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Nice! I’ll be at seven years next month. Before that my calendar would have been all orange and red with the occasional black or yellow day sprinkled in and not a single green day to be found.

Quittung was probably the best decision I’ve ever made. Mainly because it was the first step to many more life improvements since. It’s never too late to change your life!

I watched it in German. Did they even bother to translate it?

Bully is definitely mainstream or at least was back then and, sure there are other jokes admittedly (that also weren’t very funny imo). I guess that part just left a particularly bad taste in my mouth. Seeing as Michael Herbig isn’t gay (afaik) it never sat right with me the way gay stereotypes were played for laughs by him. It’s just cheap and unimaginative. Of course humour and taste are subjective, but in my subjective opinion it’s just not funny at all.

The only one of those I saw back in the day was Schuh des Manitu and it was already god awful then. 90% of the jokes are basically “haha gay people funny”. While I don’t think Germans necessarily lack humor, Germany’s most mainstream comedians really don’t help to disprove the stereotype.

What kind of robot do you imagine replacing a bike mechanic? Short of some kind of science fiction synthetic human I can’t see that happening. Let alone at a cost that would make it economical.

Because the idea of enjoying a day in nature is probably more attractive to people who don’t fish than a dude holding up a dead animal.

I feel like a picture sitting by the water with a fishing rod would go over better than a dead fish.

Spielt das Gewicht des Schlosses wirklich so eine große Rolle in Berlin? Ist doch eigentlich recht flach da. Da dürfte das doch eh kaum auffallen.

The death penalty is fucking barbaric and the idea that you can come up with a way to humanely kill a person is insane. What kind of psychopath do you have to be to sit down and put to paper an official protocol on how to execute another human being? What kind of psychopath do you have to be to feel you have the right to sentence someone to be executed? And what kind of psychopath do you have to be to partake in carrying out the execution? Psychopaths all around.

My wife is pregnant right now so this is something I have read up on. All the information I found says that I cycling during pregnancy is fine, right up until the end. There are caveats though: if there are complications with the pregnancy consult your gynaecologist first (probably do that regardless), don’t cycle if there is a heightened risk of crashing (ie. when roads are slippery or balance is affected by changed centre of mass), maybe don’t go mountain biking or ride over cobbles on a road bike, don’t go too hard (keep heart rate below 115 to 145bpm) and wear a helmet.

Staying active during pregnancy is actually a good thing and can actually reduce the risk of premature birth.

If you want to ride a bike while pregnant I would talk to your doctor and take common sense precautions to reduce the risk of crashing. Stop if something feels off.

I can understand why people worry. When my wife rode her bike (she’s due in a few weeks and has stopped now) it stressed me out too. But as far as I can tell, the concerns are not really supported by evidence.

Disclaimer: I have no first hand experience with having a uterus and I’m not a doctor.

Ich habe mir vor einiger Zeit eins für den Zweitschlüssel geholt, den ich immer beim Radfahren dabei habe. Da war dann neben dem Schlüssel etwas Geld und die wichtigsten Karten drin. Mittlerweile bin ich auch im Alltag komplett darauf Umgestiegen. Portemonnaie und Schlüssel in einem. Finde ich sehr praktisch.

It’s a country where 30% of the population votes for fascists. In some parts it’s more like 50%. I hope you’re right, but I don’t want to see a potential AfD led government with a strong military.

I agree that pacifism in the face of Russian aggression is a mistake, but recruiting a bunch of kids who don’t want to serve is not going to do anything to help Ukraine.

Your comment is giving me flashbacks. We did label all our cables though (with masking tape and a marker).

My point is that if you create the incentives for people to voluntarily choose a career in the military, then you don’t have to force people to serve against their will. And that includes making a society that people think is worth protecting, instead of one that just protects capital interests of the rich, while fucking over poor people, most of all the same young people that are being pushed into service. But it’s easier to just force them, I guess.

I’m less worried about Europe’s ability to defend itself against Russia than I am about building a strong military for the fascists of the AfD if they manage to take power in Germany.

Besides, in my opinion forcing unwilling people in to military service is immoral, regardless of circumstances.

There’s no amount of money you can pay someone to give their life if the living conditions are good.

Perhaps not to give their life, but to risk it there is, which is more accurate. It’s not like joining the military has a 100% fatality rate.

I used to be a heavy pot smoker (think daily habit, multiple joints a day, zero days off for years at a time). I usually just brought some with me. It’s really not that hard to get stuff across borders, especially when travelling by land. You’d have to get really unlucky to be searched. Sometimes I’d also just ask around at my destination. I’ve taken drugs on planes too a couple of times (one time hash hidden inside normal cigarettes and another time LSD and DMT in my hand luggage).

People really overestimate customs’ ability to find shit, at least when the amounts are small for personal use. I wouldn’t recommend it and absolutely would never do it travelling to someplace where you’d go to jail (or worse) if caught, but within Europe I never had issues. The only time I was ever caught was with a tiny amount of weed that I hadn’t bothered hiding when travelling by car from the Netherlands to Germany and that only resulted in it being confiscated and no actual charges.

All that being said, even a total degenerate like me was able to go a week or two without illegal drugs if I had to. Alcohol is available pretty much anywhere, so worst case I’d just drink.

How about instead of forcing people into military service against their will, stop fucking over young and working class people so maybe they feel like there is actually something worth fighting for.

Bei 8:05 könnte ich mich ja wieder aufregen… “Dieser Rennradfahrer, wenig rücksichtsvoll”. Alter der fährt null schnell. Bremst fast bis zum Stillstand ab und fährt mit für die Geschwindigkeit total angemessenen Abstand an der Frau vorbei. Wenn die sich halb zu Tode erschreckt, weil sie komplett planlos und ohne zu gucken auf dem Radweg rumläuft ist das halt ihr Problem. Läuft die auch so über die Straße? Ich denke nicht…

One of the main ways you progress in the game is by obtaining blueprints and then finding the ingredients to craft them. But you also have to craft things like fuel, ammo, etc. and to repair things. It’s fun but can get tedious at times. Luckily the game lets you fine tune the experience at any time (it’s actually probably one of the games that does this best imo) and one of the options is free crafting which lets you craft ending immediately without finding the ingredients first. My rule of thumb was to mostly only use it to skip grinding for ingredients I’d found before but needed more of it finding them would be too annoying, but not to skip searching for stuff I hadn’t seen yet.

The game is worth it imo. There is lots of content and it goes on sale from time to time. And all the DLC is always free which is nice.

I’m not ashamed to admit I selectively enabled free crafting to skip grinding in that game. I have very little patience for games that force me to spend time doing loads of boring busywork to “earn” the right to enjoy the fun parts. But at least No Man’s Sky allows you to tweak the gameplay experience very granularly to make it suit your taste. More games should be like that.