Yes, ackshually.

Thanks for asking.

Yeah man. The amount of times I have to shoehorn into the conversation, that I’m using Arch btw. is tiring.

Would be so much easier, if they just asked.

People have a right to be stupid, though.

A lot of culture, is irrational and or superstitious. Tibetan culture has a lot of that, Chinese culture as well and American culture is also no exception.

You may find that disagreeable and not worth preserving, and I’m even inclined to agree with that on many occasions. But who is to decide which parts of ones own culture can be done away with, if not the people practicing that culture?

Can I decide which parts of your culture don’t agree with MY values and take that away from you?

I disagree with that prediction.

The planet will be fine with it. Life will adapt to it. Even humans will survive it, as a species.

But our modern inustrialized civilizations will collapse.

The paradoxical thing is, that those greedy, wealthy elites who are mostly responsible don’t care, because they think they’re the ones to survive, when in reality, their wealth and power relies the most on the status quo of the rules of society.

It’s not ‘just’ about plants and algae dying, it’s about the tipping point for the climate. Oceans are a huge carbon sink, considering all the carbonates that Coral Reefs, Clam Shells and stuff like that are made of. The more acidic it becomes, the more those carbonates will react to become carbon dioxide, that will end up in the atmosphere, thus still enhancing the greenhouse effect.

Bit of a vicious cycle there.

I am happy to criticise the US system at any point, but the notion that it’s a democracy only on paper is a misrepresentation of reality.

They managed to vote Trump out of office, and back in. Something that wouldn’t have been possible if it were not a democracy.

Now the system of course has loads of difficulties and is suffering from extreme economic inequality, that leads to an immense influence of rich people over the undereducated masses, but they still have to spend their money for massive propaganda campaigns to win votes for their side, so the fundamental processes are still democratic.

We’re gonna see if that remains the case by the end of Trump’s second term, though.

How do you come to that conclusion? He was a guy in a full on latex-BDSM suit on a leash, that they kept in a box in the basement.

We don’t learn much about his character or mental ability in the movie. It is much more likely, that he was called a gimp in the BDSM sense, that is also mentioned in the Wiktionary entry that was linked here.

Yet tsit doesn’t occur to them to have DOGE check wether that money is spent responsibly. Wonder why.

Thanks for the info. Didn’t know that and I just assumed from reality that this couldn’t be a case. My fault for mixing up politics with reality. 😅

Alright, I stand corrected. TIL.

Seems like this requirement is kind of a paper tiger, since there’s no deadline and several of the existing Euro coutries don’t even meet the economic criteria.

Though I do understand that it would be a hindrance for the Brits to agree to these terms, even though they’re largely hypoethetical, and given the whole Brexit history, the EU won’t be likely to exempt them from this regultion. I wonder what kind of deal Denmark has made there to be the only exception.

Switching to the Euro was never a requirement for EU membership, though.

Brits didn’t have it before, and there are other EU countries that stick to their national currency.

If there are no clues pointing to another motive, it’s the most likely explanation, thus they are investigating it as such. It’s not a confirmed femicide yet, though.

Also, I’d guess the ideological base that kept monarchies around as a system (at least in Europe) has been shattered fundamentally.
The idea, that the ruling class is put there by god’s grace isn’t something that can work as the foundation of power structures in our post-modern world.
There’s a reason why the remaining monarchies in Europe are really democracies, that simply keep a bunch of monarchs around for representational purposes.

It should also be noted, that a significant part of that motivation is to avoid consequences they’d face for acting out their right-wing extremist, racist views.
Fines, debt and taxes are only the tip of the iceberg.

Maybe you tried “sudo touch grass” before.

That’d probably lead to the privilege issues, but is easier to forget about.

Two and a half months, they weren’t joking about slow German bureaucracy 😱

Bureaucracy has nothing to do with it.

Oh! You’re bringing up an example from the Australian state of Victoria!

I was just wondering for a minute why homes built during Queen Victoria’s reign were a special challenge for the electricity grid.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_house

Little nitpick: Graphene OS isn’t artificially restricted to Google phones. Pixel phones just happen to be the only ones that fulfill the safety requiremets that Graphene OS wants.

Other manufacturers could do the same and Graphene OS devs would welcome it, they just choose not to do that.

Don’t understand why you’re being downvoted. Because you’re exactly right. They just finished school and very likely don’t have a job. Very likely they are going to want to study later on and are spendig their time between the final school exams in spring and the start of the winter semester at university travelling, as man young Germans do.

Vacation time in Europe is a lot better than the US, but this has nothing to do with it. Depending on your contract you could get 30 days off in Germany, and since you don’t have to count the weekends or state holidays, if you work a regular Mo-Fr work week, you can arrange for a 6 week trip, but they had already spent 5 weeks in Thailand and NZ, were planning 5 weeks in Hawaii and then keep going other places. The way they are travelling is out of reach for most employees in Germany and it’s a once in a lifetime opportunity for many.

If he ever has to sit on that couch in the White House to be asked “have you said ‘thank you’?”, he can say yes and point to this.