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In an anarchist society, that is a community without hierarchies and rulers, threats are handled by the community. So one person with a big stick would have to fight everyone else to establish their dominance.

Absolutely, here is the part for the lazy:

I should add that, for all her cheerleading of gen Z, Foster isn’t above being irritated by them. “They’re really annoying, especially in the workplace. They’re like, ‘Nah, I’m not feeling it today, I’m gonna come in at 10.30am.’ Or, like, in emails, I’ll tell them this is all grammatically incorrect, did you not check your spelling? And they’re like, ‘Why would I do that, isn’t that kind of limiting?’”

There are already a lot of good tips, I just want to add that telling people to calm down never works. They are upset for a reason, even if it's a nonsensical one.

If you happen to become the lighting rod for someone else's anger it helps to remind yourself that they are not actually upset with you personally. You just happen to be caught in it.

Sometimes it is possible to use empathy to align yourself with them by agreeing that this situation is upsetting, validating their feelings. In the end they will have to deal with their feelings, you can't do that for them. All you can do is move out of the way and maybe redirect it. In this situation you could say: yes this sucks. I'm very sorry, I wish I could help you, but I will lose my job if I try. These regulations are there to protect our patients, but sometimes they get in the way. Unfortunately I cannot do anything about that. If I could I would.

In the end this might or might not work to redirect their anger. How they deal with their anger is out of your control. That also means it is not your responsibility and you don't need to take it to heart personally.

Gifs that end too soon

I've been looking forward to continue Jujutsu Kaisen, but I can hardly remember season 1. It seems to have been overwritten by Chainsaw Man and Demon Slayer in my head.

Watching season 2 was a bit confusing at first, especially because it's about events that happen before season 1. But now I'm wondering what I ever liked about the series. The characters are bland, the abilities and powers feel inconsistent. But most damning of all is the constant exposition. Every fart has to be explained by a character and it's somehow simultaneously unnecessarily complicated and boring. But the animation is great!

On the upside I gave Pluto on Netflix another shot. The first time I bounced off it after the first 15min. This time I made it through the first episode, which didn't quite hook me either. But after hearing so much praise about it, I immediately went into episode 2 and finally got it. Reminded me of sci-fi classics like Ghost in the Shell and Blade Runner. And of Watchmen, the comic in particular. Haven't finished it yet, but would also highly recommend it to anyone interested in dense, philosophical sci-fi!

Here in Germany it depends on the region. But even within one region it can be different from friend group to friend group.

I grew up in southern Germany with handshake as default greeting. Except women often get a hug instead. If you know someone well it's more likely to greet with a hug with men grasping each other's hand before a short hug and slap on the back. However, if you see them a lot you might just give them a nod. On the others hand id you haven't seen them in a while they get a hug.

In East Germany, where I live now, it seems to be much more common to hug your friends. Interestingly some will put their head on the right, reaching with their left hand over your shoulder. Which can be very awkward, when you are used to the opposite and almost kiss.

Some of these comments are way too harsh!

I agree there is nothing wrong with your behavior. I think people are insensitive or just ignorant of others financial situation.

There are a lot of people who can't afford too many unnecessary expenses. Still there are those who never had to think to much about expenses like drinks in a bar or food in a restaurant. They might not even be conscious of the fact that the people around them might have it different.

Then there is the general stigma around money, especially not having any. Many people are actively afraid that others could think they don't have money. Feelings of shame and embarrassment around money are not uncommon. These are strong enough to lead to second hand embarrassment, seeing someone else showing signs of not having money. This can be very uncomfortable for them to experience, especially if they weren't aware of it or don't have much experience with it.

That is why it's nice not to assume that everybody in the group can afford to go to a bar. I know it's not easy to talk about money, but I think it's important to be upfront with your wealthier friends if you can't afford to go to the bar. They might reconsider going to somewhere else or someone's flat instead or just invite you. It shouldn't be upon the less wealthy to do this, but it's an unfortunate reality in most circles I know. The only exceptions are circles where it's common to have no money...

As for the bar and staff: they might talk and joke about it, because it's unusual, but they would be pretty short sighted to mind it. If you come with a group that pays, they make money. You could always leave and find some place that doesn't mind that one of you won't order anything.

You could try a sort of compromise and order a glass of tap water, assuming that it's free in your country of course. That way you order something, but make it clear that you won't spend any money. You are not sneaking in and instead being upfront with the staff.

In any case don't let yourself get bullied into spending money, when you can't or don't want to. I have myself been in the situation often enough that I couldn't really afford such expenses or rather wanted to save my limited money to spend it somewhere else. It's already an uncomfortable place, made harder by situations like that. However, there is nothing wrong with not having a lot of money and being open about it.

Yes

As others have already said, it's a pop song by 2Raumwohnung (which translates to 2 room apartment). Here are the translated lyrics:

    
Ah-ah-ah
Ah-ah-ah
Ah-ah-ah
Ah-ah-ah

Look what the boys are doing back there
And tell them: "I want that too"
Because every time the boys do that
Then I realize what I need

I'll give you a present, please open it
Order me a drink, I'll come up to your place
Or will you come down to me? I want to see your rooms
We're lying in front of the minibar, come on, let's go for a swim

36 degrees and it's getting hotter
Never turn down the beat again
36 degrees, no fan
Life doesn't seem hard at all
36 degrees, ah-ah-ah
36 degrees, ah-ah-ah

Look what they're doing back there again
I don't know what it's all about, but I think it's good
All the boys are singing and dancing here
Come on girls, here we are

Shoes off, bikini on, let's go out
It's starting to rain
And we're dancing and we can already see the sun again
And now a rainbow, wow, it's beautiful (oh)

36 degrees and it's getting even hotter
Never turn down the beat again
36 degrees, no fan
Life doesn't seem hard at all
36 degrees, ah-ah-ah
36 degrees, ah-ah-ah

Here boys, there girls, go on, go on, go on
Give it your all and more than you can
No one knows what's about to happen, but everyone here knows
This is the air that burns

Ah-ah-ah
Ah-ah-ah
Ah-ah-ah
Ah-ah-ah

36 degrees and it's getting even hotter
Never turn down the beat again
36 degrees, no fan
Life doesn't seem hard at all (ah)

(Ah-ah-ah)
Give it your all and more than you can
Here boys, there girls, go on, go on, go on
Go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, 

  

Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

+1 for Linux Mint

Not me personally, but when I was hanging with a couple of friends we talked movies with good twists and of course classic The Sixth Sense came up. One of my friends says he hasn't seen it, yet. So of course we recommend it to him and don't say anything about the twist. Unfortunately another friend was just coming back from the toilet and hadn't heard that someone hasn't seen the movie, yet. Only heard us praising the Sixth Sense, so comes back and directly goes: ::: spoiler spoiler Oh yeah! Bruce Willis is dead the whole movie! What a twist!

:::

Maybe oldschool Dragon Balls or Rurouni Kenshin? I wonder if Hunter x Hunter or One Piece might be better? I've only watched the former a bit and I think it has significantly less graphic violence at least. Alternatively maybe something completely silly like Samurai Pizza Cats.

Can't imagine why 😆 Man, I love AMVs! The happy tone of the music is an interesting contrast to the violence on screen. The whole video reminds me a lot of one of my favorites: AMV NGE Metallica "Waste my Hate"

He's building a Tesla factory in Germany. So that might be why. Also it's not just a right wing party, but the most extreme right wing party in Germany that isn't forbidden yet.

That's an easy block if there ever was one.

Fascinating! Thanks for sharing!

I don't think that holds true quite as much today as it did back when Voltaire said it. He was calling out authoritarian structures like the christian church if I remember correctly. While certainly still true in totalitarian systems like dictatorships, it's a somewhat different situation in democracies for example. In a democracy you are generally allowed to criticize anyone. However, powerful entities like big corporations and the very rich might still abuse the system to sue you into oblivion.

Also this quote gets misused quite often by people who do not understand the difference between hate speech and criticism and by people who think being called out and criticized for their words is the same as being "not allowed to criticized" or silenced.

"By a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak." - Umberto Eco

Same happens to me, incidentally just before I saw this thread. I always thought this might be the case when the next batch of content is loaded, but due to new posts the order has changed. No idea if that's the actual reason, though.

1 minute in: "However, at a time in which extreme cultural divisions had seen Trump valiantly slay maniacal establishment whore and serial rape apologist Hilary Clinton"

Yeah, nope.