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  • Bavaria was a very agricultural heavy state, that made a few things right in the last few hounded years. Bavaria has like every over German state a long and rich independent history. Only Bavarian nationalists dream of an independent Bavaria. Hitler joined the NSDAP in Munich and it was one of it’s early strongholds. Most German cities were destroyed in WWII. Germany did not “pay” reparations, because they still had a lot of open dept from WWI. They paid with land, factories, infrastructure and forced labor. What the guide meant was probably the so-called “soli”. It is a special tax that was levied from former Westgerman states to support former GDR states, which did not develop as much under the socialist rule. That tax was and is controversial and was changed to nowadays only applie to richer people.

    Bavaria was always a big state in german, that tries to play a special role. Especially their main party the CSU participated in German politics, while enforcing predominantly Bavarian Interests. These methodes were obviously anti democratic but only borderline illegal and forced the government to restructure the parliament.

    So yea. I grew up in Bavaria and I get why most Germans are quite annoyed with bavarians.

    It is the German Texas.




  • Less.

    I was the guy with all my keys and fat wallet with all cards and phone + Multitool knife.

    Then I got inspired by my sister that travels a lot and tries to optimize for what she REALLY needs.

    First I realized that most of my wallet is useless. I started carrying a smaller flip style one with my most used cards and some cash.

    Then I reduced my keys to a carabiner with sorted keysets on keyrings, so I carry only the needed ones. Home + bike + cellar for daily use. Home + family keys for vacations. Home for going out. Added a very small key knife and a bottle opener that is part of my daily driver but left when not needed/forbidden.

    The current setup is a phonecaee with space for 4 cards and maybe 3-4 bills. And my key setup. Yes you have to remember to take some Special thing. But usually I have my old wallet in my backpack when traveling or when needed.

    Sometimes less is more.






  • I never used a mac, but if you want to have a machine that just works, you have the coin and are not power User enough, that the wierd quirks annoy you, Mac could be for you.

    Don’t get me wrong but Windows sucks for non computer people. Mac’s have the “do not bother me I do not care” options.

    Additionally a lot of creative stuff is focused on mac’s. Music, photography, design is at least optimized if not sometimes exclusive for osx.

    And do not forget that if you want to have devices that “just work” and you do not care how or why, having all apple devices must be nice. No compatibility tinkering, seamless backups and transfers, etc. Things get better now on other systems but try explaining an older tech illiterate person over phone how to get her photos from the phone to her notebook…


  • Kinda. The winners of WWI decided to leave Germany be, but took most things of worth and some land. The reparations were brutal. I think Germany finished paying of the reparations a few years ago. Additionally there was military propaganda that the reich was “undefeated in battle, stabbed in the back”, because the civilians negotiated the harsh peace treaty and ignoring the fact, that the war was going badly.

    I will not go more into details because I do not know exactly. But the combination of a very depressed economy, the feeling of being treated unjust and the desire for revenge led to a disgruntlement -> rise of populism -> rise of extremist parties.

    I am missing a ton, but when things are unstable it is easierfor radical forces to emerge and succeed.

    Hitler literally was tasked to spy on the NSDAP and joined them. You have to see: at the time two major parties in the reich were anti constitutional.

    That is why a lot of people in Europe look worringly at trump or at least at the whole movement. The USA has issues that need fixing. There is a large disgruntled part of the population and people start to radicalize.

    I may generalize, but the start of WWI was mostly a series of pride, miss communication and bad luck.



  • Hey how did you know that I am sitting at the toilet?

    In most social media I am a commenter (idk. As soon as I feel comfortable to post something the comments murder me)

    But even so did not use Lemmy to much with jerboa. Not enough content. Buggy. Not nice.

    Saw a new post about clients and found “thunder”.

    Feels like relay. Yes some functions may be missing. But feels nice enough that I can scroll through my subscriptions and have fun using it.

    And in mastodon I have a feeling that the growth is linear and not exponential, so give it time.

    Lemmy will probably not replace Reddit soon, but it will be a solid alternative for not super special content.


  • While I never used tiktok: why FB and not TikTok? Or did it get so much worse since I stopped using it 10 years ago?

    Edit fb is terrible because boomers hunt for you there and the “everyone’s life is so fucking perfect” thing makes you depressive. Especially because it mostly shows you people you know in Reallife. But since everyone started sharing TikTok shit I have a feeling that it is:

    • a social media, so everyone tries to be something they are not.
    • the short content kills your attention span.
    • the content makes you measurably more stupid (fucking YouTube shorts are the same)
    • the algorithm get’s even more data, because it measures how you react to stuff and not only what you and others share
    • controlled by the CCP, so I suspect some agenda (look up what TikTok is like in china, it is effectively another program (interesting and educational stuff mixed with chinese propaganda))
    • still growing while fb is officially growing but like more and more people I know stopped using it. Could be bubble, could be that new markets are opening and some regions are declining, could be active users leaving but bots are being counted.

    But that is just my opinion man…