The Menemen

I use posteo.de/en for email and we use the calender as a shared family calender with my wife.

Works fine for me, but we don’t really use the calender to share events with others, so I am not sure how well that works.

Wasn’t this just to make grafittis on the seats invisible enough to determine potential teenage artists?

Googled him and found this picture of him and his big brother. I have the feeling he might not have been his parents favourite? https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Camus#/media/Datei:Albert_Camus_et_son_frère_ainé_Lucien_vers_1920.jpg

Neocaridina are awesome creatures. Also pretty hardy, good for aquaristic newbies.

Just supported the project with a few €. He apparently collected 133.019 CA$. So the immediate future is looking good for that project (he aimed for 50.000).

Participations are still open for everyone who wants to support it: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pixelfed/pixelfed-foundation-2024-real-ethical-social-networks?ref=ksr_email_backer_pledge_collection_successful

Also don’t forget to support the lemmy project!

Cyber eyes. I have thick glasses and a lot of floaters, so many that I cannot even tell if my glasses are clean or not most of the time.

But naturally they’d need to look natural and be with zoom, infrared, night vision, a camera function and a video playing function (no wireless functions though).

I work in public infrastructure, so at least I can comfort myself that I am trying to improve the lifes of everyone in my area. Still exhausting.

Lol to thinking that it was better. Capitalism was always terrible for normal people.

But many people just don’t have a lot of hobbies. Change is also scary for many people.

Yeah, I also have 5 hobbies and many more interests. I am only scared that I don’t have enough energy left in me once I retire.

In Germany real estate became significantly cheaper in many parts (not all, not e.g. Berlin or Hamburg). In my north German mid size city we had ~15 percent price reduction in the last 2 years. In our neighbour city they even had 25%.

On the other hand, I know people who sold their houses when prices where high, invested their money and are happy renters now. It apparently can be a lot better financially according to many experts (here in Germany, no idea about the US).

Many things are possible with both products. But Kritas focus is on drawing/paiting and animation, meanwhile GIMPs focus is photo edititing.

Just try them out. I really love both.

The UAE defintly showed that other countries can do this.

Russia also still holds a lot of their traditional soft power in many countries, including several EU countries. They also greatly increased their softpower by helping to get far right parties into power or at least signinificant influence in several EU countries (like Orban or Germany just 2 days ago).

On the other hand Russia manouvered itself into a very weak geostrategical position lately (Ukraine and Syria). Everyone noticed that and this will likely lead to some restructuring in several regions, unlikely to be in Russias favour.

I currently find it really hard to make assumptions about Russias role in the mid-term future. That is also, why I didn’t mention Russia in my post.

My guess is China will fill the void left by the disintegration of USAID in order to boost its global standing.

China will take large chunks. But I think we will also see a decentralization as china won’t be able to take it all. Countries like Turkey, Malaysia, Brazil and so on will probably increase their regional soft powers a lot.

This process also already started years ago, but will be catalyzed by this.

A water bottle with a sport cap is a sufficient travel bidet.

Even with a bidet that paper sucks. Drying off you ass with it leaves so much paper crumble everywhere that you’ll need the bidet again…

Because it is not always possible… Also, take your time to clean the sink afterwards or you might get in trouble.qith you SO (I am speaking out of experience).

As someone who self-identifies as an old fart: Do that, but don’t forget to live a little. You’ll regret it otherwise.

Weirdly enough I got way better at night driving post-40.

Stuff hurts more than it used to.