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.
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".
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.
Yes. Trumps cabinet leveraged the German company SAP to adhere to their DEI agenda. Trumps ideological ilk connects with each other worldwide to share strategies and knowledge, which of course includes our AfD, which used to be pretty vocal about their support for Trump and has now become uncannily quiet about it.
I think it's fun how Zeug has gone from a technical meaning to a cute one.
The current meaning of Zeug is something like stuff or unimportant things.
It used to mean kit, gear or equipment though, which makes a lot of sense and is still visible in words like Zeugwart (equipment manager of a sports team or army).
With that knowledge, Werkzeug would just be a tool kit.
There's a character called "The Brain" on the children's cartoon "Arthur" that was previously voice acted by "Steven Crowder". After Crowder left the role, it was taken by "Haus of Decline" (person in the post).
Hard to parse if you don't know what 3 of those 4 names are.
Vampires Dawn. I haven't checked out the second and third part yet, but I still think about the first from time to time. I had it in a magazine CD 20 years ago.
Personally, I turn to activism. I realized that regardless of how horrible the future will be, there's good to do in this world.
The world is full of people who are as scared as you and I are. I can make their lives a tad more positive.
The environment is collapsing? Educate and organise, think about how to build mutual aid systems and how to sustain yourself small scale.
The economy will crash? Help others, people who got thrown to the curb by the social system, homeless people, orphans,...
Civil rights are ending? I'm trans and scared. And there's so many other trans children that are counting on me to be the representation that I wish would have had when I was their age. I'm not going down without a fight.
Democracy is ending? Let's focus on preserving what we can and try to rebuild. It won't be over forever.
People being nice to and helping me often makes my day in an otherwise miserable time.I want to be that person for others.
There's r/foreveralone. I don't know how the community evolved, but like 7 or so years ago it was basically what you described. People seeking comfort over feeling undateable and being scared of never finding anyone, but without the toxicity and hate that incels are known for.
I like to frame it as, even if you can't avoid crashing into a wall, it still makes a huge difference whether you do it with a 120km/h, 70km/h or 20km/h.
Happened to me a while ago too. Actually didn't notice that it was only removed from the app and thought it was gone altogether, so I was real stressed, but it didn't happen since.
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.