I’d take it.

Patrick Breyer with the pirate party is my go to example of why small parties and extraparliamentary opposition is important. 99% of the people don’t even know him and he’s just doing such an sucessful job of protecting them anyway.

Here in Germany, for 1,5 out of 50 years there was every other day some news titled “climate-”. Since the activist group withdrew, silence has covered the topic again. They should get medals.

Making new experiences. I spend time with my friends and try to build communities with interesting people to help deal with whatever the future will throw at us. Everytime I think I’ve got something figured out, another perspective pops up to consider. I’m plenty worried about the future, but life has certainly never been that interesting for me.

I recently watched an interview with Bernie Sanders, on a German podcast from about a year ago. He said that when he was born, african-americans didn’t have suffrage. He was 24 when they got voting rights. Had somebody asked him back then “Do you think that a black man will be president in the US in your lifetime?” he had said “No, absolutely not”. Now he tells young people about that and they’re like “what the heck are you talking about?” because to them that concept is so foreign and long ago, they can’t actually imagine what that must’ve been like anymore. I’m one of those young people, and I’m pretty thankful that people like him fought for a future they never thought to be able to see.

I think that the future will not be what we expect it to be. Could be better. Could be worse. Probably though it’s gonna be something completely wild with some good and some bad in it. I mean even today, despite all the shittiness in the world, there are some small good things happening every now and then. And I realized that I even may have influenced some of them ever so slightly. How crazy is that! So what keeps me going is trying to make that dent and make those pockets of good in the world just a tiny bit bigger. Someone will be grateful for it.

True. English isn’t my native language and I thought about this, but it somehow just makes sense in my head. The way the “just” is used reminds me of the Modalpartikel we have in German. They’re basically filler words that add nuance, emphasis or expectation to a sentence.

Sometimes people ask “Just why?”, and that’s a bit different than only “Why?”, because it adds a sense of confusion or urgency to the question.

[Imagine] you wake up in 1995. [There’s] no wifi [and] no cell phones. [What’s] the first thing you do?

I didn’t even think about the German word, which is Bierdeckel - literally beer cover. Well the boring word for it would be Untersetzer, which is the substantive of “to place underneath”.

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Additionally to what else was said, I’ve seen them used in beergardens to cover the drink to prevent bugs from drowning themselves in your drink. I guess then the coasters don’t serve to protect the table anymore.

Es gibt kein Entkommen!

Yes. Trumps cabinet leveraged the German company SAP to adhere to their DEI agenda. Trumps ideological ilk connects with each other worldwide to share strategies and knowledge, which of course includes our AfD, which used to be pretty vocal about their support for Trump and has now become uncannily quiet about it.

It honestly sometimes starts to feel like they’re gloating.

I guess the problem is that it treats all lemmy content as boosts. Because I’m able to exclude boosts and/or replies from my home feed in general, or boosts of specific accounts only. And Mastodon profiles have tabs for posts only and posts with replies, so I can differentiate.

I think it’s fun how Zeug has gone from a technical meaning to a cute one.

The current meaning of Zeug is something like stuff or unimportant things.

It used to mean kit, gear or equipment though, which makes a lot of sense and is still visible in words like Zeugwart (equipment manager of a sports team or army).

With that knowledge, Werkzeug would just be a tool kit.

Took me a while, too.

There’s a character called “The Brain” on the children’s cartoon “Arthur” that was previously voice acted by “Steven Crowder”. After Crowder left the role, it was taken by “Haus of Decline” (person in the post).

Hard to parse if you don’t know what 3 of those 4 names are.

Vampires Dawn. I haven’t checked out the second and third part yet, but I still think about the first from time to time. I had it in a magazine CD 20 years ago.

Personally, I turn to activism. I realized that regardless of how horrible the future will be, there’s good to do in this world.

The world is full of people who are as scared as you and I are. I can make their lives a tad more positive.

The environment is collapsing? Educate and organise, think about how to build mutual aid systems and how to sustain yourself small scale.

The economy will crash? Help others, people who got thrown to the curb by the social system, homeless people, orphans,…

Civil rights are ending? I’m trans and scared. And there’s so many other trans children that are counting on me to be the representation that I wish would have had when I was their age. I’m not going down without a fight.

Democracy is ending? Let’s focus on preserving what we can and try to rebuild. It won’t be over forever.

People being nice to and helping me often makes my day in an otherwise miserable time.I want to be that person for others.

Yes, I came here because I noticed the same problem with foss@beehaw.org

I also found two older posts here describing the same problem:

Post 1

Post 2

It seems like a random problem

Account 1 - 3 can’t access FOSS, but 4 can.

Account 4 can’t access Bready, but 2 can.

Oldest notice of this problem is 29 days old, I hope it gets fixed soon.

There’s r/foreveralone. I don’t know how the community evolved, but like 7 or so years ago it was basically what you described. People seeking comfort over feeling undateable and being scared of never finding anyone, but without the toxicity and hate that incels are known for.

Don’t ask me how I know this.