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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • That’s two different things there:

    • Life imprisonment is a sentence of indeterminate length and minimum of 15 years until you can even apply for parole, unless the court declares special gravity of guilt and ups that term. Average is parole after 18.9 years, 13% serve 25 or longer, including actual life.
    • Preventive detention is separate from that, and doesn’t just apply to life sentences. It applies after the sentence is over or has been paroled and is essentially an asylum for the not criminally insane, that is, people who can comprehend their guilt.

    In short: He’s been sentenced to therapy until healed or life, whatever comes first, and minimum 20 years (or such I didn’t read the verdict, but German press mention special gravity of guilt).






  • Honestly not so uncommon with inland shipyards. Bridges etc. are built to deal with everyday traffic while the shipyard might only send out a ship per year or such so it’s fine having to do some manual work to get it past infrastructure.

    E.g. the 2006 European blackout was caused by the operators messing up the comparatively routine shutdown of a power crossing. The lines are high enough so that the cruise ships the shipyard builds can drive under them, barely, but they can’t be energised while doing so.

    That’s not to defend Bezos having a yacht, billionaires shouldn’t exist, but this probably happens with any other ship that the shipyard builds. Not to mention the uncountable number of street signs which have been temporarily dismantled to let windmill blades through.






  • You don’t need nukes to make Russia think thrice, they can be easily hurt a lot in very conventional ways. What the nuklear deterrent is good for is them not defending themselves with nukes. Generally speaking the only thing nukes are good for is to stop others from using nukes.

    Also do watch Yes, Minister, and Yes, Prime Minister. Best political TV show ever and not just because it’s hilarious. Only show able to put Babylon 5 on second place.










  • Germany had this since forever, it’s just how offline laws translate to the internet: There’s a difference between a) ordinary nudity, b) eroticism and c) straight-up porn. The latter was always 18+, in video rental stores etc. they would have a separate section and if you didn’t look of age you’d get ID’d.

    You can’t order alcohol online in Germany without a proper age check, and the same applies to porn. For paid offerings that’s no issue, payment providers offer age checks (your bank knows how old you are and them vouching suffices), for free sites it’s a no-go, noone is going to go through the hassle. Especially as you can escape off the German-language internet onto the international one and merely click through an “are you 18” banner.

    Notably, pornhub isn’t blocked in Germany – neither from the German side, nor from pornhub’s. Very occasionally DNS bans are ordered when a site without age checks tries to specifically target the German market. Mostly though it’s down to German google not serving up those international porn sites which in the end is good enough for the youth protection authorities because the point is not to make access impossible, it’s to make sure that youth not ready for content doesn’t stumble across it. And once you’re actively seeking, you’re ready, the hoops you have to jump through are proof of the “active” part. YMMV on “not ready for porn with 18”, back in the days there was still softcore. On free TV. Probably won’t hurt kids to not start out with gonzo.