Da ist Google Translate wohl etwas zu förmlich unterwegs -> "What is the expected frequency of your future video posts" führt zu diesem Kunstwerk. Aber ehrlich gesagt klingt das selbst im Englischen so bescheuert unauthentisch, dass ich mir schwer vorstellen kann, wie dadurch Interaktionen in die Höhe schießen.
(Ich hoffe, ich bin mit dem Profilbild nicht zu nah am NSFW-Verbot.)
Yes, somehow the barrier to actually engaging with others is lost in the fediverse. The guilt of posting on Reddit has been swapped by some strange feeling of obligation and/or pride when posting on here.
I made an effort to interact with one community in particular to get it going and it actually started getting a tad more lively recently. So maybe there's hope if we play our parts.
Hier der Link zum Bericht des EU Tax Observatory, der im Artikel besprochen wird: https://www.taxobservatory.eu/publication/global-tax-evasion-report-2024/
Und ganz am Rande: Ich merke, dass es mir so langsam auf den Keks geht, dass man im Oktober 2023 seinen Bericht schon als 2024er-bericht titulieren muss, um langfristig Relevanz zu suggerieren. Meine NGO macht diese Dinge aus denselben Gründen und mir fällt auch keine Lösung ein, aber was Hartmut Rosa wohl dazu sagen würde...
China has risen way less in terms of GDP per capita, even using power purchasing parity estimates. Japan is at 52k $, China only at 23k (Wikipedia).
I cannot ultimately judge this but the common wisdom about the Chinese social contract seems to be that the citizens get comparatively high economic security for comparatively low civil liberties. And while China's pro-poor growth has certainly been more than impressive historically, I am not sure that the comparatively still low incomes especially in the inner parts of China are sufficient to maintain this social contract if growth does really slow down significantly.
Edit: I agree in general though that the state of Japan is probably not be as bad as it is made out to be in the article.
Hat nur so halb was hiermit zu tun, aber mir war selten jemand so unsympathisch nach einem Interview wie Schreiner nach ihrem Auftritt im FAZ Podcast für Deutschland mit ihrem wiesligen Politiker-Ausweichen.
Sound great! Being gently touched in the face always feels wonderful, I think, no matter whether in a romantic or a non-romantic setting like yours. Scratches the itch for intimacy with another being.
I played my first official league game of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and it was a great experience. Not professional gaming or anything, just hobby gaming in the lowest league. But I always wanted to do that and finally found a group of nice people to do it with.
Weir's characters are always so 'alive' somehow!
Weir! Though I am currently reading Martine myself.
Really fitting news for sh.itjust.works. Or not.
I think you misunderstood my point. You seem to mainly be insisting on the point that Russia is doing terrible shit, perhaps even more terrible than what other countries have done in recent history. I am not saying that Russia's invasion is in any way excusable or that it doesn't commit extremely terrible war crimes or anything. That much is obvious to anyone with eyes and internet access and there is certainly no disagreement.
My point about the atrocities in other countries that you partially quoted was not to engage in whataboutism (although I do in fact think that death tolls of many other atrocities are comparable and the death toll of WW II and the Nazi regime in general of course much exceeds that of the Russian invasion). It was just to say that we do historically not see a lot of full-scale revolutionising against atrocities committed by governments in authoritarian or even democratic states where it should be much easier (-> Afghanistan and Iraq wars). And what this shows, I think, is that under the right (or wrong ...) circumstances the majority in any given society will remain silent if their own life or their freedom or that of their loved ones is on the line.
Therefore it does not make sense to me to dehumanise people like the guy from the article (who did in fact run away in order to not murder anymore). Because to be quiet and mainly look out for yourself seems in fact like the human thing to do, however cowardly that might seem.
You could of course argue that he should join the resistance and do everything in his power to fight against the regime – and I agree that this would be be the morally correct action. But the upshot of the dehumanising line of thinking would be that you will have to view a majority of the people around you as potential "maggots" as well, as I already wrote in the other post. And I don't think that is a healthy view. Rather, I think, we should focus on criticising bad structures and people in the positions of power who built these structures. And we should celebrate the Russians who actually do try all they can to stop the war and establish a better regime and hope that this will inspire the people who don't do that yet.
But you're right of course that I might think differently about these things if someone I knew had been killed by Russian soldiers or something like that. Being German of course shapes my views as well because the ancestors of most of the people around me were probably in some way complicit in the Nazi regime. And they do/did not seem like monsters but like normal old people that you would find in other countries as well who were not/less complicit in WW II.
Hier geht's übrigens zur zitierten Studie: https://www.netzwerk-steuergerechtigkeit.de/milliardenvermoegen/