Honestly, if they’d finessed their phrasing a little, that could have been a really good answer.

I can’t tell if that’s a lucky coincidence or a reference, but the Alternative for Germany (AfD) are the biggest voices in support of fascism in Germany, and they just won 20% of the seats in parliament. Luckily, even the CXU won’t form a coalition with them yet, so they will hopefully not have much impact on things.

Ironically, the AfD doesn’t want to militarize against Russia (but don’t be too reassured, they do want to reinstate mandatory conscription and militarize generally, just not against daddy Putin)

The people have to be the adults

Everyone seems to be looking at it

They better call them wacky tabacky

Can confirm. I was once given a cocaine cigarette without my knowledge and it did have enough of a stimulant effect for me to notice something was off (though I was expecting a spliff, so it was easier to realize that it was having the opposite effect), but I absolutely did not get any kind of high.

It was mostly just increased heart rate and anxiety with a little nausea, like being overcaffeinated.

And they’ve got water

I disagree, but think this is a fish in water issue, tbh. The anglophone countries tend to drink tea, except for the US and Canada, so the English vocabulary for coffee things developed based on North American coffee consumption. In the US, coffee means drip coffee (not trying to start a coffee snob war, French press or pour over or whatever also works here), and espresso is a separate thing entirely.

When I was 19, I studied abroad in Germany and after a couple of weeks, I complained to my housemate that I couldn’t find just plain coffee out* anywhere. It was all either espresso based or seemed to be halfway between espresso and coffee- not very much volume, noticeable crema, and concentrated taste. She was confused and tried to explain that that was plain coffee.

It’s just done differently here, but because I already considered espresso “other,” I just thought they didn’t really have coffee. Filter coffee is the term for drip coffee here, and it’s more common now, but I suspect that’s at least partially because it’s cheaper and I encounter free bad coffee (not all drip coffee is bad, but those fifty cup urns that scorch it after twenty minutes are) more often now than I did when I was a student.

*full disclosure, based on grocery store space allocation, I think at home coffee making is about 50:50 American style coffee from beans (though they could also be used in Mokka pots) and espressoier pads. This is purely about stopping for coffee somewhere.

Okay, wow. His mom asked him not to because she was worried about him, he obviously had to back out.

/uj I actually think the world would be better if more people listened to their moms before fighting people (and I agree that the fight would not have gone well for musk), but I don’t think that fits his worldview very well, and I do think he was using it as an excuse

I suspect it’s because NPR doesn’t have consistent revenue year to year, because they do rely on donations, and spacex probably doesn’t have a consistent budget (because extra revenue would immediately be allocated for executive bonuses, or more charitably, expansion).

What’s up with that lamp?

Text is never 100% black, but rastered.

Does “rastered” mean the image is mapped onto a very fine grid and each square is given a 0-100 value for intensity of ink? I looked it up, and it seemed like the squares are given a binary value, but this is nowhere near my wheelhouse and I’m honestly not sure I understood the Wikipedia page, let alone the references

Nope, just crossed wires :)

I was just thinking about a conversation I had with someone here a while ago who asked whether there was a country which doesn’t prioritize GDP, then seemed to be annoyed that Bhutan, the country I found fitting that description, wasn’t rich (though iirc, conditions have improved since they stopped prioritizing GDP).

I’m not trying to start drama, I’m not invested, but I am autistic and this explains why the conversation wasn’t successful, so thanks 😊

I didn’t have an id issued by Germany in my wallet at the time, nor did I have anything with my German address on it. I was still registered with the town, so they could do it by name and DOB, but that’s still more than I would expect.

I told this story wrong, and didn’t mention any of this, though lol.

Yes, it can happen anywhere (and a good relationship with your neighbors is the best way to improve your safety anywhere). There is an office in town hall for it here, though, which is pretty wild to me. An unknown number just called me and told me to come pick it up, and it wasn’t extortion!

I still don’t know how they got my number. It was a prepaid phone and the number’s not in my wallet. If they wanted to cross reference my address registration they could, but that’s so much work.

My dad sent me an insane video about “migrant problems in Germany.” I live in Germany (as an immigrant, no less), and although almost every aspect of the video was incorrect, exaggerated, and distorted, it was plausible for an anglophone audience who don’t have direct experience with German culture.

He honestly thought I was in more danger in (somewhat rural) Germany than in one of the 20 most dangerous cities in the US. I’ve had my lost wallet returned to me here, money still in place.

Holy shit, that second bullet point. The hundreds of thousands of people donating small sums of money are somehow less representative of the electorate than the two hundred people donating over a million dollars each, because reasons (just not mathematically sound ones)

!blurrypicturesofcats@lemmy.world

My grandmother was very much a catch, but there’s no way I have a picture of her friend, who married a whole family. I don’t even know her first name, because despite a 50+ year friendship, they met as adults and called each other Mrs. Lastname.

I do think this woman must have been an incredible cook or something. Her companion was by all accounts a very dedicated priest otherwise, but that’s the only story I’ve ever heard where a priest gets any quasi romantic leeway (obviously, the church was far too lenient with sexual abuses, but the real reason for the vow of chastity has always been to avoid splitting loyalties and to control expenses, so a 60+ year financial and emotional commitment to a woman approximates that much more closely than the abuse).