I think the most important topic right now is confronting the climate change and the problems it is going to cause, on every level local, regional, national and international. This looming crisis is going to affect everything and everyone on an existential level, and requires every of these government levels, even every individual, to fucking work and to fucking stand together.

And now my compatriots elect AfD.

I switched my main gaming computer to Mint after testing it on a laptop. Being away from Windows is awesome. You know how everything always wants your attention on Windows? Your antivirus proudly announces its existence. Windows wants to know if it should remove some printers? Some PDF software needs updated RIGHT NOW. There's a license change please acknowledge this 20 page document. Animated attention grabbing everywhere. I always think FUCK OFF when presented with this bullshit.

You know what - Mint doesn't do that. I've not been internally shouting at my own computer since I went that way.

It is serene.

I enjoy gardening.

Trump’s Ukraine betrayal will have terrible consequences.

"I'm deathly afraid of the gay, is there any gay in the game? Because I don't know what will happen if I'm confronted with the gay!!!"

"Calm down, nothing in there is going to remind you of these urges of yours, play away."

My translation.

To "fight for your country" has been coopted so many times for wars in far away lands, ideological wars, wars of aggression, that the phrasing alone will make people assume they are being lied to and that somebody is fishing for dumb people to be sent into the meat grinder.

To those who don't know, Italians can be super particular about what pasta goes with which condiment. If the recipe says linguine, it's linguine or you can't cook the dish. Spaghetti aren't acceptable.

Also if you sit with some Italians and want to troll them ask them what they think about farfalle (the bowties) and watch the show, most are super opinionated as well.

Among the nonaligned is the German far right party that got kicked out of id for being too extreme.

The shortage is not due to an aging population, it's because nobody wants to go into this field.

And that is due to the pay not reflecting the extreme exploitation of the workers, in an environment that's not very conducive to a happy life. They all end up burnt out and have nothing to show for it.

They tried keeping the pay down by hiring Eastern European medical personnel, who would work below their qualifications (doctors as nurses for example), but apparently they don't want to work here anymore.

The problem has been going on for such a long time it is now systemic.

Seriously, "aging population"?

Japan got struck twice with thermonuclear bombs in world war 2, in 2 cities named Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Look it up. They are very much against nuclear arms in general since then.

No development required, I think they can open a drawer somewhere and pick one of several soviet designs. If they want a nuke, they can build one right away.

It would cost them the support of their allies, however, and they cannot afford that.

It's saber rattling.

Around 1000 km per second. Mph, come on.

Edit: says so right in tfa, I'll take the come on back

Edit 2: the escape velocity of the milky way is said to be 550 km per second. The orbital velocity of the sun around the milky way is 230 km per second.

The monopoly on the use of force is quite the important part of having a state at all. If a state doesn't have that, it descends into anarchy (the bad kind, with warlords and gangs). The US is very exceptional in this case as it has in its constitution the provision that such gangs (militia) are allowed, even desirable.

Sind, wie so viele vegane Produkte, sowieso schon zu teuer gewesen. Wenn die veganen Ersatzprodukte weiter 2, 3 oder auch mal 5 mal so teuer sind, bleiben sie nur ein Trend, und lässt die vielen Menschen, die preisbewusst einkaufen müssen oder wollen, außen vor. Das geht alles völlig in die falsche Richtung!

Aber es gibt ja Konkurrenz. Die Lidl Eigenmarke ist genauso. Das Problem bei Lidl ist wie immer, ob sie es auch da haben, weil Lidl immer diese wahnsinnigen gemischten Kollies bestellt, bei denen dann immer die Sachen wochenlang liegen bleiben, die keiner haben will. Nachdem die nach 5 Wochen abgelaufen sind, gibt es auch mal für ein paar Tage Pfirsich oder Kirsche, hurra. Denkst, Du bist in der DDR.

Edit: blättere auch gerade Prospekte, Penny Eigenmarke 1,11/500g.

That's actually one of the best ways to learn a language short of full immersion, we call it a tandem!

Germany, born early seventies. Background, there was a strong "never again" sentiment after WW2 and to that end we were educated about the horrors of war from an early age. WW2 and the Third Reich was discussed in school and also very present in living memories of grandparents and their friends.

It was made very clear to us where the first nukes would drop (Germany) and who would drop them (Germans). Flexible response was explained to us, the Nato strategy of using nukes first, as well as MAD. We were given estimated times from sirens blaring to explosion. We visited a bunker, and we were imagining nuclear hellscapes and asking ourselves if one should even try to enter a bunker to try to survive. Pershing II were discussed and MIRV, which were new technologies at the time.

Sonic booms from military jets were common, we would respond to that with "Russians are coming". Not fear, but fatalism was the usual response, and a large number of young men would reject draft and opt for civilian service, wanting to do something productive during service instead of training to get pulverized in the first wave.

Then came Gorbatschow, and Reagan would still pursue his star wars programme, which left us scratching our heads.

Besides all the good advice in the thread, about condoms:

He should be somewhat comfortable with putting on condoms, he has to train that before it becomes necessary. There are plenty of videos explaining it, let him find them and check them out on his own terms. Let him know not every brand fits every man. He will need to overcome the awkwardness of buying them in drug stores or supermarkets, if he finds it awkward at all, he has to get over himself and do it. A possible motivation could be that if girls can buy their period products, he can buy his dick wraps.

I find it very commendable that you think about this problem!

The point is: that goes also for criminals, and prisoners. And yes, it should go for refugees too, even brown skinned ones. Oh, and people on social security. And disabled people.

We did a lot of violating human dignity in the past, that's the reason it's the first article of the constitution. It's a good principle. One that many other constitutions don't have. We can be proud about that.

However I don't think many people grasp the implications of it not being uphold, unless they become a victim themselves, and I believe that a large part of the population does not care or will be favorable towards dignity-violations, especially against the most heinous of criminals, and minorities.

We should really start to believe them when they say these things, and prepare accordingly.

It's basic state theory, I believe we had that in middle school, along with the division of power. I mentioned the US exception because if you went to school there, your basic state theory might have been different from mine.

They said SS members were not universally evil. Front national was unimpressed.

https://www.politico.eu/article/far-right-identity-and-democracy-group-expels-alternative-for-germany/