Wow! It’s much easier to remember with all the context you gave!

Sure, why just this morning I got me a second car by choosing five sets of points of my old car and rotating them around a bit in my garage. No, you can’t see it, it was uh… a non constructive job. (jk I don’t own a car, or a garage for that matter)

I don’t really have experience, but I googled a bit and until someone with more knowledge answers:

• It’s allowed to collect donations as a private person, but it’s better to do it as a “e.V.” (eingetragener Verein / registered association), that also counts as “gemeinnützig” (for the common good). Getting registered and getting the official “gemeinnützig” label can take a lot of time and work. If you have both, the donations are exempt from taxes. Plus, the people who donate would than be able to subtract the donations from their own income for taxes.
• Yes, don’t use your normal account. You could make a second account under your name for donations. Some banks don’t offer a second free account though. Plus it might still cause extra work if it’s deemed “suspicious”.
• Yes the finance office will be interested. Technically your “donations” count as gifts. If you don’t take any income for yourself and the gifts stay below 20000€ per gifter total within 10 years, you might not have to pay taxes. (But don’t take my word for it). The relevant taxes are “Einkommenssteuer” (definitely if you get any income) and long-term probably also “Gewerbesteuer”+“Umsatzsteuer” (but for that I really don’t know, maybe even if you don’t get income but do it long-term) and finally “Schenkungssteuer” (if above 20000 per 10 years).
• An easy, quick and tax free solution might be, if you contact an existing “gemeinnütziger Verein” near you (that you trust) and just ask them if you can use their account.
• using a normal bank or an online platform makes no difference to the laws for taxes (I think)

Good luck!

Germany’s “Green” party actually green-lighted this (no pun intended). Can’t destroy the environment if there’s none of it left.

Also that’s what the famous mud wizard was protesting.

There is a lot of racism in Israel from white Jews against non-white Jews.

They never say: “If you don’t like how the resistance operates, why don’t you join it and try to change it from the inside?”

Moths, they’re cool and cute.

Thanks for sharing. It’s not bad, except for the lack of class analysis. Assuming the Democrats are principled and will always be opposed to fascism, is sadly wrong. They are exactly like those conservatives who always prefer fascism to socialism.

Bombs are insanely powerful too and yet useless as an energy source. What matters is cost in cent per kWh. Fusion showes every sign of becoming very very expensive, even in the best case scenarios.

Laser based fusion for example literally uses gold coated diamond pellets, hundreds of which have to be shot into the reaction chamber per second to even break even energyweise in theory. At that point, no energy is produced at all and costs per kWh are still infinit. And the lenses get destroyed so fast you constantly have to exchange them.

Meanwhile both renewables and energy storage technologies continue to get cheaper and cheaper. Fusion faces barriers in engineering, fundamental physics and even in mathematics (modeling plasma is critical). Some of which might be insurmountable in principle. But in the end the one barrier that matters is the economic one. And no one even has a plan on how to tackle it expect for shoveling an insane amount of tax money into the fire indefinitely.

In Germany, funding for research is being cut alot. The solar cut happened a long time ago and fifty thousand jobs where lost at the time. Last year, they basically cancelled almost all battery research (needed for electric cars and stuff). Now, many more important stuff is being defunded. Except for fusion. Fusion is receiving a big boost in funding. Everyone and their dog are doing fusion research now

I think, that’s not despite the famous “fusion constant” (fusion being always “only” thirty years away), but because of it. Unlike solar or batteries or anything else that actually works, fusion does not threaten to disrupt the oligopolies of the power companies, or the car companies or anyone else’s. It enables a wealth transfer (accumulation through dispossession) to companies involved in the research, without contributing to the crisis of overaccumulation, because no use value exists, so no value ever needs to be realized. It’s like building a pyramid in the desert.

I think it’s more about fighting imperialism were you actually can fight it, you know, in your own country. Everything else is performative at best and often just support for the empire to protect ones own privilege.

I found this on wikipedia:

Irène “was accidentally exposed to polonium when a sealed capsule of the element exploded on her laboratory bench in 1946”. That was from her own work. She lived another ten years, then died from leukemia.

Ève lived to be 102 years old and died in her sleep in 2007.

Both actively supported peace and were anti fascists. Irène was a socialist, visited Moscow, befriended Soviet scientists and supported the Republic in the Spanish civil war.

Yes. The contradictions of capitalism are only getting worse. Workers, care givers, nature, social institutions, racialized people and countries, all can only be exploited and expropriated so much. But capitalism demands more and more. So it will continue getting worse until successful revolutions. But you don’t have to feel detached about it. You can try to understand it, tell others about it, look around for awesome people struggling against it, maybe even find ways to help them. I started reading Nancy Fraser’s new book “Cannibal Capitalism” it’s short, tries to be accessible and it explains how all those areas of struggle I mentioned above are connected.

Everything is political.

This is probably a stupid question, but if your browser accepts cookies, wouldn’t they simply track you through those regardless of account or VPN? Same with app data.

In the Red autumn,

brittle leafs fall. Just like the

shareholder value.

Hate it when I accidentally drive over a lagrange point on my bicycle and the resulting tire wear leads me straight into a wormhole.

What are signs of ‘species domestication’?

Saved! I’ll show this to people, if it ever comes up.

Or imagine it the other way around: The heat death has long started and we live in it. Who knows what kind of civilizations existed in the first quark gluon plasma 10^-12 to 10^-5 seconds after the big bang? They would have been tiny, fast and highly energetic. There are many orders of magnitude in size more between us and the plank length then between us and the observable universe. There’s lots of room down there. To them, we would seem like sluggish giants living off of tiny sparks within the faded light their long dead world set free when the universe became transparent 18,000 years after the big bang.