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  • This is something that can be found out, actually. For example, large monasteries that have existed for a millennium or longer are likely candidates. Though, maybe some airport loo generates enough turd per day that they can cover that monastery’s monthly turd production in a day?

    That would mean that they are able to turdify our seas in half a century as much as the large monastery can do in about 15 centuries.

    What toilets have a constant queue 24/7, decade after decade? There aren’t that many of those.
    We can do this. We just need to put our heads into it!







  • Some literal translations of the books’ names into English. They are unlikely to correspond with the real English titles, but might be enough for guessing what books these are in other languages.

    Das ABC der Rollenspiele – The ABC of role playing games
    Die göttliche Komödie – The divine comedy
    Liegt die Antwort in den Sternen? – Does the answer lay in stars?
    Eine kurze Geschicte des Universums – A short story of the universe
    Der Außenirdische ist auch nur ein Mensch – Even the extraterrestrial is just a human
    Ihr habt keinen Plan - darum machen wir einen – Youse have no plan - that’s why we’ll make one
    Kosmologie für Füßgänger – Cosmology for pedestrians
    Was hat das Universum mit mir zu tun? – What has the universe got to do with me?
    Sieg der Blödigkeit – Victory of stupidity
    Unberechenbar – Unreliable
    Die Zukunftsformel – The formula for future


  • Frontend is what is being actually interacted with by the intended user.

    In a car the frontend is:

    • Steering wheel
    • Gear stick
    • Wheels
    • Seats
    • Pedals
    • Lamps
    • Ports for pouring in oil, windscreen washer, fuel
    • All the different buttons on the dashboard and elsewhere
    • Doors
    • Keyholes

    In a car the backend is:

    • Engine
    • Gearbox
    • Fuel pump
    • Cabling
    • The actual lightbulbs inside the lamps
    • Mechanism for reacting to key being turned in the lock

    Etc.

    Frontend is what is what is being physically used, backend is what actually makes all of this function. Of course anyone can also go poke at the backend, but without some very deep knowledge, you’re bound to break something. Better let the backend specialists (regarding cars: a mechanic) handle whatever counts as backend if they need to be touched.

    In a physical shop the frontend is anything the customer interacts with, while backend includes for example the workers’ pause room, the intermediate storage for goods brought to the store by lorries, etc.





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    17 days ago

    Interesting… Historically the prefix ge- has meant doing something completely. For example, there used to be the verb winnen, which meant “to fight victoriously”. In German it’s nowadays “gewinnen”, constructed from meaning “fighting victoriously all the way until finish”, or more shortly: “to win.” And in English the it has lost the infinite form’s ending “-en”, and is nowadays just “win” (or “to win”).

    And then in German a device with -ge in front of its name means it’s assembled out of several parts that somehow function together. So, I’d say based on this that the back three quarters of this … animal? … either technically consists of an amount of hogs, or are several independent components that together form a hog. And do that without having a head.

    If you add a he(a)d zu dem Gehog, it becomes a full-fledged animal capable of both locomotion and thought. And spikety-spike-spiky pokey things.

    Of course it could also be that “gehog” does not have the prefix “ge” at all, but is instead “geh” + “og”. That would again be German, and would mean “an og that walks”. And an “og” would probably be the same thing as the Dutch “oog” and the German “Auge”: An eye. So, if you take a walking eye and add a hed to it, you get a hedgehog… Ouch.

    NEVER DISASSEMBLE A HEDGEHOG!

    a.k.a. hedbeholder








  • why you elected to make a statement that seemed to limit itself to a binary of fascist/"tankies”.

    Because that is the subject we are talking about. We are talking about to what extent tankies are similar to fascists.

    Also, I do not think temporarily holding a percent of an ethnicity in an internment camp is enough to call something a genocide.

    Temporarily, not. But anything that forces people to have to lose their national or thnic identity is genocide. We are not talking about any temporary internment camps here. (I’m not sure if temporary internment camps based on ethnicity have ever even existed…)

    to provide relevant comparison of similar examples that were not fascist nor “tankies”.

    If they do not support using a country’s military against its own population nor are fascists, how are they relevant to this discussion that is intentionally limited to those two groups?

    First of all……how is the US not a democratic country?

    Uh… Read the news maybe? WTF kind of question is this? How is it a democratic country?

    Just off the top of my head Canada has a brutal history of suppressing their native inhabitants that endures to the modern age. Both france and the UK also had interment camps during ww2.

    No idea of what’s been going on in Canada. POW camps don’t really count. Nor any camps where the goal is not the removal of an ethnicity or nationality from from a region.
    The question about Israel’s democracy is an interesting one that I need to ponded more!