Maybe it has become worse since all those vegan or vegetarian fast food options became available in stores and restaurants.
When I hear non-vegs talk about living meat-free, the conversation always revolves around these meat substitutes, how unhealthy they are.
It does not come to their mind one can prepare a meal from fresh produce. Yes of course, fast food is unhealthy. On the other hand, I like it.
Aktuell geht es hier um den Schutz von Kindern oder Ungeborenen, weil die noch nicht für ihre Rechte einstehen können.
Gibt's nicht, weil die Freiheitsrechte der rauchenden Erwachsenen sind irgendwie wichtiger oder so.
Mit solchen Werten traue ich denen definitiv nicht zu, irgendwas bei Klimapolitik zum Schutze zukünftiger Generationen zu machen.
Für mich ist das eine Prinzipienfrage. Geht darum, auf welchem Fundament unsere Gesellschaft steht. Bauen wir auf Fakten oder dulden wir Bullshit? Teilen wir eine Realität oder gibt es nur alternative Meinungen? Das mag im Einzelfall harmlos wirken, hat aber tiefgreifende Folgen.
Beispiel Corona, wo es auch Zusammenhänge gab zwischen Homöopathiebefürwortern und Impfschwurblern. Den Bogen etwas weiter gespannt kommen wir zur AfD mit ihrer “alternativen” Wahrnehmung von Realität, und anderen Formen der Wissenschaftsleugnung.
Diese realitätsfremden Haltungen machen jegliche Auseinandersetzung zu Sachthemen wie z.B. Klimawandel, unnötig schwer bis unmöglich. Dabei bräuchten wir gerade da Einigkeit und Handlungsfähigkeit.
Bei Homöopathie geht es so weit, dass alternative Zulassungsverfahren etabliert wurden, weil sie einer medizinischen Prüfung nicht standhalten würden. Das vermittelt Beliebigkeit, und suggeriert Seriösität, wo keine ist. Es macht die Errungenschaften der Aufklärung rückgängig und bringt uns intellektuell wieder ins dunkle Mittelalter.
The volume of a cylinder is found using the formula V = πr^2^h. Using π = 5, r = 10 and h = 10. Find the volume V.
https://www.youtube.com/@Brackeys/about
Text version, thanks to @CorneliusTalmadge@lemmy.world:
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BRACKEYS
Hello everyone!
It’s been a while. I hope you are all well.
Unity has recently taken some actions to change their pricing policy that I - like most of the community - do not condone in any way.
I have been using Unity for more than 10 years and the product has been very important to me. However, Unity is a public company. Unfortunately that means that it has to serve shareholder interests. Sometimes those interests align with what is best for the developers and sometimes they do not. While this has been the case for a while, these recent developments have made it increasingly clear.
Unity has pulled back on the first version of their new pricing policy and made some changes to make it less harmful to small studios, but it is important to remember that the realities of a public company are not going to change.
Luckily, there are other ways of structuring the development of software. Instead of a company owning and controlling software with a private code base, software can be open source (with a public code base that anyone can contribute to) and publicly owned. Blender - a stable 3D modelling software in the game dev community - is free and open source. In fact some of the largest and most advanced software in the world is built on top of open source technology like Linux.
The purpose of this post is not to denounce Unity because of a misstep, to criticise any of its employees or to tell anyone to “jump ship”. Instead I want to highlight the systematic issue of organizing large software projects under a public company and to let you know that there are alternatives.
I believe that the way to a stronger and more healthy game dev community is through software created by the community for the community. Software that is open source, democratically owned and community funded.
Many of you have been asking for us to produce new tutorial series on alternative engines such as Godot, which is currently the most advanced open source and community funded game engine. I don’t know yet if this is something that we can realise and when.
I can only say that I have started learning Godot.
Best of luck to all of you with your games, no matter what engine they might be built on!
Sincerely,
Asbjern Thirslund - Brackeys
https://www.youtube.com/@Brackeys/about
Text version, thanks to @CorneliusTalmadge@lemmy.world:
Image Text
BRACKEYS
Hello everyone!
It’s been a while. I hope you are all well.
Unity has recently taken some actions to change their pricing policy that I - like most of the community - do not condone in any way.
I have been using Unity for more than 10 years and the product has been very important to me. However, Unity is a public company. Unfortunately that means that it has to serve shareholder interests. Sometimes those interests align with what is best for the developers and sometimes they do not. While this has been the case for a while, these recent developments have made it increasingly clear.
Unity has pulled back on the first version of their new pricing policy and made some changes to make it less harmful to small studios, but it is important to remember that the realities of a public company are not going to change.
Luckily, there are other ways of structuring the development of software. Instead of a company owning and controlling software with a private code base, software can be open source (with a public code base that anyone can contribute to) and publicly owned. Blender - a stable 3D modelling software in the game dev community - is free and open source. In fact some of the largest and most advanced software in the world is built on top of open source technology like Linux.
The purpose of this post is not to denounce Unity because of a misstep, to criticise any of its employees or to tell anyone to “jump ship”. Instead I want to highlight the systematic issue of organizing large software projects under a public company and to let you know that there are alternatives.
I believe that the way to a stronger and more healthy game dev community is through software created by the community for the community. Software that is open source, democratically owned and community funded.
Many of you have been asking for us to produce new tutorial series on alternative engines such as Godot, which is currently the most advanced open source and community funded game engine. I don’t know yet if this is something that we can realise and when.
I can only say that I have started learning Godot.
Best of luck to all of you with your games, no matter what engine they might be built on!
Sincerely,
Asbjern Thirslund - Brackeys
People with poor education are poor at spotting idiotic bullshit. Also there are other factors why people believe things. We aren't that rational.
Verkehr, das ist so dumm. Stell dich mal auf eine Autobahnbrücke und beobachte. Mega viele Autos in die eine Richtung. Mega viele in die andere. Na, dämmerts? Genau, die meisten müssten gar nicht fahren, dann wären in beiden Richtungen genug Autos.
Oder Downloads: Warum muss ich immer wieder neu riesige Dateien herunterladen? Hab ich doch schon. Statt z.B. eine alte Datei zu löschen, könnte man auch einfach die 0er und 1er darin neu anordnen, das spart den Download einer neuen Datei.
I'm often unsure how to rate the surface quality of an inherently rough surface, like sett, paving stones or cobble stone.
Question 1: These surfaces are defined by having seams. So would it ever be right to rate them as 'seamless'?
Or should we rate them as 'seamless' when they only have the expected amount of seams? Especially cobblestone makes me wonder, which usually comes with large seams and a rough and irregular surface.
Question 2: Tactile paving for blind people. Does that make a surface rough for you? In a way, that's literally how this paving becomes tactile, right?
Question 3: A pedestrian crossing going over a traffic isle (but marked as one continuous path). Assuming otherwise perfect surfaces, does it have 'cracks' (since it goes over 4 curbs), and a 'rough surface' if it has tactile paving?
Question 4: The marked entitiy is a wide area, not a narrow path. You're asked to rate it's surface quality. The area is mostly flat and smooth, but has some cracks and potholes in a few localized spots.
Do you mark it as 'a little bumpy' because that's how it would feel if you walk/bike over the bad spots? Or do you mark it as 'perfect', because it's easy to find a way through without encountering any obstacles?
Nice, dark touch: The last panel has two people being deported. They seem to form an SS rune.
It also loosely reminds of Niemöller:
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
Very similar to finding a new home.
Bonus challenge: Find a new home without a job.
The mega corps took the internet from us, changed it from a million small sites that people created because they had big ideas, or were passionate about small ones, and turned it into a few enormous sites with no new ideas, no passion, just an insatiable desire for money.
I read it as: 'They embraced, extended and extinguished what you held dear'.
"Aufgrund von Baumaßnahmen wird dieser Fahrradbügel in Kürze abgebaut.
Wir möchten Sie deshalb bitten, hier keine Fahrräder anzuschließen oder diese bis spätestens 07.09.2023 zu entfernen."
Gibt es noch mehr Kontext dazu?
Das könnte ja auch bedeuten, dass der Fahrradbügel erneuert wird. Oder dass da zwei Fahrradbügel hin kommen. Oder es bleibt ein Fahrradstellplatz, nur ohne Bügel. Quasi ein Fahrradstehplatz.
Ja welchen Grund hat das nun??? Hier für meine Schwestis und Brudis, die auch eher selten den Artikel lesen:
Ab Sommer 2024 sind bei Einweg-Getränkeverpackungen innerhalb der EU nur noch Kunststoff-Verschlüsse zugelassen, die nicht mehr abgehen. Hintergrund ist, dass genau diese Getränkeverschlüsse unter den Top 5 der am häufigsten gefundenen Müll-Gegenstände waren - bei EU-weiten Müllsammelaktionen an Stränden.
Das Problem: Plastikmüll im Meer wird über die Jahre zerrieben zu Mikroplastik, das irgendwann in unserer Nahrungskette landet. Und zum anderen: Inbesondere die Plastikringe unter den Verschlusskappen sind gefährlich für Vögel. Sie können sich darin verfangen oder damit strangulieren.
Zwar werden in Deutschland sowieso schon die meisten Flaschen mit Deckel zurückgegeben oder entsorgt - aber wir verbrauchen im Jahr rund 21 Milliarden Einweg-Getränkeverpackungen. Das bedeutet: Selbst wenn nur drei oder vier Prozent der Deckel nicht zurückkommen, ist das eine große Menge.
Much like that comment. Can you give a better example, or express why it's a bad example? That would bring some quality in.