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[–] [email protected] 64 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (29 children)

I'm sorry, and I don't want to be disrespectful or rude, but as a person who has no clue about computers I am very surprised the creator of Linux is still alive. I somehow thought he is super old and probably dead by now or at least not using the internet. I'm so sorry for my ignorance.

Edit: Thank you everyone for the many interesting replies, I've learned a lot of random stuff which I greatly appreciate!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

I saw someone on the German equivalent to Craigslist selling a rooster for 5€ today. Said they had three home grown roosters and that's too many. It's a full grown rooster. I am both surprised that this is so cheap and that it's legal to just sell roosters like a second hand iPod.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I assumed it's sinister for left turn but then I got confused why L was turning right (is L supposed to be for leave?)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

For someone with family ties in Ukraine, being on the outside is still incredibly terrifying. Let alone that Muskfuck is now promoting AFD

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What?? What do you mean with a kid became lion king?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

We visited friends in Serbia in summer. It took me back to this smoking world I had long forgotten. Inside smoking and non smoking tables in crowded cafes side by side. And the craziest part was the indoor playgrounds for kids with cafes adjacent or part of it where you could also smoke (and buy hard liquor). But you know what, my kid could play for less than 1,5€ an hour on a rainy day, even when I lived in Munich there were like 2 indoor playgrounds in a 50 km radius and they cost a fortune. They had them everywhere for dirt cheap. So, I'll happily get off my high horse.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Oh I don't interpret this as a condescending insult, I thank you for your on point analysis and am happily throwing some rocks.

I also cannot believe that after 16 fucking years of status quo under CDU and Merkel, of nothing moving forward, our minimally left-green leaning government got blamed for everything going wrong in our country and the world and how do you dare not to fix everything within less than 4 years you morons. And the solution - elect the CDU of course! Good thing I stopped drinking or I'd end up in the hospital after the next election.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

So they can theoretically be held together? Like, 3 roosters 15 chicken in one group?

Also, and I am sorry if this sounds dumb, but is there any kind of birth control for chicken? Or do you just eat fresh eggs with 1 day old embryos inside all the time? Can you castrate a rooster?

(Wait isn't there even a dish with a castrated rooster? I think it was in a play by Bertold Brecht)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

I did get a discount foot massage once though.

Worth it. Now I wish I was born with tiny feet.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (15 children)

I think one of the problems is that you basically can't keep many roosters together (I'm not even sure you can keep two roosters together). That means that for a sanctuary you need huge space so that the roosters don't kill each other. So while I also buy eggs that guarantee that the male chicks will be raised, I wonder how this is supposed to work if I pay only like 50 cents per egg and half of the hatched eggs are male.

(Note that my knowledge on rooster farming comes from a German or possibly German-French documentary on that, so I might be talking out of my ass here.)

(I think I just remember that 2€/egg was the price calculated in the documentary for ethical farming without losses for the farmers. This was some years ago. To be fair - I'd totally pay that for an egg. Egg as an ingredient can be easily substituted and as a standalone dish it can be something special that I'm willing to pay for. )

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Funnily enough, I feel like in most social situations people would think I was insane or overfocused on them if I kept steady eye contact - which I easily could. But I consciously decide to let my eyes wander every now and then to let them feel less pressure. Because honestly I doubt that the cashier or my daughter's kindergarten teacher wants me to think that I talk to them like they are the only people in the room and I am 100% focused on them. I especially prefer looking "to the side" when I listen because I am way too scared for people to think I am a maniac who wants to make them my whole world.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

I agree and hope so too. I think a lot of the frustration and hate comes from Trump actually having been elected. Basically, if you meet someone who voted, there is about a 50:50 chance that they have voted for this. When your vote influences not just your own country but the entire world, that guarantees blame and anger from others.

Now, you can argue whether elections are fair when one party is funded by billionaires and has access to media to spread any misinformation they want. Gerrymandering and a lot of other practices surely play a role in making this not absolutely fair. Let alone that insanity of a two party system. But at the end of the day, this is still an elected president, who even won the public vote, if I remember correctly. It is not the same as obviously rigged elections as in, for example, Russia (where people get even much more hate for their president, as if they had the power to vote or change anything).

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