He’s gonna win two truths and a lie for the rest of his life.

Even without a lot of money, power corrupts. Which is why rotation is important.

I’m pretty much like that. My memory works from the generic towards the details, and has trouble recalling them without a way of getting there.

I have a great amount of interesting stories to tell, but when people prompt me for examples I often blank and give general answers like these. That’s often taken as that I don’t have anything interesting to share (or don’t want to), but if you ask me follow up questions I’ll recall more and more and make connections to other topics.

A friend of mine is the opposite, they can say “I’ll have to tell you about my weekend…” and then talk 5 minutes nonstop, whereas with me it’s more like a constant stream of exchanging thoughts back and forth.

In my experience, people of both conversation styles usually tend to stay among their own and don’t mingle a lot, because it can be hard to combine them. But it’s like most differences, it can be made work by exposure and mutual respect.

I’m a weirdo who’s on disability and have had great experiences with dating apps. I found half of my peer group there and some short-term relationships. I’m a bi woman, so your mileage may vary obviously, but in my experience the queer dating scene is a bit easier in that regard, even though I can’t comment on male dating.

I was very lonely and isolated for a long time and pretty much thought I’m just gonna be alone. In general I try to be open about my baggage and other people with perhaps similar backgrounds appreciate that. Once I found them life got really pleasant.

I’ve used pretty much all the apps with varying success. I had a better experience with the not so famous apps like Boo, Hiki (for neurodivergent people) or HER (lesbian app). I think I am an outlier here though, because most people I know get jaded from online dating really quickly, I’ve been doing it on and off for 5 years now. Sometimes I don’t really get many matches, half a year later it’s better. So if online dating isn’t for you that’s fair, but if it is, maybe you can find an app with like-minded people as well.

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Art thou feeling it now, Mr. Krabs?

And sometimes there’s a comparison to 50 years ago and there were 3 dozen different rare to semi-common linguistic variations for it back then. But somehow only this one small one didn’t get assimilated into the two prevailing ones. Makes you wonder what kind of secrets that town is up to.

See, works WAY better!

I’d take it.

Patrick Breyer with the pirate party is my go to example of why small parties and extraparliamentary opposition is important. 99% of the people don’t even know him and he’s just doing such an sucessful job of protecting them anyway.

Here in Germany, for 1,5 out of 50 years there was every other day some news titled “climate-”. Since the activist group withdrew, silence has covered the topic again. They should get medals.

Making new experiences. I spend time with my friends and try to build communities with interesting people to help deal with whatever the future will throw at us. Everytime I think I’ve got something figured out, another perspective pops up to consider. I’m plenty worried about the future, but life has certainly never been that interesting for me.

Mamdani is being called a communist a lot. I think cosmicrookie might be right.

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.

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”.

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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.