A simple, efficient, completely made up term justifying prosecution of all ‘inner enemies’ of the regime… who could have seen that coming?

/s

It’s rather the other way round: AfD is even more neo liberal and has soaked up the financial contributions of rich donors formerly going to FDP. Other than FDP the AfD (unfortunately) actually has a chance to fuck up their ideologically blinded voter base with more more neo liberal policies as they’re much closer to reaching a position of power than the former.

Und wer denkt an die armen Energiversorger!?! Wenn jetzt überall dezentral erneuerbare eingespeißt werden verdienen ja nur noch die lokalen Projektträger und die Netzbetrieber… wo bleibt da RWE!!!11!1

/s

What you describe is also my understanding so I guess you’re well informed, even if you don’t bake yourself ^^

Thank you for the detailed explanation!

It appears to me Trump Inc. found a way to weaponize the inconvinient Epstein files by chosing which names to erase and which to publish. Don’t get me wrong: They’re all guilty. But it’s intersting that the fallout of the last release happens mostly in liberal democracies with an anti-Trump position.

My point would be that, correct me if I’m wrong, so far AI companys are burning huge piles of money while forcing AI into every application even though a significant amount of customers have no use for it or even feel hindered by it. While ,the LINUX year" until now depended on voluntary switches of users requiring them to leave their comofort zone (and a product they were familiar with and which more or less fulfilled their expectations) AI companies are slaves to the rules of market… and once buzzwords alone won’t suffice anymore to keep investors happy things might go south really fast as no one wants to be the last on a sinking ship.

(AI isn’t USELESS per se but is currently maketed as a one-fits-all solution for everything which it wouldn’t be even if it wasn’t non-intelligent stochastics)

Die halten die Füße still weil bald Wahlen sind. Der größte Feind der AfD ist die AfD selbst wenn wieder mal öffentlich schmutzige Wäsche gewaschen wird.

Außerdem möchte man die CDU Wähler für sich gewinnen, das geht besser wenn men gegen den gemeinsamen Feind ,DiE GrUeN3N!!!" hetzt als gegen die CDU… zumal sich da sicher Überschneidungen bei Geldgebern ergeben.

Dabei hatten wir doch 1936 so schöne Olympische Spiele!!!

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The cult of personality surrounding a narcissist… his name has to be on everything (in the hope that voters will forget what else he does to them).

TIL

When I think about it remember wondering sometimes (when opening a new package of cocoa) why the new one had a different color than the old one. I guess I’ve been mixing dutch and natural all the time ^^’

Concerning the baking soda vs. baking powder I think there might also be other factors at play as, at least were I live, baking soda alone is nearly never used. So it might be sort of a cultural thing…

Isn’t baking powder basically just baking soda with some acid in order to produce CO2 as it gets wet?

Da sich die CDU/CSU ja selbst dieses Mittels bedient hat um den Haushalt der Ampel ,zu prüfen" dürften sie ja nichts dagegen haben…oder?

,Sanction human rights watch! … and do Amnesty also if you’re at it" ~ some orange probably /s

Midterms are more than half a year away and they already start normalizing the narrative of the next ‘big steal’. Until November they will have convinced their base that a democrat win would solely be based of the Reps not being allowed to cheat the election (which is somewhat true but you know how they’ll mean it).

Good luck hoping for the outcome to be an non-violent end of Trumps presidency.

That’s right, a cross-section would be really handy. The problem is that I often give the cakes (including this one) away as gifts… and a cut cake doesn’t look so good. ;)

There are many different versions of this recipe, some with different creams and different quantities for the filling. I’ve always had good results with this recipe… if in doubt, I would just try it out (and make notes in my own recipe book/on the printout about what I would change next time).

You’ve send me down a rabbit hole there… up until now I didn’t know that there are different varieties of backing cocoa!

I’ve looked into it and I’m fairly sure I’m using ‘natural’ cocoa powder. Unfortunately, I can’t give you any guarantees because I hadn’t noticed the difference before. :D

Your wish is my command!

Ingridients:

Dough:

100 g butter or margarine 120 g sugar 150 g flour 30 g cocoa powder 1 tsp baking powder 2 eggs 75 ml of milk

Filling:

3 bananas 60 g chocolate flakes 2 cups of cream 2 packets whipping cream stabilizer fat for the pan

Preparation:

1. Make a batter using the first seven ingredients. Grease a springform pan (26 cm). Bake for approx. 30 minutes at 170 °C top/bottom heat. (How to make a batter: https://www.baking4happiness.com/cake-batter.html#how-to-make-the-basic-cake-batter )

2. Place the cooled base on a cake plate. Use a tablespoon to hollow out the center to a depth of 1/2 cm, leaving a 2 cm rim. Roughly crush the crumbs in a bowl. Peel the bananas, cut them in half lengthwise, and place them flat side down on the hollowed-out base.

3. Whip the cream with the cream stiffener until stiff. Fold in the chocolate flakes. Spread the cream mixture in a dome shape onto the base, right up to the edge, and sprinkle with the biscuit crumbs. Place the cake in the refrigerator for approx. 2 hours.

Ich schau mal in meine Glaskugel:

In zehn Jahren dann: ,Der Staat arbeitet als Garantiengeber zu ineffektiv, die Privatwirtschaft kann das viel besser! Ich plädiere dafür die staatliche Ausbilundgsfinanzierung einzustellen, bei den Ausbilundgen klappt das ja auch!"

Ta-Daa: System wie in den USA bei dem die Finanzwirtschaft einen dicken Reibach macht und nicht wenige noch 20 Jahre später ihren Studienkredit abstottern.

Sorry to revisit this so lately!

Yes, competition is better for innovation than cooperation… hence why mono/oligopols like google, meta etc. are harmful for innovation even though those companies are undeniably very innovative. Outside of economic I still prefer lame, boring cooperation as it costs societies, and in the last resort people, less money and lives in the long run which tend to be otherwise wasted in for example competitive wars.

This devolving of power to smaller forms of organization is, in general, a good idea. However it may rapidly become a disadvantage as political and economical power are dwarfed by bigger organizational forms like national states (let alone billion people collectives like China and India). Those powers can, in the competitive scenario which is still the norm, strong arm small nations (like Wessex or Mercia) into unfavorable conditions for them.

Final note to your last paragraph: My ideal would be a direct democracy, leaving out any potentially corrupt representative. I honestly believe this is within reach due to the communicative advances you mentioned.

Gute Idee!

Aber aufpassen: Man kann auch einfach Geld investieren um die Definition von ,Armut" zu ändern. Mit der dritten Welt verglichen gibt es hier vermutlich keine Armen… und somit auch keinen Grund Vermögenssteuer zu zahlen.

Beim neusten Vorstoß des ,CDU-Wirtschaftsrats" bekommt man den Eindruck, dass genau das das Ziel ist: Die dort orgnaisierten Gruppen wissen ganz geau, dass die Foderungen niemals von der CDU umgesetzt werden… aber man schadet der CDU und ihrem Wahlergebnis bei der nächsten Wahl erheblich. Der Gewinner: Die AfD… die im Gegensatz zur CDU tatsächlich verkommen genug ist solche Vorschläge umszusetzen sollte sie jemals in der Position sein das zu entscheiden.