The photo seems to be zoomed in on a smartphone camera. Looks to me like the person who took the picture stood further away and used a digital zoom. And the guy on the left is holding a weapon. The chest patch of the guy on the left is at an angle where you can’t read it anyway. I don’t see signs of AI, just a low quality, zoomed in smartphone picture.

Every morning I read the news from the US and am shocked by how much they sound like a homework exercise with the prompt: Imagine the Hitler regime happened today. What would the news headlines look like?

In theory I have one lip balm that I try to keep in the trousers I am wearing. However I keep losing it, buying new one, finding the old one, putting the old one in a bag as a “spare”, losing the new one…

I’m writing a poem. The first in a long time.

While they didn’t 100% buy into all the details of Nazi ideology, the Japenese did believe themselves to be the superior race among the Asian peoples.

Same for me. I think I made it to season 3, but it was so annoying how everybody was just a massive asshole and over the top cruel.

Me too. It was even cheaper than the same laptop with Windows. I had a dual boot for years but the way things are right now I don’t want to use Windows at all anymore.

Great film. I also highly recommend reading the original short story.

There is some content I am curious about but can only stomach when I watch it on a reaction channel so I don’t die of second hand embarrassment. For other people I think it has a lot to do with feeling lonely. Reaction channels make you feel like you have someone to share the jokes with. I think way too many people are lonely nowadays.

I kind of like “Closed for the week” “Go away and don’t bother me, I’m closed this week due to bleeding.” :D

Usually the problem with these universities is that they are scammy private institutions geared specifically towards Indian students. He did not go to a regular German University but a private one.

I found on another newspage that the main problem is that all the “University’s” classes are online. Therefore there is no reason for a visa, since the students can just as well take the classes from India.

I love Qobus. I heard they also pay the artists more fairly. It’s just unfortunate that some big artists are still missing. And from what I can see subscriptions only work via the Google Play store.

And if she says something like “well old people did contribute so much in the past”, just say that so did depressed people and often they are depressed because of giving more than they had.

Or maybe agree with her and drive it to the ultimate conclusion: people with disabilities will need to be euthanized if they can’t contribute. Working accident and you lost a limb or two? Euthanization.

Remind her to update her living will to let her die in case of an accident causing severe disabilities.

Same goes for pretty much any other food item. Noone has to explain their medical history or just likes/dislikes to you. Obviously the problem is way more prevalent with alcohol, because somehow “I don’t like tomatoes” is totally fine, but “I don’t like alcohol” is entirely unacceptable.

Well, I didn’t like it but I think he had some skills. He was into this minimalistic music, I forgot what it was called. I found it boring, but I could also tell he must have known a thing or two about music theory.

Being mir genauso. Ich hatte meist eine Farbe für ein Thema oder so. Damit habe ich es mir direkt besser gemerkt.

Not that unusual, but I responded to an ad of an older dude looking for someone who’d go shopping for him. He couldn’t get down the stairs easily anymore. But really, he just wanted someone to talk to. So I’d go to his place, grab the shopping list and money, walk across the street to the nearest supermarket and be back in 20 minutes. And then he’d often cook for me and tell me about his life, travels, the music he composed on his very old computer, stuff like that. I’d get paid for 3-4 hours of which 90% was just talking to this guy about electronic music.

A common one in German is Erdbeerwoche (strawberry week).

That’s OK when it comes to to personality but I think there are certain non-negotiable things that can be checked via the profile.

Wants Kids yes/no Wants Marriage yes/no OK with smoking or not

These are things that need to be checked early on either way or else the relationship won’t work out.

Well, that’s nothing anyone can just provide you with. You’d need to do your research, maybe ask around in relevant expat communities. Check if your country of choice needs people with your skill set. What I can tell you is that I know many expats who come on a tourist visa to job hunt, usually stay longer with a student visa and learn German in language schools and then try to get a job from there. It does require quite a lot of funds though.