The sloppiest was the X-Men movie where Magneto has a sensible, empathic plan to end discrimination, and they just had to mention like in one sentence: Well, his machine has a defect though, so it will cause unintended destruction, and we have to stop him.

Well, any story with Magneto as antagonist, tbh.

Good stuff - made a Patreon account and a bounteous € 1 sub for this.

It was so weird to study in STEM and meet other Star Trek fans in the cantina. Now there is something wrong with Wesley Crusher and I'm supposed to hate him and project that on the child actor, too? And when Jeri Ryan is nice enough to come all the way to a European convention, they yell "strip"? (At least they were disgusted as well about the latter, just reported others doing it.)

No thanks, I'll hang out with decent people.

The left and the right are NOT the same. Only one of them works at least in the general direction of a future that can work, for everyone.

But the level of lies, propaganda, deception, gaslighting absolutely is. Every single time I read something implausible, like this, and dig deeper, it turns out to be complete and utter BS, like some left mirror version of Trump. ALL of it.

Again, the lies are on the same level, not the policies.

This photo shows the exact opposite: A heartfelt congratulations post from a mother, a wonderful cake. Note how they decided to lie about this, even though they could easily have talked about the family relation that is NOT intact, his daughter. But no, they don't want to talk about his daughter and how he treats her. They want to smear the mother-son relationship with lies.

And I would also point out that criminals who have not yet been convicted by a court (and never may be in this case, different problem) have the same right to a great birthday party with loving family as everybody else.

In Germany a few years ago, police shot a fleeing non-violent weed dealer in the back of the head, instantly killing him. It was in a residential area, and the bullet flew right past a playing kid, iirc.

It was ruled a good shooting, as it would not be acceptable for the public safety to risk that he might have gotten away.

Perhaps, people who are in "fear" of everything, even as someone flees, should not have access to any kind of weapon, or sharp or long objects, for that matter. They should wear mittens.

For me, "earn rewards" is really important.

I doomscroll on 3 different platforms, I view xxx-sites, I check the weather, I buy a shower mat.

I should be rewarded!

(What is the reward exactly?)

I heard that as well. Some say that the "fancy city folks" as which the Grimm brothers were perceived got an already watered down version of the real thing.

Compared to American adaptations such as Cinderella, the written Grimm version is the wild one, though.

When you are German and they read you the ORIGINAL Grim tales at bedtime, you know what's up sooner than you'd wish.

Is it true, a common misunderstanding about the story? Or just a joke?

lol - I don't use any AI code in projects I'm paid for at all, but I experiment in my free time. One of the few advantages is that I can keep going when I'm completely braindead, like before first coffee or when I should have gone to bed 3 hours ago. So I prompt things like "run those test thingies" when I can't even remember the gradle/maven task that I use 50 times per week.

So yes, for me, strangely relatable :-)

I had a EUR 99 digital camera back then which could fit about 15 photos at mediocre resolution. 1600x1200 used about 0.5 MB. I would think that many consumer devices took higher resolution photos in the late 2000s already, though.