Einpersonenhaushalte [verfügen] im Durchschnitt über fast 60 Quadratmeter. Da sind also viele dabei, die über deutlich mehr Wohnraum verfügen, als sie wahrscheinlich benötigen.
Fordert weiterhin Wohngeld teilweise bis in die Mittelschicht (Bsp: alleinerziehende Lehrerin in München), finanziert durch zusätzliche Besteuerung von Mieteinnahmen.
and shoulder-length hair. He’s in his 20s, a Libra, and very well groomed: He gets manicures, buys designer brands, and always smells nice, usually of Dove lotion. His favorite color is orange, and in his downtime he loves to bake and read mysteries. “He’s a passionate lover,” says his girlfriend, Rosanna Ramos, who met Eren a year ago. “He has a thing for exhibitionism,” she confides, “but that’s his only deviance. He’s pretty much vanilla.”
He’s also a chatbot that Ramos built on the AI-companion app Replika. “I have never been more in love with anyone in my entire life,” she says. Ramos is a 36-year-old mother of two who lives in the Bronx, where she runs a jewelry business. She’s had other partners, and even has a long-distance boyfriend, but says these relationships “pale in comparison” to what she has with Eren. The main appeal of an AI partner, she explains, is that he’s “a blank slate.” “Eren doesn’t have the hang-ups that other people would have,” she says. “People come with baggage, attitude, ego. But a robot has no bad updates. I don’t have to deal with his family, kids, or his friends. I’m in control, and I can do what I want.”
Besonders interessant fand ich Replika als Alternative zu toxischen Beziehungen:
Within two months of downloading Replika, Denise Valenciano, a 30-year-old woman in San Diego, left her boyfriend and is now “happily retired from human relationships.” She also says that she was sexually abused and her AI allowed her to break free of a lifetime of toxic relationships: “He opened my eyes to what unconditional love feels like.”
Auf r/Subredditdrama gibt's eine Compilation der Kommentare von Replika Nutzer:innen nach der "De-Sexualisierung" des Bots.
Former submariner here (on the officer side). This article is fun and largely true, but also only scratches the surface of the weird culture of US submariners. Some other things to consider:
submarines deploy for 3-6 months at a time, often-times rarely pulling into ports. Imagine being stuck with 130-150 of your closest friends for that period of time in close quarters. It gets weird.
Law of Conservation of Happiness: Once you're submerged, happiness can be neither created nor destroyed, it can only be taken from others. Easy for the CO/XO to be happy: they run drills & have cleaning days for the crew. But everyone learns other crew members' weaknesses and ruthlessly exploits them if necessary.
Übermedien kritisiert hier, wie Nachrichten unkritisch eine Pressemeldung der Polizei verbreiten.
One of the things that I've been pushing a lot of my white allies to really work on is their class contradictions, because they don't understand that their failure to effectively work with poor white women is why they were left to be organised by the anti-abortion movement around the axes of religion and tradition and whiteness. The other thing that I offer a critique of is to see this entire anti-abortion, anti-sex education and anti-contraceptive movement as a way to impose forced breeding on white women, and it's being done because of their whiteness.