10/10, Would ride to the 1990 World Cup with.

I should start learning Chinese.

This is it. China also has billionaires, but they aren’t more powerful than the state.
And they know that.
They use at least a part of their wealth to support their society, cause there’s a realistic danger that they’ll lose it all if they get too cocky.

But if you read it all, he was also pretty fucking nuts.

Without a friend, you’d try every combination of clicks until you got it.
You had the time, and no choice, cause they only released one game per year.

That’s definitely the way to do it.

40€
It was a poker tournament with friends, 10€ buy-in.
I got drunk and bought in another 3 times, then lost it again from making dumb drunk bets.

I never gamble with serious money cause I know how it would end. I’m susceptible to addictions.

Username checks out.
Granted your wish and silenced you.

Glad I quit drinking and am currently quitting the vape pens.

What’s a space cadet in this context?

Good thing someone else did the work long ago, so I don’t need to keep drinking it.

It also makes you susceptible to do inhumane things to people based on false information.

I’m not surprised. But I don’t condone or celebrate it either.

Without context, it isn’t.
As soon as I post it in a thread about Nazis doing Nazi shit, I get downvoted to hell.
Same with my anti-war stance.

Granting someone human rights IS NOT tolerance.
And it’s not high road shit.

When Nazis attack your state with an army, shoot them in defense.
When they attack your society, arrest them, give them a trial, lock them up and seize all assets they used.

The problem we have isn’t that those measures aren’t enough.
It’s that we don’t even do those things, because our politicians are actually in league with them or afraid of them.

I’m just picturing a 69-year-old working as a roofer or construction worker in the current heat.
Absolutely impossible. Raising the “retirement age” leads to working class people dropping out before they receive a pension, leading to poverty.
While executives in office jobs keep earning, doing fuck-all while “working from home” in their paid-off house.
There are several of those in the company I work for. They make 5x my salary and don’t know how to use the softphone or connect to the company network. Their sole purpose is to be CC’d in important e-mails, but they never read them.

Unpopular opinion:
Universal human rights apply to all humans, including Nazis.
Dehumanizing people and denying them their human rights is what Nazis do.

Im Salon streiten Bootsmänner mit Verbrechern darüber, ob man nach rechts oder links steuern soll.
Bis zur Einigung, die die Verbrecher nicht wollen, geht’s Volldampf gradeaus.
Auf der Kommandobrücke steht niemand.

US race relations are really, really weird.

Für mich persönlich zeigt das wie schlimm es geworden ist.
2003 war für mich so einschneidend, dass ich mich immer an die Jahreszahl erinnern werde.
Bei uns im Ort sind da alle öffentlichen Grünflächen und jede Menge Bäume verdorrt.

Dieses Jahr haben wir die gleichen Temparaturen zu Sommeranfang, wie damals im Hochsommer.
(Und irgendwie zucken alle in meinem Umfeld mit den Schultern. Is halt heiß, Klima im Auto regelt.)