hendrik

Sure. Germany has an arms industry. We sell submarines, Leopard tanks, drones… And they’re used all around the world for destruction and to kill people.

Last time I was part of conscription, I sent in my objection letter, and served Germany as a paramedic.
No regrets, 100% would do it again.

Is there precedent for this in Europe? I can’t remember good things which were repeated. They tend to either succeed or fail but that’s basically it. Or political parties rallye to do something but then they don’t. Or can’t agree within the coalition. Or there’s other pressing issues after the election and it gets postponed… But they don’t really say, that’s what we promised, we failed and we’ll put it on the agenda again 5 months later?!

I think this should be somewhat discouraged in a democracy, though. Decisions have to be binding in some form. You can’t just do 5 and then randomly discard 4 and go with the one result you like. And for some reason that’s supposed to be the binding one. I mean it’s a bit tricky. But ultimately it’s the same kindergarden game like you’ll ask your mom to allow something and after she says no you’ll go to your dad and ask him, then your grandparents, uncle… and at some point some adult is busy with other stuff, doesn’t pay attention and you get your “yes” and you’ll do it. It’s a weird thing kids do, not a feature of a democracy.

And in democratic systems it leads to the same discussion blocking the agenda again and again because of some people’s dispute. And other weird things like in the USA, where the first official act of a new president is, to cancel as much bills from the previous administration as possible.

I mean there’s reasons to do it. But I still think it’s mostly a dark procedure within a democratic system.

And other kind of law has it covered. For example court rulings. You’ll need substantial new evidence. Or a changed situation to re-do their binding decisions. And that’s for good reasons. (I think in philosophy of law it’s called “non bis in idem” or double jeopardy doctrine)

You mean should we normalize not paying people for their work and some customer has to chip in? Definitely not. Labour is supposed to be compensated by a wage. A tip is something that comes on top. Voluntarily. It’s supposed to be a nice extra for extraordinary service or something like that. Or if you have enough money and the pizza delivery boy doesn’t, but he bicycled all the way and also brought the pizza up the stairs 3 levels to your apartment. Of course you’ll give them 2€ for that. But at the same time they’re supposed to earn some wage that enables them to pay their rent.

Also has to do with taxation. If someone gifts you something, you don’t really have to pay taxes on that. If it’s a crude form of a salary, you need to pay taxes on it.

He doesn’t have any. He grew up in an evangelical household. Studied philosophy and law. Somehow he developed a fixation on the Antichrist, Amageddon and the Apocalypse. He doesn’t have any formal backround in bible studies, though. And some people call his lectures “amateurish talk”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel

Sloppy sloppy slop slop?

100% AI text. Not even proof-read. Or they would have noticed the last paragraph is ChatGPT talking to them, not the blog audience.

Oh man, why didn’t I slop-code it. Hold it for two months and then sell out to some mega-corporation… Sounds like easy money. Any other very stupid (and easy) ideas still left?