Minor contra point. Many police in the UK do not carry guns on their person. They have access to guns and the state monopoly on violence is very one-sided in favour of the state, but community-policing and disarmament of the first-contact-point is absolutely something that can and (sometimes) does happen when the societal level of gun violence is low enough.
Enkrod
Webdeveloper from Germany, nerd, gamer, atheist, interested in nerd-culture, biology of everything creepy, evolution, history, physics, politics and space.
Progressive. Ally. SocDem. Euro-Federalist.
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World News@lemmy.world•Trump floats dropping Spain from NATO allianceEnglish
33·23 days agoThe US put the EU at war in Ukraine?
I’d say the war in Ukraine is the direct result of the illegal Russian invasions in 2014 and 2022 and the ongoing war of aggression, but go off buddy.
Apart from that, yes, the EU is inconvenient for every other bigger power, this includes the single remaining mayor power, the american empire.
My name shall be Oatmealus Cookieus
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Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•THIS JUST IN: FBI suspects Kirk was likely targeted, more info to come
3·2 months agoCharlie Kirk wears a lot of the blame for the existence of guys like the jubilee fascists, he was a perpetrator of stochastic terrorism and increasing right-wing extremism.
I’m not saying he deserved to be shot, but he did not want and doesn’t get any empathy from me.
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World News@lemmy.world•Germany's far-right AfD suffers series of candidate deaths ahead of local voteEnglish
67·2 months agoIf you’re only running angry, old, white men…
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World News@lemmy.world•Australia expels Iranian diplomats over antisemitic attacksEnglish
85·2 months agoAustralia recognizing Palestine and having beef with Netanyahu while protecting their own jewish community from iranian organized attacks seems based.
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You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK There's a campaign to replace the distorted Mercator world map with the fairer Equal-Earth projection
3·3 months agoYeh, I mean I can see how using Mercator is subconsciously strengthening colonialist thinking, but to imply that the angles-stable area-distorted map that was much more convenient for naval navigation, was specifically chosen to misrepresent the size of the global south is borderline paranoid.
Not just reclaiming, also simply claiming. Poldering is no joke!
It’s exactly the opposite in Germany.
Wasps are generaly all-purpose assholes who go out of their way to bother you, while I’ve had a hornets nest on my balcony and had one crawl over my fingers without issue.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Apple CEO Tim Cook gives 24-karat gold gift to Donald TrumpEnglish
37·3 months agoEmperor Cheesar accepting gold tribute from his feudal vassal
The rest of the human too btw. and an egg cell.
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•[SOLVED] What makes a fart dry vs wet?
7·4 months agoI’m not a doctor, just a curious guy with an equally curious girlfriend and since we like to be informed we’ve read up on stuff. Also I suffer from irritable bowel syndrome so I know a little bit about that. But if you have serious questions don’t ask me, ask a medical professional.
Having said that, that clear, slimy butt-juice is called mucus, it’s what’s coating your colon and just a little bit of slimy mucus in your stool is normal.
Large amounts of clear(ish) stool could be something a doctor should look into.

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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•[SOLVED] What makes a fart dry vs wet?
31·4 months agoYes, the need to defecate is (mostly) governed by the rectal walls stretching.
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•[SOLVED] What makes a fart dry vs wet?
93·4 months agoSo, behind your anus, there is your rectum, it’s a chamber that is usually empty, only if the colon is too full or shortly before you defecate does it get filled with stool.
Normal farts are gas coming from your colon and filling your rectum like a balloon, when you fart all that pressure is released and because the rectum is usually empty, only gas escapes.
But when you do have stool in your rectum… for example because your colon is overflowing into it or because the consistency of your stool is too fluid to be held back from the rectum, then that depressurization will push out with it the other content of your ass, straight into your underpants.
This is btw. how anal-sex is usually cleaner than people imagine it to be, because the rectum is (usually) empty and (mostly) clean.
Still… wash your hands/dick/toy before touching anyone, anything or anywhere else. Generally be hygienic guys.
Accurate but also not. PewDiePie came out in favour and PirateSoftware lied about it. But I think Thor lying created a huge burst of coverage about how he’s wrong and really created lots of noise about it.
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Linux@lemmy.ml•SUSE launches new European digital sovereignty support service to meet surging demand
11·4 months agoLook, folks, I’ve been hearing a lot, a lot, about this thing called Linux. Ever heard of it? Sounds European, doesn’t it? Probably invented in Brussels, or Sweden, maybe Russia, I don’t know. Total disaster. I call it Socialist Windows, because that’s what it is! It’s chaotic, no one’s in charge. Total mess. Bernie Sanders running an IT department, terrible. Meanwhile, Windows, great American company, by the way, very successful, very strong.
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Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Breaking: Netflix has made another minor change for their subscribers.
13·4 months agoYar-har, fiddle-dee-dee!
And wasps will kill any fly that dares come close. Only thing they like more than sugar is protein.
First off even for regular checkups I have to pay extra cuz a continues 1/5th of my pay isn’t enough
That is so wild. The US has the most expensive system in the world and often not that great service in return and somehow so many are convinced that their broken system is so much better… I guess that’s partly explained by an also broken education system. That’s something that always has been broken as far as I can remember, but now it’ll get sooooo much worse under Trump.
Plus I’m brown enough to live in fear of getting an accidental deportation parking ticket. Here, you hit the wrong car and they can apparently blast your front door. How does any of that even help me?
Aaaaaand another thing that’s getting sooooo much worse under Trump. And all paid for by your taxes.
I’ll emphasize though, the problem isn’t taxes, it’s a broken political system where 0.01% of the population pay for 50% or more of political campaigning and the people have allowed their representatives to create a system of government that fucks them over for reasons that appeal to their basest instincts.




I don’t doubt for a moment that humanity can be extremely wasteful in any economic system. But capitalism sure embraces and enhances our worst tendencies.