[-] geissi@feddit.org 2 points 11 hours ago

That is interesting to know but I feel that Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences is a bit long and the distinction is not really that meaningful.

Either the research is good or it isn't.
People keep attacking the price simply because it was not sponsored by Nobel himself as if only that direct connection to him transferred some sense of divine truthfulness to the other Nobel prizes that this one lacks.

[-] geissi@feddit.org 9 points 2 days ago

They prefer EVs over public transport.

[-] geissi@feddit.org 5 points 6 days ago

Meh, not everyone speaks Arabic and there are probably people who don't know that the Sahara is a desert.

Minor redundancies are a small price to share information with a wider audience.

[-] geissi@feddit.org 25 points 2 weeks ago

And this is when the topic was published by a newspaper.
If memory serves, the fist scientific publications were from the 1880s.

[-] geissi@feddit.org 6 points 2 weeks ago

Ask any black soccer player

Not the best example if you want to argue that it's not about skin color, tbh.

“White” has always been more about fitting a certain narrative than a specific shade of skin.

Replace "White" with "Racism" and you're on the money.
Whiteness has always been more important in the US that in Europe. People here have always been surrounded by other "white" nationalities and cultures that they could still be racist against.
Of all the things people say about Roma, them not being classified as white is one I have never heard.

[-] geissi@feddit.org 22 points 2 weeks ago

Plastic bags have the lowest carbon footprint

Why do people only ever talk about the carbon footprint when plastic bans are discussed?
Plastic waste is lying around everywhere, microplastics have been found in placentas and brain stems, the great pacific garbage patch is larger than some micro states.

The environment consists of more than just the atmosphere and we should reduce both greenhouse gases and plastic waste.

Also

plastic bags (including small produce bags) can be recycled at the grocery store (two near me do but it’s easy to miss). I also found plastic very easy to reuse.

That may be so but many people do not recycle or reuse their plastic bags. I would assume this measure is aimed more at them then at you.

[-] geissi@feddit.org 7 points 1 month ago

Your data isn't really more private on the fediverse, is it?
Everything you post is shared with myriad instances.
You might not end up just handing it to some large tech corp but you also give up any remnant of control over it.

[-] geissi@feddit.org 7 points 1 month ago

Ja, passt schon

[-] geissi@feddit.org 15 points 2 months ago

Berlin clean and beautiful? This must be some alternate history.

[-] geissi@feddit.org 5 points 2 months ago

Unfortunately in Germany this is only in the older city centers. It's far less common in newer "suburban" developments.

[-] geissi@feddit.org 5 points 2 months ago

In Germany, individual plug-in panels sell for as low as 200 euros, or about $217, at big box stores. Complete sets, including mountings, an inverter and cables, are about twice that cost.

[-] geissi@feddit.org 9 points 2 months ago

Boneless chicken wings did come from a chicken with bones in it,

Sure but then someone prepared the chicken and decided that the outcome can be described as boneless. Personally, I would also expect the bones to have been removed.
You can debone chicken without turning it into pink slime.
I'd rather expect it to be made from another part of the chicken in the style of wings.

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