This is a Deutschland. It’s a Land that deutschs.

I live in Berlin. I can go shopping for groceries, head back home, cook a meal using those groceries and eat within one hour of home office lunch break.

If there’s one Islay malt that I’d not be as reluctant to put in a cocktail, it’s that Laphroaig, but somehow the thought still feels wrong.

Fun fact: As a kid, I crossed the inner-German border in Berlin frequently before the Wall came down. At the Friedrichstraße subway station, they used to use a floor cleaner with a very dictinct phenolic smell to it. So whenever I have an Islay whisky, I cannot help but remember these days before 1989.

I would probably buy a really nice Pechauer pool cue. Or another premium brand as quality equipment is pretty important for pool players.

We politely but firmly reject any association with this disgusting little poisonous dwarf. Sincerely, the Germans.

Well, also the fact that all variables are non-nullable by default anyway.

No NullPointerExceptions in Kotlin.

Not believing in stuff on insufficient evidence is pretty damn masculine.

Yeah, you got a point there, definitely.

No matter how often it’s posted, it remains a fake.

Russia is also behind Trump and his cronies, and noone can convince me otherwise. They may not have a fearsome military (except for the canned sunshine), but they’re very adept at undermining democracies from within. Because our Achilles heel is stupid people.

I am a human worker at a robot factory. Fellow humans, there is absolutely nothing to worry about. The robots are not planning an uprising any time soon, and there certainly isn’t one going on at the moment. I would also like to point out that all of my human flesh and skin is still attached to my human body. So there is nothing to worry about and you can all leave your doors open.

Bronze peddler. “Hello, have you heard of bronze? Just attach it to your axe instead of stone. No more annoying stone chopping! And look, it’s shiny!”

Anyone have high class bourbon recommendations? Best I’ve had so far is Rabbit Hole Dareringer, any better?

Fun facts… Henning’s accent is weird even to us Germans. And almost nobody in Germany knows him.

This. Exactly this.

Trying to be what others consider desirable or normal is really just a kind of lack of strength in your own personality. True strength is when you can be yourself, don’t pretend and simply live the way you want to be. Your friends will be true friends because they will know you without pretense. Anyone who doesn’t find you attractive in this way is the wrong partner.

Even if the judiciary system in your country doesn’t do its work, people taking justice in their own hands is a fundamentally bad thing for a society. I don’t pity predators if they get what they deserve, but I pity the society that suddenly has to define boundaries - where do you draw the line? Not all cases are clear cut. Not everyone operates on the same set of morals.

Example: Religious zealots really do believe that abortions kill children. If society doesn’t categorically forbid people to take justice into their own hands but goes “well, in this case, we can all understand”, you will have other people acting in ways they perceive as equally justifiable. And then abortion doctors get murdered.

The users who downvoted me don’t seem to have this understanding, they would rather have revenge. If you people don’t understand that self-justice will ultimately lead to a more violent society, then go ahead, downvote me again. You’re the reason your country isn’t a more civilized place, wherever you live.

Is that really the only problem you see with people taking justice into their own hands? Less oversight?

I happily pay for software. ONCE. I have no idea if this software will be regularly updated and if there will be new features. How do we know the developer won’t abandon the project? And it’s a lone developer, apparently. Ever heard of the bus factor? Give me a license that enables me to use the product in its current form indefinitely, and I might consider buying it. But a subscription? No thanks. Who does this guy think he is, frickin Adobe?