And this is why we not only need to reduce our dependence on China in the long run but also our dependence on the US.

There’s just no way a sovereign state live while depending on US monopolies.

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I’m atheist who went through an agnostic phase earlier.

So - as a thought experiment - let’s assume there is a god and heaven and a judgment day.

There are two persons in front of the ultimate judge.

One behaved “good” but just out of fear of ultimate judgement.

The other one just he didn’t want to be an asshole out of his own wishes.

Who’d pass?

So I think god is irrelevant. Belief is irrelevant.

Ultimately these ideas led me down the path of optimistic nihilism.

And my most important rule for life: Just don’t be an asshole.

I miss my poop knife copypasta.

There’s no way individual donations from ordinary people could match Google’s. They’re also likely to be less reliable.

Thank god. I do really believe all the Google money is actively stifling innovation at Mozilla. The only thing they can’t do is building a better browser than chrome is, for fear of becoming a viable alternative again.

So they use the money for some CEO pay. and weird projects while Firefox further falls from popularity.

I hope for the day Firefox’s market share has dropped to a level tha Google just won’t pay any money anymore for the default search engine deal.

That day - and not one day before - innovation will resume.

I did. I rage-signed up for a monthly contribution to the Servo project the last time I read about something Mozilla did.

Recently I go fucking annoyed by Mozilla that I rage-contributed (monthly payment) to Servo.

Mozilla is such a shit show.

When I was in 7th grade I had the same teacher in Latin that my dad had.

That teacher was really old. It was hard to cheat in a test, as he had extremely crossed eyes and I never was sure where he looked.

Weird memories.

Why is everyone ignoring Wham? Whamageddon starts at Dec 1st.

Oh interesting, I knew this joke in a “Budweiser” form, but not that it originated from Monty Python.

So I bow to them.

I’m living in Munich and we also have a bit of a connection to beer. Of the famous Munich beer brands Paulaner and Hacker are partially held by Heineken and Spaten, Franziskaner and Löwenbräu by Anheuser Busch.

Fortunately there are still good independent few. (Augustiner, Hofbräu, Giesinger)

I always want to go to the Paulaner or Hacker beer gardens and put a sticker to the urinal “This is where they make Heineken”

What’s the difference between Foster’s and having sex in a canoe?

There’s none.

Both are fucking close to water.

In every fucking commercial for a washing machine someone is in their garden and turns on the machine by wifi. How does the dirty laundry get in?

The only interesting thing might be a notification when it’s done.

I fucking love your concept of kinetic sanctions.

He drinks a vodka drink
He drinks a vodka drink
He drinks a vodka drink
He drinks a vodka drink

He gets knocked down,
does not get up again
You’re never keep him up again

I even don’t care about trust or whatever drama of the day is going on with LTT. I’m just sick beyond any measure of all that clickbait shit.

What about an emulator like 86box or so? And which game is it?

“Evidence”? What a quaint concept.

As a Bavarian (South of Germany) I agree with the Ch at the start of the word being pronounced like a K (Chiemsee starts with the sound K), but with it depends on the region. I start “China” and “Chemie” with K, but a lot of people start it with “sch” (which sounds like sh in English). But that’s really weird for my ears.

And the father of my ex wife is from Cologne, his “ch” sound quite like “sh” as well. Kirche (church) sounds like Kirsche (cherry) when he says it. Funnily his last name has two “ch”.

German is my native language , so yes. It sounds a lot different from what you might think if you can’t speak “ch”. But if you’re American…

Please read this German sentence aloud:

Ich suche den Koch.

(I’m looking for the chef.)