smegforbrains

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on Testosterone vs. IQ · c/science_memes · 32 pts · 1y

I can't find a study that produced that result. Also a reverse image search only finds hits on meme sites and social media. Pressing X für doubt.

It is of course to good a story to be true:

In 2018, a faked snapshot of a UESP page was shared online which falsely stated that, during production of Morrowind, Kirkbride was found under the influence of psychoactive drugs by Todd Howard after being absent from work, paired with a photograph it claimed was taken by Howard of the incident.[49] In truth, no such UESP page ever existed; the story is a fabrication.[49] The image was taken from a music video, fat, that Kirkbride had filmed and uploaded to YouTube in 2013, many years after his time working on Morrowind (the video depicts Kirkbride lethargically overeating as Wesley Willis' I'm Sorry That I Got Fat plays).[50] Lady Nerevar said of the video's misuse, "If you told me that a dumb video we made for fun was going to generate a wholeass conspiracy theory that real life people would ask me about [...] None of that happened in any way, shape, or form".

With regard to the hoax and exaggerated accounts of his writing The 36 Lessons of Vivec, Kirkbride said "You know that comes from a Photoshopped image, right? [...] that’s all a lie. I’ve already given an account of how the 36 [Lessons] were written: a week of bourbon, smokes, and solitude."[52] Kirkbride has repeatedly refuted internet myths that he used recreational drugs[52][53][54][55] and has said that the myths annoy him "more than a little bit".[56] Related rumors that he was dismissed from the company are likewise unfounded; Kirkbride left Bethesda for Zenimax's studio in California,[1] remained involved in the production of Morrowind after leaving the studio,[25] and continued to contribute to subsequent titles.[1][5][9][11]

Source: https://en.uesp.net/wiki/General:Michael_Kirkbride

on The Depopulation Bomb · c/collapse · 9 pts · 2y

There are economical implications to this development. But IMHO population decline is necessary to ease the pressure on the ecosystem. 34% of mammals are humans, 62% is livestock, only 4% are wild animals. We shifted the natural world so far out of balance, that the need to sacrifice economic growth for sustainability is inevitable.

https://ourworldindata.org/wild-mammals-birds-biomass

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/eight-billion-people-in-the-world-is-a-crisis-not-an-achievement/

Apple adheres to the principle of form over function, instead of the old but still valid form follows function design principle. But TBH I never liked their stuff or their over the top big cheese attitude. So it's not a disgruntled apple user writing this.

on ich👮🚔iel · c/ich_iel · 34 pts · 2y

Beschlagnahmte Geldwerte gehen an die entsprechende Landes- oder Bundeskasse und natürlich nicht an die Polizei, wir sind ja nicht in den USA.

  • Red Dwarf is a about a slacker in space
  • Father Ted is a sitcom about three priests on a remote island in Ireland
  • Black Books is a sitcom revolving around the social misfits in a book store
  • Peep Show is about the life of two people where you can hear the protagonist's thoughts

These are all quite old, so don't expect 16:9 🤩

Schwierig, weil durch §86a StGB geregelt ist das die Flagge nicht verwendet werden darf. https://dejure.org/gesetze/StGB/86a.html

Allerdings gibt es Ausnahmen:

(4) Die Absätze 1 und 2 gelten nicht, wenn die Handlung der staatsbürgerlichen Aufklärung, der Abwehr verfassungswidriger Bestrebungen, der Kunst oder der Wissenschaft, der Forschung oder der Lehre, der Berichterstattung über Vorgänge des Zeitgeschehens oder der Geschichte oder ähnlichen Zwecken dient.

In wie weit die Verbrennung der Flagge unter diesen Absatz fällt, kann ich nicht beurteilen.