what I said? What point are you trying to make here? You can also bike to work, many people still prefer to drive.

    Who the fuck thought mandating houses to get individual heat pump installations was a good idea

    First, nobody ever planned to mandate that. It’s a lie made up by Bild and the FDP. From the very beginning the only thing the heating law was going to mandate was that your heating had to run on 60% (I believe, don’t cite me on the exact number) CO2 neutral energy. Heat pumps are just automatically assumed to fulfill this condition, regardless of the current energy mix in Germany. But it was always going to be up to you how you fulfilled this condition.

    Second, it IS a good idea. You can instantly lose one entire set of pipes going into your home and you instantly more than halve your carbon emissions even with the current energy mix. Yes it works, yes it also works in a cold winter, and no you don’t have to instantly insulate your entire home, renew your roof and all your internal piping. At least not if you don’t live in a farm house from the 1930s that never had any work done.

    Third:

    Thing is: Ask scientists, they’re saying district heating is the much better solution.

    Which is an option and would have been an option under the original law.

    Also, what actual scientist says that, as an absolute, no “ifs”, no conditions?

    Because the thing is, if your district heating runs on fossils, which most do, it does jack shit to combat carbon emissions and helps exactly zero.

    Also, getting hooked up to district heating isn’t free either.

    It also doesn’t help if your city maybe sorta plans to start planning district heating to be eventually implemented some time in the 2090s, but only if we have enough money and the next 20 governments don’t change the plan along the way. Emissions need to be reduced now, not some day in the future if we feel like it. Decentralized solutions are faster and can be implemented by individuals without waiting for political decisions that could happen in 10 years or never.

    This is an excuse to not have to act, nothing more.