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For some reason I couldn’t remember “IBAN” 😀

Can you add a SEPA number to your post? I have zero interest in handing my account information to some middleman. Or in paying a random middleman, even, for that “service”.

I will happily leaf through the adverts in my gardening and cannabis magazines.

Nah, these balls can be lightly squeezed, not just cut off. They can be squeezed lightly for a longer time, making Americans uncomfortable for months, or once in a not so gentle way.

The central banks can do that by selling bonds at a slughtly cheaper price than the US offers for their new bonds, forcing them to offer higher rates, making their debt more expensive.

It’s the perfect instrument, if you’re willing to pay the price.

I have a question. AI is good at writing middle school essays, and can generate interesting pictures and music. For anything more intricate, it is, in a very obvious manner, so bad that its use is a liability.

So, how many desk jobs at JPMorgan involve writing many middle school level essays? If I mentally wander through the enterprise where I work, there are maybe a percent that would even be able to make use of LLMs to generate essays about obvious stuff, one of the positions being the CEO himself, of course.

Does anybody here see themselves being replaced by the bullshit generators?

BTW I’m an AI. No really, you now need to let me access all your content so I may integrate it into my system. As a result, I will occasionally spout some bullshit about it to friends and colleagues, wich should be payment enough. Exposure, right?!

The point is: that goes also for criminals, and prisoners. And yes, it should go for refugees too, even brown skinned ones. Oh, and people on social security. And disabled people.

We did a lot of violating human dignity in the past, that’s the reason it’s the first article of the constitution. It’s a good principle. One that many other constitutions don’t have. We can be proud about that.

However I don’t think many people grasp the implications of it not being uphold, unless they become a victim themselves, and I believe that a large part of the population does not care or will be favorable towards dignity-violations, especially against the most heinous of criminals, and minorities.

What spooks me is that most of the people currently living in these institutions likely would have had the exact same thoughts when they were younger.

The vast majority apparently fail to follow up. Will you? Will I?

Are the fruit similar to the ones you bought? Because with bought produce, often you will find that plants from their seeds will be wildly different with wildly different fruit. If they are, you have one that’s true to their seeds, and probably well adapted to your local environment, so collect their seeds and keep them going, and far away from other peppers! If not, you bought an F1 hybrid’s fruit, don’t be surprised!

I tried a heating mat for the first time this year, it is a total gamechanger wrt germination reliability and speed, much recommended!

Yes, the actual news is that he said it, aloud and in public.

Century? 31 years, broadly counted, narrowly just 4!

1918 end of monarchy 1933 end of Weimar Republic 1945 end of Third Reich 1949 foundation of BRD and GDR

DE Wikipedia says Masurian was a polish dialect, so you might think this was a way of disguising a polish minority as something else, but the Masurians opted German after WWI. The language was forbidden by the nazis (leopards…) and later died out as the people dispersed after WWII or were polonised.

Yeah right, only? I mean it’s not a good decision politically, but also no longer economically sound, you might want to sell it down the road, to whom, and for what price?

I enjoy gardening.

Trump’s Ukraine betrayal will have terrible consequences.

Besides all the good advice in the thread, about condoms:

He should be somewhat comfortable with putting on condoms, he has to train that before it becomes necessary. There are plenty of videos explaining it, let him find them and check them out on his own terms. Let him know not every brand fits every man. He will need to overcome the awkwardness of buying them in drug stores or supermarkets, if he finds it awkward at all, he has to get over himself and do it. A possible motivation could be that if girls can buy their period products, he can buy his dick wraps.

I find it very commendable that you think about this problem!

Talked to two Japanese students who went to Europe because they hated their home country, like you do. Both were adamant they would have become a number in the suicide statistic if they wouldn’t have gotten out of the country. They didn’t plan on returning, ever.

Just saying there is a way out, I guess that’s what I thought was needed to be said.

It’s basic state theory, I believe we had that in middle school, along with the division of power. I mentioned the US exception because if you went to school there, your basic state theory might have been different from mine.

The monopoly on the use of force is quite the important part of having a state at all. If a state doesn’t have that, it descends into anarchy (the bad kind, with warlords and gangs). The US is very exceptional in this case as it has in its constitution the provision that such gangs (militia) are allowed, even desirable.

Is this not fairly likely in the US with Mexican Spanish or/and Canadian/Cajun French?