Antworten an drak, Seite 19

clacke drak

@drak That is the classical liberal, neoliberal, and libertarian viewpoint when a social democracy increases taxes to do wealth distribution or to perform state functions not necessary to secure negative rights, and when it forbids certain types of trade or enforces monopolies.

clacke drak

@drak That's what I'm talking about. The desire for democracy is not without an aim, at least not historically, it's a means to securing rights that "are in the interest of most people". Once we had democracy, people clamored more rights…

clacke drak

@drak The power of feudal rich heirs to infringe on their rights.

ghostdancer drak , clacke

@drak i hope Gtrans doesn't make a big mess with the text , looks interesting @clackemovedtoheldscalla

clacke drak , ghostdancer

@drak @ghostdancer Democracy was sort of founded to safe-guard civil rights. It's been proving remarkably difficult to have democracy not undermine civil rights.

grmpyoldman drak , headcrack

@headcrack soweit ich weiß, gibt es noch gar keine Freie App, die was anderes als OpenWeather nutzt – weder DWD noch YRno… :-\ @drak

headcrack drak

@drak Gibts eigentlich ne offene Wetter-App im F-Droid, die diese Daten nutzt und nicht die von Open Wheather Map? Die Wetter.com App kann man ja kaum benutzen, ohne die mit Lucky Patcher vom Tracking- und Werbe-Kram bereinigt zu haben...

layakhan drak

@drak But I do think the original Latin meaning that defined vagina as a physical sheath for a sword does have its roots in the idea of hiding the mind or hiding knowledge. The Latin word for mind is "animo", which can also be translated loos…

layakhan drak

@drak That's true. That is one way to try to interpret it. I think what it might be, though, is that the distinction between "hiding" and "keeping" would not necessarily translate to our concepts of those same words. This is pure speculation, …

layakhan drak

@drak Intriguing. I suppose the fun part of etymology is that at a certain point, it becomes a sort of "choose your own adventure" thing. It's also interesting to look at the roots of words as they're combined and passed through different cult…

zoowar drak

nope: "easier to understand"

zoowar drak

Nope