Don't negotiate with traitors. Meeting in the middle with an unreasonable man just means they draw the line further back next time.
They could change to a dumpster production line by just skipping a few steps.
You're spot on. The first Nazi book burning was in Berlin. The focus was on materials about LGBTQ+ research at the University:
"The first burning consisted mainly of LGBTQ books from the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (Institute of Sexual Research), founded by the pioneering Jewish sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld as the first medical center devoted to the study of gender and sexuality."
Gym Jordan knows how to cover up sexual assault and that's just the kind of leadership the Republicans need.
Fascism can't stand diversity, culture, humor, education, complexity or empathy. What makes a good night life? The very things they can't stand and will actively work to destroy. Sorry to hear that Orlando went dark in the face of oppression.
So we change from Speaker Johnson (R-AIPAC) to Speaker Jeffries (D-AIPAC)? We deserve someone better than a well-spoken mushy person in that chair. Someone who is going to tear into the rot caused by the Republican complicity with traitors, not just say "we'll work for you.... eventually (believe us again)".
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice... ain't going to be fooled again.
When the Republicans are in charge institutional ineptitude is the result.
Unfortunately, that same ineptitude makes it harder to vote and remove the horrible leadership. It's a self reinforcing system rational people have to fight every cycle.
Do you think an organization already acting illegally would care about the court's contempt? Who will make them care?
Not according to the last order I put together. It was adding up the costs per item, and even had a "what's this charge" help bubble say it was per item until it collectively got over 150€ before it became a percentage rate.
How that's all being calculated, I don't know yet. I'll look into the per package rule because a historically bigger order for me might still make sense with a 3€ premium added.
I'd love to say it's been great, but I spent all week sick. Not much got done, including much language work.
I did manage to get through some more basic daily interactions at the checkout and in stores. I'm still getting more comfortable with speaking simple sentences/structures. Vocabulary and conjugation continue to be tough to recall on the fly.
The reading didn't happen much, but I'm a bit further through Mord Unter Den Linden (A2), a German learning book with murder mystery/crime stories.
I did also manage to read most of a letter I got back from the Berlin Senate about transit issues. I wrote them about some questions regarding local transit upgrades. They wrote back and I picked up 80% of it without any translation help.
My general speed for reading signage is getting better. I can tell many daily words are starting to become closer to full speed reading. That feels great.
Indeed. I used to order small electronics parts (chips, wire, boards, etc) from asian sources. Germany now adds 3€ per item. Those things often cost under 1€ each. So.... No point in doing it now.
But the local politicians will somehow get a home renovation, a new truck, and a vacay they feel they deserve if they approve it.
This might be yelling into the void more than a bit: why does every program now try to demand that they have a pop-up context-stealing menu when I copy & paste?
The attached image is in Firefox using MS Outlook and Google Docs. When I copy & paste between the two I have two options:
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Normal Ctrl-v - which will keep all formatting and fuck everything up because every copy & paste defaults to HTML/Markdown styles and it's just some text from one document to another.
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Shift Ctrl-v - which historically stripped the HTML/Markdown formatting and just pasted the ASCII/UTF-16 characters (what I almost always want). But over the last year and some, every tool has started adding some kind of context menu with the paste. I don't know which program or website/app/js/plugin/control each one belongs to. The worst part: they're context switching! So, if I paste with shift-ctrl-v it pastes the plain text and then locks out my keyboard.
If the act of copy-paste is now a multi-key combo followed by esc and/or mouse and/or a timeout it's basically a horrible workflow UI. WTF is up with everyone? Why can't we leave the copy-paste system to be taking characters from one location to another? I'm so very tired of trying to turn off yet more "help" that I never asked for. What's the motivation here for the developers?
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/53805791
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