Was that ever up for debate? I mean, what do people believe happens when one takes a creature adapted to breathing through water out of said water?

Yes/No. There are quirks such as “ton” but in essence you can say 1 million gram and everything is fine. Remembering all those short forms is a nice to have, not a requirement.

Uhm, it might sound arrogant but in metric you don’t need that sort of thing? The next order of measurment is just ±10^x where X is the number of dimensions you want to look at: 10 for i.e. length, 100 for area and 1000 for volume.

Lets look at length: Most commonly used are Millimeter, Centimeter, Meter and Kilometer.

Meter is the base. The name centimeter derives from meter and the Latin word centum meaning 100.So a centimeter is hundredth of a meter (decemeter, 10th, ist not really used much in everyday life). One step further down is millimeter: mille is Latin for thousand, therefore a millimeter is a thousandth of a meter.

Going up Greek prefixes are used: Deka-(10) and hektometer (100) are rarely used and Greek chilloi means thousand and therefore a kilometer is 1000 meters.

Staying in one dimension the same applies to gramme for weight: Milligrams, Gram and Kilograms are the moat common.

Going up in dimensions we use the same prefixes but the multiplyer changes because 10^2 is 100. So to go from 1 m² (one meter to the width times one meter depth) to 1 km² (thousand meters wide times thousand meeter deep)) the multiplier is not 10³ (1000) but 100³.

The whole prefixes are effectively optional and just for better readability.

But that feels like the polar ends of who can benefit in the deprofessionalized world—developers with the stability to swing big for big-shot ideas, and programmers or designers with deep career experience that can be called in like a group of noble mercenaries. People in between will be left out.

Well, no. The issue is not that people offer their expertise as contract workers. The issue is supposed AAA studios cranking out one piece of hot garbage after another, while small independent teams can work (and fail) with unique ideas at a much faster rate.

There will always be freelance workers and having one on board, even an experienced one, will neither guarantee success nor is it a prerequisite. Looking at some highly successful indi titles of today, they often started with humble beginnings and got gradually more “professional” along the way.

I am currently playing Factorio Space Age and holy hell, have they come a long way since initial release. Fluid system, anyone?

That’s the thing: You can’t unless you are already well-informed beforehand.

Yes, it is possible to spot common rhetorical deceptions such as whataboutisms or straw man arguments, but misinformation in general is impossible to debunk in real time unless it defies common sense such as “Immigrants are eating the pets of locals”.

A popular talking point here in Germany when the government was trying to push for installing heat pumps instead of gas or oil based heating solutions was, that installing a heat pump would entail massive renovation costs to make its use viable. This information is semi true because installing a pump in older buildings might indeed require renovations. But exposing this argument as a broad overgeneralization takes so much time and effort that it is impossible to do on the spot, unless you have prepared multiple examples of home configurations and the associated costs of installing a heat pump.

The whole idea behind Steve Bannon’s famous tactic of “flooding the zone” is to flood the discussion with so much misinformation it would take a disproportionately amount of time to debunk it all.

TBH I don’t bother with watching discussions anymore because of this.

Not everything that glitters is (Nazi) gold. /s

I am using PassAndroid

Most of the time these ‘Add to X Wallet’ buttons lead you to an .pkpass File which you can import. The app doesn’t look very nice but it does the job for me.

*Der Spiegel

Just for clarity

There are dozens of us! Dozens!

Bro, you can!

Because that’s easier to do than making rich peoples life harder.

The parties in coalition talks should prioritize strengthening social security protections

If you expect any of that from those two party you haven’t been paying attention.

While the SPD carries ‘Socialist’ in it’s name they are responsible for some of the biggest cuts to social security during the 2000s. The CDU has been railing against ‘Sozialschmarotzer’ for years now and the ‘Christian’ C is only a fig leaf at this point.

Even better you can also do a GDPR to change your email. The GDPR doesn’t just cover your right to deletion but also the right to correct wrong information.

Arakis, Dune, Desert Planet.

Sadly, this sort of stuff is going to be needed more and more around the globe.

Might help some people realize that fingerprints are not as secure as they think.

Issue #1113 by any chance? :D

Not necessarily a phishing mail. I got tagged in an issue that some idiot created and codeberg dutifully sent me a mail notification.

I am not sure how to interpret your response. Do you mean I do not know that Valve as a private company does have shareholders?

Valve is a private company, so depending on who owns a majority of the shares, not much might change after Gabens earthly demise.

End badly for whom? Everage Joe? Every time yeah. For the guys on top? Only if they get opposed by a worldwide coalition.