Hust. Hust. Hier gibt es nichts zu sehen, bitte gehen Sie unauffällig weiter. Nothing to see here, please carry on.

Make America Go Away. MAGA.

That would be great.

Oooh, update. Just found the other post https://lemmy.world/post/42340747

As a German I would prefer California in the EU. I’d be ok to send EU money to Denmark, so they can buy California.

Image West Coast Weather AND hygge in one single state.

Would there be a way for Minnesota to leave the US and join Canada?

If they knew their vocabulary they’d knew that

• ICE is a fucking train
• ICE is always late
• ICE has broken air conditioning
• ICE arrives in the wrong order, today

That’s hard to find out. When I was in school I was captivated by American movies and music, mostly all blockbuster movies came out of the us. I’m Gen X and as a teenager I had my TV tuned in to MTV a lot (when it wasn’t in use with the Commodore 64)

Before that - I’m from the southern part of Germany, so we had a lot of US influence after WW2, whereas other parts of Germany had French, British and Russian military here.

I suppose WW2 had a big impact in Europe, as English speaking troops came in and saved people from Nazi Germany. Interestingly that’s how it feels in some parts of Germany even (they saved us from the Nazis) - as absurd as it is, when you’re aware how much support the Nazis had in the population.

Nevertheless English was a big positive thing - and the answer probably is “both the UK and the US”. My dad was a huge Beatles fan as a teenager and fans want to understand the lyrics. All you need is love.

Also don’t forget Europe has so many languages - so when we talk to each other we use what the most of us know - English. I do believe that the “EU” with its more open borders also brings people to use more English.

Unfortunately I (unsuccessfully) was taught Latin in school as a third language , not French - so English is my only tool in Europe to communicate beyond my native language. It worked everywhere I visited. From Latin everything I remember is “Marcus hodie in colloseo est. Ubi est Cornelia?” (really. that was chapter 1 in my first latin book, and it’s all I remember)

In some countries there’s a age gap, with people below 40 or so are much more fluent in English, but AFAIK it’s mandatory as a second language across schools in a big part of Europe. Even in my Generation - I have a lot of friends whom I just share English as a common language with.

English had that role even before the internet. Do you really belive we became fluent in English only in the 90s?

Ok the food itself has quite a time in my pressure pot. I didn’t measure it, but the pressure setting I use should go to 120C/248F, so the food itself should be safe. When I release pressure it quickly cools down to the atmospheric boiling point and then I fill it in glasses and just use the hour in the oven to make sure there’s nothing left “I catch” from my hands or air when filling in glasses.

I cook in a pressure cooker (pot) and then after opening I fill the food into clean glass jars which I sterilize.

I also keep them around for up to a month, as I’m aware it’s not on the level of professional sterilization.

But I got an idea, I might pre-heat the jars in the oven before I cook, then I can easily go above 120.

When filling from the pot into the jars then the only source of problems is what I have in the air in my kitchen.

Additionally, ph testing is a good idea, I’ll try that

My environment is an apartment within a larger city, so I don’t have space for al lot of large equipment.

I have been collecting specific glass jars with screw on lids. When I do stuff that needs to cook food a long time as ragu or goulash I prepare a really big pot, stop cooking about an hour early, fill into the jars and then put the closed jars in the oven at 120C for another hour and let them finish cooking while sterilizing them at the same time. (Adding a small dish with water for added humidity in the oven and good heat transfer)

Afterwards I have my own shelf-stable jars with pre-cooked food at home for the next weeks.

I typically prepare such stuff on homeoffice work days, as it’s low effort but still takes some hours to cook.

This is not a reddit, Sir.

Inferring from hi hands, there’s not a lot to see anyways.

Wenn der Scheiß Zug kommen würde, könnte ich auch Scheißpfostieren.

What’s the difference between the US and Germany?

In Germany the ICE will probably not show up at all to take you away.

Also reddit:

My gf didn’t close the tooth paste in the bathroom.

Reddit: Red flag, LEAVE HER

IIRC Germany is named weirdly different around the world with names stemming from several roots.

Deutschland, Germany, Alemania, Nemezky, Saksa,…

I’m living with undiagnosed Adhd for all of my life. My son got a diagnosis when he was 6 or 7 - thus I know the symptoms, and frankly I know too much of the diagnosis method now to get myself an honest diagnosis. (I know how to answer to get the results I want). And I don’t need it anymore, I adjusted my life to play more into my strengths and less into my weaknesses. (And the last 10 years - in my 50s - I feel like symptoms are getting milder)

The complicated thing is: Every single symptom of adhd is being experienced by the majority of normal people. It’s just being “more” of that statistically.

It feels like setting the difficulty level on a video game, you’ll see the same things, you’ll see the same bosses. You play on hard while the guy how got to play life in story mode tells you how lazy you are because you didn’t fight all the bosses, yet.

A big part of dealing with adhd is accepting that my challenge is mine and is different from yours.

And that probably is why “being neurodivergent” is so “attractive”. It gives us the freedom of not being seen as lazy or stupid, and that’s something that I think should really apply to every single fucking human on this world.

We all have our challenges. You are OK as you are. You are worthy of love. And yes, life is hard, you’re not lazy.

If seeing people like this were the norm, “neurotypical” people wouldn’t need to see themselves as divergent. People just use “adhd” or “autism” to say “look, I have my challenges, too”.

Ah reminds me. My dad did smoke. And as tobacco was taxed differently he had once used one of these small sliding machines to put tobacco into “empty” cigarettes, sold separately.

He had stopped using these and was back to store bought cigarettes when I found his cigarettes and the machine.

I carefully pulled out all the tobacco from one of his Camel filters, and put it back in with the sliding machine - adding the tiniest firecracker I had.

Few days later he was sooooo angry. And the angrier he was the more I had to laugh.

It did explode in his ashtray when he was concentrating at his desk.

Oh fuck, thats was over 40 years ago and I still have to laugh like a madman.

Remembering him fondly, even when he was mad as hell at me the worst that would happen was him shouting.

The Floppotron

Since 2022 it is Floppotron 3.0 playing on 4 flatbed scanners, some hard drives and 512 floppy drives.

https://youtu.be/kCCXRerqaJI

Ok, you forgot the Kickstart boot disk loading the Kernel before. But yes, the Amiga was amazingly resource efficient.