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  • And tomorrow they’ll post a picture of a 10,000$ gaming setup with LEDs and shit and claim that women can’t possibly understand spending a ton of money on furniture and decorations.

    Not to mention that this joke has been done to death. For years pictures of empty rooms with a matress have been posted to claim that “this is what men want”. (Until next week, when we’ll post a picture of a gaming room full of expensive furniture and elaborate decorations and claim that THIS is what men want, actually, for real, I swear.)



  • There’s a street in my city with many major shops. Big clothing chains and such. A couple of years ago it was suggested to make it a pedestrian zone and the ones crying the loudest were the shop owners. Noone will buy anything if they can’t stop their car directly in front of the shop! And all the old people with multiple hip surgeries, who CAN’T come if the taxi can’t let them out right in front of the shop and who are the main customer base!!!

    Well, anyway, it’s been a pedestrian zone for two years now and I’ve never seen so many people in the shops before. You can’t find a place to sit in the restaurants and cafés now on saturdays when before they were half full at best. Funnily enough after all the headlines and screaming on facebook about how the pedestrian zone will KILL all business, it’s become pretty quiet. You won’t read news headlines about the success of the pedestrian zone.




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    10 days ago

    I also feel like our generation doesn’t really have such a strict ruleset anymore to break free from during a midlife crisis. I’m 40 and my friends have just always been doing their “weird hobbies” like biking, travelling etc. There’s noone who suddenly realizes at 40 that they have missed out and always wanted to see the pyramids, ride a motorcycle or completely change their career. Those who want to ride a motorbike have owned one for years, those who want to travel have done so since their 20s. The expectations have changed. You don’t have to conform to a strict ruleset anymore and give up a lot when you become an adult. So there are less people with major regrets and “I wish I had done XYZ” in their 40s. At least in my bubble


  • Sehr interessant. Ich habe bei den Coronaleugnern in meinem Umfeld während der Pandemie definitiv ein abdrifzen in esoterische Denkweisen bemerkt: Von “Ich mag die Maske nicht.” “Die Maske behindert mein Atmen.” “Ich glaub, ich fühl mich öfter krank, seit ich Masken tragen muss.” zu “Ich hab gehört, die Impfung macht was mit dem Körper. Die haben das nicht erforscht, wer weiß, welche Einflüsse das alles auf uns hat, wenn wir uns das Spritzen lassen.” Und als dann schon quasi alles angezweifelt wurde, weil irgendwelche verborgenen Prozesse durch Maske und/oder Impfung ausgelöst wurden, die die Wissenschaft nicht erklären kann, hieß es immer öfter “die Wissenschaftler sind auch nur normale Menschen, die wissen nicht mehr als du oder ich.” Und schon waren alternative Heilmethoden, über die ein paar Videos geschaut wurden, genauso gut und sicher wie wissenschaftlich belegte.

    Tja, und als sie dann schon so weit waren, war der Schritt zu “Alle Politiker wollen uns ‘die Wissenschaft’ andrehen und ignorieren ‘Erkenntnisse aus anderen Quellen’. Nur die AfD steht dagegen auf und lässt Andersdenkende wie mich zu!” nicht mehr weit.

    Wenn man schon glaubt, dass die ganze “Wissenschaft” einen anlügt, ist der Schritt zu “Politiker, die diese Wissenschaft fördern, sind verlogen” halt nicht mehr weit.



  • That reminds me of a former job I had. I had a male coworker who refused to make coffee. It was a small company with only 10 employees and we had this really cheap machine where you just put coffee in the upper part and then let the water run through. Don’t know what it’s called. Anyway, that coffee machine had ONE (1!) button: on/off. He’d always try to make me or the only other woman in the office make the coffee because “You women know better how to do those things. I never make coffee”. The best part: he was one of the engineers in charge of repairing the power tools that the company sells!

    So, what happened if we refused or weren’t there? There just wasn’t any coffee! Those guys would rather not have their coffee than make it themselves!




  • You also had decent profiles where you could write more texts about you. That could give you an idea of who that person is. There is a difference between “Tea or Coffee? - Tea.” and “Tea or Coffee? - I like green teas but also some black teas like assam. I sometimes bake scones to eat with the tea.” A lit of modern apps don’t even give you the option to show your personality more.