100% this. And it frustrates me to no end because we’re having the exact same issue in Germany (although we’re still “behind” the US in the timeline). The extremist AfD has been gaining consistently over the past decade because they just present themselves as the alternative to everything establishment, so a lot of voters that are unhappy with the system for whatever reason flock to them (as one AfD politician put it, “the worse Germany is doing, the better for the AfD”). But instead of offering a different, more left-wing alternative to the status quo, all other major parties have been trying a centrist or even right-wing approach (e. g. the current government implementing hilariously useless stricter border controls), hoping to appeal to AfD voters by offering a watered-down version of their authoritarian agenda. And of course the outcome of this strategy is the same as in the US: The AfD just keeps on gaining ground.

Yes, you’re correct.

Just be aware that Germany is turning more and more right-wing, too…

…as was the case in 1933 Germany…

At the debate his (painted) skin was literally a darker shade than Harris’s.

Sounds like you’re shadowbanned.

Lichess.org is the best website to play and study chess on, hands down, and it’s entirely Libre/FOSS, with zero ads or trackers (e. g. read here: https://lichess.org/about).

Billionaires are a scourge of humanity.

Thanks for the correction! That’s a nice bit of additional trivia which I wasn’t aware of even though I’ve seen the tea party cartoon a thousand times. :)

Here it is, for reference: https://assets.amuniversal.com/9ed15af0deb801317193005056a9545d

Streng genommen akzeptieren die das nicht. Ich wurde deswegen neulich schon mal angeschnauzt, weil ich mein Ticket erst als Screenshot vorgezeigt habe. Aber es ist als Fallback sicher nicht verkehrt, weil die Kontrolleure da wahrscheinlich mal eher ein Auge zudrücken würden.

Ich hatte das hier gesehen: https://www.heise.de/ratgeber/Schwarzfahrt-wider-Willen-BVG-App-laesst-Tickets-verschwinden-9977098.html

Wer weiß, vielleicht war auch das das Problem bei meiner Schwiegermutter. 🤔

Ich fände es auch besser, wenn sie das Ticket in einer anderen App nutzen könnte, aber ich glaube, das geht gar nicht…? Soweit ich weiß, muss man das Ding echt für jede Kontrolle neu herunterladen, was halt z. B. in der U-Bahn schnell mal schwierig sein kann. Aber ich muss mich da nochmal schlau machen, vielleicht gibt es doch einen anderen Weg, das Ticket zu nutzen. Wegen Inkasso mache ich mir keine Sorgen, im schlimmsten Fall zahlen wir halt schnell die 7 €. Aber mein Gerechtigkeitssinn erfordert eigentlich, dass sie da keine zusätzlichen Kosten bekommt. Sie hat ja ein gültiges Ticket und hatte es auch “dabei”, hat also im Grunde nichts falsch gemacht.

Welcome to the Calvin & Hobbes universe! Hobbes is shown as a stuffed animal anytime a human other than Calvin is in the picture.

Original art (paintings and sculptures) by local artists. They csn be checked out for three months at a time. It’s really nice to have some original art in your home even if it it’s not by a big name.

Also, I can easily access most of my country’s important newspapers’ online articles that are normally behind a paywall.

Ah, a fellow Krabbé connoisseur!

Ok granted, that may be true. I wouldn’t be able to tell as I left in June '23 and never looked back. But from what I read about the protests back then, I seem to remember that only few subs had to have their mod team replaced by Reddit. I think if more mod teams of big subs had been willing to call it quits as a team, the disruption could have been bigger.

In the end though, I don’t know if any form of protest can be effective in this kind of situation as Reddit holds all the cards, and if they are dead set on enshittifying, nothing will stop them. What mods and users should do is just walk out.

Effective how? Reddit went through with everything they had planned. It could have been an effective form of protesting if more mods had actually been willing to leave the site or at least their modding job for good.

Libgen and scihub have done more for science than any of those shitty journal publishers.

Haha, I see. Good on you!

• The Village

• O Brother Where Art Thou

• Amélie

• Pride and Prejudice

• Shutter Island

to name a few.