S.P.Zeidler

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• Commented on The impotence of the long-distance trillionaire
  aaand it had to happen! We got one, the gun violence equivalent of the space cadets' "all you need to eat on a space colony is blue-green algae and soy" reductionism. I'm not quite sure how you arrive there, given...
• Commented on The impotence of the long-distance trillionaire
  If I had Aladdin's Lamp my first wish would be that, on a worldwide basis: anyone who seeks to injure or kill another human being by means of a projectile weapon will receive the first projectile they launch straight between...
• Commented on The impotence of the long-distance trillionaire
  like e.g. https://www.dlr.de/sf/en/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-9315/22254_read-69733/...
• Commented on The impotence of the long-distance trillionaire
  I'd heard that the just-recovered were safe for about a month but obviously that number is also too optimistic....
• Commented on The impotence of the long-distance trillionaire
  I do not consider violence sexy; I consider it a failure. I earn my money in IT engineering. Anticipating failures and having workable mitigation plans is mostly a reflex. I'd suggest that a general strike would be a much more...
• Commented on The impotence of the long-distance trillionaire
  speedy recovery so you can get back to writing too bad about the entertainment, on the plus side after recovery there should be a short period of less caution needed to not reinfect....
• Commented on The impotence of the long-distance trillionaire
  Do you think that a discussion that devolves into "let's kill all the ultra-rich and take their money" WON'T get noticed on the internet? I think you misparsed JBS rather spectacularily. He asked "Why do you think it's not the...
• Commented on Roe v Wade v Sanity
  Dear Barry, please do consider the possibility that women could be thinking ahead a bit, and move out of harms way while NOT YET pregnant....
• Commented on Roe v Wade v Sanity
  so to return to the topic, and practicalities: if the right to abortion, even in cases of the life of the pregnant person being in danger, is removed in some US states but in others is guaranteed: how many women...
• Commented on Holding pattern 2022 ...
  So what sort of "science" are you envisaging that equates, "Being required to wear a helmet when riding a bicycle", with, "I will not wear a helmet, I will only drive my car"??? Ok I'll bite. I commute by bike...
• Commented on Holding pattern 2022 ...
  I was about to draft something describing how Europeans have the unshiftable idea that you can escape from lethal temperatures by opening a window Not all Europeans are British. As a German I have the in-baked expectation that it will...
• Commented on Holding pattern 2022 ...
  Really? Even during heat waves? I have never lived in a house or flat with A/C. Up to now "open all the windows before sunrise until you've got rid of as much heat as possible, then close the windows and...
• Commented on Holding pattern 2022 ...
  Very cold in winter (snow from November through March), but hot summers and tolerable spring/autumn. When I was a child. Climate change makes it more "snow a few days in November, then the Christmas thaw, then snow in January and...
• Commented on Holding pattern 2022 ...
  Also, I'm not entirely joking about managing peat. like this? https://www.moorwissen.de/en/paludikultur/imdetail/torfmooskultivierung.php...
• Commented on Holding pattern 2022 ...
  Montessori, organic vegan crystal homeopathy movement are you mixing up Waldorf schools and Montessori schools? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montessori_education https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldorf_education Montessori shouldn't come with any belief system except that children are curious and learn fastest when you arrange the lessons as play opportunity....
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  Implicit bias, portrayal in the media, poor advice from guidance counsellors… Everybody and their dog including random old women on the bus feeling compelled to opine that physics is not a proper subject for a girl / young woman .....
• Commented on Holding pattern 2022 ...
  Answer: No, you're lying. sonnerad was designed by Himmler. It's never been "an ancient Pagan symbol", it was designed in 1939-41 ish. It's explicitly Nazi. Assuming that was meant to be the German word Sonnenrad, that one is ambiguous: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonnenrad...
• Commented on Behind the Ukraine war
  The Grey-Eyed Woman is bored though. Point us to a target and we'll make the improbable happen if it's amusing enough Ok I'll bite. "A wave of wisdom hits the world and people quit not only wars but all kinds...
• Commented on Behind the Ukraine war
  I haven't been able to try a close-woven wool 'waterproof' layer, because I can't find one, but I know that they are used in some parts of the world. That'd be a Loden coat or similar?...
• Commented on Behind the Ukraine war
  The obvious one would be an older building that is already plumbed for radiators and a boiler. Replacing all that with forced air would mean tearing apart a lot of building at great expense. What gets done hereabouts instead is...
• Commented on Behind the Ukraine war
  Regarding SAR: Work runs TerraSAR-X / Tandem-X Things to note: satellites carry limited amounts of data storage, so cannot just record everything they fly over; they have to pick what they can record between downlinks downlinks are limited-bandwidth, too normal...
• Commented on Behind the Ukraine war
  Laschet is clearly Chaotic Evil or Chaotic Neutral. I'd suggest clueless evil. regarding Lindner and Buschmann I'd support the analysis but would like a less bloody solution, like e.g. losing them inside a non-Ukraine refugees accomodation for a while....
• Commented on Behind the Ukraine war
  It depends how desperate they are to keep those reactors running Not desperate enough to risk a meltdown. You caught that I am German? I do read German news....
• Commented on Behind the Ukraine war
  The last three nuclear plants operating in Germany will go offline at the end of the year. If you tried to keep them running they would need extensive maintenance. The lignite plants that were also to go offline will be...
• Commented on Behind the Ukraine war
  I expect both sides are buying commercial satellite imagery Just because they are commercial doesn't mean they are not regulated. I assume the military of the countries the satellites are operated from get the data, and share as they see...
• Commented on Behind the Ukraine war
  Germany has a lot of lignite and hardly any nuclear power plants left but generally it's mostly gas. Top 5 energy sources used in 2021 to generate electricity in Germany: 23% wind 20% lignite 13% nuclear 13% solar 10% gas...
• Commented on Bad news day
  The IPCC has been consistently wrong, always predicting less catastrophic courses than eventuate. Climate scientists are used to being roasted by fossil-fuel-paid anti-science and report publicly the "if we do this then that is entirely unavoidable even in the very...
• Commented on Bad news day
  In German / Germany, there's Drogerie which sells soap to lotions, cosmetics, hygiene articles (like nappies), teas, herbs and household cleaning products, i.e. much the same as drugstores, but without a pharmacy component. They may have freely sellable medicines these...
• Commented on Bad news day
  So would a new house be less than what you'd gain from the sale of the current house? presuming you'd still need a place to live?...
• Commented on Bad news day
  There's a set of geo-observational satellites launched by ESA The Copernicus program on the European Commission with the Sentinel satellites, probably. The Sentinel 1 satellites are radar satellites that can measure elevation. The DLR TerraSAR/TandemX are actually a bit better...