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I have commited the Num-Code for ™ to muscle memory.

Other interests include bicycles, bread making and DIY. I do own a 3D-printer and adore the Nintendo 3ds.

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  • Germany can’t stop winning on the cost of Italy’s economy! /s

    Looks like they now gotta promote their heritage with more recent painters. Idk, Carcupino would probably resonate with those people idolising the 50s? But maybe they specifically chose Renaissance painters to not have to share any money with relatives.

    In any case, right decision. No matter how culturally relevant, if it’s been more than a century you gotta let people use it in any way they want, be it ever so disrespectful. Can’t wait for the Vetruvian man budget horror flick.


  • The reason there are fewer child births in the US since the 90s is mainly the reduction of pregnancies in the demographic “25 and younger”. They didn’t made a conscious choice, looking at their abacus and evaluating the state of the world. They slipped into it and were forced to make it work. Interestingly, they then still had children later in life as well, for more complex and personal reasons.

    It seems to me, that if you give woman the choice, they choose not be pregnant at the cost of their career.



  • The edutainment games presented by Germany’s beloved children’s show host Peter Lustig, published by Terzio.

    The tie-in video games to both his TV series Löwenzahn as well as the Swedish Gary Gadget (Mulle Meck) books were elevated by his voice clips and I still quote them regularly. They really put a lot more effort into these games than anything I’ve ever experienced, there was fucking free DLC for Gary Gadget if you visited their website and had your father put some files in the right folder.

    The worlds themselves both star an excentric man tinkering on inventions, but while sometimes fantastical they are more grounded that the world of Peterson and Findus. They teach children about community and physics, similar to the book “the way things work” - guess who presented its animated show of the same name in Germany?



  • Car companies are pathetically clinging to the past, who would have known? Unfortunately, that fits with our conservative “we wanna stay car centric” government that people somehow still voted for.

    The best way out for them is to delay any switch to EV’s. As far as I know, their current plan is to sell “hybrid” motors, which are said to burn both gasoline and hydrogen.

    Hydrogen is a fuel with a future - maybe in shipping with the fixed routes and general incompatibility with batteries - but in the context of cars it’s not economical (at scale) and they know that. So 99% of the time, those hybrid motors will drive on gasoline, because who would pay 10 times the amount for something only available at a select few stations.

    But if they sell those hybrid motors as a 0 emission alternative, they can keep selling something that’s basically a combustion engine as long as the gas station network still exists, while blaming the rising emissions on consumer preference and bleeding the government dry with hydrogen subsidies in the wrong sector.


  • If we mention the new version was edited to match speeds by that channel, then we should probably also mention the old version was, of course, originally in black and white and needed to be upscaled for this 1 to 1 comparison by the channel Denis Shiryaev. The original 1902 film was taken from the museum of modern art (moma watermark)'s channel.

    Still, amazing how we’re able to have a pretty good guess what a place looked like to people 100 years ago, before our hubris and malice led us to the most destructive wars ever seen.



  • What exactly is misleading?

    You can just say “Germany is doing X” to refer to actions of the government, you do that in German as well btw. If that weren’t the case, why do you call this action of the Netanyahu regime “Israels war”, when that guy only has a 30% approval rating?

    And in any case, the German people are still to blame for voting Merz’s CDU into office last year, supporting Israel was a thing he did say he and his party would do. Him now saying that these actions can no longer be justified is unexpected, but I won’t hold my breath for anything to come from this.








  • Ah, yes. Their “We found space whales on Nimbus!” video (about speculative Zoology of alien worlds), which was later titled “What actual aliens might look like” was something I could excuse. I don’t consider claiming the impossible click-bait, but seeing the controversy, it was best they changed it.

    However, what I really hated was their ad for a “strange matter” vile/necklace (i forgor), not because they lied about it containing reality destroying elements, but because they did the “buy now because they’ll never come back” trick. I consider manipulative sales tactics to be a greater sin than clickbait.


  • Not only is Gacha a bad game monetization from a consumers perspective, the moment it’s implemented the game is shit, and you should be ashamed to play it.

    I dont care about Genshin’s cultural impact, Fortnite’s mechanical depth or how hot the latest team fortress character is, you should always have the thought of supporting the indefensible in the back of your head while playing them and consider it a guilty pleasure. Meaning: keep your damn pulls to yourself!

    And since I used to say it too: “You can absolutely play without paying money” isn’t an argument when you need to pay with time instead, doing dailies is a chore, not leisure.



  • I believe discussion on this flares up now and then because it is an easy answer, tough decision.

    If you make this decision for others: of course this is the most ethical thing to do, the data isn’t ambiguous.

    If you are yourself affected: Oof. Yes it might be better for society, but personally I value this and that, and I am but one and would rather wait on legislation before I do anything.

    We love to argue it because one side thinks experiencing it taints your view, the other that only reading data misses the point. Can be about indoor cats, vegan diets or pineapple on pizza, the argument itself never matters.