Truly an xkcd #1172 situation.

The depth of the reduction and all the built-in escape valves show that this was an extremely tough compromise, but hopefully we can use this landmark deal to boost the fight for the 4-day work week as the new norm. I think that’s something IGM made a priority, but many sectors represented by ver.di are also ideal sectors for this.

You seem to he framing it as, “scientists went to nature to find out how humans should act,” and in my view you are missing quite a lot. I could be wrong, open to hearing more.

What is important, imho, is what I wrote in my top-level comment: I don’t want to find myself in the same camp as other groups who make “nature” arguments (like “evolutionary psychologists”). If I accept their premise, I will have to accept their conclusions too -otherwise I’d have to be cherry-picking naturalist arguments only when they are politically expedient for me.

So to me, this argument is a retort against lazy, commonly used, longstanding, nonsense arguments.

I believe that this argument is best countered by saying that “regardless of what you think is natural or not, a person has the right to do what they want to do so long as their actions do not violate the freedoms and integrity of others”. That’s a moral value you can reason yourself into and you can be consistent about.

Humans are animals, and this shows non-human animals can be queer too.

I don’t think it shows anything more than that the animals in question engage in same-sex intercourse. Claiming anything more than that is, to me, arbitrary anthropomorphism. I am not prepared to accept that whales can be “queer” until whales start writing sociological papers for us to find out how they understand homosexuality in their system of norms and values.

The fact animals have some behavior shouldn’t, alone, be a justification to punish or encourage some behavior.

Maybe I’m jumping the gun here, but I’ve been in plenty of discussion already where animals engaging in same-sex intercourse was used as an argument to defend queer rights - e.g. my local queer association did hold such a panel discussion at the zoo last May.

To see this news article in /c/lgbtq_plus instead of /c/biology or /c/science does make me extrapolate that this is somehow understood as being relevant to human sexuality.

I dunno, I’m still not comfortable with with linking human queerness with biologism and the natural argument. Other animals also regularly do unsavoury things and those urges might still exist in our biological programming but we have reasoned our way of them them.

I don’t want to accidentally make strange bedfellows with other groups who point at animal behaviours to justify their problematic shit. Such studies on animal sexuality should stay a matter of science, the queer movement should not take them on as political arguments.

Ich wohne in Berlin, also ist Umarmen üblich. Ich frage trotzdem immer kurz nach - wer die Frage peinlich findet, ist sowieso kein gutes Match zu mir.

Es liegt an einer Mischung aus wenigen Kassensitzen sowie hohen Aufnahmehürden.

Ich helfe grade einem Freund mit dem ganzen Prozess - hier ist meine bestmögliche Strategie.

Und da es kein englisches Wort für verschlimmbesserung gibt

https://www.linguee.de/englisch-deutsch/uebersetzung/disimprovement.html

We are back, baby.

Oh, I spent many a year working with 1.4.x to great effect, although there were serious limitations. I don’t do desktop publishing any more though, but maybe I can set aside an afternoon to play around, for old time’s sake.

I probably didn’t express myself well. What I meant to say is that with an area so spread-out, any placement of the bus stop would make it extremely unreachable from some other adjacent destination.

This kind of makes me feel that the problem starts one layer before: this are is so spread out. It really doesn’t look like there’s any visible reason for buildings to be so far apart.

There’s so few buildings that yeah, I think one bus stop is enough to serve them as far as amount of users is concerned. But the green could have been around the built up area, not between the buildings. Parking could also be compacted, maybe multi-floor or underground to reduce the surface area.

Bei der FSFE müsste es aber mW allgemeiner gehalten werden, nicht nur auf die DB bezogen, weil die FSFE ja europäisch orientiert ist.

Finde ich auch so. Digitalzwang ist ein europaweites Problem. Z.B. nach der Einführung von Payment Services Directive2, kann man immer häufiger in der EU ohne Google- oder Apple-Services e-Banking nicht nutzen (viele Zwang-TAN-Apps sperren LineageOS u. a.).

Für D haben sich ja Kuketz und Digitalcourage dem Thema DB-App angenommen und Digitalcourage hat ja noch allgemeiner die “Digitalzwang”-Kampagnen, u.a. mit dem “Digitalzwangmelder” und speziell vs. die DB und die DHL.

Cool, ich kannte diese Typen nicht!

Zeit für eine neue Kampagne der FSFE?

Extensive summary also here

And if the strike spreads to Germany, which it very well could, it could mean the cease of operation of the Model Y factory in Berlin, which would be devastating to them.

A big problem is that Germany’s labour laws do not allow sympathy or political strikes. A strike can only be legally called in association with a collective bargaining agreement negotiation/dispute.

Germany will be the weak link in this cross-country wave of strikes.

There’s a rather considerable current of leftism that is libertarian. Over-regulation of what a person can do, especially with something as, well, personal as appearance, is at odds with left-libertarian values.

Left-authoritarianism is of course compatible with such regulations.

Where German rental contracts say “any alterations need to be reverted for handover”, rental contracts where I originally come from say “any alternations are forbidden without the express permission of the lessor”.

No, not really. They aren’t moot.

Cost or supply are one thing, but Germany definitely has strong tenancy rights.

Cyprus likes to pride itself as having strong tenancy rights too, but it’s not even half of what I enjoy in Germany. I didn’t even have to get permission to hang a picture on the wall.