alleycat

Pretty dystopic that you post this quote, because it is doctored to include catholics. Niemöller's wife explicitly stated that he never included them in his poem. Source: https://martin-niemoeller-stiftung.de/martin-niemoeller/was-sagte-niemoeller-wirklich

Martin Niemöllers zweite Frau (seit 1971), Sibylle von Sell  schreibt dazu am 23.4.2000 in h-holocaust https://www.h-net.org/~holoweb/ :.“ The trouble with Martin Niemoeller’s „famous quotation“ is that he never wrote it down – which enabled  so many hitchhikers  over the years to „put themselves on the waggon“. In his  „Confession of Guilt“  (as he called it himself: Schuldbekenntnis in German) the Communists came first, then the Trade Unionists and then the Socialists and then the Jews. NO ONE ELSE.”

What happened?

So they're fighting the war on climate change... on the side of climate change?

Link to the original article.

Yeah, that's the one I was thinking about. I followed him on Twitter when it still existed, but haven't seen anything of him since I left.

but also fuck Ben Garrisons 8,500 labels on his political cartoons

~~Wat. It's Ben Garrison. That's his thing. He makes fun of excessively labeled political cartoons by doing it over-the-top. He also has a sad Statue of Liberty in every comic.~~

Okay, I was completely lost.

That's still incredibly cheap compared to european gas prices. Here in Germany it's (converted to Freedom Units) around US$8/Gallon.

The german language has two words for "owl": "Eule" and "Kauz". I'm a native speaker, but I had to look up what the difference is (Wikipedia/Deepl):

"Eule" means "owl".

"Kauz" also means owl, but specifically the small, fat and grumpy looking kind:

Various bird genera and species from the family of true owls (Strigidae) are referred to as [Kauz]. The differentiation between the terms "Eule" and "Kauz" is a peculiarity of the German language and has no equivalent in terms of zoological systematics. [Eule] are generally rather elongated, slender bird species, whereas [Kauz] have a stocky, large-headed shape

[Eule] are considered thoughtful and wise, whereas [Kauz] are considered clumsy, eccentric and reclusive.

That's literally it, it has nothing to do with biology. So the correct translation would be "grumpy-looking goshawk owl". 😉

It's called displacement aggression The sportsball fan identifies with his team to the point that it feels like he lost the game himself. Since he can't express his frustration and subsequent aggression towards the opposing team (since he is in front of his TV several 100km away), he expresses it towards the next best thing that is weaker and accessible, e.g. furniture, walls, wife and kids...

One point I want to add: Throughout most of human history, it was economically beneficial to have lots of children. They were your retirement plan (and cheap labor).

In most developed countries, this is no longer the case. People who want children get one or two, just to scratch the itch, but that's not enough to sustain the population (without migration).

Yes, and even the bridge is amaranth!