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  • Absolutely agree, but the reason why they turn to AFD is because they literally have no trust in any of the classical parties. I think it is more of a longing for an underdog or almost a poker move - just bet everything on that (unfortunately rather racist) card because maybe they'd change something. It's already going down the drain if we continue the way we have continued for the past decades, so let's try something very new. Maybe we will have luck in this Russian roulette.

    Now, this is stupid af. I would never in my mind consider AFD as an actual option. But for a lot of people it feels like this is the only Fuck You they can give the current government (I am including the CDU/CSU in this definition of "government" too).

    Basically all other parties are moderate-middle at this point. They have some small differences but none of them actually fight for the working class, for underprivileged people, and basically all young people know they are or will be underprivileged. Yes we have a left party called Die Linke, but they have been notoriously busy with themselves and a split because a big chunk of the party was circling around Sahra Wagenknecht who was very controversial and shared some far right ideals. Maybe they will get a grip of themselves and become "vote-able" again in the future. But honestly, I'm not sure they are really left either.

    When you basically vote for capitalism, either way, just in different shades, it feels like your vote does not matter. Desparte people turn to desperate and stupid measures.

    For real, we don't have an actual, valid socialist party. I honestly wonder why. Most young people are so fed up with how things go. Yes we don't want to work anymore. Why should we? To get fired at random when a company goal isn't met? After we studied engineering for 8 years to get minimum wage +1€? To be part of a company that produces the 35th version of a shit emoji cushion, well knowing that we create a bullshit product that just unnecessarily wastes resources? So we can partake in killing the planet? So that we, after we have been fired for no reason, have to fight to collect unemployment for a short period of time, before we are being forced into a bullshit job under threats? So that we work full time until we are 70+ to hardly collect any retirement? When we have kids, we are supposed to not see them but give them to childcare asap to reenter the workforce. For all that bullshit. So I honestly wonder why there isn't a real socialist alternative to the classical parties. I have a very big feeling that a lot of young people would gladly jump over.

  • The granddaughter is still a kid developing her taste. It is actually a nice touch because this implies the daughter wasn't raised to like metal and chose the music as the one she liked herself (ofc with her parents' influence) and now also doesn't push her own daughter into a direction while she is still a child.

    That was my read of the white shirt and it's nice to see that someone else noticed the shirt progression.

  • Thank you, that is a very helpful insight!

    crimes against humanity, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions of 1949, attacks directed against civilian objects or civilians protected as such, or other war crimes as defined by international agreements

    Why do we then seem to hear only about the genocide controversy? Wouldn't it be easier/faster/more obvious to argue for all the other crimes mentioned above?

  • Didn't someone above mention one? I don't, unfortunately, and I live in Germany, so probably anything I'd find wouldn't be available where you live. But I am very intrigued now I have to admit. (Also because my sister has a cat who pisses everywhere and I love cats but their house smells awful. Enzymatic sprays sound amazing.)

    Edit: The csi spray even contains bacteria (together with enzymes), man, what a time to be alive. There's a spray for basically every animal.

  • Came back to read the other comments, take the enzyme spray!!! I highly vote for the enzyme spray. If there's an enzyme for your problem then always take the enzyme.

    Ozone sounds also really cool but keep in mind that ozone itself smells weird and maybe don't exactly breathe it in. (The smell will go away fast but I have worked with quite a few people who felt quite lightheaded after breathing in the ozone from a freshly UV-ed workbench.)

    Whatever you choose, read the label instructions first to make sure it doesn't corrode stuff, break down plastic etc.

  • Lol oh Jesus please don't use the heat gun (although I would love to use it myself), apart from the danger, I'll also point out that while you might not melt the plastic, you might still destabilize it and/or release some actually toxic (and also smelly) compounds. I imagine a low heat blow with a normal hair dryer just to air it out would be a smart step though.

    As for what works best in terms of encapsulation - I would try to ask in a community of rodent lovers. I can imagine that those guys have their secret weapons.

  • So, I have no clue what exactly it is that you want to heat and how you would do it (I somehow imagine you trying to put a microwave over the steering wheel of a car or blow drying your radio) but as for whether it would work to eliminate the odor that is bothering you... I am no expert on mouse urine smell but I did work with GC and judging from GC-O measurements you need to go up quite over 100°C to make every molecule that gives off smell volatile. So my guess would be, no, you cannot cook off the smell. My guess is even if you literally boiled a cup of mouse urine for an hour on a stove and let it cool down it would still have some odor left.

    That being said, I very much hope I am wrong and you or someone else will prove otherwise!

    The way I would go about it is probably to use something like Febreze, basically trying to put the odor molecule into a complex (is this how Febreze works?) where it either cannot bind to your receptors anymore or isn't volatile anymore. Probably do all of it, first blow dry (?) and heat off what you can, then use some H2O2 spray if the plastic allows it first (might even get some stuff to oxidize and change its properties i.e. the smell), then blow dry (?) it again to heat off what you can, then use an odor neutralizer.