This stuff is actually really good, I frequently buy this brand. Serve it with basmati, to which I add some cumin before cooking.

And then I pimp the result by adding “Glorious garlic pickle” by The Bay Tree, and Mr Naga hot pepper pickle.

Oder vor zu vielen Schwanzwitzen zurückgeschreckt, um nicht den Sponsorendeal mit Rügenwalder zu verlieren.

PS: Brodi Snook.

Zwei Mal in Berlin gesehen. First Banana und Gimmick. Beide Male super.

As much as people enjoyed Waltz’ performance in the opening scene and how utterly cold and ruthless his facial expression was when he asked the Frenchman “You’re hiding enemies of the state, aren’t you”, can we all just take a moment to appreciate how he also pulled off looking exactly like the pathetic and cowardly fascist he portrays in this very image?

I think he wants to build this city on rock and roll.

I’m a software architect. I work with large amounts of data. And a sizeable RAM disk is generally useful for many purposes. And yes, I also run AI locally, though that’s what my RTX 4090 is for.

IBM stopped their support for LTFS, unfortunately. Which I kinda want to use despite all the drawbacks. And well, the RAM disk workaround does the trick, so there’s not enough pain to compel me into investing more time into the issue.

Oh, there can be all kinds of uses.

For example, I own an LTO tape drive. Unfortunately, I couldn’t get the IBM drivers to compile on my particular flavor of Linux, but I do have a dual boot system.

Now, Windows is a shitty, shitty OS that I only boot up when I really need to. It interferes with all kinds of stuff in ways I hate, for example - copying files. It just refuses to read large files in a continuous, reliable data stream without any interruptions from my SSD when backing them up to tape. This causes the LTO drive to slow down, speed up, rewind, which is not a good thing because it causes additional wear on the tape.

Fix: Create a large RAM drive, copy files to RAM drive, run backup with RAM drive as source.

“Degenerate art”. A term the Nazis used for all art they did not understand or like because it didn’t fit their ideology.

As a German, the first thing that came to my mind when reading this, was the term “Entartete Kunst”.

Built my new PC in late 2023… so glad I put 96 GB of RAM into it, despite several people asking me why the fuck I need so much RAM…

Whenever I read Schopenhauer’s name, I’m instantly reminded of this part of a song by German punk pop band Die Ärzte.

Actually, today’s Germany is quite happy to take anyone with some sort of qualification, no matter your family tree. If you are Jewish or not, that won’t really make a difference to immigration requirements, as far as I know.

However, there is quite a bit of antisemitism going on in the Muslim communities, I’m afraid. As a German I’m really proud that our country is so open and welcoming to refugees and immigrants, but unfortunately people don’t just drop all of their own prejudices when crossing the border.

Also, the rise of the extremist AfD party is a very worrying development. These Nazi thugs basically want to copy Trump’s policies and they also want Germany to leave the EU. If they somehow get voted into power, you would definitely regret having moved here.

Sorry, I kinda suspected it was sarcasm but wasn’t 100% sure.

Sorry if I’m mistaken or failing to detect your irony, but isn’t Utah this highly conservative state, with a vast majority of the population being white (or Hispanic, which to me counts as “white but speaking Spanish”) and where most people follow a crackpot religion which basically views fun things like sex, drugs, alcohol and homosexuality as a sin?

Comparing that to Berlin, a permissive, irreligious, hedonistic, multi-ethnic place, brimming with culture and open-minded people, seems rather far-fetched to me.

And Berlin would be in fucking Utah… as someone who lives in Berlin, I strongly resent this notion.

As a fan of Terry Pratchett’s wonderful discworld novels, I would love Mango Mussolini to meet someone who speaks just like he writes his crap on Truth Social - in all caps.

“But our taxes are so low and our incomes are so high!”

boom 30+ years in debt because student loan

boom Diabetes

boom Insane living costs

boom Hospital bill

boom Homeless

How do Americans sleep at night knowing they could be royally fucked the moment they have just a little bit of bad luck?

TIL that in 2004, an asteroid with an approximate diameter of 2.5 km passed the Earth in just four lunar distances.