lokalhorst
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- Comment on Walmart Shopping Carts Left Feet Away from the Cart Corral. 3 days ago:
Sure, it’s happening in most countries of the west because of the demographic change and shifts in global power away from the US.
- Comment on Walmart Shopping Carts Left Feet Away from the Cart Corral. 3 days ago:
I am fully aware :( I am lucky to be a white heterosexual academic, but I fear a lot for my friends and all the people who aren’t resilient enough for this.
- Comment on Walmart Shopping Carts Left Feet Away from the Cart Corral. 3 days ago:
Germany still has a good image, that is true. It’s very hard to address all your points without writing a book, so I keep it short. But if there is anything you are interested in more detail, let me know!
“AfD exists” is an understatement, especially when you look at the election results from yesterday
The far right is moving forward and minorities get crushed more and more like everywhere in the west.Social services - many people will be poor when they are old, because Germanys retirement system is broken. You need to make private investments in order to make a living, no matter how long you have worked. Regarding the health service - I made an appointment for a rheuma doctor 2 month ago, it will be in January 2027. I live in a major city with >600k inhabitants.
The mass transit is so shitty, I can’t even begin speaking about Deutsche Bahn without getting so angry it will kill my mood. In big cities, yes, busses and trams are well (as long as it is below 30°), but the rest is really bad.
The economy is in a downwards spiral, the state makes debts as never before, the car market is slowly overtaken by China, job losses are on the rise.
These are all problems that are independent of our government, which is one of the worst we ever had. Defense is the only sector where they have ambitions.
- Comment on Walmart Shopping Carts Left Feet Away from the Cart Corral. 3 days ago:
Maybe it’s the fear of the extra physical exercise what prevents US Americans from bringing the cart back
- Comment on Walmart Shopping Carts Left Feet Away from the Cart Corral. 3 days ago:
No. In Germany this is unthinkable behavior, our society is still shit.
- Comment on Nice Going Buddy 1 week ago:
- Comment on why do we punish people when nothing bad happened ? 1 week ago:
Why should we punish someone doing Russian roulette while holding a gun against another persons head if nothing happened?
- Comment on This drip coffee is now $5 dollars, up from $2.50 3 years ago 2 weeks ago:
Check your local church schedule
No thanks
- Comment on This drip coffee is now $5 dollars, up from $2.50 3 years ago 2 weeks ago:
A lot of things taste bad when you are a child. If you are young and drink coffee for the first time it will just be bitter. But some day you might develop a taste for the different rich flavours coffee contains, the different levels and kinds of bitterness, you will train your taste. Of course you can also just never try and stay with Dr. Pepper, and that is alright. Nor everybody can enjoy a good wine, a good cigar or a good coffee. I just have not a taste for wine. But do I go around and yell that wine tastes like shit and people get addicted so it sucks? No I don’t, so have a little bit of respect for what other people may like or may not like.
- Comment on This drip coffee is now $5 dollars, up from $2.50 3 years ago 2 weeks ago:
What is church service, is that when Christians visit church on sundays?
- Comment on When you're not a resort hotel but are in a city... 2 weeks ago:
Hello Sir, I request the nightly shoe shine that was promised to me.
- Comment on I believe him, mine tried to wink right back at me once. 3 weeks ago:
I was crying throwing up laughing for like an hour nobody believes him
- Comment on go watch Twin Peaks 3 weeks ago:
Watching with a friend every other week at the moment. So far we are at S02E08. The first season was a wild ride and we always tried to get together what happened in the last 2 episodes, know we are slowly diving in. It’s definitely a show that is not easy to watch if you don’t binge.
- Comment on The price of soda in 2017 3 weeks ago:
This comparison is so ridiculous that in the end I decided not to argue against it. I can’t believe some people.
- Comment on How do people easily find out that I'm an easy to pick up on? 3 weeks ago:
Look at Mr. Testosterone here. I bet you punch yourself in the face to make your jaw line look more defined.
- Comment on Those moutains are so quaint 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on success 3 weeks ago:
I thought this was a linkedIn post at first
- Comment on Wow. okay. Didn't need to go that hard. 3 weeks ago:
Wenn du mit anpackst ist wie wenn zwei loslassen
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Already fighting a cow and then I’ll go to the copper mines. We will see what happens.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
This looks a bit complex but great!
- Comment on I left Reddit for Lemmy. My story. 4 weeks ago:
One of the worst memes I have seen in a longer time. I get the joke though.
- Comment on Hydro-homie 4 weeks ago:
I can see a bit of a nipple. Dear US Americans, please imagine a black bar censoring it and then be ashamed for the next 3 hours for you have seen the work of the devil.
- Comment on Are there any technology-oriented content creators that are still good? 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on AI Slop 4 weeks ago:
This is absolutely new to me and I just invested 5 minutes into researching this and watched some videos. I know I shouldn’t but I really laughed out loud after watching the different eras Bombardino Crocodilo lived in. This is hilarious and gives me strong skibidi toilet vibes.
But yeah, monetizing this shit and sell school bags for children? Fuck that.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
US Americans are kind of obsessed with DNA genealogy. The results are mostly insignificant, they can’t tell you anything about the “nation” you are coming from. But it’s fascinating for them to imagine they are 10% Welsh and 20% German.
- Comment on Ciao 5 weeks ago:
I just don’t want to be confronted with sex at random times a day. There is enough random horniness in my life.
- Comment on Absolutely 5 weeks ago:
Subsidies :)
- Comment on How do you people read books? 5 weeks ago:
I swear, it get’s easier after the first chapter. I know, it’s a very historical section, I think the typical descriptive background a political book like this needs to introduce before it can formulate its thesis. After the broad global overview the book focuses more on US political history and then it gets interesting when it finally addresses the checks and balances. For me as a European, I learned a lot of new things and it made my view on the US clearer. From the first chapter I only remember the peruanian (?) president was a Japanese guy, lol.
- Comment on How do you people read books? 5 weeks ago:
I wanted to read more, so I started using bookwyrm at the start of this year. My SO and I set up a challenge - 12 books this year. It works and I am now at 8/12. I read fiction but also a lot of political literature.
Through some exciting fiction books you just read through - it’s run, you get sucked into it and want to know what happens in the next chapter. Finding those is generally luck and really depends on your taste. The last book I read through this was was Lying on the Couch by Irvin D. Yalom. He is a famous psychologist that writes fiction, it’s pretty easy to read but also has its depths. If you’re interested in psychoanalysis, it’s nice literature, I have read about 5 books from him.
Now, the “hard books” are different. There are different kind of hard books, some are very well written, others need a lot of background knowledge, others are just plain boring.
An important aspect for those books for me is, what is my motivation to read them? Do I think they are classics you need to have read, do I think the topic sounds interesting, or is it already part of a field I am familiar with?
In the latter case I will suck it in no matter what, at the moment I am reading a book about life in the early modern period in the holy Roman Empire.
I have another one from Herfried Münkler, a German political scientist which us particularly hard to read because you need so much background knowledge. I read it page by page, but only if I feel like it. There is no sense in forcing myself, I will experience the typical “reading but not understanding”. I often read 1-2 pages because the content is so dense, and enjoy if I understood a topic. To give another example for the more international audiences, I read How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt. It is from the first Trump presidency so a bit outdated, but it was a really exciting read, I learned a lot about the US political system. I read through it within 2-3 weeks.
Now regarding the classics you need to read: Fuck that. There is so much classic literature that might be important, but it’s just too boring or annoying to read. There are a lot of exceptions, but they are hard to find. The last one I read and was really happy about (also because it’s short) is The Stranger from Albert Camus.
Okay, but here my absolute advice for serious reading: Never force yourself to read through a book you don’t like. I am a bit of a perfectionist person myself and it was really hard to put a book away, but oh boy, reading is so much fun since I am doing it! I have about 7 books I started and I read them in parallel. One of then I haven’t touched in 5 months and maybe I will never read it. Another one just takes time like the Münkler one and I will read through 3 others in the meantime. But fuck this “I need to finish a book I started”, sentiment.
- Comment on modern day LinkedIn be like 5 weeks ago:
