Nice rule of thumb: 7% increase per year means doubling in 10 years.

Getting beat up by a group of Nazis. When they started kicking my head I thought I was going to die.

It’s not healthy, but it’s cheap: a hamburger at McDonald’s — €1.40, if I buy fries with it, €3.50.

3.50€ for a meal isn’t cheap and nothing a poor person can afford on a regular basis. I can cook a great meal for under 2€ that doesn’t consist of trash. What a detached asshole.

Choked me, but no one believes a 9-year old anyways so nothing happened.

Is there any good, current article listing the economical consequences of brexit for the UK?

Either way, the world is so intertwined that anything that happens on a bigger scale will have an impact on you, no matter where you are.

It’s not even the high and mighty, they don’t really care who works to build their shit. They are even happy about cheap labour that comes with migration. It’s the average Joe that doesn’t see the problem, projects everything on migration and is unable to think rational.

Seeing the massive right wing shift in my country (germany) just because the government proposed to shift to 65% renewable home heating in the next 20 years and slightly above average migration numbers that allegedly bring communities close to collapse if you believe the media, I’m losing all hope of anything ever changing to the better. People will never accept any measures that truly address the root of our problems, because they could mean a slight inconvenience for a short moment and limit the freedoms and possibilities that are taken for granted, but are really just a consequence of the technical development in the last decades. Humans where okay with not having a car or fly around the world for thousands of years, but now for some reason it’s life-defining. People are egocentric, dumb and can’t see past their own little world to understand that there are collective problems that only can be solved collectively. I know how condescending that sounds, but I really don’t know how to see all that differently.

We are absolutely, 100% fucked. I’ve been saying for about 10 years now, that the earliest time for actual change, for collectively deciding what’s right for humanity and the planet, socialism or whatever you want to call it, will come after the next wave of fascism and every day it becomes more obvious that this assessment was correct.

Europe are already shitting their pants because of a couple of thousand migrant, so guess what will happen when it gets into the 100.000s.

I’m expecting full dystopia.

Mainly to get to work (10 minutes), but also all other short ways and occasionally getting out in nature.

As soon as money allows it, I’ll get a better one though. It’s used and I mainly bought it because the seller was close to where I live, but I need a larger frame and I want more modern mechanics, e.g. disc brakes, overall.

Well that is one of the things I have no idea about. But maybe it depends on the type of mechanism you use? I can’t imagine it would be too hard with my bike.

Repairing your bike is easy and checking the important parts every couple of months makes riding it a lot better.

By the sound mine make I would have thought free jazz.

HODL lol

Yeah that was some stupid shit, but coal was phased out at the same rate as nuclear in the last years. You also got to take into account that the decision to phase out nuclear was made before a critical mass (lol) of people realized that CO2 is a far bigger problem. I think the plants could be run some years more, but it takes more to flip a switch for that to work. We neither have personnel nor the supply chains anymore and building new plants will take decades, so it’s far easier to just put all effort into renewables.

Yes because we have nothing else and never will.

Well thanks, now I’ll have to keep myself from doing that next time.

I think they mean eating meat three times a day. Which is technically paying for animal cruelty.

I’d claim no one follows 100% of their own morals. By that standard you’d have problems finding a non-shitty person.

You can also just live with your contradictions. I’m not saying it’s ethical or something, but it’s definitely an option.

Hitler didn’t create a cultural identity for Germans, that already happened in the 1800s.