Such a clumsy, pathetic imitation too. He’s not even standing upright and firm. The fuck is his mouth doing? The whole point of the gesture is to signal strength and control, not twitch about like a kid yeeting a frisbee.

The difference is that a frisbee can’t do nearly as much damage as a corpo-fash in a position of power, and that I’d never condone beating up a kid for throwing a frisbee.

I don’t think a horse would choose melee if it can run, and if you prepare for range (multiple javelins), you have an advantage. A gokd hit on the more sensitive parts of the legs can knock it down, and while it keeps running you could collect your projectiles and keep trying. Persistence hunting can wear it out, even if it’s faster. Once it’s on the ground, finishing it wouldn’t be as dangerous any more if you stick it from outside kicking range.

If it does fight up close, yeah, that’d be terrifying, but the range advantage of the spear would give you an edge still. Physically, I think I could pull it off.

Emotionally, I’m pretty sure I couldn’t handle it. I’d go down, paralysed at the thought of hurting it.

I imagine they’ll still have thrown or slung something at a distance. Why risk the horse in its desperation giving you a botched chest surgery if you can outrange it?

“viewed as people” is meaningless unless it confers some special rights afforded to people.

White slaves didn’t have any more rights than black slaves, largely because skin-color based distinction is a rather modern invention (compared to the institution of slavery) and the defining traits of both black and white slaves were that they’re slaves. And slaves were universally treated poorly. Even the most benevolent slave owners in antiquity were cruel, because why wouldn’t you be? The damn thing might start getting uppity if you didn’t remind it you’re in control. Just imagine it might cause damage to someone else, and you’d be dragged to court over it!

A crime against your slave was a crime against your household (assuming you’re the head of the household), which you were entitled to drag the other party to court for. But there was literally no legal framework that would allow any kind of prosecution for anything you did to your own household. You could also beat them, kill them, rape them, literally anything. They had no defense. The only person empowered to prosecute on their behalf would be the one beating them.

So no, “white people that were slaves” weren’t people in any meaningful sense, because oppression and supremacy in much of the pre-modern world didn’t care about skin color. The romanticism around white slavery is bullshit, because owning other humans has never been anything but cruel.

One day, I missed a train. The next one had to stop one short of my home station due to “personell damages” or something similar, which I didn’t really grasp, but I was annoyed that I had to take a detour to get home.

I later found out that a guy at my home station jumped in front of the train I was supposed to get.

Not as far as I can tell. It’s really just an indicator “some people thought your comment was dogshit”. Whether you take it seriously is up to you.

People aren’t voting anti-corp if anti-corp isn’t even on the ballot

Ethanol with grape flavouring

Does Go count? Well, the exact game doesn’t matter anyway, it’s more about the situation.

I played at a group tournament once, groups of three, typically arranged in descending order of skill. I was third board (least skilled in our group).

One match, their third board was genuinely atrocious. I fleeced that kid hard and felt so bad about it, but intentionally playing badly would’ve felt even more rude (and hey, this is a tournament). It was clear he had no idea of the standard patterns, and while I wasn’t particularly proficient with the opening, it was enough to carry me to mid- and endgame where those standard patterns were just dominant. He was so determined and hopeful each new attempt to gain something and so crushed every time he figured out that it was going nowhere.

Next match, the group had pulled a strawman: Putting the worst on first board, hoping that their best and second best would win second and third board. And boy, did they ever. Pretty sure they would have won in normal order too, with the serving of asswhoop they put on that table. I got to sit on the other end of that previous beatdown, outplayed from the start, as he managed to find the cracks in every play I made.

Still feel bad for the kid though. I hope I didn’t kill his enjoyment of the game.

But with a delay based on how far away from the king the revealed square is, while your move orders also arrive at a delay…

I think I’m inventing an entirely different game here.

Was ein Mensch, kriegt ein Kätzchen-Bild und ist enttäuscht

Honestly, that sounds dope

In imperative style, everything is an instruction (to suffer)

Bikes are faster than walking

…but put me at a higher risk of hurting myself because I’m bloody clumsy (impaired balance and coordination). Joke aside, good point.

As for people with mobility issues, where i live they have a dedicated branch of the public transit for them. On train you can go with wheelchair and if you need extra help in the city they can send you someone with minibuss to help you. Same if youre not in a wheelchair but limited because of your age.

That is awesome!

Of course these arent cheap to solve

In the short term, no, it’s probably an expensive project. But in the long term, even aside from environmental impact, I think it would save money.

Just not for the car manufacturers… Those poor, poor billionaires will need to find a different income I guess.

Honestly, I’d be on board with being closer to Ireland too. I’d take some cheese and whiskey, what do you want in return? You can pop over for some traditional Swabian dumplings (Maultaschen) too, if you’ll invite me for something of your own make - I confess I’m not too familiar with typical Irish food, but I did have one banger Shepherd’s Pie at an “Irish Pub” around here once. I’m up for whatever.

I take a 10-minute detour on the way home from the light rail station, fit one or two or sometimes even three days worth of groceries in my backpack, maybe make another trip of about 25 minutes + time in store (which you’d have anyway) for some more after dinner. Some extra walking doesn’t hurt my pudge, and I’d rather do more walking now than be unable to later.

Oh, they’re putting up road barriers? No? Are they taking away cars? Also no? Do the new shops create so much traffic that it’s just not feasible to leave? Also no?

Then how the hell are they restricting anything?

conspiracy

Oh right. I forgot what type of people we’re dealing with.

My condolences, best wishes and hopefully justified congratulations!

That doesn’t work if the grocery store is too far to walk or for larger grocery hauls (which often go hand in hand - the further away, the fewer trips you’ll want to make). I’ve been told that some places just genuinely don’t have a grocer within 20min walking distance, because some construction planning apparently prefers huge zones of housing without any kind of commercial usage allowed - no baker, no grocer, no hairstylist, no doctor - making it effectively impossible to have any of those amenities in range.

Obviously, that is a planning issue and ought to be fixed. You’ll have to contend with NIMBYs, but you’d have to do that with any changes anyway. Alternatively or additionally, you could install a usable network of bus lines and trams (though they shouldn’t be run for profit, so it’ll be a tough sell too).

There is also the issue of accessibility, but I think that would be trivial to solve as a side effect: If the streets are less crowded with cars, it’s easier to offer special accommodation for people with limited mobility or anxiety issues.

You said something about security patching, testing and production. I thought I’d let you know that those three words don’t really go together.

“Production” implies a professional environment, where “testing” usually applies to the newly added features (and if you’re lucky, to past features or even regression tests against bugs) but to my knowledge never to security. Security patching does happen, but I’ve never seen it tested before applying it in professional environments. And finally, the one instance I know where security patches were tested before applying them was in a college course, that is: not a professional, productive context.

Should you?

Yes, please. I’m running out of stories to go with my popcorn. All I’ve got are the type that would go with a tub of comfort ice cream (or a strong drink, if that’s your poison).

Sächsisch ist das zweitbeste Verhütungsmittel. Das beste ist Albschwäbisch.