Great, now I’m a dad, apparently. Thank you!

Monkey sees, monkey wants. I’m in desperate need of a personality. Is this hat real?

That’s not really important for me, though. I’ll wait and see how it works out. The first one was amazing but Below Zero was a letdown.

Ich glaube auch, dass für viele die Scharmbekundung performativ ist. Sie bleiben immer im Mainstream, das Fähnchen im Wind. Dennoch wäre für mich lobenswerter, wenn Opa tatsächlich eingesteht, dass er Teil der Partei war, die für den Holocaust zu verantworten ist, seine eigene Beteiligung anerkennt und sich dafür schämt. Das apologetische “Jede/r Staat / Großmacht / Whatever hat Dreck am Stecken” zeigt für mich wenig Einsicht.

Abgesehen davon, drückt der Schuh aber noch an anderer Stelle: Opas Position ist deckungsgleich mit der eines Nazis. Die entschuldigen sich gewiss auch nicht für die Verbrechen. Da du darüber kein Wort verlierst, ist für mich unverständlich, wo da der Stolz erwachsen soll.

Ich bin mir nicht sicher, ob ich dich richtig verstehe aber du bist stolz darauf, dass er sich nicht dafür schämte?

It’s not all that different in Germany.

Do you have a recipe for this criminally good-looking Cherry Cream Cheese Cake?

Oh wow, I almost completely forgot about this game! I played it an eternity ago. Could be interesting to play it again if only as a trip down memory lane.

Exactly, that’s why this is such a lame take. Roughly 3/4 of all agricultural land could be restored by switching to a plant based diet.

That’s a pretty textbook ad hominem, so I don’t think there’s much to continue here.

Have a good one, either way.

Edit: Saw that you used an alt account to downvote me twice. That’s actually kind of pitiful. You won this argument, okay champ?

My dude, you’re lost in the sauce. You edited your comment to mention the dot-com bubble after I posted but why would we even talk about that? YouTube wasn’t founded until several years later.

Why wouldn’t I talk about VC? YouTube was backed by VC a couple of months after its creation.

What are you talking about? I’m kinda speechless. In tech it’s absolutely normal to not be profitable after 3 years. Amazon, Uber, Tesla, Netflix. Just off the top of my head. You can find many more. And we don’t even need to talk about AI. Have you seen their profits?

That’s standard procedure for a start-up. You rely on investment money and focus on growth rather than profitability.

I don’t understand the nostalgia for a YouTube that was supposedly only created for our enjoyment. It never existed. It was always going to squeeze as much money out of its users as possible to satisfy its shareholders.

That’s an interesting point. Perhaps there was a time when quality was the defining metric and customer enjoyment was considered. In hindsight, this was short-lived, as other metrics became more important in order to satisfy stakeholders. My point is that this is always bound to happen in a capitalist system.

I love the illusion and enjoy immersing myself in it, but let’s not kid ourselves. It has always been about profit.

Gucke rein, wer fehlt natürlich? Bayern. Ich wurde nicht überrascht.

Team Red could really use some help. Let’s make this comeback happen!

Yeah, it’s a trend on Reddit that’s spreading (see what I did there? Heh, sex). I don’t like it at all. The punchline is either non-existent, “heh, sex” or women being horny. Just uninspired stuff. I get why the artists do it, it pays the bills. But I’m not too keen on it.

Warum wählt uns Niemand?

That’s a cool idea! As others, I’m not too keen on using Telegram. Would it run with other messaging apps like Signal or Threema?