What did the inventor of the wheel say, after they turned it for the first time?

“Friends, that’s a revolution!”

Forgotten? Or was it just the shittiest shitpost?

But be careful, if the road ia slippery you might happen to fall onto the chain.

What chores? Everything that has to do with miniaturization. They’d have sub-millimeter fingers. Repairing that Iphone? The screw that I can’t even fucking see would be huge for them. Or as neurosurgeons, or or or

Biggest productivity win would be teams between humans, fairies and pixies. Each can do tasks according to his strength and size.

But wait. Maybe fairies are around, and they’re all locked up in sweat shops in Bangladesh or China producing new stuff to flood our markets…

Come on, if you were in Minneapolis, you’d be happy about that.

Ok, ok, I’ll let myself out.

What did the priest say to the - what is Ministrant in English - altar server boy?

“There is a good Christian inside you”.

(Was sagt der Pfarrer zum Ministranten? Es steckt ein guter Christ in Dir.)

Yeah, but when you DO know the system is totally fucked.

Calling customer service that have no cmie what they’re taking about either, pushing you through a script. One fun time my internet connection was broken and I called the provider. They walked me through all the windows settings to check if I had set up things correctly. I did run Linux, but hat set up Windows for other people so frequently that I knew how each dialog looked and how it’d respond to the failure, so I just lied. FINALLY in the end of the call that guy scheduled a reboot of my port on the provider’s DSLAM which made things work again…

(And no, not all customer service is like this. I also got amazing support of people who know what they are talking about, but they cost more for the companies than just outsourcing to the cheapest generic call center.)

Last Sunday I ate pasta with olives and got really sick afterwards. I fucking regret eating those olives.

And as this is a shitpost, YES i was shitting all night. And vomiting. But this is not a vomitpost.

Still I really regret eating those olives.

Btw you can count to 12 on your fingers with one hand. Starting from the end of the index finger tap each segment of the “remaining” four fingers with your thumb.

I heard someone claim that’s how Babylonians invented and used the base 12 system in the first place.

If they knew their vocabulary they’d knew that

• ICE is a fucking train
• ICE is always late
• ICE has broken air conditioning
• ICE arrives in the wrong order, today

That’s hard to find out. When I was in school I was captivated by American movies and music, mostly all blockbuster movies came out of the us. I’m Gen X and as a teenager I had my TV tuned in to MTV a lot (when it wasn’t in use with the Commodore 64)

Before that - I’m from the southern part of Germany, so we had a lot of US influence after WW2, whereas other parts of Germany had French, British and Russian military here.

I suppose WW2 had a big impact in Europe, as English speaking troops came in and saved people from Nazi Germany. Interestingly that’s how it feels in some parts of Germany even (they saved us from the Nazis) - as absurd as it is, when you’re aware how much support the Nazis had in the population.

Nevertheless English was a big positive thing - and the answer probably is “both the UK and the US”. My dad was a huge Beatles fan as a teenager and fans want to understand the lyrics. All you need is love.

Also don’t forget Europe has so many languages - so when we talk to each other we use what the most of us know - English. I do believe that the “EU” with its more open borders also brings people to use more English.

Unfortunately I (unsuccessfully) was taught Latin in school as a third language , not French - so English is my only tool in Europe to communicate beyond my native language. It worked everywhere I visited. From Latin everything I remember is “Marcus hodie in colloseo est. Ubi est Cornelia?” (really. that was chapter 1 in my first latin book, and it’s all I remember)

In some countries there’s a age gap, with people below 40 or so are much more fluent in English, but AFAIK it’s mandatory as a second language across schools in a big part of Europe. Even in my Generation - I have a lot of friends whom I just share English as a common language with.

English had that role even before the internet. Do you really belive we became fluent in English only in the 90s?

This is not a reddit, Sir.

Wenn der Scheiß Zug kommen würde, könnte ich auch Scheißpfostieren.

What’s the difference between the US and Germany?

In Germany the ICE will probably not show up at all to take you away.

Also reddit:

My gf didn’t close the tooth paste in the bathroom.

Reddit: Red flag, LEAVE HER

IIRC Germany is named weirdly different around the world with names stemming from several roots.

Deutschland, Germany, Alemania, Nemezky, Saksa,…

I’m living with undiagnosed Adhd for all of my life. My son got a diagnosis when he was 6 or 7 - thus I know the symptoms, and frankly I know too much of the diagnosis method now to get myself an honest diagnosis. (I know how to answer to get the results I want). And I don’t need it anymore, I adjusted my life to play more into my strengths and less into my weaknesses. (And the last 10 years - in my 50s - I feel like symptoms are getting milder)

The complicated thing is: Every single symptom of adhd is being experienced by the majority of normal people. It’s just being “more” of that statistically.

It feels like setting the difficulty level on a video game, you’ll see the same things, you’ll see the same bosses. You play on hard while the guy how got to play life in story mode tells you how lazy you are because you didn’t fight all the bosses, yet.

A big part of dealing with adhd is accepting that my challenge is mine and is different from yours.

And that probably is why “being neurodivergent” is so “attractive”. It gives us the freedom of not being seen as lazy or stupid, and that’s something that I think should really apply to every single fucking human on this world.

We all have our challenges. You are OK as you are. You are worthy of love. And yes, life is hard, you’re not lazy.

If seeing people like this were the norm, “neurotypical” people wouldn’t need to see themselves as divergent. People just use “adhd” or “autism” to say “look, I have my challenges, too”.

Ah reminds me. My dad did smoke. And as tobacco was taxed differently he had once used one of these small sliding machines to put tobacco into “empty” cigarettes, sold separately.

He had stopped using these and was back to store bought cigarettes when I found his cigarettes and the machine.

I carefully pulled out all the tobacco from one of his Camel filters, and put it back in with the sliding machine - adding the tiniest firecracker I had.

Few days later he was sooooo angry. And the angrier he was the more I had to laugh.

It did explode in his ashtray when he was concentrating at his desk.

Oh fuck, thats was over 40 years ago and I still have to laugh like a madman.

Remembering him fondly, even when he was mad as hell at me the worst that would happen was him shouting.

The Floppotron

Since 2022 it is Floppotron 3.0 playing on 4 flatbed scanners, some hard drives and 512 floppy drives.

https://youtu.be/kCCXRerqaJI

Ok, you forgot the Kickstart boot disk loading the Kernel before. But yes, the Amiga was amazingly resource efficient.