Feierabendbier!

That's what happens en-masse in Germany in the early havening.

Everyone goes to a corner shop to buy a bottle of cold beer, enters the metro train, opens the beer bottle and drinks it in the metro on the way home.

There are a bunch of jokes in this game that I absolutely am not okay with.

Yeah, the whole point of the game is the main character being a horrible asshole.

But then, the game for example makes jokes about a black woman ending up a slave. She ends up as a slave not because the main character is being thoughtless. Yes, his actions affect the result, but it's a pure coincidence he could not have reasonably predicted. The joke boils down to "look, we dare to be this inappropriate."

Some of similar jokes could maybe read as commentary on horrible bigots who really do behave towards other people in the way the protagonist of this game does, because technically the bad things happen to those people because of the protagonist's behaviour. But when the same things sometimes happen to them kind of "just like that", it puts the rest of the jokes in a very different context: The developers of the game actually are making fun of the fact that black people were used as slaves or that women often experience sexual violence.

And then there's also the transsexual who turns out to be the worst stereotype of a transsexual that a MAGA person ever could imagine. And, and, and.

Some of the jokes are kind of more neutral: At one point the protagonist needs to feed some ten-ish children to a monster, camouflaging them as hot dogs and covering them in ketchup and mustard. And then the children do indeed get eaten and the game progresses. I mean, okay, it's super inappropriate in a way, but it's not perpetuating hate speech. But a surprisingly large share of the jokes are punching at various minorities.

I've never seen as much bigotry in a game as I saw in the Deponia trilogy when I played through it.

This is a very good sign.

This is basically Google saying that the legislation is efficient.

I upvote when the argument is good or I want to give a little more visibility for the argument expressed in the comment. And if it's a joke, to show that I enjoyed the joke.

I downvote if an argument is in bad faith or not thought of thoroughly at all.

The article says (even though, weirdly, between the lines) that the man had been spewing out anti-immigrant rhetoric and told that the flags are there to show that foreign-born people are not welcome on his island.

It's not surprising that flags put by a person saying "I am putting these up as a form of showing the middle finger" are interpreted as being a form of showing the middle finger. Or in other words, causing alarm and distress.

There was an interesting article about how the moon landings could have been faked with 1960's technology and it turns out you'd need such obscenely expensive equipment that just going to the actual moon would be the cheaper alternative.

The impossibility of faking the landing is a good proof IMO.

That is probably what the image in the post is about, really.

It's supposed to make the program more accessible for those who are not used to the concept of computer programs at all.

The people in Iran have a right to express their opinion even if a country somewhere else would be willing to use their expressing their opinion as an excuse to bomb them.

USA bombing Iranians is USA's fault, not the fault of Iranian protesters. And in extension, it is not the fault of people supporting the Iranian protesters. The Iranian leadership is full of shit.

They are just hoping that they can prolong the war by a week or two.

Maybe, just maaaaybe they will be lucky and something happens that makes the west force Ukraine to cede all of the currently occupied territory to the Orc-Roaches. The only thing the Russia can do is to try to prolong the war and hope for an act of gods.

Ah, so there will be shaheds attacking targets in Ukraine? Do I guess correctly that Iran will be helped by its friend, the Russia, to launch said drones? Must be a schocking new experience for Ukrainians.

Because D.C. wants it that way.

It is, in some places and to some extent.

Until year 2009, the Berlin transportation's rules said "Disturbing use of alcohol is prohibited in public transportation." ...meaning that non-diaturbing use was allowed. The new rule dropped the word "Disturbing", meaning that the procedure is now no longer allowed.

But, the last time I was in Berlin, a few years ago, I was relieved to see that the tradition still lives on. I bet there are cities where it's still outright allowed to this day! But even where it isn't, it's still being done.

Plus, people do drink their Feierabendbier in parks and benches. And often simply first thing after coming home. But Feierabendbier, the concept of drinking a bottle of beer ASAP after the end of your working day, is still alive and kicking indeed!

"Oh, that's a big one!"

If that was here in Finland, I would of course be scared because you need a lot of explosives to produce a mushroom cloud, and that would probably mean that:

1. our military has been storing a sizable part of its munitions in one place AND
2. one our eastern neighbours has apparently developed a will to rid our army of its munitions.

...which would mean that some country would be planning to attack us soon.

So, I would probably start preparing for a war. Maybe go buy a lot of food, at least?

In some country further from the Russia I would probably assume it's something non-military. Maybe some form of a very large fertilizer storage? It would be kind of less scary, but of course that would mean a decreased farming output for the next season, and that would be shitty.

Finnish, German, English, Ukrainian, Estonian, Swedish, Latvian, Dutch, Lithuanian, Russian, Polish, Spanish, French. A little Italian and Portuguese as well. I did manage to explain some simple things in Czech some days ago, and I can read south-Slavic languages surprisingly well. And often decipher the main point of a text in Romanian.

Almost no Hungarian or Mandarin, though very simple questions are possible anyway. And then of course I can read Norwegian and Danish reasonably well, because if you know Swedish, English, German and Dutch, you already know Danish. And for a similar reason, Slovak goes.

I can speak less than five words of Albanian, Basque, Greek, Welsh, Breton, any Gaelic language or any Sámi language. Those are something should probably learn a bit, at least.

Here's a longer version of the same: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jomaMvItnew&t=27m25s

That's a rather standard thing in any country with compulsory military service. Typically you get that done with right when you're 18-year-old and then you're free to travel.

In Finland it's handled so that you cannot get a passport before you either finish your military service or have turned 30. That meant that when I wanted to travel with my brother outside the EU before they were 30, we were limited to countries such as Albania and Georgia that allow entry with just an ID card. (And also, had we wanted to destroy the climate by flying, we would have needed to fly the flight out from the Schengen area from some other country than Finland!)

Okay, why were the Chinese warned not to go to Japan?

That's not a -9-millimeter, though!

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