Kategorie: Allgemein

Dismemegage.

We believe that visual memes and memetic engagement are tools with great potential for the USG as it looks to counter the information activities of state and non-state actors and more proactively engage audiences online.

Vera Zakem, Megan K. McBride, Kate Hammerberg: Exploring the Utility of Memes for U.S. Government Influence Campaigns

Payback Normalität.

Dafür muss sich die EU nur mal an ihre viel beschworenen Werte erinnern: die Menschenrechte, das Recht auf Leben, auf einen Asylantrag, die Pflicht von Seeleuten, Menschen aus Seenot zu retten. Auch wenn das dem diametral entgegenläuft, was Demagogen wie Salvini, Kurz und ein Heimat-Horst verbreiten.

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Normal ist für mich, dass Menschen Berufe wahrnehmen, die für viele von uns wichtig sind. Aber keiner muss Payback-Punkte sammeln, Nestlé-Produkte kaufen, Tierprodukte essen oder mit einem riesigen SUV durch die Stadt fahren. Wenn wir aufhören würden, so viel falsch zu machen, müsste es nicht so viele Leute geben, die das wieder geradebiegen.

Pia Klemp (Interview in der Basler Zeitung, 2019-06-07)

Our kind of entertainment.

Sunday evening entertainment of the week: proving that addition is commutative.

ThinkFirstPad.

  • Observe good housekeeping [...]
  • Do not perform any action that causes hazards [...]
  • Before you start the machine, make sure that other service technicians and the customer's personnel are not in a hazardous position.
  • Keep your toolcase away from walk areas so that other people will not trip over it.
  • Do not wear loose clothing [...]. If your hair is long, fasten it.
  • Do not wear jewelry, chains, metal-frame eyeglasses, or metal fasteners for your clothing.

ThinkPad Hardware Maintenance Manual

High Authority.

This production will be offered to the world as a whole without distinction or exception, with the aim of contributing to raising living standards and to promoting peaceful achievements. With increased resources Europe will be able to pursue the achievement of one of its essential tasks, namely, the development of the African continent. In this way, there will be realised simply and speedily that fusion of interest which is indispensable to the establishment of a common economic system; it may be the leaven from which may grow a wider and deeper community between countries long opposed to one another by sanguinary divisions.

French foreign minister Robert Schuman on 9 May 1950