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    1. The violin industry is the worst […] use bows with horsehair. […] genuine leather straps. […] ivory […] goat skin

    How comes that horse hair is considered worse than skin and ivory? I would say removing a couple of hairs should be completely painless to a horse. Meanwhile, skinning requires killing of the animal. The removal of the tusks is at least very painful and sometimes also deadly for elephants.




  • Wollte gerade mal ein wenig dazu recherchieren und bin jetzt noch mehr verwirrt.

    Gemäß dieser Quelle… https://www.bundestag.de/parlament/praesidium/parteienfinanzierung/fundstellen50000/2024/2024-inhalt-984862 … steht die SPD aktuell bei 260.000 € fürs laufende Jahr. Die Statistik, die hier gepostet wurde scheint also veraltet zu sein.

    Weiter steht da…

    Gemäß § 25 Abs. 3 Satz 2 und 3 des Parteiengesetzes sind Spenden, die im Einzelfall die Höhe von 35.000 Euro übersteigen

    Im Gesetz wiederum steht, dass komplett anonym bis maximal 500€ gespendet werden kann, sofern nicht erkennbar ist, dass es sich um eine Weiterleitung durch einen dritten erfolgt. https://dejure.org/gesetze/PartG/25.html

    Nach meinem Verständnis wäre es dementsprechend noch relativ leicht, die Transparentpflicht zu umgehen. Man könnte mit mehreren juristischen Personen (zum Beispiel mehrere UGs gründen ‘Phantasie UG 1’, ‘Phantasie UG 2’ je 34.999 € Spenden oder einfach ganz oft 499€ in bar ohne Nennung des Namens. Alternativ könnte man auch einer Partei ein gutes Geschäft vorschlagen und ihnen zum Beispiel alte Schreibtische abkaufen zu einem ‘guten’ Preis. Ich habe leider keine Zahlen gefunden, wie viele Spenden die SPD (die hatte ich mir einfach random rausgepickt) insgesamt erhalten hat.

    Keine Ahnung, ob solche Sachen wirklich gemacht werden aber die 50.000€ aus der Statistik oben und auch die 260.000€ von der Seite des Bundestages scheinen mir beide wirklich sehr kleine Beträge zu sein. Selbst mit Parteienfinanzierung kann ich mir nicht vorstellen, dass man damit den Wahlkampf finanzieren kann, wie er in Deutschland üblich ist.






  • Not so sure about that. Like populism in politics, religion gives you simple answers and justifications for complex situations and easily comprehensible explanations for complex phenomenoms.

    In a world that is getting harder and harder to grasp, people get lost in the big picture. Things like globalization, climate change, foreign affairs, our financial system etc. are all hard to understand for a big chunk if not the entirety of the population.

    Dictators, monarchs as well as religion all provide easy guidance: Do X. Don’t do Y. You are the good guys, people who are/do/think Z are the baddies.

    No individual thinking required. No boring facts, no discussions, just faith/loyalty/patriotism that counters every argument and allows you to feel superior and put the blame on someone else.

    I think in situations of high social inequality or disruptive events (war, famine, financial crisis, pandamic), there will always be a high demand for religion and political extemism.


  • Is there a credible source for the costs of hosting? Wikipedia is listing similar ad revenues as you did but no info on the costs. YouTube has 2.7 billion users that watch in average around 11 hours of videos a month. If 2 billion USD/y would be sufficient to host all that that’d be just 0,74 USD/user*year or 0,06 USD per month. That sounds really cheap considering that you have to pay for storage, traffic, backups and redundancies (at least I never heard of significant outages or data loss on YT).

    Does anyone have a credible source on the number of employees YouTube has? If you search for that you fine vastly different number from just 2k to 189k employees.


  • TBH I’m not sure if a platform like YouTube will ever exist in a non-commercial way. Many creators that I follow reached a level of professionalism that comes with significant costs. You need expensive cameras, microphones, lights, high-end computers, drones, personnel costs for cutters and people that help with research. They have travel costs, sometimes rent for offices etc. All that just to produce the content.

    On top, there are significant costs for hosting. I mean YouTube is hosted on multiple data centers rather than a bunch of servers or even home computers. Already Lemmy, which is mostly text and pictures, is a decent financial burden to instance owners. Not to mention the time for moderation and administration. And even here, in a place full of hardcore FOSS supporters, it’s not like admins are drowned in donations.

    If YouTube ads and product placements are the only source of income for content creators, then the only alternative would be that consumers directly pay for the content and the platform. Or that such a platform would be paid by some state / taxes. Both of which don’t sound very realistic to me.


  • I have no clue if there’s indeed any proof for such a claim, but the theory that I read elsewhere is that it’s a way to obfuscate money flows.

    If a foreign nation (Russia, China, North Korea, whoever) would like to engage in the election, they can’t just donate to the campaign officially. But instead, they could buy a couple thousands of these coins in smaller transactions.

    TBH I’m rather with you. I think the majority of these coins is just bought by some MAGAs. For foreign nations there’d be probably more efficient ways to transfer money like shares etc.




  • Wirklich sehr interessanter Artikel.

    Eier waren Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts gewiss kein „Naturprodukt“ mehr. Doch trotz langsamer Fortschritte bei der Geflügelzucht, der Futtertechnik und der Bruttechnologie waren Eierproduktion und -versorgung noch an die natürlichen Reproduktionsrhythmen der Hühner angelehnt. Das gackernd-scharrende Federvieh legte die Masse der Eier brutlüstig im Frühjahr, während der „Eierschwemme“ in der Oster- und Nachosterzeit. Noch in den 1930er Jahren wurden hierzulande 60 Prozent aller Eier zwischen März und Juni gelegt

    Ist total einleuchtend aber habe ich mir noch nie Gedanken drüber gemacht, dass Eier einmal nur saisonal verfügbar waren.





  • Ey, stop putting so much pressure on these hardworking people! They already had the intend once to send out an invite for a brainstorming session to create a first draft of the concept of the plan! But then they got distracted by all these important people tasks that you folks don’t have any idea of! Be more patient and show some respect! Like Trump when he visits a cemetry.


  • I like this definition the best. If someone is making a super complex sandwich with many ingredients and passion, then I’m fine to call that cooking. Same with a cold soup, a cous-cous salad or a fancy appetizer. Many dishes in top notch cuisine are served cold. In molecular kitchen, there’s even stuff served below freezing. Still all cooking to me.

    If someone just warms up a can of Ravioli, microwaves convinience food, etc. I’d consider that rather food prep. If using the microwave is just one step of multiple in a recipe, than that’s fine again.

    For me cooking requires a minimum level of effort rather than a minimum level of heat.