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Conservatives are afraid. They (at least the professionals and the GOP as an organisation) are well aware that they are on course to get irrelevent in the future. Not only are their politicians getting older, their voter base is getting older and shrinking. So the try everything in the book to stay relevant: Gerrymandering, reducing access to the voting process fro people who are unlikely to vote for them, etc. And as we all know, fear, or worse, existencial dread, leads to hate for the other side, the group of people seen as their very threat to their existence.

They are basically cornered rats, clawing and biting the pest control man.

Professional SovCit idiots.

Another AfD politician recently was caught on camera taking Russian money.

But you are right, this is a general theme among right-wing politicians. Brexit is hailed as one of Putins biggest successes in weakening Europe, and Trump is a total Putin (and Xi and Kim Jong-un) fanboy, if not even a Russian secret service asset.

I’ve never used a VPN, and from numerous posts, many of them in my native, non-english language, it would be easy to derive that I’m not an American citizen. I’ve even stated that fact in a number of posts.

I still got an invitation. I reported it as spam.

The key question is: What kind of R&D? I’m afraid their key research is “how to squeeze more money out of our users”.

Do you have to break your fingers, too, to switch them off?

It was an NI. A Natural Intelligence.

In a way, this happened to my daughter. She is studying in a foreign country, the courses are in English (not our native language), and of course she is writing all her papers in English, too. Which she is very good at, so the texts are usually perfect from a language point of view. She had already been rated “native speaker” in school although she actually isn’t, and worked as an editor on an English language story website back then, fixing American and British native speakers’ spelling problems).

Other students actually asked her what AI she was using to write her papers. Guess who was seriously pissed…

The problem is, whatever you say against any person that by accident is also jewish, you will be called “antisemite” for it. It is a natural defense reflex. Even if you have clear video evidence of the person e.g. raping and killing babies, you will be the evil antisemite.

I stand corrected. Thank you!

There is an easily hackable and cheap device from IKEA by the name of “VINDRIKTNING”. There are YT videos on how to wifi-enable that thing and integrate it into home automation services.

Are people in the affected area more conservative than others, or just more stupid?

That’s peanuts compared to what they “lost” in Afghanistan and Iraq.

I like scientific cooking. I’m a big fan of Sebastian Lege, who is a cook and food designer, and who knows all the little chemical tricks of the food industry. I wish he would publish a cook book: On the left, a recipe for the dish as made by a professional chef with normal ingredients, on the right the recipe for the same dish as made by the food industry.

I remember one show where he made “Banana Milk”. The banana flavor was made from vinegar, some alcohol, and some other acid…

Just today, I applied one of his ideas. I made a Chinese dish with chicken, and added baking powder to the marinade made from soy sauce, ginger, garlic, honey, salt, oil, and chili. And it was amazing!

It would give you a good chance to win a Darwin Award.

The nationalist party PiS had turned the public television into a propaganda system. People called the TV news channel “TVPiS” instead of the official name “TVP”.

Yep. Denture cleaners are quite good for food-safe stuff. When we cleaned out grandmas flat, I put her cleaner tablets aside, astonishing the other family members with my move: “But you’ve got no dentures?!?!” Those pills are great for cleaning vases or thermos bottles.

I wonder if they have filters, or if you get similar replies for search terms like “nuclear weapons”, “cocaine”, or “child porn”.

They are free to try. What shall they do if you say “No”?

The real answer to “Don’t tread on me!” people is: “Real Americans just shoot the damn rattlers!”.