Entweder man stellt sich für die Wähler als rückgratlose Versager da, oder man bekommt die alleinige Schuld für den eventuellen Fall Ukraines. Keine gute Optionen für die Grünen. Guter Schachzug von SPD und CDU.

Da wird vermutlich noch ein Detail zu Gunsten der Grünen ausgearbeitet, um die Wahl leichter zu machen, die Grünen werden aber im Gedächnis bleiben als SPD der Opposition.

Otto Pohl fühlt sich wohl am Pol ohne Atomstrom.

Der Mythos der einvernehmlichen Schuldenbremsenaufhebung

CDU: Ich stimme zu
Linke: Ich stimme zu
Friedrich Merz: Ich nicht

Habt ihr nicht vergessen, wen zu Fragen?

Lindner ist Vorsitzender der FDP, Liberalisten, denen es Hauptsächlich um gute Finanzpolitik geht. Seine Frau ist Schwanger.

Die Titanic ist ein Satire-Magazin, dass erfindet, dass das Baby - ähnlich wie eine Geschlechtsankündigung - noch im Bauch als “Low performer” identifiziert wurde. Also, dass sich Investitionen in dieses Kind sich nicht lohnen werden.

Mit dem Untertitel zur Abschaffung von §218 des Strafgesetzbuchs (Schwangerschaftabbrüche) wird suggeriert, dass Lindner Finanzpolitik wichtiger sei als Menschenleben - selbst am eigenen, ungeborenen Kind.

Mitarbeiter der Zulassungstelle Lüneburg, wenn seit 30 Jahren alle nur B und T haben wollen:

Da wir ja alle hier am Meckern sind:

Mir gefiel überhaupt nicht, was für Kompromisse die geschlossen haben, um zu regieren. FPD kriegt mit weniger Stimmanteil den Verkehr und Wirtschaftsminister, und hebelt damit gefühlt alles aus was der Umweltminister fordert. Super. Aber zumindest ist das Kiffen jetzt legal - nein, kriegt man natürlich auch nicht vollendet.

Und was hat man eingebüßt? Lützerath, Scholz kriegt Amnestie für Cum-Ex und G20, Palestina wird mit unseren Waffen ermordet und alles andere was Gerechtigkeit angeht begräbt man auch als man nichteinhaltung des Fraktionszwanges mit Parteiausschluss kontert.

Ich hoffe, man steht das nächste Mal wieder für etwas - sei es Klima, Gerechtigkeit oder was auch immer. Und dann drückt man das auch besser durch, wenn man regiert.

After reading the comments here, I see the problem: You judge past things by what they have become, and new things by what they are. Nothing will ever be “truly innovative” by those standards.

The automobile was for a long time just a more expensive carriage. The airplane was a pass time for the ultra rich, while anyone else got by with hot air balloons if they wanted to fly. The soviets got to space first by pointing a ballistic missile upwards.

We have CRISPR and can alter the Genes of any living organism to match our needs, but oh well, it’s only used by labs right now and anyone else got by perfectly fine by selective breeding, can’t call that innovative, can we?

Well, I disagree with the premise.

But perhaps one of the more obvious physical examples are Blue and White LEDs (1992). Small gadgets used to always have red LEDs, maybe green ones, or an unlit 7 segment display, everything else was too expensive or too energy consuming for battery powered devices. And not only that, RGB Diodes also saw the end of pretty much all cathode-ray tubes.

You see kids, back in the olden days before white LEDs, the only way to get blue light was to throw high energy electron ray on a phosphor coating. So anything blue or white before the 90s was made with that technology, from car radios to TV screens.

I’d personally also keep an eye out what the cheap electric motor will do next. From “hoverboards”, civilian drones, e-scooters and the modern e-bike, it’s only a matter of time before the new use case will emerge.

I also “liberated” a 32 inch TV out of Walmart the other day, which is now my assistant gunner when I boot up tf2.

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Oh, you mean that video, about blind boxes and gachapon.

Seen that one as well, really absurd to see that channel promote “healing your inner child”, by buying into something that feels like an amalgam of lootboxes, that ruined online games, and Funko-pops, which cannibalised physical game stores. I read through the comments many times to maybe understand, but it seems few people actually care about the gambling addicts there as well.

I’ve never played any of those games myself, but here’s what I have gathered from a video essay:

You just begin to play it somehow, you get introduced to the Gacha mechanics, and then it’s one of 2 ways: Either you spend a lot of money in the game because they are literally designed like Casinos to fuel your gambling addiction, like clouding your judgement how much a round of gambling is actually worth with many in game currencies.

Or you spend time in the game to grind premium resources, and your brain rewards you for it with the thought “at least I’m not spending money”, not realizing that the house developer also wins if you do that. An example i giving rewards for players who write strategy guides, something they otherwise would have to pay real money to a developer for.

We really have to hate more on those regulators who failed to protect gambling addicts from candy crush on crack.

Online subscription models, gacha and AAAA price tag games.

Not everyone wants to be a cybercriminal, god knows I’m one of them, but almost every person already has a backlog of games, an old classic that they want to experience again or community favourite that has gotten a lot of mods. Those are all free. And even if you want to spend money on something, why would you spend it on this year’s hyped up game when last year’s is still just as playable and at a discount?

That being said, I did buy Balatro full price, so I ought to know the answer.

When you forget to upgrade a unit in civilization:

“What do you mean you lost the funds? Go find them!”

In the past, I always felt good about never being on Twitter, considering how much people complained about it on Mastodon.

And then I realized I instead visited Reddit daily. To maintain my perceived superiority, I had to quit that and ended up here.

“Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?”

• Henry II, exercising his right to free speech.

It might just be my personal experience, but I am German and my personal birth rate has been steady all my life.

To add anything of substance here, there’s a good ol Kurzgesagt video on this. TLDW: Global phenomenon, hard to predict, just investing more money on parents and their needs has been tried and did not really work. Governments should still try to ease the burden of new parents because Jesus Christ they have it hard enough.

Somewhere else I heard that maybe our pessimistic look at the future is to blame and we should try to spread optimism more (or lay the foundation for a better future so people can actually be optimistic), but that’s less well researched. Not least because optimism isn’t easily quantifiable.

I like the Rock of Ages 2&3 soundtracks myself. Classic music transformed into video game ost is fun.

Rice Burritos

• Set up pot for loose Rice
• Put the vegetables in the same pot and a bit extra water
• Add Curry Paste
• Cook like it says on the Rice
• Maybe add Coconut milk
• Put in Tortilla, maybe add some salad

3 minutes of vegetable peeling while the water starts to boil, 10 minutes of unsupervised boiling, maybe 5 minutes stirring. You only need to clean 1 pot, and it’s cheap.