Wie wählen wir denn aus den Vorschlägen ein Buch aus? Vlt ein weiterer Post, bei dem bis zu einem bestimmten Zeitpunkt mit einem Kommentar aus einer kleinen Auswahl (max 3 Bücher) abgestimmt werden kann? Keine Ahnung, wie das sonst so gemacht wird

Ein kurzes Buch zum Start fände ich gut. Dann könnte ich neben meinem aktuellen Buch (The Moon is a Harsh Mistress) hier einsteigen

Wenn ihr auf Weltraum und Technologiethriller steht, dann kann ich die Delta-V Reihe von Daniel Suarez nicht genug empfehlen (Delta-V und Critical Mass). Es geht darum, wie mutige Menschen bei der ersten Asteroidenbergbaumission der Menschheit am Ryugu Materialien abbauen um damit eine neue Expansionsphase der Menschheit einzuleiten und nebenbei den Menschen die Möglichkeit bieten, mithilfe von nicht-erdbasierter Energie den Klimawandel zu stoppen/zurück zu drehen.

Wie die meisten Bücher von Daniel Suarez in naher Zukunft angesiedelt mit Technologie, an der jetzt schon entwickelt wird. Da ist es auch spannend, sich die Infos auf seiner Website durchzulesen, mit Bildern, Links und Interviews.

Hey, can you provide a source for that? I just tried to find something on wikipedia about it. While the organizational form positions DW significantly nearer to the government than the rest of german public broadcasting, it is not like the government does the journalistic work or has a direct say in it. So while a critique on DW being too close to the federal government seems fitting, calling it propaganda and the literal governments news outlet seems far fetched.

People also trust other exchanges enough, despite big problems/scandals/crisies. In that Russia doesn’t seem so different from the USA, especially now, that both are getting close and mor similar again

And its not like there even is a same place. Position is relative, but to what in this case? Doesn’t even make sense

Don’t see the first point. The vast majority of protests are happening near the places where the people live. All the protests I have been too were not at the place of our government. It was our city and the next one. No long travel time and it still works.

The rest is true though. Germany is on the best way to revive the original nazi agenda for example. Probably an AfD coalition on next vote and then the power seize. Fml

The bee die-offs, that one typically hears about, has nothing to do with honey bees. Honey bees don’t show any signs of going extinct. Its may of the other bee species, which are dying off. And that is bad because of the species liking different specific plants, which often rely on this bee species to be pollinated.

Surely, this is a this-is-why-we-can’t-have-nice-things situation. Fuck Putin

Ooohhhh, now I see that it is Ellen. I first thought it was Bernd Höcke, a current polititian for the nazi party AfD in germany XD

Sorr-, you are already way too deep in your rabbit hole. Nobidy of us will get you out there. Probably truth.social is a better platform for your views (judging from your profile).

I read like 4 Vonnegut books (Galapagos, Sirens of Titan, Cats cradle, slaughterhouse nr 5), and honestly all if them were pretty weird.

Yeah, I vaguely remember some sentences mentioning how incompetent some wizards and witches can be.

What do you mean by mercenaries? The magical government has its aurors, which is kind of a police force working against the dark arts. And they caught many deatheaters, though were beaten from within the ministry.

I don’t think he meant that kind of cursed.

Probably more important is why Dumbledoor wasn’t able to get even ONE fitting DADA teacher, meaning without something making him unfit for the job, seemingly or inreality, after Quirrel (and we don’t know if Quirrel was a good teacher before he got Voldy in his brain).

Lockhard was an obvious fraud, Lupin was a great teacher but unfortunatly a werewolf, Mad Eye was mad/a disguised deatheater and Snape was a bad teacher all along. (Umbridge was bot chosen by Dumbledor, so she doesn’t count).

Hell, what is he even doing all day? Couldn’t he just do the DADA classes himself, if he didn’t find anyone fitting for the job?!

She does! She could have emptied multiple supermarkets, but nah, who needs food if you have books to read. Everytime I really doubt, that Hermione wouldn’t think of stocking food in her bag. So much conflict, so easily preventible…

Point taken - it really doesn’t seem thought through by Dumby. But I think its funny, that Harry is basically ruining Dumbledoors plan of protecting the stone, because he cannot stop being a hero. Yeah, thanks Harry for “saving” the stone from Voldemort -.-

I always cringe with the 7th book, where the trio is hiding and searching for horkruxes, and for some weird reason they don’t have enough food and are constantly hungry. From the reading perspective I understand, that the hunger is a device to generate conflict and make their time hard to endure, but it always baffles me.

• It is mentioned, that Hermione pulled out all her muggle savings, so why didn’t she think about going to a supermarket and buying all the conserved food (cans and such) she can before they got on the run? She even mentions, that food can be multiplicated, just not created out of nothing.
• When they are hiding they sometimes get to a store or supermarket. But that only brings food for like a few days max. Why not more?
• And when there where too many dementors in an area to get more food, why not going really far away. We know Hermione was at least one time in France with her parents. Why not going there? Probably the war-like situation was not spread over the complete world that seriously. At least we are not hearing any of that in the books (JKR probably didn’t even thing much about international things when writing this)

I always thought of the polyjuice to be a restricted substance, that you can’t easily buy. And making it yourself is not easy and takes like 2 months. That would severily limit the cases. I mean, like how often do school kids in our world put drugs in food or drinks of their classmates? I’m sure there are some cases, but probably nothing wide spread

To be fair: With Dumbledoors measures with the mirror of erised they had kind of a trap. The philosophers stone obviously hidden behind some challenges, that are not really that strong, so an attacker would think the last one would also be easy. But there you only got the stonen if you didn’t want to use itn ruling out people with nefarious intentions (Dumbledoor didn’t know about Voldy in Quirrel at that time). To bad some first graders thought they needed to safe the stone. Quirrel would have been still thereuwhen Dumbledoor arrived, but Harry gave him and Voldy the opportunity to get the stone from him instead from the mirror. A bit of captain hindsight here. He maybe should have thought of that. Or maybe it is understandable that he didn’t foresee Harry fucking Potter