Now I’m confused, so you do support Russia?

Not supporting Ukraine isn’t the same as supporting Russia.

And supporting Russia in the context of the russian war in Ukraine is pretty much the litmus test regarding being at a tankie at the moment.

Perfectly fine opinion to have.

That’s not what the tankies say though ;)

Have you looked at the Russian side? Strangely you only condemn the Ukrainian side, but not the Nazis in the Russian Russian one

Sure, you can see it that way and I wouldn’t even argue it’s illogical. But the way socialism was taught in GDR is the definition I gave above and China is not socialist under that definition.

That’s easy: private ownership of means of production is not socialist.

I will even include another non socialist fact : China has billionaires (in US$). Those should not exist in a socialist country.

Wait, just to confirm: you really believe that signing a pact to partition Poland isn’t a sign that in fact Poland will be invaded?

And why did generous general Stalin agree to that whole spheres of influence thing in the first place? If he wanted to protect poor Poland from the evil Germanz, surely telling the world about Hitler’s evil plans would have been even better? Or at least warning Poland.

But hm, strange, nothing of the sort was done. One could get the impression generous general Stalin didn’t care for the plight of the common polish citizen that was just to be unleashed on them.

It’s not so much the non aggression part that people have a problem with, it’s more the let’s together invade Poland and hold a celebratory victory parade after that normal people find not so nice.

Nearly correct, but it’s not about negative mass, because that doesn’t exist as far as I know. Rather it is about matter and antimatter which have other opposite properties, the mass is the same for both. That’s why it doesn’t matter which particle goes back into the hole, because the creation of the particle pair used up some of the energy (and therefore mass) of the black hole and if both fall back, nothing changes. But if one escapes, a minuscule amount of the mass of the black hole left its event horizon and thereby decreased its mass.

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.