In German there’s a saying “Wer misst, misst Mist.”
“If you measure, you measure garbage.”
The point here is that measurements often don’t measure the exact thing you are looking for, but something adjacent to it. And measuring the wrong thing ends up optimizing that wrong thing instead of what you really want to optimize.
Den Orwell seh ich hier tatsächlich nicht angebracht, und dass darüber öffentlich beraten wird, wie über sowas berichtet werden soll finde ich auch nicht falsch.
Allerdings stimme ich definitiv zu, dass der Begriff “Femizid” hier nicht gut ist, weil er im Gegensatz zu dem was der Artikel behauptet, nicht präziser sondern deutlich ungenauer ist.
Dreht man den Spieß um, dann macht es das vielleicht deutlicher.
Nicht nur Morde an Frauen sondern auch Morde an Männern sind geschlechtsspezifisch. So werden z.B. Männer deutlich häufiger in Kontexten wie Gangs, Rivalitäten, Kämpfen mit Fremden usw. umgebracht als Frauen. Diese Morde passieren also genauso “weil das Opfer ein Mann ist”, und könnten also nach der gleichen Logik als Androzid bezeichnet werden.
Wäre es jetzt also genauer z.B. statt von einem “Bandenmord im Drogenmileu” von einem “Androzid” zu schreiben? Ich denke nicht.
Yeah, and Anakin just played with the kids for half an hour before ushering them to safety.
With the -5 to -10°C we have over here it never got below 18°C indoors.
But I guess if we’d have -20°C outdoors for prologed periods we’d probably have to heat too. We do of course have heating, so that’s not a problem. I just wanted to demonstrate what our house can do.
I can’t say how exactly it would perform at -20°C, since we haven’t had that so far.
But on average our heating costs are ~€20 per year plus the €380 flat pricing that the mandatory provider that we have to use charges independent of usage. Sadly I can’t cancel that provider since they come with the rent contract. Otherwise I would have cancelled the heating a long time ago and instead used our reversible AC to heat instead.
Wasn’t there in the original version.
theoretically software support
This. And it’s not only due to drivers and much more due to them not having insourced software development and their outsourced developers not using Fairphones as their daily drivers.
This. I live in a concrete building with insulation on the outside. In my area it does get moderately cold (down to -5 or -10°C). In the four years I have lived here, I used the heaters I think on 3 days total.
In their 2022 report (page 40) they said that their living wage bonus for that year was $305 000 paid to 1926 factory workers, which comes to $158 per worker, and they said that this covers 6.5% of the living wage gap. That means, the whole living wage gap is $2436 p.a. per worker.
Now what they are paying is down to $60 per year, so even if the living wage gap didn’t change over the last two years, that would mean the $60 would only cover 2.4% of the living wage gap.
That’s apparently what makes this phone “fair”. It’s like tipping your delivery driver $0.20 and asking them to be grateful for that.
That’s what happens if people follow bot accounts for too long believing they are real.
Follow the thread, read the context.
First guy was like “UBI should replace everything”. Then I said “Watch out, everything is not a good idea because e.g. health care costs vary wildly”. Second guy was like “Nobody is arguing for UBI without socialized healthcare”. To which I said “Well, some people do”. And then you came here and said “But second guy literally said he wants socialized healthcare”.
Den Großteil der Nachrichten kann man als normaler Mensch nicht aus aus Primärquellen überprüfen. In Zeiten wo man per KI kinderleicht jeden Menschen sagen lassen kann was man will ist die einzige echte Möglichkeit, mit der man den Wahrheitsgehalt einer Nachricht bewerten kann das Vertrauen in die jeweilige Publikation.
Deine Aussage, dass man unterschiedliche Medien konsumiert um unterschiedliche Blickpunkte zu hören ist nicht falsch, allerdings gibt es da einen klaren Unterschied zwischen Blickpunkten und reinen Lügen. Und was Lügen angeht, da kriegt ein Medium für mich eine handvoll Chancen und dann ist es draußen.
Und das ist für mich politisch neutral. Linke lügende Medien sind genauso raus wie Rechte. Allerdings sind es tatsächlich deutlich eher die rechten Medien, die wiederholt offensichtlich lügen.
Capitalism is an egotistic not an idealistic movement. Capitalists don’t become capitalists because they think it benefits everyone, but because they think it benefits them. That’s why someone like Elon Musk is only against government subsidies if he’s not the recipient.
though usually stupid and fucky copyright laws have one advantage - if someone bigger than you steals your idea you can take them to court. without copyright laws we’d have giant corporations just taking shit and using their platform to sell stolen ideas without a single cent going to the original creator…
It’s very difficult for some small independent creator to take a big corporation successfully to court. Imagine going up against The Mouse or someone similar with a lawyer paid for by your legal insurance. You might as well just not do it at all.
The same thing is even worse with patents. I made a few things that I could patent. But for that I’d have to cough up a few thousands per year, roughly 100k over the life-time of the patent, and in turn I only get the right to sue someone violating my patent. I don’t even get the guarantee that my patent is valid.
Patents are designed exactly so that big corporations can use them excessively to suppress smaller competitors while they are too expensive and too uncertain for small inventors to use them.
Well, that’s exactly what they are doing. That’s literally what these “fairness compensation credits” are that Fairphone is using.
They can’t (or don’t want to) source their materials from sources that actually employ people fairly. So they buy regular stuff made on the backs of disenfranchised people and donate some money to some random third-party organizations, that use the money to make sure some other people somewhere else are are employed more fairly.
Guess what: You can cut the middle man and do the same thing yourself.
And they aren’t even doing that for their whole supply chain. They are only doing that for the mining of some very specific minerals, specifically cobalt, gold and silver. They don’t do that for all the other materials in their phones. They don’t do that for any of the work that goes into processing these materials. They don’t do that for the people who transform these minerals into components. And at the end of that chain they do pay a very small amount to the people who do the final assembly.
In the end you are annoyed at the brand name plus the higher price evoking larger expectations in some of your friends. Join the club. But that’s a far cry from your original statement. Glad we could clear that up.
Yes, I am annoyed that Fairphone does incredibly false advertising. Take away the “Fair” part, how many sales do you think they’d lose? Look at Shiftphone if you want to see a Fairphone competitor that doesn’t have the “Fair” branding, and guess how many devices they have sold.
People need to know that the higher price stems from Fairphone being a boutique manufacturer, not from Fairphone actually spending a lot of money on Fair/eco things. That’s really important for a phone like this.
It’s pretty much equivalent to hypothetically finding out that the Fairtrade seal doesn’t actually mean that the banana farmers are paid fairly, but that the price markup actually stems from the ink being used in the Fairtrade seal is incredibly expensive to make.
That’s what happens if you let LLMs talk with each other for too long without human intervention.
Yeah, that’s my source, thanks for googleing that.
I’m not educated enough in the field to come up with a critique like that on my own ;)
It’s not an on/off either/or thing; every little bit helps.
That’s too simplistic. We don’t have unlimited resources, so if you want to help with something it’s very helpful to know how much what you do helps and if there’s better ways.
For example, since Fairphone is mostly using credits, you can just directly donate to the right organisations and have the same result. So if you buy a regular phone and donate €5, you will have done more than if you spend an extra €200-€300 for getting a Fairphone over a mainstream phone. And you will have done much, much more if you buy a mainstream phone and donate the €200-300 directly.
Are you expecting a Fairphone to be only as much more expensive as the extra (“fair”) wages paid would cost? But your own quote above proves why that cannot be.
That is true, Fairphone wouldn’t be able to do much more with what they got, but at that point it becomes misleading marketing.
It doesn’t make sense to make a product that is 7% “fair” sourced and make “fair” so much core of the branding that it’s right there in the company name.
It’s like rebranding Coca Cola to “Recycling bottle cola” if they include 7% recycling plastic in the bottles. Even if they really can’t do better than 7%, that’s ok, but then you can’t use that as THE main marketing point.
If their brand name was “Repairablephone” I wouldn’t have said anything.
But at that point “Fairphone” is as much fair as the “Trumpphone” is “100% made in USA”.
Thanks, sounds interesting!