It very much depends on what’s meant by “stylish”.

If the style means “no pockets”, yes, that’s very much contradictory.

But the point remains: If you want pockets but you want to have a pocketless style more, then you won’t have pockets.

Womens clothes with pockets are still available, but usually harder to get and less stylish, and thus women often end up picking other preferences over large pockets.

They might want pockets, but they end up preferring easy availability, style and low price over pockets.

The same thing can be seen in other product categories too. People (used to) often say they want a small phone, keyboard phone or phone with really long battery life, but in the end nobody would pay more or sacrifice other qualities over one of these types of phones and thus they went out of fashion.

Oh, Grimreaper’s alt account.

Or a comparable idiot.

In regards to the topic: Incels aren’t incel because of society, but they are sad, rotting loosers that just can’t compete. And in most cases, don’t even try to compete.

To be fair, I chose my career in a very similar way.

When I was a kid, people kept bugging me what I will choose as my future career. I didn’t want to keep having the same stupid conversation all the time, so I decided that since I liked playing computer games, might as well become a programmer.

So I did.

Probably not the best way to choose, but certainly a way that happens.

Remember, kids aren’t adults. They work differently. And once you are on a track, sunk cost fallacy and people around you can make it quite hard getting off said track.

Hey, at least Hitler did kill Hitler. That was pretty good.

During Trumps first regime, German-speaking newspapers (and probably a few others around the world) had a quite intense discussion on how to translate Trumps meandering garbage.

They could either translate him more loosely, making him sound like a actual human, but then people wouldn’t know what a baboon he is. Or they could translate him more literally, keeping his “style” of talking and then everyone would believe that the translator messed up royally, because no human being that’s halfway in their right mind would speak like that.

The v is an f in the beginning of the word and a v in the middle of a word.

But the Americans seem to think you are Duits.

I think they mean the more they agree with the point of view of the stated reason why they did the mass shooting the less they care about it.

Which is also pretty weird, since mass shooters usually “select” their targets pretty indiscriminately and usually commit their mass murders due to some psychological issues and only use the stated “reason” as an excuse to commit mass murder.

Judging by OPs comment history, he does have some unresolved issues towards certain population groups so I guess what he means is that it’s ok for him if mass murderers kill members of groups that he doesn’t like.

I wonder if this is grimreaper’s alt account.

I wish the mods would limit the stuff these psychos post.

Rowling said on multiple occasions that Hermione is her “idealized self-insert”.

So I don’t think she’d use her own self-insert to say “Look how stupid people like me are”. Doesn’t really make sense.

Is it? I’d be surprised. What I meant is that a random redittor cant imprison that murderer but can shame him online.

For all her bigotry, I don’t think Rowling is/was pro slavery. In the books that plot point is clearly meant as social critique against the imaginary wizarding society.

But after a while I guess the plot point got boring and it doesn’t make sense for the world to change because of some random school girl’s protest, so the whole thing was dropped.

Kinda like fridays for future. At first the reporting around it was like “Cool, the kids have something they getting political”, then it got boring and then society got hateful against it and then everyone just ignored them and nothing was changed by it.

Of course, but it’s not in the power of people posting on lemmy to do that. It is in their power though to shame him.

Do what you can.

Basically the plot of Loki Season 1

I guess Sisyphus just had a regular blue-collar job.

Harry Potter 6 for me. I could not get through this movie. I tried it about 5 times so far. Same with the book. I tried reading it at least 10 times including listening to it as an audiobook.

It’s just insufferable.

(And don’t worry, Rowling-haters, I of course pirated it except of the copy of the book that I got when I was a kid)

It’s called PEPit, and it can be found here: https://github.com/Dakkaron/PEPit

Most of the documentation is in German, since my primary audience so far were people living close enough that I can hand them devices and I haven’t gotten around to translating everything to English. But I think it should be simple enough that auto-translation should be understandable.

I’m not sure what to do about distribution other than just handing them out for free, having them sign waivers, and getting funding from a charity or similar organization.

That’s what I have been doing so far. I “sold” a few of them for the price of the parts. I donated two to two different local hospitals to use with in-patients. I got a physiotherapy device company to donate money for a scientific study at one of the hospitals, where they will hand 30 devices to patients to keep them and measure how it improves their therapy experience. But so far that’s pretty much the end of the road.

I’m already worrying about how I can even do the study without getting in trouble in regards to taxes and stuff.

It would be really cool if someone else would start picking these up and making some for kids that need it.

This is mainly made for kids with Cystic Fibrosis (like my kid, who was my original audience for the device), but I talked to a few people with broader experience in regards to lung conditions, and it would also work well for kids with Asthma (for RMT therapy) or people with COPD (for inhalation and PEP/RMT therapy). PEP is breathing out against resistance, RMT is breathing in against resistance.

Looks like that’s a magnetic spring steel bed. You need to use a magnetic plate below that that’s glued to the bed below.

The magnet will pull the spring steel bed flat.

I recently got into making hardware to be used by people with medical issues. Specifically, I made a handheld physiotherapy game console.

That’s a simple device using off-the-shelf components and a 3D printed shell.

Parts alone cost around €60 if I buy them off Aliexpress and around €100 if I go for more reliable industrial sources.

Assembly (some hand soldering required), flashing the software, testing, packaging and shipping takes about two hours. I don’t have any employees, so if I do this at the rate I get paid at my day job, that’s another €150. If I had employees, it would be similar due to tax and insurance costs.

Now I have a device for €250 plus shipping, but the calculation isn’t done here.

I also have to account for DOA parts, support (in my country there’s 2 years of warranty on electronics like that), returns (we have a 2 week free return law in my country) and a reserve for potential claims if something catastrophic happens (e.g. a battery blowing up and burning down a customer’s house).

So that easily doubles the price to €500.

But we are not done yet. First we need to account for R&D. So far I spent around 200h developing the device and the games for it, so that’s €15 000 in dev costs, and development is not nearly finished. I expect this to easily double.

Then come certifications. I will need CE including the radio part, certification for that will cost €10k-20k and that is if I don’t need to make changes. If the base board that I am using turns out to not be CE compliant, I will have to DIY a whole PCB design that passes CE and do the certification again.

If I want to have any chance of getting this paid for by an insurance company, I need medical certification. I spoke to a large manufacturer of medical devices (I wanted them to take over my project, but they declined), and they said that medical certification for a device like this is around €500 000.

I expect to maybe sell a few hundred devices per year if I am lucky, and I don’t know how long the market for this device would work. Let’s go with a four-year period until I want to at least break even, because anything longer than that would be very risky.

So let’s go with an unrealistic best case of 1000 devices per year, so 4000 total.

That means, the one-time costs would factor in at least €150 per device. If I only sell 100 devices per year (more realistic estimate) I would need to add €1500 per device.

Btw, medical certification only means there is a chance that insurances pay for it. It doesn’t mean they actually will pay for it. So if I’m unlucky, I paid half a million for the certification and the insurances won’t care.

So now we are up to €650 - €2000 for a device that’s €50 in off-the-shelf hardware. And I haven’t made any money from it apart from the salary for assembling it in my bedroom. And on top of that I also need to pay for taxes and stuff.

This is super frustrating. A handful of kids are already using that device, and every single family of them reports that it made their lives much, much easier, their therapy efficiency much better and improved the health of the children.

I even opensourced the design, to maybe give kids access to this device, but so far nobody dared reproducing it.

I don’t know how to spread that device in a manner that people can afford.

Back to OP: the device in question is developed by a real company, having to pay for patents (both they want to hold and the ones they need to license), salaries, taxes, insurances, and so on, and it’s a really custom device with very custom parts. The price is neither unrealistic or crazy at all. It’s, in fact, really low for what it is.

The fact that we can get amazing high tech products like smartphones for a few €100 is totally crazy and only possible because millions of them are produced (economy of scale) and they are produced by exploiting foreign super cheap labour at every stage of the process.

Vienna has around 68km² of roof surface.

But there are two nice facts that make the whole calculation easier:

• Resources used in a city don’t need to be produced inside the city. Imagine we had to grow all the crops and lifestock consumed in a city also inside of the city borders. Or gas, oil, coal, water or any other resource. Cities can only exist by importing resources from the outside. And luckily power cables are a thing, so it’s quite easy to import electricity from outside of the city.
• Solar isn’t the only kind of renewable energy. The area north east of Vienna is dotted with wind turbines. There’s a huge amount of hydropower all over Austria. In fact, 87.5% of the electricity generated in Austria is generated by renewable energy, and the remaining 12.5% are pretty much only to cover the times when renewables don’t output enough power.

So the whole point is kinda moot. If we would put solar on all rooftops in Vienna, it would be enough to cover for the entire remaining fossil-based electricity generation in Austria if we had the means to store that excess energy.