The type of building is irrelavant to the problem. Anything that works for apartment complexes works just as well for a single family house. It’s always the land underneath that’s the issue.
And at the ond of the day any solution that include getting rid of landlords comes down to the government seizing “unused” or “inappropriately used” land more aggresively. Something that just doesn’t sit right with most people.
Sport is such an unfair world, trying to find equality and justice in it is futile. We don’t want kids taking growth hormones to boost their chances of making it into the NBA. But that also means we crush the dream of plenty of people. Athletes with asthma can’t use their inhaler under certain circumstances. A few years ago an UFC fighter with Asthma got his win overturned because he used an inhaler inbetween rounds.
There was a huge discussion about allowing prosthetics in “regular” competition. Turned out at the time that proshetics weren’t advanced enough to give an advantage. But I think we all know that this is only a matter of time. And eventually a hard ruling needs to be made that dictates in which direction sport goes.
Banning athletes who take as many hormones, hormone blockers, and other mediaction as transwomen usually take is 100% something that needs to happen. Especially considering that in certain leagues the usage of these substances is the only reason that transwomen are allowed to compete. That feels against the spirit of sport and TUEs. But untill more data exist, I doubt a useful ruling can be made.
What I don’t like about the whole discussion is going for the “They aren’t real women” argument. That feels degrading and hurtful for everyone involved. I don’t want cis or transwomen to have to undergo inspections to determine their gender.
Bin ich dumm, oder hat der Autor einfach keine Ahnung wovon er redet? Es wird z.B. das Medianeinkommen erwähnt, und dass dieses sich ja verdoppeln würde, wenn sich alle Gehälter verdoppeten (was an sich ja nicht bedeutet, dass Arme dann nicht mwhr arm wären). Gefühlt einen Nebensatz später wird dann die Behauptung...
Absolute Armut ist gegeben wenn durch die Armut das physische Überleben gefährdet wird. Sprich, man kann sich Nahrung, Unterkunft, und Kleidung nicht mehr leisten. Für die ist es egal wieviele Millionäre im Land sind.
Relative Armut herrscht wenn die Grundbedürfnisse zwar gedeckt sind aber die Leute von der üblichen Lebensweise ausgeschlossen sind.
In Deutschland gibts kaum noch absolute Armut, von daher wird relative Armut als “Armut” bezeichnet. Und der Autor von dem Artikel mag das nicht weil keine Ahnung. Er will dass wir nur absolute Armut als Armut bezeichnen. Keine Ahnung was sein Plan für relative Armut ist. Vermutlich ist ihm das egal und die Leute sollen froh sein dass sie nicht in absoluter Armut leben.
It only makes sense if you grow up with Fahrenheit. Otherwise Fahrenheit isn’t how humans feels since most of us have no concept what these number mean.
If I would just go with 0 - cold 100 - hot I would assume 50 - perfect. But 50 is still chilly. 70-80 feels like it should be getting hot but that’s the most comfortable temperature.
No, Celsius doesn’t make more sense in regard to how humans feel. It just feels more intuitive to us because we are used to the numbers. But if you try to explain the scala to someone the numbers feel entirely arbitrary with no real reason behind it. Why is 40 the really hot? 40 is such a weird number for humans.
0 being cold, 100 being hot makes sense, anyone can grasp that concept. But the inbetween steps of Fahrenheit make no sense. It isn’t intuitive, it only makes sense if you are used to them. A intuitive scala would be:
0 - cold, you need proper winter clothes 25 - chilly, you need a light jacket 50 - room temperature 75 - getting uncomfortably hot 100 - too hot, heatstroke is a real danger
You miss the point of the discussion. The discussion is about how Fahrenheit relate to how humans interact with numbers and relate that number to temperature based on how that temperature feels.
I am not saying Celsius is arbirtray, I am saying that 40 being really hot is a weird number for most humans to associate with “hottest weather you are somewhat likely experience”. Of course if you grew up with Celsius it feels second nature. But for someone who isn’t familiar with either Celsius or Fahrenheit, the 0 - 100 could be way more intutive. Fahrenheit still fails at this because the numbers between 0-100 don’t really add up with what’s intuitive.
That’s why I said the original argument of “Fahrenheit is how humans feel” doesn’t work.
Hier in Österreich ist das schon so. Karfreitag is kein Feiertag mehr dafür hat man 1 Urlaubstag extra. Man muss den 3 Monate I’m vorraus bekannt geben aber der Arbeitgeber darf ihn nicht ablehnen.
I don’t think that the beacon works that way. The way I interpreted the comic the beacon has been active for the two years and still no help arrived.
Destroying it doesn’t really change anything, most likely it wasn’t working anyhow because otherwise you aren’t stranded for two years. It might just make it easier to accept rescue isn’t coming. And doing it voluntary because you prefer the lifestyle could be good moral boost.
But yes, if you are voluntary on an island you want means to contact help. What Masafumi Nagasaki did sounds pretty sweet sometimes. Living naked and alone on an island just getting groceries every few weeks for 30 years.
I read “it’s dying” by people on Discord and Reddit all the time, but the numbers prove otherwise. It’s been going up this entire time and sitting over 3 billion MONTHLY ACTIVE USERS!...
A lot of users are also from poorer countries that lack the means to create their own web infrastructure. Using Facebook to run your business account is easier, cheaper, and more reliable than most alternatives there. Phone carriers and ISP often also have “free”-data for certain social media platforms. You get 1GB+1GB for Facebook/IG/YT/Some Game. So you are stuck in this loop where everything reinforces itself to use Facebook.
While my farts can also be trusted, the few times I doubted them I still went to the toilet just to be sure. It never turned out to be necessary but I’d rather take 20 seconds to go to the toilet and be safe than having to deal with the aftermath of a misjudgement.
Walt Disney Co on Friday said that remarks by activist investor Nelson Peltz criticizing the company for making movies dominated by female and Black actors is evidence that he shouldn’t be on Disney’s board....
Changing the design of a beloved character was always met with criticism and skepticism. When James Bond was made blonde by casting Daniel Craig there was as much of an uproar amongst the fan base as when Ariel was made black.
If a movie is good, people will accept the design changes, if the movie is bad people will blame the design changes. And some people just never get over the design changes and will refuse to give it a chance.
The discussion is just a bit more heated because of the current social and political climate. But that’s mostly by people who don’t even care about the movie and just use the topic to stir the pot.
No, there is too much content for that nowadays. YouTube has over 3 million new videos each day. Facebook, TikTok, Instagram also has ridiculous amounts of new posts every day. Browsing Reddit on New was a terrible experience on r/all or even many of the bigger subs. Even on the fediverse sorting by new is not enjoyable. You are swarmed with reposts, and content that’s entirely uninteresting to you.
It works in smaller communities but there it isn’t really necessary. You usually have an overview of all the content anyhow and it doesn’t matter how it’s ordered.
Any social media that plans on scaling up needs a more advanced system.
Laut einer repräsentativen Studie wollen immer mehr angehende Fachkräfte, die in Deutschland ausgebildet werden, nicht hier bleiben, sondern ins Ausland gehen....
Hauptsächlich die Nachbarländer, also Schweiz, Österreich, Niederlande, Dänemark und Belgien. Schweden und Norwegen sind auch noch weit oben auf der Liste.
Spanien und Italien sind auch hoch interessant. Da sind die Jobchancen vielleicht nicht so hoch aber der erwartet Lebenstil is interessanter. Und da die meisten nur auswandern nachdem sie nen Job gefunden haben, ist die schlechtere Wirtschaft nicht spürbar.
Das größere Problem ist eher, Deutschland hat keine attratkiven Städte wo junge Leute wirklich leben wollen. Entweder ist die Stadt uninteressant oder die Jobchancen sind nicht da. Frankfurt hat gute Jobs aber ist absolut uninteressant zum leben. München ist zu teuer und in Bayern. Berlin hat ne menge Probleme. Die einzige Stadt die halbwegs interessant wäre ist Hamburg. Alles andere verliert deutlich im vergleich zu Kopenhagen, Wien, Amsterdam. Da sind die Jobchancen ähnlich zu den deutschen Städten aber die Lebensqualität höher. Brüssel hat den EU-Sitz Faktor.
Wenn man wirklich nur die Karriere verfolgt sind Dubai, Abu-Dhabi und Singapore noch stark dabei.
Und dann gibts halt noch ein paar “Traumländer” wie Neuseeland, Australien, Japan, und Südkorea.
Da gehts nicht um ein goldenseal Paradis zu finden. Es geht darum dass Deutschland nicht viel mehr bietet als andere Länder Aber das Gehalt geringer ist.
Vor 10-20 Jahren hatte Deutschland zumindest noch wesentliche vorteile die ein geringeres Gehalt akzeptabel gemacht hatten. Aber die AfD gewinnt Jahr für Jahr an Stimmen. Sozialleistungen, Öffentliche Verkehrsmittel, Umweltschutz, etc. fallen alle kurz. Und dann gibts halt keinen wirklichen Grund länger in Deutschland zu bleiben. Weil wenn man schon in ner schelchten Gesamtsituation leben muss, dann lieber mit mehr Geld.
Beispiel Krankenpflege, in Deutschland bekommt man rund 35,000 Euro im Jahr. Australien und Kanada zaheln rund 50,000 Euro, Dänemark zahlt 80,000 Euro und die USA noch mehr. USA sind das einzige Land wo das höhere Gehalt vielleicht nicht die Lebenserwartungen wert sind. Aber solange Trump nicht gewinnt gitbs selbst dort genug Staaten wo es noch akzeptabel ist.
You limit the hotel licenses. You then go hard on hotel inspections and revoke licenses or don’t renew it from hotels that aren’t up to code/standard. That way the available hotel rooms will go down. The number of licenses is limited by hotel category. That way you ensure a healthy mix of available room types and can still have all kinds of tourists in town. There won’t be an issue with “big chains snatching up all the licenses”.
Then for a time only people with a valid reservation are allowed to enter. You place checkpoints at the most common points of entry. That way you limit the number of potential tourists by limiting the available hotel rooms. It would also fix the issue of unregistered AirBnBs. It won’t be perfect but you don’t want to kill tourism just reduce it.
Locals and family of locals would be exempted from the limit. You just put some system in place to apply for that exemption for family. Since the checkpoints are only temporary (maybe around 6 months) the impact on locals and their family isn’t too bad before it goes back to normal.
There will be a lot of media coverage about the closure and fewer tourists will come. The lifting of the checkpoints will barely make the news so things won’t go back to how it was before. And the limit on hotel licenses is still in place, so the available rooms are limited anyhow. Naturally reducing tourism because fewer peope can book a room.
The guy that got shot was part of a car chase that switched to a foot chase after the cars tire blew out. The guy didn’t just walk down the road with a gun. In the video you can also see the guy making a strange movement with the gun just before the cop shot. It most likely was to throw the gun away but the cop couldn’t have known that. And given the overall circumstances shooting at this point seems reasonable.
But the cop is still a piece of shit that shouldn’t have been a cop by this point anymore. He is a cop since 2018 and has been involved in now 5 shootings (far higher than the average). And he was part of the badge bending scandal. Where cops bent the tips of their badge to mark fatal shootings. Any cop who does that, shouldn’t be a cop.
Luckily the guy survived, unfortunately the cop will stay a cop.
Sind die Zahlen nur für Privatpersonen? Ansonsten finde ich das recht nutzlos. Frauen machen zwar 44% der Personen mit Fahrerlaubniss aus aber nur 2% der Berufskraftfahrer. Beim PKW-Besitzt gibts auch stärkere Unterschiede. Frauen sind nur rund 38% der privaten PKW-Besitzer. 2018 gab es im Main-Taunus-Kreis sogar mehr Firmenwagen als PKWs mit einer Halterin (43,8 % Männer, 28,9% Firmen, 27,3% Frauen). War die einzige Statistik die Firmenwagen beinhaltet die ich gefunden habe. Von daher machts Sinn, das Männer mehr Verkehrsdelikte begehen als man von Fahrerlaubnissen vielleicht erwarten würde.
Einzige was mich verwundert hatte war die extreme Differenz beim Alkohol.
@flora_explora hat den Artikel zur Statistik verlinkt. Und da steht:
Die Zahl der Ordnungswidrigkeiten beziehen sich jeweils auf alle Personen, die am Straßenverkehr teilgenommen haben und damit auch auf alle Fahrerlaubnisklassen plus Rad- und Rollerfahrer oder auch Fußgänger.
Sprich es wird nicht berücksichtig wer wieviel fährt. Es wird aber im Artikel erwähnt:
Bei einer annähernd gleichverteilten Gesamtfahrerlaubnisverteilung reflektieren diese Zahlen ein signifikantes Ungleichgewicht im Hinblick auf das Fahrverhalten.
Bei einzelnen Delikten, die eine bestimmte Fahrzeugkategorie stärker betreffen als andere, dürfte der geringere Frauenanteil Teil der Erklärung dafür sein, warum mehr Männer als Frauen diese Ordnungswidrigkeit begehen. Dies dürfte auf den Fall “Ladung” zutreffen, von der mehrheitlich Lastkraftwagen betroffen sein dürften. Hier liegt der Anteil der Frauen mit einem entsprechenden Führerschein bei 37 Prozent.
Gleichwohl muss man über alle Delikte hinweg einen deutlichen Männerüberschuss konstatieren, der sich nicht hinreichend durch einen geringeren Anteil der Frauen bei den jeweiligen Fahrerlaubnisklassen erklären lässt.
Aber der Anteil an Personen der jeweiligen Fahrerlaubnisklasse ist nicht wirklich sinnreich. Frauen machen vielleicht 37% der Personen mit nem LKW-Führerschein aus, sind aber nur 2% der Berufskraftfahrer. Ich kenn niemanden der nen LKW privat fährt. Von daher sind die 1,7% bei Ladungsdelikten weitaus näher am zum erwartet Wert dran.
Das Männer generell mehr fahren wid nicht wirklich berücksichtig. Es wird nur erwähnt dass es Indizien gibt dass bei gegengeschlechtlichen Beziehung der Mann eventuell öfters fährt. Aber Berufsfahrer werden gar nicht erwähnt, fallen aber in die Statistik.
Will jetzt nicht Behaupten dass Männer weniger Unfälle verursachen. Und bin durchaus bereit zu glauben dass Männer verhältnissmäßig mehr Delikte begehen. Aber die Zahlen in der Statistik sind nicht wirklich aussagekräftig.
The alternative is to have a standing professionall army. Then you have people who are actually trained and “combat ready”. I wouldn’t say that’s worse at all. It allows people who want to be in the military to be in the military and people who don’t, won’t have to.
Mandatory military service isn’t doing your bit, it’s sitting around for a few months doing nothing useful. Even if war breaks out during your time, you are barely better prepared than someone just picked off the street. And after 2-3 years all the “training” you went through is forgotten anyhow.
I understand the need of drafting people during a time of war. That makes sense. But all mandatory military service does, is waste a year of your time.
I grew up in Austria, so while we aren’t bordering Russia there is no oceans between us either.
My issue with the mandatory military service is just, I do not belive that the training is actually effective. You aren’t training soldiers that you can call up and expect to peform. You are artificially inflating your military number by having “reservists” that are just as effective as untrained people picked up from the street. The 6 months of training your rank-and-file soldier gets is just not helpful anymore. It might have worked 150 years ago when we were fighting with muskets and basic cannons.
Maybe the Finnish military is different and prepare you better in the 6 months. I doubt it. The more usefull training is already voluntary and comes with a longer commitment time (both in Austria and Finland). In Austria you don’t even get any training after your 6 months without opting in. Finland gives you an additional 80-150 days over 50 years according to google. Which is at least a little bit usefull.
If countries with mandatory military service bump up their current active standing military by a few thousands and offer a voluntary reservists program, that would provide a military just as if not more effective as the current system. And wouldn’t force thousands of people to spend months doing something they aren’t interested in.
If you really think mandatory service is necessary for the security of the country, then go the way of Singapore or South Korea where the service is around 2 years. Then the people actually are trained and spend long enough time in active duty to be ready in case of a war. But again, this 6 month mandatory service is nonsense in my opinion.
In 2013 Austria had a vote to get rid of the mandatory military service. 60% were in favor of keeping it (only 52% of people voted). The main arguments of people in favor of keeping: The civil service is essential for Hospitals, Nursinghomes, Schools, etc. as “free” labor. They aren’t really free because the state is paying them. The second most common argument was “I had to do it, so they should also have to do it”. Which is just stupid. A very small percentage of people actually cared about the military aspect of it.
It sounds good because it sounds like the developers are the ones getting fucked over. But that’s not really the case. They already made bank.
Chinas real estate development sector is mostly funded by pre-selling future projects. So the people who bought a unit that now never will be built are the ones truly getting fucked over. And while some of these people are other rich people planning on renting out these units, a big part are just regular people. Only about 25% of the population in China are renting. In some cities the percentage is higher but even in Shanghai and Beijing it’s only around 35%.
So a lot of the people who are getting fucked over by this are people who bought their own home that now will never be finished. On the bright side they probably haven’t paid the full amount yet but for many their entire lifesaving are still gone and saving up enough money to buy a new home will take a long time.
Sure the developers may lose a lot of net worth because their company isn’t worth anything anymore. But they still have way more assets in their possession then they need.
The situation is way more complicated, it isn’t a simple scam. It certainly didn’t start out that way. The developers fully inteded on building these homes (at least until recently). And the business model was sound and generally works.
Pre-selling of units in apartments/condos is common around the world and a key part of securing the cashflow for the project. Chinese developers were operating just as anywhere else. The model is - use internal funding + pre-selling to build the project, then sell the remaining units once done. Use the money from selling the finished units to pay for the next project. Since demand for homes was super high, they started planning the next project before the first one was finished. Same as anywhere else in the world. The issue started that finished projects didn’t sell the remaining empty units at the expected rate. Eventually the capital of the development company was mostly used up and the cashflow from finished projects dried up. So they had a lot of half built projects and the only money available was that from projects even further in the future. And that’s not sustainable and here we are now.
There are three big factors why the finished units didn’t sell.
Pre-selling is cheaper. So homeowners opted for that. You usually are given a decent discount and have much easier payment terms. You often have a few years of monthly payments before the lump-sum is due. So by the time you need that mortage you already have 10-30% equity in the unit. Making the mortage lower and easier to get. And if your financial situation changed, you can even sell the unit before the lump-sum is due.
China has rather restrictive rules on owning land. In many muncipialities, and especially in big cities, people are only allowed to own 1 or 2 residential homes (there are ways around it). Foreign entities aren’t allowed to own residential properties for investment purposes in general. So unlike in the west where you have a conglomerate of investors buying up all the homes with the plan of making their money back by renting them out, Chinese investors have to rely on people buying their own home for personal use. Which means there is no real option of selling empty units on mass for a lower price.
The rate of rural to urban migration slowed down. In the past few decades China experienced some of the fastest growth of urbanization ever. Tons of people coming from the countryside to live in the city. This created the illusion of near limitless demand for homes. But now it’s very likely that the Chinese government lied about their population. So the demand for homes can’t be as high as expected but on top of that, migration to urban areas has slowed down.
Now a lot of these things have been known for years. And nobody really did anything. So I personally think calling all of this a scam is fair at this point. But the Chinese government could step in and help out their population. If these developers really go bankrupt, the government could just seize all of the empty unsold units and redistribute them to people who got fucked over. It isn’t perfect but it’s better than not having a house. The big question is just, how many of these units are actually habitable. China has questionable building methods to begin with and on top of that many of the buildings were so empty that there was no money to pay for maintainance. So alot of these homes are death traps. And I suppose no home is better than a death trap.
Wie immer wenns um “Sozialbetrug” geht ist die Frage ob es sich tatsächlich lohnt dem stärker nach zugehen. Ne Steigerung um zehn Prozent höhrt sich nicht wirklich nach viel an.
Glaube nicht dass der Großteil der Männer sich ne goldene Nase verdiehnen und nicht zahlen.
Gewisse Maßnahmen wie digitalisierung der Akten ist sooderso der richtige Schritt und würde auch allen Leuten helfen aber die Anzahl der Beamten die dem aktiv nachgehen und nachforschen verfehlt vielleicht das Ziel.
Bin der Meinung dass ne Änderung vom ganzen System wohl sinnvoller wäre. UBI oder zumindest eine stärker Erhöhung von Kindergeld würde das ganze lösen. Und besonders da sich dass Familienbild derzeit sooderso stark ändert, ists vielleicht Zeit den Unterhalt ganz abzuschaffen.
To everyone who hates the concepts of landlords and rent, what counts as being a landlord?
Does having an AirBNB setup make someone deserving of the guillotine or does that only apply to owners of multiple houses? What about apartments?...
Map rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Transgender athletes face growing hostility: four tell their stories in their own words (www.usatoday.com)
Linkes Spiel mit der Armut (m.focus.de) German
Bin ich dumm, oder hat der Autor einfach keine Ahnung wovon er redet? Es wird z.B. das Medianeinkommen erwähnt, und dass dieses sich ja verdoppeln würde, wenn sich alle Gehälter verdoppeten (was an sich ja nicht bedeutet, dass Arme dann nicht mwhr arm wären). Gefühlt einen Nebensatz später wird dann die Behauptung...
Handy temperature conversion scale. (lemmy.world)
Kampf dem Tanzverbot an Karfreitag: Wer schuldet wem Toleranz? (www.br.de) German
Bisschen Ragebait zum frühen Start ins Wochenende für euch. Persönliche Meinung: Wie können hochgebildete Menschen wirklich so einen Mist verzapfen?
XXX (sh.itjust.works)
Why is Facebook still so insanely popular? (midwest.social)
I read “it’s dying” by people on Discord and Reddit all the time, but the numbers prove otherwise. It’s been going up this entire time and sitting over 3 billion MONTHLY ACTIVE USERS!...
How many times have you pooped your pants as an adult? What were the situations you were in when that happened?
I always thought that didn’t happened, but based on what I’ve seen on the Internet, it seems like it is possibly more common that I thought.
'Why do I need an all-Black cast?' Disney criticizes Peltz remarks (www.reuters.com)
Walt Disney Co on Friday said that remarks by activist investor Nelson Peltz criticizing the company for making movies dominated by female and Black actors is evidence that he shouldn’t be on Disney’s board....
Baldur's Gate 3 Dev Is Working Toward An RPG That "Dwarfs" It (www.gamespot.com)
Judge rules YouTube, Facebook and Reddit must face lawsuits claiming they helped radicalize a mass shooter | CNN Business (www.cnn.com)
Deutsche Nachwuchs-Fachkräfte wandern ab: Fast jeder siebte Studierende will im Ausland arbeiten (www.n-tv.de) German
Laut einer repräsentativen Studie wollen immer mehr angehende Fachkräfte, die in Deutschland ausgebildet werden, nicht hier bleiben, sondern ins Ausland gehen....
Angry stickers telling tourists to ‘go home’ appear on buildings in Malaga (www.independent.co.uk)
California Cop Who Shot 18-Year-Old Had His Bodycam Off, But Surveillance Footage Captured Him Shooting Suspect in the Back as He Fled (wiredposts.com)
Männer verstoßen häufiger gegen Verkehrsregeln als Frauen (feddit.de) German
Denmark to conscript women into armed forces for first time (www.aljazeera.com)
China's housing minister says real estate developers must go bankrupt if necessary (www.cnbc.com)
Staatlicher Unterhaltsvorschuss wird selten zurückgezahlt (www.tagesschau.de) German