Off-topic:
I’m always tempted to write it out. The word is in everybody’s mind while we read the text. It gets so powerful if people decide to talk around it. But if the context is not hurtful, it’s just a word. Nothing happens. It becomes an insult if the mind of the one who says it or the one who reads it decides to make it one.
Plus the assholes who use it as a slur will say it anyway. We’re not achieving anything by erasing it from or bubble.
Well, that’s what I think about it. :)

Kleinanzeigen (Germany)

Writing this from a degoogled Pixel 4a bought second hand for 80 bucks a couple years ago. Great camera, enough storage, fingerprint sensor, headphone jack, fits in hand and pocket. This thing is close to perfect, new phones are scam.

I was a Why don’t you fucking protest!?-guy here on Lemmy and I am not, anymore. It takes time to organize. This is beautiful, I’m proud of you. Keep it up!

Never touch a running system

A subscription model for hardware like bikes or washing machines would be interesting. If it breaks, someone will come and repair it. But subscription for software is a scam. I switched to open source solutions because fuck’em, that’s why! Breaking up with Adobe is pretty great. :)

This is so strange of you start to think about it: A whole country decided to ask about your feelings, which is a super deep question. But it doesn’t accept anything other than “fine”. Like, you are not greeting someone by wishing them well, or peace or welcoming them, but by demanding a fixed fake answer that everything is offs. It makes the one who greets look like they care. But they usually do not. So every conversation has to start with a lie by the person who was greeted first.

I was an idiot and read it as .ro for Romania. Of course I know about Russia and the war.
Still I also wouldn’t comment on people posting .com-links, even though the US are fighting endless illegal wars for decades and the president is wrecking democracy for a police state.

Why?

We are all equal, we want to live peaceful, save and secure lifes. Then come the psychopaths who crave the power.
Americans who think they have more in common with Trump, Musk and Vance than with average Canadians: Guess again!

I used to say that when I was younger. But power vacuums fill up fast with brutal assholes. It took us centuries come up with ideas to balance power and obviously we’re not done yet. But abolishing hierarchies will lead to utter chaos. There is no species without it.
States are a mistake though, I agree with that. :)

Punch a hole in the neck of a small water bottle using a (hot) needle or a cork screw. Fill the bottle with water, close the lit and spray your ass by holding the bottle upside down and squeezing it. I used this 1$ Ghetto-Bidet for years!

Nah, it’s great, seriously. Saves me a cup of coffee in the morning. :)

I got something like this for like 15 euros from a German shop but I’m sure you’ll find it everywhere. I payed a little extra for stainless-steel instead of plastic. It’s still incredibly cheap and my family uses it daily for years. I don’t need any more luxury.

Rogue empire

Impressive! I’ve quoted this from memory for at least a decade. I used to listen to him when I went to sleep. :)

“My Chancellor said we should not indulge in superficial anti-Americanism now, but I assure you:
Mine is not superficial at all!”

This is not a book, but files to use in some kind of dictionary-app. AA is not a place for these kind of files, I’m pretty sure they won’t allow them over there.

Hard past. This looks like a zombies abdominal cavity. It will clog you’re arteries, plus I can smell the meat sweats by just looking at it. I don’t get this fetish.

The Fall of Civilizations is hauntingly beautiful