6 bits per digit, 12 bit words. Octal (8) number system.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-8

Oh wow, thanks for the tips! I’ll check them out.

It was “The Avatar” in a German translation. I read it twice or so at that time - and it’s many years since, so I have only a dim recollection of all the details, but a lot of politics, and (if I don’t mix it up now) questionable physics regarding light speed and mass, a lot of sex and some weird gaelic inspired poetry.

Maybe I’ll find a copy one day again, to have a new look with my now old eyes and different woldview.

From what I’ve seen on goodreads or so I had a bit of misfortune as The Avatar isn’t known as his best work. But beggars can’t be choosers, at that time I got my sci fi fix by browsing the one bookstand with scifi in the central station’s bookstore next to my bus stop home after school… they threw me out once or twice “This is for buying books, not for reading”

I have just read one Poul Anderson (when I was a teenager) and the most important thing I remember was people fucking each other all the time.

I always thought it was the christian brand version of Roman Saturnalia.

Heh PLA. While it is made from starch it’s also not (really) biodegradable, it just is in a very controlled environment.

And PLA still is plastic.

I personally absolutely agree of getting rid of that shit. I just said there are big hurdles, and you need to do so in a very organized and based on proof way.

You can’t just outlaw them because you don’t like them, that doesn’t work. Germany having laws against hate speech doesn’t mean there’s not also a law about freedom of expression in the Grundgesetz.

You need to prove them to be against democracy in a watertight way. That’s what I mean with not willy-nilly.

Or as I read it once: Democracy implicitly protects its enemies.

Look, there’s president Musk and the first bro.

Quite contrary, we have a big problem censoring Nazi speech.

We have some very specific rules when something can be censored and when it can’t - and the far right has quite some training in “just not saying that, maybe only implicating it a little”.

So any legal action outlawing then needs to rest on really solid legal basis or it will fail. Such a failure would be the propaganda the right wishes for.

Consequently they are always just shy of openly saying things but implying them. Like having election posters where their politicians can say “No we’re not showing a Hitler salute in that image, we were just miming a roof of a house over a bunch of kids”

Sometimes a single politician gets caught with doing something too far, but then (of course) the whole party acts like they are shocked.

Getting rid of this shit is not easy, unfortunately. We can’t censor what we don’t like willy nilly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_oligarchy

*Muskistan

ftfy

I shared the link to this to friends a week ago or so.

Wait what, ah yes, Florida is the dick of the US.

“This video is no longer available”

That ticket is already included for free when you order the console.

Both my kids favorite veggie was broccoli when they were small. I’d prepare it the way you’d get it in an Italian restaurant - small parts of it just bleached for a short time, so it stays firm, served with nice olive oil and salt. (And a bit of lemon, if I have it on hand)

Broccoli (like so many veggies) tastes awful when overcooked into a soft and mushy consistency (and then it also changes its taste in a bad way).

Here in Germany grandmas typically are amazing cooks, with the sole exception when they cooked veggies. That generation loved their vegs really soft and overcooked.

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So Germany didn’t have dictator oppression in the 30s and 40s? You think we didn’t have propaganda and we didn’t just kill people for another opinion? And we had access to outside information?

I’m talking about a moral duty to oppose, to inform yourself in spite of all that. And I know it is not easy. We Germans failed that miserably.

The plabook Putin is playing, we’ve been through it and it is was what lead to WW2.

No, not all Russians are evil and deserve to die. But closing your eyes and playing oblivious to what’s happening out there, just believing the state propaganda and living in a position “oh it’s just the bad leader” is not a morally OK position.

If there is a dictator in your country you have some moral duty to find out at least a bit about the truth.

How do I know?

I’m German.

My grandparent’s generation was the one that actively closed their eyes, that actively looked away, that everything that happend was someone else’s problem. They were the Generation that arranged themselves, that did good business as long as it wasn’t them that were deported, killed or fought at in the war.

This is not a position that is morally OK, but this is what I see of a lot of Russians. Not all, but a lot.

Oh, so you think things are less insane here in EU? Ha!