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DStiego

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    Comment #49091763

    The background is so green that when I go look at a website with white background afterwards, the white will appear like red because the cells for green in my retina have been depl…

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    Comment #49081724

    Relevant context might be for example that there are 4 mentions each of Claude by Anthropic and XGPT by ThreatBook, both based on LLMs. AI attribution might be one reason people ar…

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    Comment #49045745

    Especially the (slightly frightening) animations they show!

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    Comment #48830366

    Yes. I don’t want to invalidate people’s bad experiences, but I think it’s a more general problem and not specifically xenophobia. What you describe can happen to anybody! The same…

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    Comment #48827798

    Can you give examples? I'm curious which of your beliefs have changed

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    Comment #48827782

    I don't think it's an obvious joke. In general, you can totally be against the way immigration is handled in one place while being an immigrant elsewhere. The family you mentioned …

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    Comment #48827716

    There's two things at play here: 1. Defensiveness; one could describe it as "Stockholm syndrome" 2. What outsiders don't understand about the language thing is that it's not about …

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    Comment #48827690

    I see two big problems: 1. A "meta-problem": While many Germans agree that things are bad, people favour completely opposite solutions. My meta-solution to that would be decentrali…

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    Comment #48827650

    Correct. German culture is to take any idea to its conclusion, until the idea is dead.

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    Comment #48827603

    This is one of the most accurate descriptions I’ve seen here. Germany is a country with immense potential. All one can say is “what a shame”.

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    Comment #48793246

    That’s good life advice.

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    Comment #48730043

    Great design is more about consistency than uniformity. Just imagine how hard it would be to read a text if all the words had a similar shape! You want them to look very distinct w…