You want some kind of decay function for when that engagement happened.

The rest is sort of up to you and depends on your math intuition a bit. If you do something like total (votes/10.000)+% relative stuff will weigh heavily until you get close to 10.000 then the votes will dominate no matter how positive the post was. But the 10.000 is arbitrary.

My advice would be to create some fake data that are plausible scenarios, (well liked, low vote), (lots of votes, medium %), (lots of votes, but old) and then you experiment with some functions and curves until you find a mix you like.

Yes it is, but it’s already covered. I’m memeing on the the text.

It’s like saying “you need less fuel per mile/kilometer and you need less fuel”.

You can’t just say, “you need less fuel”, because it always depends on how much you actually drive and that kind of measure is already the “liters per kilometer”, so the second part of the sentence is just nonsense. Which makes me question if the person writing about it, understood any part of what they’re writing about.

A US company has engineered a new type of wood that it says has up to 10 times the strength-to-weight ratio of steel

neat!

while also being up to six times lighter.

But… but that’s… that’s part of the thing. That you just said improved. The ‘weight’ part in ‘strength-to-weight’.

Das dumme an dieser Art von Entgegnung ist, das man auch einfach etwas gegen zwei (oder mehr) Religionen haben kann. Also, auf tolerante Art.

Das ist mal wieder ein gutes Bespiel für richtig, richtig schlechten Journalismus.

Der Security-Mitarbeiter argumentierte, dass sie gegen das Hausrecht, das eine Nachtruhe vorsieht, verstoßen hätten und rief die Polizei.

WANN ist das ganze passiert?

„stillen und friedlichen Protest aus ihren Zimmern heraus“ geäußert, schreiben Be­woh­ne­r*in­nen des Camps in einem am Montagmittag veröffentlichten Statement auf Deutsch, Englisch und Arabisch.

Wie darf ich mir das vorstellen? Stiller und friedlicher Protest?

Einer habe sein Handy laden wollen, einer eine Zigarette rauchen und einer den bereits rausgeschmissenen Bewohnenden vor der Tür Zucker für ihren Tee bringen wollen,

Braucht mehr Kontext. Gibts da Rauchverbot? Warum ging das Handy laden nicht? Braucht da unbedingt einer Zucker für den Tee?

Über ein offenes Mikrofon hatten sie Zustände im Camp kritisiert, kaputte Heizungen, mangelnde Hygiene

Davon könnte man z.b. Bilder machen, liebe TAZ.

Sofern es wirklich keine andere Lösung gegeben hätte, als Menschen hinauszuwerfen, hätte den Betroffenen zumindest eine Ersatzunterkunft zugewiesen werden müssen.

Wer betreibt das Ding? Haben die da 24/7 Betreuung und Taxis wenn die eine Einrichtung nicht passt oder wie darf man sich das vorstellen?

Alles was übrig bleibt ist Vermutung und Gerüchte. War die Security rassistisch? Haben sich die Bewohner falsch verhalten? Kann sich jeder aussuchen der den Artikel liest. Für mich ist beides gleichermaßen möglich. Rassistische Security, aber halt auch Fehlverhalten bei den Bewohnern. Geht auch gerne beides.

Kind of.

Mostly yes. As others have written, it involved some money issues. There were also problems with logistics and agriculture, Rome had an absurdly high population for that time. That stuff just has to be managed and managed well.

And also you had some external factors.

And also the religious shift from the old greek gods to christianity, were suddenly a whole bunch of stuff was “against god” the way you would think it is now. It is unclear how much knowledge was lost and exactly why, but the facts remain that you have relatively skilled military doctors in one century and then that disappearing into thin air in the next.

The thing you can observe at the moment, the question of loyalty from universities, into giving positions to loyal or just compliant people over skilled people is roughly the same process. Not the same, because obviously they didn’t have our modern universities, but replace it for any other system of education and actual skill and merit based system and you get the gist of what happened.

I’m more on mastodon and their filter system is so nice

I made a filter for “idiot did a thing” and every time the news has another article about how some idiot whose name is on my list did something again, as they do, because that’s all they’ve been doing for 20 years, I no longer have to read it.

But I still get the little “something was blocked, click here to read it” thing, so it’s very satisfying.

I don’t block often, but I would expect it’s a similar upgrade.

„Wenn ich in neun Monaten in Rente gehe, bekomme ich 550 Euro.“

Im Jobcenter fühle sie sich „mit allen über einen Kamm geschert.“

Ja, das ist komisch, weil das sollte nicht passieren, die meisten Hartzer/Bürgergeldis sind nicht solcher Abschaum.

Die 51-jährige Olga …Von der Reform habe sie mitbekommen, sagt sie. Was genau das jetzt für sie bedeutet, weiß sie nicht.

Auch da hab ich weniger Mitleid.

Insgesamt ein sehr guter Artikel bildet alles ab, und endet mit einem tatsächlichen Problem: Lohndiebstahl.

Just keep in mind that people who don’t adjust them downwards when encountering other people are some of the worst people on the planet.

Otherwise, enjoy seeing where you’re going.

This should surprise exactly nobody.

From the 80s, the EU has basically embraced the neo-lib/neo-con doctrine of “everything that can be privatized, must be” EU Member nations couldn’t keep things in government hands if they wanted to.

The details are buried in court decision documents, but it happened around the time of the SEA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_European_Act

What do you mean. It’s a graph of working people. If people there aren’t more people working, it’s either that people are missing, which is unlikely with a country that big (and so far open to immigration) , or the economy can’t pay them.

As you can see by the struggles after 2008 and during covid.

It’s the economy.

I would say it’s like a strong appetite for food.

Imagine you just ate, you pass a street vendor and the food looks and smells delicious. You have the time, the money to stop and get some street food. Maybe it’s bad for your health, but it’s worth it in the moment.

I see so many men go to extreme lengths to chase women - sometimes even risking their careers or relationships just to get laid.

That’s dumb, it’s a strong desire and it can make you do dumb stuff like buying 2-3x the street food amount you can eat, but it’s not irresistible and the people who do dumb stuff just haven’t learned restraint.

Someone who cheats doesn’t cheat because they’re horny, they cheat because they never properly valued the relationship they’re in to begin with. Same for the career stuff, they probably got away with it so far, and they go too far like people go over the speed limit with their car. Whatever risk exists, they think it doesn’t apply to them or that situation.

eventually, I’ll be able to feel even a fraction of that same pull.

I don’t think it’s a thing you can train or learn, it’s too biological. And it’s not worth chasing that much. Staying with the food metaphor, some people love food so much, they travel, learn to cook, experiment, it’s a whole hobby. And others are fine with mostly eating the same food every day, use little spices and never learn even to cook good simple dishes like pasta with a decent sauce.

If it’s a problem in your relationship because your partner doesn’t feel valued that way, solve it the same way you answer what to eat: go along with what they want, surprise them with a visit to a restaurant you know they like etc… But also talk and explain to them that you will probably not change that way and they have to accept that.

I guess you didn’t watch “Iron Sky”

Good movie.

I’d like to point out that the timing in the prediction was off by… one presidency? 8 years? Pretty prophetic if you ask me…

as well as misperceptions of antidemocratic attitudes among political opponents, were among the most robust predictors of antidemocratic attitudes.”

That makes a lot of sense to me. If the other side is seen as ignoring the rules, why should your own side be bound to them.

no, though I understand that it’s effort.

Also no, because the whole thing is YOUR CLAIM, and I’m not going to go around looking for evidence to disprove random theories on the internet.

And the rest of your comment again relies on statements that may or may not be true and both of us don’t have the data that could be used to decide either way.

sidenote:

instead repeating your own assertions.

That’s what you are doing. I’m just calling you out on it.

Because I already explained how it doesn’t earlier.

You didn’t explain it, you asserted that it does and then gave no evidence.

A half full train still runs the same track and route. A half used sewage system still needs to be filtered, cleaned, and repaired. Half used roads are still fully exposed to the elements. Half used buildings still degrade from time. Half empty buses are still used to get around.

I want the actual numbers, as proof.

I want you to actually look up, how much it actually costs citizens and society to have for example, running and sewage. I want you to actually calculate how much that would go up.

Like…

Half used buildings still degrade from time.

Nobody will do this. They will use the 50% of the buildings at 100%. Same maintenance cost.

For example, let’s say everyone’s electricity bill is 50$… Out of your wage of what 1500$? 2000$? So if population declines by 10% and the electricity bill goes up by 10% or 5$ you’re telling that it will collapse the nation?

And while all of that happens: keep in mind that real estate value and prices will go down. Less people means less need for living space. It means it will be cheaper to move to cities, with higher concentrations of people in areas that already have infrastructure, that’s already mostly paid for.

In order to make the required tribute, Sherry gives 9 pieces, 3 others give 33% a piece, and Bob still can’t give any.

This little math problem is basically a simplified version of the population collapse problem.

the candy monster (infrastructure) will still ask for the same tribute.

Yeah, you’re doing the math wrong, because maintenance cost goes down the less people there are. And the share of actually critical work is way less than what’s actually being… worked, so shifting some parts of the luxury production to critical production is trivial, it just needs to be done and the people doing the critical work need to be paid well enough to make the switch.

That’s it.

Those 700k are now going to have to pay nearly 1/3 more just to keep the same trains running.

That’s assuming you only tax income.

Even taxing the rich like crazy won’t make up for it if it’s bad enough

Yep, not buying it. Let’s tax them like crazy first, for 20-40 years and when that has actually failed, we can talk about next steps.

That’s so surface level, it’s basically insulting and doesn’t support the argument you’re making. It’s just some website saying random stuff that could or could not be true.