Also in general the notion that good things happen during day and those active during the night are nefarious and untrustworthy.

Don’t worry, the game was rigged from the start: it’s mostly all just PayToWin bullshit!

In my city people often stand with bikes out strollers in the door area. Or sometimes it’s just really packed. When the opening side is announced, those that stand in the way can already make way (if they are considerate to their fellows) or know that they can relax and don’t need to move.

They probably meant fags as word for cigarettes

I scan over the descriptions to check for irregularities or significant identifiers. So your yellow lake would be noteworthy to me or if a person is described with long hair. I don’t mentally imagine a long hair person, but I try to remember it, so if later somebody sees a long haired person in the distance I know which character is referenced.

And yes if I don’t recognise anything noteworthy, I don’t make a mental note, it’s just a normal lake, nothing important to remember.

But that isn’t always working out for me. In Neverwhere the Marquis de Carabas is described as being pitch black. Which I fully didn’t get and so was wondering why all the fan art made him so black that you can’t recognise features. Because that was how he was described and I missed that important fact.

Gemma is wrong. Or at least I have never heard it as one combined word. As the examples themselves show, it is normally used as adjective+noun. And while you can combine it, I have never seen that till now.

And to OPs question: I don’t know any such word in the German language. It might be a regional thing or it might just be something Vonnegut invented himself.

From Wikipedia:

International Workers’ Day, also known as Labour Day in some countries and often referred to as May Day, is a celebration of labourers and the working classes that is promoted by the international labour movement and occurs every year on 1 May, or the first Monday in May.

[…]

The 1 May date was chosen by the American Federation of Labor to commemorate a general strike in the United States, which had begun on 1 May 1886 and culminated in the Haymarket affair four days later.

Exactly, I’m of the same opinion.

If their seniority is worth anything, they will also have merit to prove it. And too often I experienced they reached a position not because but rather despite their own lacking merit.

It’s perfectly fine to not like it and as long as you don’t force your view on your daughter, you are not a bad person.

But you sure as hell are a bad person if you don’t accept your daughters stance. Because as long as it is known to and accepted by all participants, it’s nobodies business but theirs. Nobody gets hurt by it? Nobody should interfere.

The same thing: if the focus of the video is on you and the other people are not important, it’s fine. If you film an interaction with another person or otherwise mainly film another persons actions: you get a fine.

Why would you measure it in carat? XD

And to blow your mind even more: that is the partial recipe for how much we mix in one tub. In total we use 40 kg cabbage.

We divide it then between 6 different parts of the family. And it’s not like it is eaten in one month. Sauerkraut is originally a way to store cabbage over the winter and have something to eat while nothing grows on the fields. We eat the sauerkraut over a period of up to 6 months, so on average its more like 500 g portion per person per week.

Our family recipe, but I don’t remember the exact values especially for the caraway seed, so take it with a pinch of salt ;)

10 kg cabbage, sliced

200 g salt

1 kg carrots, cut into small slices (max 3 mm thick)

1 kg leek, cut into small slices (around 5 mm thick)

20 g caraway seeds

Correct sized stone for your jar, cleaned and cooked in boiling water for sterilization

• Cut everything but keep 2 of the outer cabbage leafs per jar, select good looking leafs and just clean them

• Mix everything in a big tube/vessel really well, so the salt starts extracting the liquid from the cabbage

• Put the mixture into the jars and use your fist to make it compact

• Important part 1: there needs to be at least 1 cm of salty liquid above the kraut at the end, if there isn’t just add 10 g salt to 100 ml water and add enough of that solution as necessary

• put the two leafs on top of the kraut to push it down and keep all the small bits from flowing around in the salt solution

• place the stones (in middle Europe you can buy special ceramics like this for this purpose, but a simple stone of the right size or 2 is enough) on top of the leafs to push them down

• close the jar and fill the groove with water

• important point 2: the grooves has to be filled with water all the time to stop mold from forming

• now place the jar for 2 weeks in a normal heated room. Check the water level in the groove. You will hear air bubbles flowing through the water trap, which tells you that the fermentation is proceeding nicely.

• when no air bubbles are forming for a day, fermentation is over and you can eat it and place it in a cold room for better storage.

• again: keep checking the water level in the groove

• when you take out sauerkraut, always check that the walls above the water level are mostly clean and not to many loose parts are swimming through the salt water. Those are the regions where mold will start forming.

• also refill the water level inside with the salt solution if too much evaporate.

• always clear the solution with the leafs and put the stones on top and you will enjoy it for a long time (5 months are possible)

• you can also freeze fermented sauerkraut to thaw it when needed and stop it from molding

That’s what you people would do, but my glorious group would be much more enlightened!

That’s when the deep philosophical questions are asked.

After using diapers a baby often realizes it has them on and gets irritated and makes that loudly clear for everyone else.

Counterpoint: if I sell you a photograph which I advertised as of the statue of David and it’s just a zoomed in picture of his back, you would be in your rights to complain about leaving out the important parts.

Greed was meant not only as greed for money but greed for power in general. Money itself is worthless, only its substitution for power is why it’s important in the first place.

The problem is and always was the power structure and the greed of those at the top of it. It had many different names and forms during history.