I’m hungry.

Heh, fortunately one pair of shoes in my shoe collection aren’t purple. They are a dark fuchsia. So I’m not gay.

No no, not the comfy chair!

Did you get a raise?

Oh they mentioned Verein Deutscher Sprache who suggests words like “Klapprechner” but forgot to mention a much bigger online movement to prevent anglicisms where we all speak Zangendeutsch. Just come over to !ich_iel@feddit.org

Of course Donbas will join Russia with your scheme. All the Ukrainians have been displaced. It is nothing else but colonization of Ukraine by Russia.

To be fair, only the people who lived in Donbas until the little green men invaded 8 years ago would need to be asked in a referendum.

From what I can see from an EU perspective: The training you get to become an officer in the US seems to vary a lot between places. That explains lot of differences.

Also it’s quite short IMO. Here in Germany it takes 2 1/2 years to become a policeman, 6 Months of these as a trainee. And still we have a number of problems.

I was once calling the police because there was a guy screaming loudly in front of my apartment building.

He was not threatening, just really confused, was obviously looking for his home, I had the impression he was autistic or on some kind of spectrum and it was below -5C - cold enough that it’s really dangerous to fall asleep outside.

I called the police because I thought he just needed help and someone to look after him to take him home.

Yes, I do trust police in my country.

I’m a German (currently even on vacation in the US). The political world is so crazy the last years, the authoritarian vs liberal segregation infecting huge parts of the world.

The Harris vs Trump race is one that fills me with hope and fear all the time. (We Germans have some history with right wing failures who get into political offices)

I hope Walz, the new vice president candidate will be an asset to win the US elections. Those have ramifications around the world.

In case Trump wins, even if we can still hope it won’t come to an authoratorian regime in the US, the orange old man would be an end to multilateralism, putting the world into a state like it was before WW1.

The basic idea is not letting anyone nuke anyone else by making the consequences really really absurd.

The doomsday machine isn’t for winning wars, it is for avoiding them.

I agree with the last statement at about a 70% level. The last 30% missing is - like you can’t tickle yourself, there’s some sensations that are different just because another person does them to you.

I’m not anti relationship, it’s just when viewing sex alone a lot of the things I experienced with someone else are just overrated. With very very few exceptions when I met humans with extremely high emotional intelligence.

But maybe in the end that’s all a discussion, that we all are generally bad in knowing and communicating what feels good for each other.

Had slightly poisonous mushrooms, vomited for three days.

Needed two years to be able to eat mushrooms, again.

The body remembers.

Do we already have c/dontputyourdickinthat?

Oh man, from time to time I miss my W124. It was a 300CE coupe in that violet-ish color (Bornit), that people either love or hate.

Where’s the problem? If the door opens blows out en route the astronauts will probably still reentry.

It’s probably also a matter of perspective and where in the world you live.

I feel specifically the last 25 years have been specifically bad with the outbreak of quite a number of wars. Starting with two gulf wars, balkan war, several wars around the russian influence sphere, a lot going on in africa, wars nearly forgotten by the media like Yemen, and ultimately Israel/Gaza…

It 's a shit show, globally right now.

By the way, random selection is one of the few methods to guarantee a fair and representatative sample.

In case of a library I’d want at least part of the catalog represent media of the times is was created, because science also uses that.

One reason archaelogy in Pompei is valuable is that everyrhing - including pornograhic graffiti and slander was preserved, giving us a different perspective into those times than books by medieval historians.

Of course, I’d also want - in another part of the catalog - books/media by manually selected scientists, artists, historians.

I used expect a lifetime ago to reliably talk to a bunch of very strange ISDN modems.

https://www.tcl.tk/man/expect5.31/expect.1.html

I think something like expect also exists for more modern languages, but tcl is still easy enough to learn (just a little unusual, everything is a string)

As a guy one thing I notice - there’s a difference in how good I dry my parts after showering. Things feel cleaner during the day if I manage to get all the moisture away but before hiding my best parts in underwear shortly after showering.

I have wondered many times (and here is the place people can answer) - am I the only one who uses the hairdryer on his balls after drying his hair? (When I do, I always have this “thank god nobody sees this” feeling)