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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 minutes ago* (last edited 8 minutes ago)

The step from single to multicellular life forms is a metasystem transition, and those don't roll back, and are amplified by branching growth at the penultimate level^1^.

Or, more concretely: A strain of cells learns to communicate with each other, to coordinate, giving all a fitness advantage in other words they create a control system to regulate the lot of them and apes together stronger than apes apart. The emergence of that (usually distributed) control system is a metasystem transition. Because that kind of cooperation has advantage over not cooperating like that, evolution never goes into the other direction (in that sense it has a direction, similar to how time doesn't really exist in physical microstates, only in their relationship to macrostates: It's not like genes can't drift in the other direction, it's that if they do they get culled at a much higher rate).

And because our critters now have an advantage, they have more resources to develop, to multiply both in absolute number, as well as to specialise into different functions. That's the branching growth at the penultimate (that is, below the control system) level, and it makes them even more fit. Branching growth is one of those cybernetic laws that happen again and again and again and again and you'd think "surely this can't always be the case" and yes you'll find exceptions but by and large, yes, once there's a metasystem transition you get that effect, again, because it's very regularly beneficial to the whole.

If that got you consider the evolutionary step from soup of chemicals over the first feedback systems made out of simple molecules creating environments benefitting their own replication to actual cells. Which is explainable by chance alone, but once you take metasystem transitions into account suddenly it doesn't take an eternity, any more, only aeons.


^1^ I should, possibly, at this point warn about Principia Cybernetica just as people warn about tvtropes. It's a rabbit hole.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

At least there's only a single way to tell the computer "ok, execute this command". And you see the command written in plain text before you.

And, no, no useful interface is intuitive because computers just have too many functions. There's no intuitive appliance in the world with more than a temperature knob and a timer knob. Knowledge is always required, be that cultural or by RTFM.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Wenn du Cola willst dann nimm gefälligst Rotwein.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Bis zu 12 Wochen nach Empfängnis / 14 nach letzter Blutung nach Beratungsgespräch und drei Tage Bedenkzeit nicht strafbar. "Nicht strafbar" ist halt nicht das gleiche wie "legal" und darum geht's bei dem ganzen.

Medizinisch notwendige Abtreibung oder nach Vergewaltigung ist auch ohne das Gespräch legal denn das Recht auf Selbstverteidigung gilt auch gegenüber dritten.


Meiner Meinung nach ist das erstmal die komplett falsche Baustelle und hat auch sehr gute Chancen vom BVerfG gleich wieder gekippt zu werden denn die haben sich bei ihrem letzten Urteil schon was gedacht. Viel wichtiger wäre es mal wirklich sicher zu stellen dass genügend Beratungsstellen da sind, dass es genügend Ärzte gibt die das ganze durchführen können. Gerade im Süden sieht's da eher mau aus. Bei der Regelung der Beratung selbst kann man auch gerne mal nachstraffen.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Iran didn't turn tribal and is still diverse AF. Don't confuse the people and overall culture with the backwards government which isn't exactly popular.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

Das steht im ersten Kommentar verlinkten Artikel aber anders:

Die Schwangerschaft beginnt nach dem Gesetz mit der Einnistung der befruchteten Eizelle in der Gebärmutter, nicht etwa mit der Befruchtung selbst.

Ein Mensch kann schon existieren aber noch keine Mutter mit ihm schwanger sein. "Menschenwürde ab Befruchtung" ist kein Ding dass du in der Schwangerschaftsentscheidung finden wirst das steht irgendwo bei Präimplantationsdiagnostik. Da gehts darum dass es gegen die Menschenwürde verstößt wenn man aufgrund von willkürlicher Kriterien nicht an der "welche Zelle wird eingepflanzt"-Lotterie teilnehmen darf.

Beginn der Schwangerschaft ist die Nidation (wenn sich die befruchtete Eizelle einnistet) und ab da gilt das Recht auf Leben, das ist C I im BVerfGE 39, 1.

Du könntest jetzt sagen "Das Recht auf Leben beginnt erst später", das wäre mit "Menschenwürde ab Befruchtung" zumindest logisch kompatibel, "Vor der X. Woche Schwangerschaft ist das gar kein Mensch" würde damit aber brechen.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

Iran only really fits half into the latter category because the people are vastly more liberal than their government.

And if you look at polls (can't find them right now sorry) Iran is actually one of the least Muslim Muslim countries around when you drill down into dogma, e.g. belief in heaven, belief in angels, such things. The average Iranian is about as Muslim in their private faith as someone believing in reincarnation is Christian.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (2 children)

ab wann es Leben ist, oder menschliches Leben ist

Das hat das BVerfG schon entschieden: Ab der Befruchtung haben wir einen individuellen Menschen, ab der Nidierung, der Punkt an dem die Natur selbst entscheidet ein bestimmtes Leben zur Frucht zu bringen, gibt's das Recht auf Leben. Eine befruchtete Eizelle entwickelt sich nicht zum, sondern als Mensch.

Wenn du an der Linie rumdoktorst dann fallen auch die ganzen Urteile von wegen Präimplantationsdiagnostik weg. Dann können Eltern Eizellen nach Augenfarbe aussuchen weil die Menschenwürde so früh noch nicht greift.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

and questionable things regarding immigration laws

I mean... there have been some regrettable cases in Germany directly after the law declaring foreign sub-18 marriage to be invalid, like 16/18yold asylum seeker couples getting separated. There's a difference between saying "we don't recognise that, you'll have to marry again under German law" and "we're putting you in two different accommodations in two different states because you can't possibly be a family unit and that's how the dice fell". You can't just blindly assume they're not heads over heels for each other, no matter how arranged and young the marriage was, you have to look at the individual case and if everything checks out treat them eg. analogous to siblings when it comes to accommodation.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 17 hours ago

The phase-out practically already started in the early 90s, latest when it became abundantly clear that building more reactors was not politically feasible.

The reason is distrust in anything being handled properly. See Asse (they just discovered irradiated water that they don't have any idea how it came to be because it's actually above the deposit), see plants running without functioning backup generators for decades, the list is endless.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 19 hours ago

IIRC according to the original plan the last coal plants would've shut down before the last nuclear plants. Certainly would've been possible without 16 years of CDU government.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

How much of that is due to French nuclear reactors shutting down, both during summer (to not turn the rivers that cool them into fish soup) as well as all that maintenance stuff they had going on lately.

Germany is an electricity exporter.

Also: You're looking at generated power. Not coal consumption. That doesn't completely erase the bump but it's quite a bit smaller, they shut down some very old plants and replaced them with more efficient ones.

The current biggest chunk is oil, mostly used in transportation, and gas, for heating. Those will need to be electrified and replaced with what 25% of their Joule-value in electricity production, gas will stay longest because it's used for peaker plants and, once the grid is completely renewable, that will be done with synthesised gas.

Had the original plan to phase out nuclear and coal been followed we'd already be there but the CDU insisted on knee-capping renewables because the likes of RWE were asleep at the wheel and hadn't shifted their investments fast enough, electricity production in Germany suddenly wasn't an oligopoly, any more, can't have that.

 

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Cool particle systems have been popping up in games across the last decade. Why are these novel particle systems a new thing? What tech enables them? How many particles can a midrange gpu draw?

Topics covered: particle definition, gpu instancing, iterated function systems, the chaos game, matrix transformations, linear interpolation, fragment shader bottlenecks, point list meshes, extensions and applications of iterated function systems

 

Couldn't find any English source. Main relevance, politically, being that now the Bundestag will have to discuss it, and they will have to vote on it, one way or the other, no more ducking away.

Only the constitutional court can ban parties, and only the Bundestag, Bundesrat, and the government can ask the constitutional court to do so.

Google translate of article

Initiative of MPs Draft proposal to ban AfD submitted to Bundestag

Status: 11.10.2024 19:51

The AfD is to be examined by the Federal Constitutional Court - this is the aim of the draft for a ban application submitted by several MPs. It is now before the Bundestag.

The draft for a motion to ban the AfD in the Bundestag is ready. It can now be signed by members of parliament. The document, which is available to rbb, states that the AfD is opposing central basic principles of the free democratic basic order. Human dignity and the prohibition of discrimination are "blatantly called into question" by the AfD, its leading officials and numerous elected representatives and members.

According to the authors, the AfD aims to restrict or eliminate the rights of people with a migration background, with disabilities or with "non-heteronormative sexuality" as well as members of national minorities and ethnic groups in favor of a "nationalistic strengthening of a supposed Germanness".

The AfD has been a concern for the Office for the Protection of the Constitution for years. In Brandenburg, the party is suspected of being right-wing extremist. This is certain for some people who will now sit in the state parliament. This apparently did not bother many voters. By Oliver Noffke more Application is based on findings from constitutional protection authorities

The responsibility of the German Bundestag for liberal democracy therefore requires that it "enables the legal review of the AfD by the independent Federal Constitutional Court."

The application is based on findings from the constitutional protection authorities, rulings from the higher administrative courts in Thuringia and North Rhine-Westphalia, and research by various media, which are listed on several pages. accusation of abuse of power by AfD

For example, according to the Higher Administrative Court of North Rhine-Westphalia, it is clear that, in the opinion of the AfD, Germans with a migration background are not "fully-fledged Germans" and that there is an "insurmountable biological, ancestry-related difference" between migrants and Germans. The party's disdain for state institutions and officials also provides evidence of its hostility to democracy. It rejects democracy and the parliamentary system and advocates violent overthrow.

The AfD's work in parliaments also confirms the assumption that it uses the power it has gained "to take action against political opponents, weaken constitutional structures and procedures, exclude and disparage minorities, attack sexual self-determination and hinder and, in the medium term, abolish state support for democracy and civil society."

Numerous extremists and enemies of the constitution also have access to the German Bundestag and to sensitive data and information through the AfD. In part, the party is "the extended arm of authoritarian foreign regimes" and acts on their behalf against German interests. A young woman watches a video on a social media platform on her mobile phone (Source: dpa/Niklas Graeber) "There is a very strong urge against propaganda in the younger generation"

Populist and right-wing extremist content dominates the video platform Tiktok. This makes it omnipresent for young users. How big is the influence on their political attitudes? Nina Kolleck from the University of Potsdam is researching this. more Possible ban procedure meets with mixed response

A total of 37 members of the Bundestag from the SPD, Union, Greens and Left Party are behind the motion. Their common goal is to apply to the Federal Constitutional Court for proceedings to ban the AfD. A party ban can be applied to the Federal Constitutional Court by the Bundestag, Bundesrat or Federal Government. In the proceedings, the AfD would have to be proven to be aggressively and militantly acting against the constitution. It is not yet clear whether and when the Bundestag will vote on the motion.

The plan has met with a mixed response among the population. According to the ARD DeutschlandTrend published on Thursday, a majority of 46 percent of those surveyed are opposed to initiating ban proceedings against the AfD. However, the number of those who consider it appropriate rose to 42 percent.

The AfD, meanwhile, is relaxed about the initiative. The motion is doomed to failure and will not even pass the Bundestag, said party leader Alice Weidel this week. "You cannot exclude 20 percent of citizens in the Federal Republic of Germany from democratic participation."

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