Years ago I had fun with "what if the US never actually went to the moon". I did not believe it, it was just a nice plot idea, we even made a pen & paper oneshot about it. Nowadays I have no whatsoever fun in thought experiments like this, because the real threat of someone believing it to be true. I want to enjoy "birds aren't real" or "giraffes do not exist" or ... the worst is flat earth. It started out as a joke and now idiots try to proof the earth is flat, proof by accident it isn't and then question rather their methods than their belief system. We just can't have nice things.

German, only having been there once some years ago, so no idea if it still is that way:

Not knowing what I will have to pay in the grocery store until the cashier tells me what to pay. Here the price on the shelf is THE price. I might have a voucher that reduces the price in the end, but nothing is ever added only subtracted, all prices on the shelf are easily comparable, because no matter the weight of one package there is also given the price of 1kg or 100 g for everything.

No kids on playing grounds without parents standing around. No kids just playing on the side walk (often there is no side walk anyway), no kids walking to school. It made me aware of how much freedom kids have in Germany, how independent even 6 y.o. are in Germany compared to kids in the US. They walk to to school alone or use public transport alone, they buy groceries alone, they visit friends by foot or public transport, three y.o. already having a bike and cycling besides their parents to kindergarden...

On the other hand seeing so many very young people having a job, like a really hard job for many hours besides school. It broke my heart, they should be free to be young and having all the time, working comes fast enough and goes on forever. Also I saw very old people doing jobs that should be able to retire because you could see them being in pain and barely able to function, definitely not a "choice" for them.

The amount of medication, especially pain medication, people take in the US compared to Germany and how much of it is freely available while it is needing a subscription from a doctor here. Every time I was feeling unwell I was offered pills that I found to be numbingly strong and switching my brain off? Hard to explain. I found them scary, but was told that they take them on a daily basis and they are harmless ... nope.

Ja, so gesehen... Wer Politik nur für die 1 % macht sollte auch nur höchstens so viele Stimmen bekommen. :D

I also love Ryukishi07’s VNs, “When They Cry” series. The art is admittedly ugly, but the stories are very intricate and convoluted in the best sense of the word.

The first of the “When They Cry” series are the only VNs I have ever ~~played~~ clicked through and it was surprisingly good, even for someone like me who isn't into anime and kept me hooked through all the episodes. I highly recommend it.

Dear Mr. Sweeney, I fixed your words, thank me later:

A lot of games are released with CEOs earning more money than all developers of the game including outsourced work together, that makes the games too expensive. If the budget would actually go into the game we could have great games that sell.

Unfortunately you rather lay off your employees, pay them less, crunch them and burn them out, save on quality control, sell road-maps instead of a finished game and give your customers a lesser and lesser experience instead of accepting a pay cut.

And I have not mentioned the money you throw out of the window and burn because of your dreams of an "EPIC metaverse".

F you Mr, Sweeney.

Russian "Mother's Cross" when: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/hitler-institutes-the-mothers-cross

Also the fascists call everything an “ideology”, except fascism of course.

What do humans learn from the past: That humans don't learn from the past: https://www.statista.com/statistics/896181/putin-approval-rating-russia/

But where is the lake?

Jokes aside, this will take a while to clean up and I doubt there is much fish left in that mess and the water quality is probably dangerous.

As someone who had a really bad infection after being in contact with water contaminated by a huge flood: Stay safe and stay away from water like this and wash and wash and then again wash your hands and everything.

“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.
Voting Trump is the only way to save democracy”
~~George Orwell, 1984~~ Elon Musk, aspiring propaganda minister of Trump

Knowing how expensive these products are, how can a ten y.o. afford them? And on top how can parents not have a clue what she is spending her money on?

Meine Erfahrung aus einem pfälzer Kuhdorf: Der Bürgermeister ist immer auch Chef der Schützengilde und im Vorstand der freiwilligen Feuerwehr und wenn bei beidem keine Frauen mitmachen dürfen, dann kann ja wohl der nächste Bürgermeister keine Bürgermeisterin sein, gell?

Nach Jahren in denen erst die freiwillige Feuerwehr Mädels aufnehmen musste weil sich einfach nicht genug Jungs gemeldet hatten und nach Jahren in denen der Schützenverein sich, am Ende fruchtlos, gegen weibliche Mitglieder gestemmt hatte, siehe da die neue Bürgermeisterin ist im Amt. Eine Schelmin wer Böses denkt. Fakt: Jahrelang wurde alles politische bei den Zusammenkünften und zwischen den Schützenbrüdern bei einem Bier geklärt. Frauen hatten nicht nur keinen Zugang zur Gilde sondern waren von der politischen Meinungsbildung ausgeschlossen (von geschäftlichen Vereinbarungen und Seilschaften jedweder Art natürlich auch), ihre Meinung wurde einfach nie gehört.

Bis in die Anfänge der 2000er war dort im Dorf die Frau des Bürgermeisters auch noch "Frau Bürgermeister" und die Frau des örtlichen Allgemeinarztes "Frau Doktor" und erst als die Frau des Rektors der Grundschule den Titel "Frau Rektor" vehement abgelehnt hat und als Beleidigung empfand (die Frau war Architektin mit eigenem Architekturbüro) nahm das langsam ab und ist jetzt zum Glück auch Geschichte.

Gerade in kleinen Gemeinden sind diese Vereine Machtbasen mit oft stärkerem Einfluss als politische Parteien oder eng mit solchen verbandelt, sowie Wirtschaftsbörsen. Frau sollte da Mitgliedin werden ob sie Schiessen mag oder nicht, niemand wird gezwungen beim Meisterschießen mitzumachen, zumal das Gewinnen auch sehr teuer ist.

I hearby announce that I am also not buying Valve & Counter-Strike for £12 billion. You heard it here first!

Lindner liebt die Frauen:

• mehr Frauen sollen arbeiten
• sie sollen weniger Teilzeit arbeiten
• sie sollen Überstunden machen
• sie sollen mehr Kinder kriegen
• am Geld für Kinderbetreuung wird gespart
• am Müttergenesungswerk und an der Kinder- und Jugendarbeit wird gespart
• sie sollen länger arbeiten und nicht in Rente gehen
• in Covid haben sie die größte Last getragen und N U L L Kompensation dafür gesehen

Müttern (Eltern) zu sagen sie bräuchten einen strukturierten Alltag und müssten an ihrer Arbeitseinstellung arbeiten ist ihnen frontal ins Gesicht schlagen.

Der Mann hat die Mentalität eines Bulldozers und ich bin nicht sicher ob ich der Maschine da nicht unrecht tue.