Shantaram. It was very much booth, a captivating pleasure to read and the utmost inspiration of willing to live life to its fullest and be a compassionate human being.

Ah, the old German classic: Toast Hawaii

This is a complex topic and there are way too many aspects to it for there to be one expert on everything.

For a start, I’d suggest you look into Andrew Huberman. A more practical approach would be through any kind of bodywork

• pranayama/breathwork, SOMA-breath
• meditation, yoga (nidra)
• vagus nerve stimulation

That really sucks! But Lego has a reputation for being a real dickhead of a company, though. Quality of sets has long been in decline also.

High time for a change!

Besides just taking it being effectively stealing, you will get a really bad product and damage a plant prematurely.

Why only Cannabis?

Suffering through eight straight hours of „business alignment workshops“.

I used Omnivore for that and just kept everything. Since they moved on I played around with safari’s read leater or pocket but none of them really grew on me.

I do quick-save stuff to safari but clean out the list usually during the weekend, as anything I haven’t read by then seldom is worth keeping.

As a vetted german beer enthusiast, may I say that the big-brand beers are on average as good (or bad) as the american beers I know. Differences imho originate from drinking preferences (light beers) and allowed ingredients or additives, but that has a minor impact on sensory quality. Personally I often missed aroma and bitterness (hops) and gravity of most beers I tried in the USA, but that‘s just me.

Your best bet is through a company. If you have a reasonable job opportunity, familiarise yourself with the work visa and residency procedures. Your future employer will likely help you in the process.

However, the economy currently is tough also in the EU, so you’ll need to find a niche.

At least for me the progression was like this:

L1 - Sausage on grill

L2 - Meats on grill an getting the heat an timing right

L3 - Rubs and brines and grilled veggies

L4 - Baking bread and pizza

L5 - Serving a complete family dinner with different cuts of meat, fish, veggies and bread from one grill

Yeah, for utilities I try to estimate numbers and or timespan of usage and shop accordingly. If it’s for my type of heavy usage, I try to go for quality. And good quality does not automatically mean luxury price tag.

Anything that comes in light creme color and over 14% protein usually is pretty decent.

Not at all. If you feel it burning, just water it down a bit more. No harm done.

If you don’t care for prestige, Opel or Vauxhall is a good bet in its premium segment. The Opel Insignia drops almost 50% in the first year and is actually a pretty good car.

I tried amazon basics for the frist time and I must say, the quality for price ratio is amazing (sorry). Not sure abt sustainability though …

Flossing every day. Never had issues with my gums ever since.

My go-tos are legumes: cheap, easy to cook, go well with a lot of stuff, filling and full of fibre. If I feel snackish I go for a can of peas, f.i…

Pair them with rice, more veggies and lean meat, when you can score a good deal.

While I generally agree with your way of thinking, one problem I see is that higher status sex work (i.e. escort services) are not the issue but are already very expensive. The issues get more severe the closer you get to the lower end of the spectrum. And there it gets difficult in judging or controlling what really is voluntary and equal exchange of values.

More governmental control might be a solution worth exploring. This could also be realised by legalising sex work exclusively in controlled establishments. However that again leads to higher cost on all ends.

Sweden has banned buying sex but not offering it, so only the Johns are punished if caught. But that is no real solution imo and I am keen on seeing the long term effects of this.

While I agree with your argument that prohibition has seldom made anything better, the problem with prostitution is that it often does not happen voluntarily. While the transaction itself might still appear to be, in the background there are dire lives and more often than not human trafficking and extortion.

Germany has tried establishing sex work as “real” and regulated work for voluntary self-employed persons, including healthcare and consulting services. In the end this lead mostly to a steep increase in effectively illegal prostitution, as pimps used cover-constructs. Consequently forced prostitution esp. from eastern Europe flooded the marked with dirt-cheap offerings.

There is no easy solution for this. I believe that as with everything that happens within isolated milieus the only way to effectively tackle this problem is to reach out directly to the affected persons on a broad basis. But this is laborious and costly…