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It’s a country where 30% of the population votes for fascists. In some parts it’s more like 50%. I hope you’re right, but I don’t want to see a potential AfD led government with a strong military.

I agree that pacifism in the face of Russian aggression is a mistake, but recruiting a bunch of kids who don’t want to serve is not going to do anything to help Ukraine.

Your comment is giving me flashbacks. We did label all our cables though (with masking tape and a marker).

My point is that if you create the incentives for people to voluntarily choose a career in the military, then you don’t have to force people to serve against their will. And that includes making a society that people think is worth protecting, instead of one that just protects capital interests of the rich, while fucking over poor people, most of all the same young people that are being pushed into service. But it’s easier to just force them, I guess.

I’m less worried about Europe’s ability to defend itself against Russia than I am about building a strong military for the fascists of the AfD if they manage to take power in Germany.

Besides, in my opinion forcing unwilling people in to military service is immoral, regardless of circumstances.

There’s no amount of money you can pay someone to give their life if the living conditions are good.

Perhaps not to give their life, but to risk it there is, which is more accurate. It’s not like joining the military has a 100% fatality rate.

I used to be a heavy pot smoker (think daily habit, multiple joints a day, zero days off for years at a time). I usually just brought some with me. It’s really not that hard to get stuff across borders, especially when travelling by land. You’d have to get really unlucky to be searched. Sometimes I’d also just ask around at my destination. I’ve taken drugs on planes too a couple of times (one time hash hidden inside normal cigarettes and another time LSD and DMT in my hand luggage).

People really overestimate customs’ ability to find shit, at least when the amounts are small for personal use. I wouldn’t recommend it and absolutely would never do it travelling to someplace where you’d go to jail (or worse) if caught, but within Europe I never had issues. The only time I was ever caught was with a tiny amount of weed that I hadn’t bothered hiding when travelling by car from the Netherlands to Germany and that only resulted in it being confiscated and no actual charges.

All that being said, even a total degenerate like me was able to go a week or two without illegal drugs if I had to. Alcohol is available pretty much anywhere, so worst case I’d just drink.

How about instead of forcing people into military service against their will, stop fucking over young and working class people so maybe they feel like there is actually something worth fighting for.

One of the main ways you progress in the game is by obtaining blueprints and then finding the ingredients to craft them. But you also have to craft things like fuel, ammo, etc. and to repair things. It’s fun but can get tedious at times. Luckily the game lets you fine tune the experience at any time (it’s actually probably one of the games that does this best imo) and one of the options is free crafting which lets you craft ending immediately without finding the ingredients first. My rule of thumb was to mostly only use it to skip grinding for ingredients I’d found before but needed more of it finding them would be too annoying, but not to skip searching for stuff I hadn’t seen yet.

The game is worth it imo. There is lots of content and it goes on sale from time to time. And all the DLC is always free which is nice.

I’m not ashamed to admit I selectively enabled free crafting to skip grinding in that game. I have very little patience for games that force me to spend time doing loads of boring busywork to “earn” the right to enjoy the fun parts. But at least No Man’s Sky allows you to tweak the gameplay experience very granularly to make it suit your taste. More games should be like that.

To me a everything that’s not part of or made from a part of an animal’s body is vegetarian. So no meat, bones, liver, gelatine etc. I would consider vegetarianism to be first and foremost a diet.

Veganism on the other hand is more like an ideology. It is the belief that no human has the right to exert control over another animal. So obviously a vegetarian diet that also excludes products that are obtained from animals, like eggs, milk, honey, leather, wool, etc. But also being against zoos, pets, working animals (such as police dogs) and other stuff like that. I think though that veganism is an ideology that requires nuance. It’s going to be basically impossible to be a “perfect” vegan and most probably wouldn’t go so far as to reject everything I listed, or would agree that compromises can be made for the greater good (for example I don’t believe police dogs should be a thing, but I wouldn’t want to take away a blind person’s dog and I can’t help but like pets).

tl;dr: If you eat meat or bones sometimes you’re by definition not a vegetarian and probably nobody is actually 100% vegan. It’s perfectly understandable that you’d call yourself a vegetarian to keep it simple, even if it’s only 95% true though. I certainly call myself vegan, even though it’s definitely less than 95% true.

macOS 27 now has a thing where if you quit an app (actually quit with cmd+q, not just close the window with the red button) it will stay in the Dock labelled “running in background” if sneakily keeps running.

I ride them all the time. I’m completely sold on them and would use them on any bike except a commuter.

The only disadvantages are the price and them holding air a bit worse than standard tubes so you need to pump them up a bit more often.

On my road bike:

• spare TPU tube
• TPU patch kit
• minimal multi tool
• tyre levers
• quick link
• a few zip ties
• small abus wire lock (combiflex)
• 20€
• a few small odds and ends

+ a mini pump mounted to my frame and a small electric pump in my jersey pocket

It sounds a lot, but it all fits in a small saddle bag.

On my gravel bike I have all of the above plus:

• tyre boots (saved my arse once)
• latex gloves
• a pocket sized torque wrench
• spare battery for power meter and speed sensor

Maybe a bit over the top, but it still fits in a medium sized saddle bag.

Well I hate a bunch of people I’ve never even met and the list of people I wish death on seems to grow longer every day, but also I feel like those people deserve it. So maybe, I guess?

If you think AI tools can’t translate texts you must have never tried. I speak two languages natively and sometimes use AI tools to translate text between them, because it is simply a lot faster than doing it by hand. Being able to speak both languages I can easily confirm that the AI translated texts are at least as good as what I could produce myself. It’s a really useful tool for that purpose.

If you hate AI on principle, that’s fine. You’re entitled to your opinion. But to say it doesn’t work is just simply wrong.

Whatever that is, it’s not loading for me.

Check out “Unwatched for YouTube” on iOS. It’s a bit janky, but it works. Certainly better than paying for premium.

Unwatched for YouTube on Apple devices.

As someone who is currently having to take away people’s local admin rights along with a ton of other privileges: it’s not like we do this for fun, we have compliance goals to reach that were agreed to by higher ups outside of the IT department in exchange for public funding (we’re a public institution).

Pulsar: Lost Colony

You play with up to 5 players to collaboratively fly a space ship. Each player has a role (Captain, Pilot, Weapons Officer, Scientist, Engineer) and runs around the inside of the space ship in first person, doing different tasks to keep everything working and you can also beam onto planets and do stuff there or board other ships. It’s clearly inspired by Star Trek. There is on foot and ship to ship combat. Basically you fly from sector to sector doing missions and collecting upgrades with the goal of eventually beating a final boss. Playthroughs take multiple game sessions and you need to communicate a lot, so it’s best played with friends. You don’t need a full crew of 5 to play, but I’d recommend at least 4 players so you can fill all the roles (the captain mainly makes decisions and can easily fill in for one of the other roles). I haven’t played in a while, but it’s good fun.