There really is no news story here other than a wild right-wing conspiracy theory.

There are tens of thousands candidates in this election with 17 known deaths among the candidates, 7 of which are AfD candidates. This might seem high at first glance, but since there is no central institution keeping track of this, there might be more deaths for the other parties that are just not known. Also, as others have pointed out, many AfD candidates are older men. One of the dead was 80, two others around 70.

I wish these conspiracy theories weren't just casually echoed in headlines and social media.

I think the reason might be racism.

This is a few years old but still a good visualisation:

https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/

Start scrolling.

If anyone is in need of a more secure option in these dystopian times: drip keeps all your data on your phone. You can export the data, so you can keep the tracked data when changing phones. I only use it for tracking my cycle and sometimes symptoms though, so I can't say much about using it for birth control.

Union-ized as in forming a union vs un-ionized as in not ionized

Having two possible outcomes does not mean it's a 50:50 chance.

"So if I aim the arrow at the 1cm square from 100m away and shoot, I either hit it or I don't. So basically I have a 50% chance of hitting it."

I think I remember some years ago a zoo fed a dead giraffe to the lions and people went absolutely insane about it. I'm not sure about the details anymore, they might have killed it because there wasn't enough room in the zoo for it? Either way I didn't get it, what do they think the lions are fed any other day? Animals that weren't killed explicitly to become food? Some cows that couldn't bear existence on this world anymore and offered themselves as lion food? Where is the difference?

Fun fact: German ICEs (high-speed trains) are not allowed to enter Switzerland if they are delayed too much so they don't disrupt the Swiss schedule. This year more than 10% were not allowed to continue.

While we're at it, maybe we could install some powerlines to provide the vehicles with electricity. That way they could run on renewable energy.

Weil das Internet ja so gerne "Stellt euch vor, die Geschlechter wären vertauscht" spielt – versuchts euch mal vorzustellen. Selbst für mich als Frau würde sich ein Tisch mit mittelalten bis alten Frauen, die gemeinsam zusammensetzen und entscheiden, wie es weitergeht total surreal anfühlen. Es ist schon krass, wie sehr wir verinnerlicht haben, dass es normal ist, wenn eine Gruppe nur aus Männern besteht, aber nicht bei Frauen. Und stellt euch mal die Aufregung vor, wenn es nur Frauen wären.

Dann schleppen sich die Leute alle krank zur Arbeit (wie viele es ja auch z.B. in den USA machen, wenn sie keine bezahlten Krankheitstage haben) und stecken da ihre Kollegen und die Leute in der Bahn gleich mit an. Das senkt den Krankenstand sicher.

Look, as much as I dislike Rowling's terf bullshit, I haven't heard of any human trafficking allegations involving her.

Unless they work for Microsoft. Teams has been showing � instead of ä for the caller's name in the popup when someone calls for several weeks now. It didn't use to do that before. I don't think they care anymore.

Hier eine Geschäftsidee, die ich vollkommen kostenfrei jeglichen interessierten Personen überlasse:

Ein Unternehmen in Hamburg, das ausschließlich vegane und vegetarische Burger-Patties herstellt, die "Hamburger Patties".

To add to this: If both men and women are allowed to have multiple spouses (which is the only fair way to do it), how do you deal with situations where a husband has multiple wives who has multiple husbands who also have multiple spouses? This sounds like a nightmare from a legal perspective.

I'm not saying I'm against polyamory, do whatever you want, as long as everybody involved is fine with it. It could work legally, if you could get married as a group of n people but then not marry other people individually. But that's not how polygamy works in Quatar or worked for Mormons. There the husband marries several wives individually and the wives have no say in it.

Politische Ausrichtung vor allem. Die zwei Sexualitäten mal wieder – hetero und politisch.

Wenn man da eine Menschenrechtscharta aufhängt, zeigt das auch eine politische Ausrichtung?

In my opinion over 50 is too old. I don't have a hard cutoff but I think I would place it somewhere around early 40s.

Some of my reasons are very subjective. My best memories of my childhood with my parents are of active stuff – camping trips, exploring rivers, kayaking. My parents are still very active in their late 60s but I can't imagine them doing a lot of the stuff we did back then. At least not in the same way.

Also I hate seeing my parents age. It was fine until their early 60s, they were also still very healthy and energetic in their 50s. But now I am often reminded that our time together is limited. I would have hated to deal with that as a child or teenager.

I know it's very possible for a child to have a happy life with an older parent, possibly happier than many other children. But I personally would hate to have one and think it's a bit selfish to consciously choose it.

Hä, ich dachte Frauen sind von Natur aus sozialer, weil die doch in Gruppen auf die Kinder aufpassen und währenddessen Beeren und Wurzeln sammeln und tratschen, während die Männer auf Mammutjagd gehen. Das hat mir erst einer erzählt. Jetzt weiß ich nicht gar nicht mehr, was ich denken soll. Kann mir da vielleicht ein Mann helfen?

Warum bekommen die muslimischen Kinder 30 Türchen, während die armen Deutschen sich mit 24 begnügen müssen? Das ist ja unerhört!!! Da zeigt sich wieder, wo dIe GrÜnEn ihre Prioritäten haben!

Agreed. As a white German woman myself, I can tell you that we are very used to being above any suspicion. I have been waved on in every traffic control and border check I've ever been in.

Also the German passport is one of the strongest in the world, we can basically go wherever we want when travelling. And now suddenly the US of all places is a country we have to be cautious in.

This is of course a very privileged position to be in, but they are teenagers, they probably haven't had to think about that until now.