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  • You aren’t so far away from the truth!

    To make a battery you need to have something that holds negative electrical charge and something with a positive electrical charge and both need to be able to change to a different state when you use it or reverse that change when you charge it.

    Lithium is the lightest and smallest metal, meaning for the same size and electrical charge, your battery will weigh less.

    Then you just need to find ways to make two kind of lithium compounds which have different electrical charge and can be changed between two states.

    And if it doesn’t explode when a child throws their battery powered bear on the ground, that would also be a good characteristic.



  • No idea about that specific illness, but in general: yes it would be covered in the German system.

    In general if a doctor decided you need a certain, scientifically and widely accepted treatment for a certain illness to not die or bring you back to health, it will be covered by your insurance. But it will be the cheapest version, so no extras.

    And now comes the but: the insurances don’t really like to pay that much over a longer time, so often chronically ill persons have to jump through loops to get the help and financing they need.

    For example chronically ill people need to prove via doctors note again and again that, yes, they are indeed still chronically ill and did not get healed by a miracle in the last year. It’s argued that they do this to combat fraud, but honestly, I would much rather pay a bit more in my invoices and know that those who need it are not put under unnecessary stress.




  • I agree with your comment, but I didn’t talk about economic structures, but rather about how power is distributed in a society. That is closely connected to the economic structure, sure. But for example the Soviet Union was state socialism and started enough wars themselves. Also not because the workers wanted it, but those in power did.













  • … Please read my original comment again carefully. I said nowhere that a dictatorship is better at governing. I said that Switzerland is rich because of their companies being capitalistic assholes that would or better ARE right now fucking up the planet and the rest of humanity. You can read on Wikipedia about Nestle, the Nazi gold and tax haven, the Russian influence, etc. That is how Switzerland got really rich, not due to their direct democracy (which I find awesome).

    You could argue that there is a small connection between both, since the neutrality of Switzerland was part of why so many companies and banks managed to get big.



  • First: thank you for providing the article!

    But that is not what you claimed earlier. Reuters specifically doesn’t claim they are or are not Hezbollah members. Just that they saw videos of hurt people.

    Just to make my stand point clear: I don’t mean that this attack mostly attacked civilians, I just don’t think we are at a level of information yet, where the full broadness of the attack is clear. If it really would be 2 innocent on 3000 hits, then yes, that would a “good” number.