Enkrod

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Of course "Hi mates!" feels wrong, it needs to be either "g'day mates" or "ahoy mateys" or "oy mates"...

Sorry.

Btw. you have the same "problem" (imho, feature) of tone determining level of friendliness with dude, dude. And partly even with bro, though bro feels harder to turn unfriendly when adressing someone.

For me, "Hi mates" or "oy mates" sounds completely okay, but I'm a non-native speaker.

Solving the conflict between a poor and powerless Palestine and the nuclear power of Israel IS one of the most complex political issues. Not only, but also because of the power-imbalance and generational hate on both sides.

The genocide in Gaza is decidedly NOT complex though. Yes it is a part of that entire thing, but the fact that the IDF is committing crimes against humanity is as simple as can be.

And he's so clever about it. He talked about what he's doing and that some people argued he's only doing small stuff (like fixing potholes) and nothing with big impact.

And he said that all those small things can be done quickly, so people see results quickly and that builds a positive relationship with the public and that builds the political capital do do bigger things and start projects that take longer so people will have to wait and trust longer before results happen.

He is absolutely aware of the importance of the narrative and how to build it.

on ich😵‍💫💻iel · c/ich_iel · 1 pts · 1d

Ich bin jedes Mal schockiert, wenn ich bei meinen Eltern zu Besuch bin wieviel Werbung die sehen.

  1. Mein Fernseher braucht keinen Empfänger, der ist nur da um Bewegtbilder und Musik vom Heimbediener ab zu spielen.
  2. Dank UKlotz Ursprung, EntPfeil und UnterstützerKlotz auf dem persönlichen Rechner und genetisch bedingte Farbvariante auf dem beweglichen Fernsprecher sehe ich keine Werbung im Zwischennetz, besonders nicht auf DuRöhre.
  3. Geleeflosse und Bedienarr tun den Rest dass ich keine Vorzugkontos brauche und kein Geld an Großfirmen abgebe.
  4. Geld ausgeben tu' ich dann lieber im Kino oder über soziale Bezahldienste wo ich kleinere Künstler die mir gefallen monatlich unterstütze.

Als ich 14 Jahre alt war, habe ich gelernt, dass Öl nicht endlos ist und aus "schwierigen" Regionen kommt und dass die Zukunft des Automobils dem Elektromotor gehört. Auch dass die Klimaerwärmung statt findet und der Verbrennungsmotor ein großer Treiber ist.

Ich bin jetzt 44.

Die Konzerne hatten MEHR als genug Zeit sich auf die nötige Umstellung vor zu bereiten, aber Quartalszahlen waren immer wichtiger als die Zukunft. Unsere und ihre eigene.

Get fucked.

on Cats are unpredictable · c/cat · 2 pts · 2d

I really can't put my finger on it, but something FEELS like AI here... maybe it's the two pipe-wrenches on the floor, the fact that they are lying there so neatly arranged, that he has his hands underneath the cat... maybe it's the proportions of upper-body to legs... I dunno, it FEELS wrong and the fact that I'm not sure anymore really gives me the creeps.

Yeah, no, bad writer, great writing. I never realized how immensely quotable and eloquent short excerpts of his works are, until I looked up those specific quotes.

If the sculptured maps and pictures in that pre-human city had told truly, these cryptic violet mountains could not be much less than 300 miles away; yet none the less sharply did their dim elfin essence jut above that remote and snowy rim, like the serrated edge of a monstrous alien planet about to rise into unaccustomed heavens. Their height, then, must have been tremendous beyond all known comparison—carrying them up into tenuous atmospheric strata peopled by such gaseous wraiths as rash flyers have barely lived to whisper of after unexplainable falls. Looking at them, I thought nervously of certain sculptured hints of what the great bygone river had washed down into the city from their accursed slopes—and wondered how much sense and how much folly had lain in the fears of those Old Ones who carved them so reticently.

The language is just... sublime, his vocabulary is such a vast vessel that I - as a non-native speaker - am happy enough to understand when read but will likely never be able to command myself.

If you look at Polaris

still the Pole Star leers down from the same place in the black vault, winking hideously like an insane watching eye which strives to convey some strange message, yet recalls nothing save that it once had a message to convey. Sometimes, when it is cloudy, I can sleep.

you might see The Colour Out of Space,

The colour, [...] was almost impossible to describe; and it was only by analogy that they called it colour at all.
[...]
No watcher can ever forget that sight, and Ammi stared blankly at the stars of Cygnus, Deneb twinkling above the others, where the unknown colour had melted into the Milky Way.

and hear The Music of Erich Zann.

Yet when I looked from that highest of all gable windows, looked while the candles sputtered and the insane viol howled with the night-wind, I saw no city spread below, and no friendly lights gleaming from remembered streets, but only the blackness of space illimitable; unimagined space alive with motion and music, and having no semblance to anything on earth. And as I stood there looking in terror, the wind blew out both the candles in that ancient peaked garret, leaving me in savage and impenetrable darkness with chaos and pandemonium before me, and the daemon madness of that night-baying viol behind me.

There need to be tests to determine if somebody is fit to own a gun or operate a vehicle. Part of that test needs to be about visual and mental aquity. Your mind and sight needn't be perfect, but at some point you are crossing too much into "you can't be trusted with other peoples safety if you are allowed to operate this instrument of death" and that is where a line needs to be drawn.

There is nothing ableist about that, it's a common sense safety measure for the people around you.

Für mich ist die Linke seit dieser Abspaltung erst zu "meiner Partei" geworden. Lasst die Diktatorenarschkriecher ziehen, linke Politik braucht keine Verbindungen zur russischen Oligarchie.

on Liebe <3 · c/dielinke · 5 pts · 3d

Und mit der Linken als stärkste Kraft wird es hoffentlichauch wirklich sozial, nicht so wie wenn die SPD die Stoßrichtung vorgibt.

on GF Rules · c/onehundredninetysix · 65 pts · 3d

Don't ever settle for someone with whom liking you is optional. Love with all your heart and make sure to feel loved.

Ich bin Weitstreckenpendler. Mit 486 km reine Pendelstrecke pro Woche sind das 25+ Liter pro Woche. Ich spare auf ein E-Auto, aber ich verdiene weniger als 3000 netto im Monat. Ich verstehe extrem gut wie es sich aufatmen lässt sollte der Sprit wieder deutlich unter 2€ fallen. E10 ist mein zweithöchster Kostenfaktor nach Miete.

Trotzdem würde ich lieber ein 9€-Ticket sehen. Weil was irgendwie keiner anspricht... die Preise werden noch DEUTLICH steigen. In Frankreich sind viele Tankstellen schon leer. Wir müssen WEG von den fossilen Energieträgern. Und es kümmert die Deutschen halt immer erst wenn's ans Geld geht. Das sagen ja selbst die Wirtschaftswissenschaftler. Und dann bezuschussen unsere Ärmsten jetzt die Leute mit den dicken Sportwagen und SUV? Das kann's ja irgendwie nicht sein.