Must be a case of this superior sense of humor that we Germans famously do not possess.

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Wait… what?

Here’s my theory: All diplodocuses, much like all brontosauruses, are thin at one end, much MUCH thicker in the middle, and then thin again at the far end. That is the theory that I have and which is mine, and what it is too.

My ICQ was 1428816.

And when young people ask me if I ever play multi-player games… my dude, I played the first one. Midimaze on Atari ST.

I’m at the age where I sometimes start sentences with “I’m at the age where”.

Ain’t nobody got thyme for that.

That’s awesome, man. Huge respect, I know how hard it is. I was very lucky to somehow get out of my debts, and it really gave me back an inner peace like I last felt when I was a teen without any obligations.

Life isn’t perfect, but hey, it never is. But I can at least take out my wife for a fancy dinner each wedding day and I don’t feel like a total loser anymore. Keep going, even if life throws shit at you, never ever give up.

I’m not good with people either. You can’t solve all your problems at once and some problems never, but you can take some weight off your shoulders. Every bit helps, every small step forward gives you a little more energy, a little more emotional wiggle room and belief in yourself gradually returns.

Not gonna lie, it’s not easy. It took a long, long time for my brain chemistry to readjust so I could feel joy again from something else than weed. And I’m not sure if I could have done it without help from family and friends (the very few that I have).

But I am so glad that I somehow made it. You will be, too. I root for you, my friend, and I wish you well.

I hate to be that annoying fuck who mentions having money to get by.

But I have been broke for such a long time (until I started working on getting my life back on track), I even once got evicted from my then relatively cheap apartment in Berlin. I spent all the money I had back then on smoking pot. Tried getting away from my problems, mainly caused by being broke, by being stoned off my face 24/7. You can imagine how that went.

So yeah. 15 years later, having saved enough so I don’t have to worry about these things anymore is a huge deal for me.

"You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress of humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal law, every step toward the diminution of war, every step toward better treatment of the colored races, or every mitigation of slavery, every moral progress that there has been in the world, has been consistently opposed by the organized churches of the world.”

— Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian (1927)

And since the Republicans have been taken over by conservative Christians, this quote basically explains everything they’re trying to do as well.

“Kommunist Metafisto” made me chuckle. Thanks.

Well, to be quite honest, it also shows how rotten our so-called Western civilization has become. This man not only got elected, but millions upon millions of people thought it would be a great idea to reelect him - after Jan 6th and everything.

And that’s not even an exclusively American problem. Look at Europe. Even with better education and safer social security, way too many people vote for far-right populists.

Before Corona, I still had hopes for us as a species. Despite all the religious nonsense, the racism, the bigotry, the hate, the wars, everything. I thought sensible people were a safe majority. I thought it takes extraordinary circumstances, the proverbial perfect storm, to plunge a society into chaos.

Well, I know better now. I’m 49 and with any luck, I’ll have 30 more years on this planet, maybe I get lucky and there will be no wars on my doorstep. I’m utterly, utterly disappointed in mankind, I would almost go as far as to say I root for its demise. I have no kids, I don’t feel like I have a horse in this race anymore anyway.

And Trump is the epitome of everything wrong with us.

I’d prefer it if the AI gave it to me straight, like a pear cider that’s made from a 100% pears.

No fair. We all know that is the coolest car ever.

It looks cool? Well, we have completely different ideas of cool looks, apparently… I think this car looks cool.

That may be true, but in case of the Cybertruck, I doubt that there is any lipstick you can put on that particular pig that can somehow turn it into something I would even remotely consider buying.

I mean, I’m European, I can’t buy the fricking thing anyway, but I am also rather glad that I’m spared from ever seeing it in the wild.

Leaving all the downsides of the Cybertruck aside - the fact that it’s built by a fucking nazi, the fact that it can turn in to a death trap, the fact that the build quality is shit…

Who the fuck buys a hideous, hideous car like this…? Who suffers from such poor taste that they think a piece of junk that looks like it was designed by a five-year-old is something worth spending money on, let alone so much?

Let me correct this sentence: Close to your due date or not, don’t travel to the USA.

It was several teams from different German cities, five people per team. Don’t remember how many teams exactly, but at least eight. I got 9th in the solo ranking but we won the team title.

Same here. My balcony faces North. No way I can grow my own peppers, but I know some places where I can at least get decent quality habaneros, scotch bonnets and jolokias.

Recently made a mango habanero sauce using fermented yellow habaneros. Lovely stuff.