If only we had a Social Democratic Party :⁻[

My teenage self is in this image and I don’t like it.

And with juuuuust a tiny bit more sugar so the bacteria in your mouth can create more acid to bathe your teeth in way longer than the water remains in your mouth, nice.

The level of pH difference we’re talking about here is negligible. You’re constantly bathing your teeth in your (slightly acidic) spit and swallowing your spit all the time, the very few moments your teeth come into contact with slightly more alkaline water have no lasting influence. Plain tap-water (also slightly alkaline with a pH of ~7.5 in most of the US) would have the very same effect.

Brushing your teeth after a meal and abstaining from sugary drinks is where the difference is at, Everything else is talking about if Mount Everest is higher when you place a grain of sand on top… technically yes, but no.

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“We need to work longer in order to maintain the prosperity that generations have built up since the end of World War II,”

And where is that prosperity? The richest 10% of households own over 60% of net wealth, while the bottom 20% have no wealth at all. The top 10 percent of the german population accounts for around 61.2 percent of total wealth, with approximately 10.5 trillion euros.

And the difference between the top and the bottom only keeps growing. Because most of the profit generated by selling our work goes to the super-rich. This means lifting the retirement age will only increase the difference between poor and rich and mostly benefit the rich, who can retire early or work leisurely at will, while grinding down the old and poor.

We could easily take care of everyone in Germany if only we would commit to redistribute wealth more fairly instead of from the bottom to the top.

I don’t doubt for a moment that humanity can be extremely wasteful in any economic system. But capitalism sure embraces and enhances our worst tendencies.

Minor contra point. Many police in the UK do not carry guns on their person. They have access to guns and the state monopoly on violence is very one-sided in favour of the state, but community-policing and disarmament of the first-contact-point is absolutely something that can and (sometimes) does happen when the societal level of gun violence is low enough.

My street is finally getting fiberoptic internet! That means I’m going from around 4MiB/s to at least 400 more likely 600 MiB/s… with around 3/4 of that in upload speed. I have already canceled all my streaming services and external servers, the parts for my homeserver are on their way.

No more Google Drive, hello Nextcloud, no more Spotify, hello Finamp, no more Netflix and Crunchyroll, hello Jellyfin, no more Bitwarden, hello Vaultwarden.

I’ll finally be able to self-host all my Docker containers fir my website-, email- and game-server, I can have a homeserver for my media-streaming even when I’m not at home. I might even create my own Immich and Lemmy Instances. Just need to read up on NixOS and get a good, reliable system running.

Fuck big Tech, I’ll host my own shit and offer it to all my friends.

The US put the EU at war in Ukraine?

I’d say the war in Ukraine is the direct result of the illegal Russian invasions in 2014 and 2022 and the ongoing war of aggression, but go off buddy.

Apart from that, yes, the EU is inconvenient for every other bigger power, this includes the single remaining mayor power, the american empire.

Get a crystal growing kit and grow colourful crystals with her. It’s gonna take multiple days and is a great entry to stem-topics.

I’ve seen the boys restroom, the janitor who has to take care of that deserves every cent.

“Boys will be boys.”

Fuck you Tom! That’s how you react to your brat violating the bodily autonomy of another human beeing!? Hearing you say that means he feels it’s normal, he’s got permission and that it’s good masculine behavior. You’re teaching your son to be an asshole instead of a functioning human being. Boys will behave better if we teach them to, so you better pick up the slack and join the rest of us in raising your fucking child!

Why wasn’t PUL kept? EU-countries can have laws that are stricter than EU laws, they just need to be at least as strict as the corresponding EU law.

Used to wear no socks at all, had the stinkiest imaginable shoes, always damaged, lots of foot fungus and other feet-related health problems.

Now I’m wearing a fresh pair of sports-compression-socks every day and it’s heaven for my feet.

If you’re only running angry, old, white men…

Yep

Australia recognizing Palestine and having beef with Netanyahu while protecting their own jewish community from iranian organized attacks seems based.

Not just reclaiming, also simply claiming. Poldering is no joke!

Bro referred to “his” Sturm&Drang Zeit, which has nothing to do with actual Sturm&Drang and is a valid expression, that you in your wealth of self importance decided to “uhm aaaaactshualllyyyy”

Hence the downvotes.