Well, I recently lost, like, 50% of my credibility as an intellectual as I stopped smoking. So I guess I am now somewhere in between both ends.

Oh, like German “Fach” then, I assume? That does actually make sense

Which I would classify as pretty weird, but not really unethical. Besides, I think the comparison doesn’t fully work - it’s more like, growing a lump on your body somewhere, having it removed, and saying “hey, can I eat that?”. Which I would also classify as weird, but not unethical.

Besagte Michmichseite erschafft so weit ich mich erinnere auch fast ausschließlich Fälschungen. Das hier ist recht witzig (wobei ich die “Christstollen” und das Bananenbiegen etwas dick aufgetragen finde), aber einige von denen sind, wie die Jugend wahrscheinlich sagen würde, schon sehr “krinsch”. Ähnliche Dinge passieren mit Sicherheit, aber das Wasserzeichen ist ein klares Indiz von Karikatur und Überzeichnung.

Oder Spezies - Zwiebeln, Pfefferschoten, alle sind zum Scheißepfostieren willkommen

I know that there were (are?) browser extensions that fetch and display “karma” on profiles, at the very least on firefox. Might be worth a search for people interested in statistics and numbers going up.

Yeah, that was clearly just the group having fun, sounds like it might have been some kind of in-joke. Stuff like keygen music and adding extra fun stuff to your cracks has always been part of the culture. For the most part, while I’m not saying there is zero risk, but as long as it’s from verified groups with good reputation, your pirated software will be safe to use - also part of the culture.

Mayo + Ketchup combined, the classic “Rot-Weis”-combo in Germany.

That or, preferrably, mayo + a good chilli sauce

Hm, lets see if I can still get it together, it has been years since I read Lacan. All of this should be viewed as just from the top off my head the way I remember/interpreted it.

The phallus for Lacan is the imagined omnipotence and agency of our parents (or other caregivers) as we are a very young child and completely dependent on them, turned into a fundamental aspect of the unconscious. Further, it is some desirable aspect, that we imagined makes our caregiver desire other things more than our own needs. (Think: A mother may not immediately feed a child because she is occupied with something else, like the father.) It is the idea of having something, that can fulfil your needs - but is also intimidating and unpredictable, powerful yet volatile. In sexuation, Lacan argues, the “male” sexuation (note that Lacan already did not completely tie this to sex nor even gender as such, more to sexual roles that develop more broadly but have tendencies) projects this onto the proper phallus, i.e. penis, and desires to control it and use it, i.e. overcome the unconscious concept of castration (the realisation of your own powerlessness and dependency). Whereas the “female” sexuation starts to project onto the phallus the primal desire of getting back the symbolic phallus - fetishising it as something powerful that takes control of you and ultimately will enable you to reach the object of desire. Note that this object of desire to Lacan is a complex concept in the unconscious, and I can’t get it all together (and assume I already misremembered some stuff along the way), but at its core, it is an unreachable, unimaginable part of the unconscious, around which the rest of the unconscious circles, never quite reaching it.

The original image was just an image of a possessive gf holding up a guy by his dick.

*Dryena

Jupp, und insgesamt verschieben sich an vielen Stellen die Zonen, an denen es sich abregnet. Dürre hier, Extremregen da, alles in allem werden die Extreme mehr. So wie der höhere Luftaustausch mit der Arktis auch richtig harte Kältewellen in unsre Grade bringen kann, obwohl die Luft ja insgesamt wärmer/energetischer ist.

Initiativen hier, die darauf abzielen den Boden besser Wasser speichern zu lassen sind ziemlich wichtig, ein Wechsel, von Dürrejahren und Rekordnässejahren, mit weniger durchschnittlich starkem Niederschlag, ist sehr wahrscheinlich.

Unmöglich, die Götter werden nicht zulassen, dass Wacken etwas anderes als Schlammbad oder aufgehitzte Dustbowl sein könnte ;)

Interesting, I only very recently learned I have actually been autistic, finally explaining the weirdness of my past three decades+, so I am not knowledgeable about what language might be preferrable. Self-stimulating behaviour? I can only speak for myself that I actually do like the term, to me, it has a nice sound, one of those words that, to me, feels good to repeat aloud to myself.

Also, learn how to fly drones if you can, if (when?) things go shit-fan-hitting globally, that seems like a really useful skill to have in your group, considering how the face of warfare looks at the moment.

With a quick reminder: If you in any way can, don’t do this solo, connect with others, don’t get arrogant about it, either. The fascist preppers have a huge weakness in their narcissistic individualist “I am better than the sheep” prepping style. Being able to actually support and organise a community in the potentially coming chaos is important.

Yeah, I never understood it either. Either have an open relationship with consent, or communicate whatever needs you have that you want to fulfill by cheating properly, and accept that it may not work out if there is truly no way to meet them. I guess I can at least abstractly understand when it happens spur-of-the moment and under the influence of drugs/alcohol, but I still can’t properly put myself in those shoes.

I ran an instance for a while out of curiosity a few years back - building the database seemed to work fine and appeared like a good idea, had a lot of fun to see the connections with other servers and my crawler filling holes of unknown spaces. But I think the search algorithm itself was (most likely is) not sophisticated enough, it just did not give relevant results often enough, and it was extremely vulnerable to very simple SEO tactics to push trash to the top.

Im Linksautonomen Spektrum gabs/gibts eher Sabotage gegen bestimmten Güterverkehr, wie Rüstungsgüter oder früher Atomkram, oder Partisanenaktionen wie die Anarchokommunisten in Belarus und Russland.

Personenverkehr wird normalerweise sehr selten absichtlich lahmgelegt, deshalb würde es mich hier auch eher wundern, gerade ohne Statement und Bekennerschreiben - die einzige Motivation wäre ja Olympia für ne PR-Aktion der eigenen Orga sabotieren, und das macht an sich nur Sinn, wenn man auch die PR nachschiebt.

Yeah, blast it loud enough to drown out any other noises, tinnitus, thoughts, just music and stimming pls

That is a great way to explain the difference, saving that one for reference.

Materially, they were often launched into the upper middle class or even outright capitalists, that immediately gives them a bias. Add to that a disdain for social sciences and the humanities as subjects, that is unfortunately often found in STEM fields. On top of that, many are really addicted to the consumer cycle with gadgets and idolise the “geniuses” that “create” them, unlike proper nerds that won’t trust this generation of tech nearly as much and much rather create and tinker with stuff themselves.