Same. Immerhin nur frostige 38°C laut meinem Wetterdienst hier.

The loser of a lawsuit always has to cover the cost of the lawsuit, including the other party’s lawyer fees (except in cases where the state attorney sues and a bunch of other exceptions like when an employee starts a labor dispute). They are very much capped based on the disputed sum though. The higher the dispute, the higher the attorney fees you have to pay when losing.

For example, if the disputed sum is 5000€ the base lawyer fees are ~390€. It can then be multiplied by some factor - I think 2.5 is the maximum but I’m unsure - depending on the length and difficulty of the case.

They aren’t a punishment but rather a consequence of losing a lawsuit.

They are also usually covered by your legal protection insurance which is generally recommended to have.

US awarded “damages” are utterly insane.

How do the judges even come up with those numbers? By rolling a die?

I’m really happy to live in a country where the awarded damages must only cover the damage amount and the damaged party mustn’t profit from them.

They didn’t care at first. The only reason they began destructively scanning books is because they started to care about copyright law:

Anthropic first chose to amass digitized versions of pirated books to avoid what CEO Dario Amodei called “legal/practice/business slog”—the complex licensing negotiations with publishers. But by 2024, Anthropic had become “not so gung ho about” using pirated ebooks “for legal reasons” and needed a safer source.

Copyright law doesn’t allow them to sell the books. It’s almost certainly a violation to scan books for their content and then sell them.

Es gibt noch eine andere Lösung… 🐡

For anyone else wondering what a “MENSA” member is:

Mensa International is the largest and oldest high-IQ society in the world.[3][4][5] It is a non-profit organization open to people who score at the 98th percentile or higher on a standardised, supervised IQ or other approved intelligence test.

I was already questioning why school/university cafeteria staff should get any benefits that aren’t present in other jobs.

Die zwei Belgier und die drei Südtiroler ebenso.

Underfull \hbox (badness 10000)

Jetzt gilt das Handyverbot eben an jeder Schule in Bremen anstatt “nur” an beinahe allen mit entsprechendem Verbot in der Schulordnung.

Ich wäre sehr überrascht wenn viele Schulen Handys nicht bereits verbaten.

1. https://www.schwaebische.de/regional/baden-wuerttemberg/tausende-katzen-werden-erschossen-und-das-ist-sogar-erlaubt-news-3137524

That’s where the 160,000 deaths number came from. The largest German nature conservation NGO is also quoted as saying cats are a danger to birds.

2. https://www.nordkurier.de/panorama/schrecklicher-anblick-jaeger-erschiessen-tausende-katzen-3102963

A single district in Northern Germany has had 660 cats shot within a year. In the dstrict’s state 2580 cats were shot in total. Note that the “landesweit” doesn’t refer to countrywide but rather to statewide (as German states are called “federal countries”).

Wrong. Outdoor cats pose a significant risk to birds in Europe as well, especially because Europe has massively reduced the habitat of wildlife in recent centuries.

Cats found 200-500 meters away from any property are shot by hunters in Germany. Between 2007 and 2022 over 160,000 cats were killed in just 5/16 German states (the remaining one’s don’t publish numbers).

Weichen dann nicht einige der Betrunkenen auf Autos aus? Das könnte ganz schön nach hinten losgehen, die Roller nachts zu verbieten.

Naja, hier schaffen es nicht mal alle S-Bahn Bahnhöfe von 100,000 Einwohner Städten einen ebenerdigen Einstieg zu haben. Oder defekte Aufzüge in weniger als zwei Wochen zu reparieren.

Gefühlt hat die Bahn im Hinblick Barrierefreiheit die Schulnote 5. Wenn Rollstuhlfahrer durchschnittlich so viel Bahn fahren würden, wie Nicht-Rollstuhlfahrer würde vermutlich die Zugpünktlichkeitsquote auf 10% oder so sinken.

Sorry, I meant either confiscation of the domain or the server provider deciding to take everything down. The latter can be mitigated with backups but it will nevertheless result in long downtimes.

There’s generally no legal recourse or protection if any instance involved in hosting the site decides to break contracts. This sort of uncertainty sucks and has to be taken into consideration.

Simultaneously, you lose all rights to the site and risk a hostile takeover with no possible recourse.

It’s also significantly more effort to retain this level of anonymity from a state actor. I don’t even think there’s a single Lemmy instance which follows all those steps.

The thing is, as of right now German censorship doesn’t warrant this. Yes, it sucks you cannot freely speak about Israel. But frankly, since it only requires you to adjust your wording minimally without changing the message (“Israel should be destroyed” => “I support a one state solution where everyone in current-day Israel and Palestine can live freely, similar to how South Africa abolished apartheid.”) it’s really not worth it.

Should Germany turn fascist and ban all opposition, it is too late for feddit.org and their moderators anyways. If Germany doesn’t, feddit will be fine like this and reduce the strictness of these rules as German sentiment towards Israel slowly worsens over the coming years.

Not really.

You can’t become anonymous and retain site ownership. The site would’ve needed to be shut down and a new, somehow completely unrelated site would have to be started.

Besides, even if that were done you bet your ass a random German lawyer would immediately sue the new site for violating Impressumspflicht. That’s one quick way to get the police investigating your site. Your OPSEC better be close to “hosting an illegal streaming site” level.

Even German forums about piracy would rather have an impress and remove illegal content than remain anonymous and evade police - see tarnkappe.info.

There is no stable base for renewables.

At noon in summer, renewables can produce >100% of energy consumption. The nuclear reactors would need to be shut off and turned back on a couple hours later, for the months from June to September.

But nuclear cannot reactivate quick enough as solar production is winding down in the evening, nor can it shut down quick enough in the morning.

It’s much, much cheaper to massively increase battery storage in order to store excess energy produced by renewables.

In winter as of right now, there is not enough energy from renewables but this is hopefully subject to change over the next decade or so. If energy costs are high enough at night, companies will start building private battery storage to fill them during winter days. That way a large part of energy consumption can adapt to production.

In case of energy droughts, gas power plants can be kept because they can turn on and shut down within minutes, making them the best at providing a varying base load.

Eine Kette reicht ja auch aus, die kann man auch selber zusammenbauen. Allerdings wird die Ikea-Kette vermutlich aus Spanholzplatten sein.

Quellenschutz bezieht sich auch auf Informationen, mit denen man Rückschlüsse auf Informanten ziehen kann.

Wenn z.B. private Gruppenchats im Gutachten (ich habs mir noch nicht angeschaut) drin sind, weiß die AfD, dass mind. ein Gruppenmitglied Kontakt mit dem Verfassungsschutz hat.