True. English isn't my native language and I thought about this, but it somehow just makes sense in my head. The way the "just" is used reminds me of the Modalpartikel we have in German. They're basically filler words that add nuance, emphasis or expectation to a sentence.
Sometimes people ask "Just why?", and that's a bit different than only "Why?", because it adds a sense of confusion or urgency to the question.
[Imagine] you wake up in 1995. [There's] no wifi [and] no cell phones. [What's] the first thing you do?
More and more often, when asking for when something happened, I hear people respond with something like "in the last century".
I didn't even think about the German word, which is Bierdeckel - literally beer cover. Well the boring word for it would be Untersetzer, which is the substantive of "to place underneath".
Additionally to what else was said, I've seen them used in beergardens to cover the drink to prevent bugs from drowning themselves in your drink. I guess then the coasters don't serve to protect the table anymore.
Es gibt kein Entkommen!
I use Connect and it displays your name as cadecncndeca above the comment. Which is just the country codes of the flags. On your profile though it displays it correctly.
Yes. Trumps cabinet leveraged the German company SAP to adhere to their DEI agenda. Trumps ideological ilk connects with each other worldwide to share strategies and knowledge, which of course includes our AfD, which used to be pretty vocal about their support for Trump and has now become uncannily quiet about it.
Also, you can take the elevator and jump between floors 45, 55, 65 and 75 and once you cleared all the sprites go to 0 to reset the mines and repeat. Saves you huge amount of time of finding the stairs every floor.
It honestly sometimes starts to feel like they're gloating.
I recently watched an interview with Bernie Sanders, on a German podcast from about a year ago. He said that when he was born, african-americans didn't have suffrage. He was 24 when they got voting rights. Had somebody asked him back then "Do you think that a black man will be president in the US in your lifetime?" he had said "No, absolutely not". Now he tells young people about that and they're like "what the heck are you talking about?" because to them that concept is so foreign and long ago, they can't actually imagine what that must've been like anymore. I'm one of those young people, and I'm pretty thankful that people like him fought for a future they never thought to be able to see.
I think that the future will not be what we expect it to be. Could be better. Could be worse. Probably though it's gonna be something completely wild with some good and some bad in it. I mean even today, despite all the shittiness in the world, there are some small good things happening every now and then. And I realized that I even may have influenced some of them ever so slightly. How crazy is that! So what keeps me going is trying to make that dent and make those pockets of good in the world just a tiny bit bigger. Someone will be grateful for it.