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menemen , 3 days ago

Honestly, no. In Turkey the opposition used that strategy since 2002 and lost every single vote, except the last local elections where they finally decided to do things a little differently (+ the financial crisis). If your only selling point is "not being the other guy" then your whole election campaign is basically an advertising for the other guy.

menemen , 4 days ago (edited 4 days ago)

Even if she were the shoplifter, how would that work? "Sorry mate, you shoplifted when you were 16, now you can never buy food again."?

menemen , 6 days ago

Yeah, if conditions get to worse for us, those three species have little chances I guess. So, the question arises, why are they not discussing this? Is there a plan behind that?

menemen , 6 days ago

There are a shitton of examples of house cats that went wild cats. They'd do okay in the current climate. Dogs most likely as well. But I doubt any of those 3 species would survive in a climate that kills humanity...

If we go extinct, this will be the world of rats and roaches.

menemen , 6 days ago

Yeah, if only one of the 4 species (humans, giraffes, dogs and cats) survives it will probably be the cats.

menemen , 6 days ago

If I'd work there I'd probably get fired for destroying that.

menemen , 8 days ago

Ah, so it only affects searching from the US for now. I already wondered why I couldn't reproduce the stuff I saw here and why I didn't really see a change at my Google results.

menemen , 10 days ago

Hmm. Pretty much for everyone else as well... It has become worse that youtube comments over there.

I am still over there occasionally, because some journalists whose updates I follow are only there. The worst part is that the more right wing trolls I block, the more seem to pop up.

menemen , 10 days ago

Neat, thank you.

menemen , 9 days ago (edited 9 days ago)

How do you guys always forget the clerics. You have no problem taking our buffs, but God forbid mentioning us in a list...

(also paladins)

menemen , 9 days ago

Are you Harry Dresden?

menemen , 9 days ago

What about white (nice winterday) is coziness?

menemen , 14 days ago (edited 14 days ago)

Sir, this is a steak house. We have hundreds of baby cows come here every year.

menemen , 15 days ago

Is this the beginning of a horror movie?

menemen , 15 days ago

A used book for 12£ is maybe 8€ more than I normally spent on used books.

menemen , 16 days ago

Switched to Linux in 2005 or 2006. Been missing Winamp ever since. :) Finally.

menemen , 16 days ago

I did, mostly Audacious and Amarok. But, deserved or not, winamp has a special place in the heart of almost everyone in my generation.

menemen , 18 days ago

Is this really new? Haven't they been using soft computing methods since, basically forever?

menemen , 20 days ago

All those old school (former) linux devs used to play DnD back in the 80s, right? Hmm. Satanic panic 2.0?

menemen , 23 days ago

Worst are the meetings of international work groups. Stressful travel, being away from the family for days, sitting in a shitty meeting room talking about the same shit you talk about online and then sitting with a bunch of people getting senseless drunk, cringing constantly. I hate those meetings.

Used to be so awesome during corona. Took 4-6 hours, comfortably sitting in my home office, now it takes 3 days costing maybe 50,000€, instead of 0€, without more results.

menemen , 23 days ago

100% homeoffice jobs are incredibly rare in Germany. I have 50% homeoffice which is quite good for German standards. Even at the height of Corona the offices weren't empty here.

menemen , 23 days ago

Lockdowns here were kinda half assed. We didn't really have full lockdowns like e.g. Italy. Germans love work. :)

menemen , 30 days ago

I still have my 3310, but lost the charger. So I don't know if it is still working.

My children now use what is basically a cheap 3310 copy (also from Nokia, no internet).

menemen , 29 days ago

Lol thanks. But I am in Germany. :)

menemen , 1 month ago

The ACs were my biggest culture shock when I visited the US during summer. Everywhere was so fucking loud. Drove me crazy.

menemen , 1 month ago

Yeah, I am always surprised when I visit friends in the suburban parts of Germany. We live in an appartment in the middle of the city and it is so much calmer here. :)

But German suburbia at least has sundays when lawnmower (etc.) are illegal to be used.

menemen , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

I managed to almost completly keep my children away from it for now (8 and 10). But it is a struggle. And I will soon lose that struggle. So many children at age 8 or 9 have smartphones for fs sake.

I plan to slowly introduce them to stuff like this, so they will be able to deal with it. I did so rather successfully with the other bullshit, like Roblox. They are only allowed to play it when I am in the room, and I check that they follow that rule (they do).

Feels like walking on the edge though. Still unsure when to open the TikTok thing. Too early is bad, but too late and they will somehow already he on tiktok and I just don't know about it.

menemen , 1 month ago

I'd add the "have clear rules" concept to this and enforce the rules. Don't be wishy washy. But communicate the rules and be prepared to explain the rules.
But also accept that theory and practice are not the same. Imo you should allow them enough, that they don't isolated from their friends experiences. That is why I allow them to play Roblox under supervision or why I set up a Minecraft Server so that they can play online with their friend in a safe environment (but only on weekends for a fixed time period).

menemen , 1 month ago

For 200-250$ you can get very decent used compact cameras (like the RX 100). It won't upload the photos immediatly, but it is still pretty much on par with most current cell phones.

menemen , 1 month ago

There have been fascist psychopaths arround as long as humans exist. BUT: when a fascist psychopath gets support among important figures of the industrial and financial sector, that is when you should start to panic.

menemen , 1 month ago

I am not contradicting you, but added my thoughts to your argument. I just started this by summarizing the parts of your argument to which I wanted to add.

menemen , 1 month ago

I hate tiktok. I am not from the US, but banning the app that is most popular among young people while raiding dozens of university campuses? Don't sound like a great way to get young people trust the system...

menemen , 1 month ago

Imagine telling your insurance about your newest purchase.

menemen , 1 month ago

Gender neutral word for shitting.

menemen , 1 month ago

The US at least has some degree of control over Microsoft. How much worse is that the EU is still not developing an own OS/distro?

menemen , 1 month ago

Yeah, that was a shame. But I really think we'd need a shared OS for all administration units of the EU (from EU level down to munipiality levels). Would be much easier as the private sector could also adjust to it.

menemen , 1 month ago

I am not talking about a OS for the general public, but specifically for the administration.

And this will work much better with a unified attempt. If the EU would be taking OpenSuse for this, this would basically be the end of OpenSuses independence... I'd like it to be GNU/Linux based though.

menemen , 1 month ago

Don you maybe have a mushroom consultation in your town? Don't know where you are from, but in Europe many countries have them and they can help you not to kill yourself.

menemen , 1 month ago

Dumb phone exist. My children got their dumb phones when they started walking to school on their own (so they can call us in case of a problem).

No internet, only 4 harmless games and I can control which numbers are allowed to call them and which numbers they are allowed to call.

menemen , 1 month ago

And there is no internet to look up anything. ULTRAHARD!

menemen , 1 month ago

True to a degee, but too many international journalists still depend on that plattform. Makes it hard to ditch it completly, until finally one of the alternatives really pick up.

menemen , 1 month ago

Let's hope. But they have to change the way that likes are shown. It always feels lonely over there.

menemen , 1 month ago

Oh, I don't like metal and still considered them to be a mostly apolitical group of weird nerds. But it probably fits to the general trend of neonazis trying to infiltrate and overtake other subcultures. Oi! just doesn't draw large crowds I guess, probably Punk rock in general is not such a big thing anymore?

menemen , 1 month ago

It makes sense that those types would join the punk /metal scene.

They are since 40+ years, The skinhead subculture is part of the punk scene. And Neonazis usurped that subculture for a long time (not so much nowadays though).

menemen , 1 month ago

I was addressing that Neonazis usurped the Skinhead subculture for a long time. The skinhead subculture is part of the punkrock scene. Most of punkrock was always leftist though, at least here in Europe. I think you'll have to try hard to find a rightwing skinhead nowadays though. A switch towards Metal sounds like an almost natural thing for the neonazi scene. Metalfans should try their best to stop that or it might destroy the whole subculture.

menemen , 1 month ago

Yeah, as I said "Neonazis usurped the Skinhead subculture" in the 80s. There have always been apolitical and left wing skinheads, though. Nowadays the Skinhead subculture seems to be mostly dead (the whole punk scene has declined massively) and the few remaining appear to be almost completly apolitical and left wing.

menemen , 1 month ago

"How intensive gun usage solved my commute problems!"

menemen , 1 month ago

We still use Win 10 at work. I prefer any Debian based Distro, but the differences between 10 and 11...