Berlin of the 20s was probably the most liberal place for queer people in the west. Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld founded the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft and wrote the first paper on trans identities, gave people counseling, hormones and recommended surgeons.

He was able to decriminalise homosexuality and have trans people allowed to present “sex non-conforming” in public if they had a slip from him.

The Nazis used this for culture wars and promise a return to the golden time of tradition and morality.

His institute was raided in the first book burning, thousand of scientific papers are lost forever, his patients hunted down. He managed to flee to France.

It’s important to treat his persona critically though, because as a scientist of his time, he also adopted some problematic stances on eugenics and racial teachings. On the other hand, he was also one of the few that criticised the rigor of the science behind those teachings from time to time.

Did you have an ideas of what it would look like before you had the surgery? Maybe there’s pictures elsewhere on the interrnet.

The author is Daniele Turturici who posted the illustration on his subreddit. One post before, he stated that all of his work is done without AI.

You can also find it in the solarpunk story seed library, also saying no AI.

https://storyseedlibrary.org/art/

German environmentalist Robinga Schnögelrögel recently talked about the shifting baseline syndrom, and he gave an example of how bad it is. He read a primary source from 1858 that talked about the biodiversity back then: Butterflys were described as “everywhere”, hundreds on every meadow. A type of mayfly (ephoron virgo) hatched in rivers and congregated above, making it look like a snow flurry. The next day their dead bodies would cover the river banks, which farmers picked up by the wheelbarrow to use as fertilizer and feed to their pigs. Hence ephoron virgo’s German name “Uferaas”, meaning shore carrion.

Seh ich ähnlich.

Sowohl der aktuelle als auch alte Papst kritisierten häufiger den Kapitalismus als menschenfeindlich und betonen, dass wir die Umwelt besser schützen müssen. Papst Franziskus sagte ausdrücklich er respektiert die Wissenschaft in dem Bereich und empfahl ihrem Rat zu folgen.

Wenn es in der Politik um Migration geht, wird häufig dazu aufgerufen Menschlichkeit und Bescheidenheit walten zu lassen.

Papst Leo sagte vor einer Woche, die Welt würde von einer handvoll Tyrannen zerstört. Es wird sich gegen Kriege ausgesprochen.

Bei Trumps Amtsantritt sprach Bischöfin Budde eine virale Rede, wo sie ihn um Erbarmung bat und Minderheiten in Schutz nahm. Nachdem Kirk erschossen wurde und der rechte Propagandaapparat im vollen Gange war, sprach die Pastorin Annette Behnken in der Rede zum Sonntag Klartext zu dem Revisionimus und dass er kein guter Mensch war.

Ich bin Atheistin, und natürlich machen Papst, Kirche und Menschen in ihrem Namen auch sehr viel furchtbares. Aber gerade bei Erzkonservativen und Rechten genießt sie hohes Ansehen, obwohl sie sie manchmal für woke oder marxistisch halten. Ich glaube die Wirkung davon kann nicht unterschätzt werden

Wie wärs mit Therapieplätze streichen und stattdessen Listen von psychisch Belasteteten anfertigen lassen? Fast genauso gut. 🤗

What I’m mainly wondering is why they basically ceded, moved to the right and don’t talk about it anymore. They did pick up some steam online recently in adressing the fossil corruption, but nothing much about being basically beaten in line. Do they think it’s not worth it?

I suppose some of the more center greens like Özdemir aren’t that unhappy about the party’s changed orientation at least.

Where I’m from cities like Boston are the norm. When I was in a grid city for the first time, I immediately got lost on the roads because everything just looks the same.

On the other hand, Americans seem to have a more intuitive sense of the cardinal directions than Europeans do from my experience. Which makes sense if you’re used to roads aligned with them.

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Exactly, and cats kill like 200x more birds than wind turbines do. Window panes also kill more. Suggest doing something about that and you’ll experience people’s wrath.

Edit: Had to delete two comments, because I accidentally triple-commented.

I suppose the argument is about offshore windparks. Whales specifically have insanely sensitive hearing and can communicate over hundreds of miles, so it seems like an intuitive argument that the turbines’ vibrations affect them negatively.

Conservational efforts are definitely important when picking a location. But in the end, it’s probably similar to the bird argument, which is not a completely fabricated concern, but has been distorted and overblown so much that it doesn’t have much to do with reality anymore.

Same. Just played it extensively yesterday.

I think it does. One problem we’re facing is that many people are just apathetic and keep to themselves instead of doing literally anything. Protests like these are for many people the first political protest ever in their lives. Are they gonna overthrow Trump? No. But they’re a stepping stone. People feel what it feels like to be part of something bigger, and will potentially be willing to do more. And I know that there’s leftist groups attending to inform people about further, more effective actions.

I think people who complain about No Kings not doing anything are kind of insufferable. People always complained that liberals don’t do enough and don’t want to listen. Now that’s changing, and instead of using the opportunity to have conversations with them about how all this came to be and what’s necessary, they’re being shamed. I used to be apolitical, had I not be welcomed by empathetic people I probably wouldn’t be active today. I want to pay that forward.

We also enslaved rocks to do our bidding. I’m holding a collection of them right now to communicate with you. Hello fellow monkey!

And Mercator means merchant in Latin. I thought that was because of the projection’s purpose, but turns out that the inventer’s name was actually Mercator, which was a latinisation of his Flemish birthname Kremer (meaning grocer or merchant).

What’s a wanky? I’ve been here for a while and that one’s new to me.

Yes, and there’s a scientific basis to this: The double empathy problem.

One of the symptoms of autism used to be considered a lowered sense of empathy, as autists seemed to struggle relating to other people. But that’s not the case: Autists only struggle to relate to non-autists (and vice versa), among their own both groups get along fine

So it’s not an innate trait of autism to have lower empathy, we just communicate on a different frequency, which has to be decoded (which takes energy). If we meet someone who’s on our wavelength, communicating is intuitively a lot easier.

It reminds of being in a different culture and meeting someone of yours.

Ich kannte bisher nur die von Konservativen gemochte Version: Wer mit 20 nicht links ist hat kein Herz, wer mit 50 nicht konservativ hat keinen Verstand.

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4. Definitely 4.