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Enkrod

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Webdeveloper from Germany, nerd, gamer, atheist, interested in nerd-culture, biology of everything creepy, evolution, history, physics, politics and space.

Progressive. Ally. SocDem. Euro-Federalist.

Political Compass: -7.0, -6.62

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Enkrod,
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Yes! Did you know that they can’t hear their own mating calls?

Enkrod,
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You could think about emigrating. We’d love to brain drain the US… more.

Enkrod,
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Torches! Torches and Pitchforks! Get your Pitchforks at the Pitchfork Emporium!

For every two Pitchforks sold you get a free torch! And not those silly tikki-torches either!

Enkrod,
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Nyeah… partly.

If that were entirely true, a “power bottom” would make no sense.

The terms sexual usage originated in gay circles where it only delineates who penetrates and who gets penetrated. Traditional views on sex ascribe a submissive or passive role to the bottom and an active or dominating role to the top, but you can totally have a power bottom who takes control and an active role in the intercourse but is the one getting penetrated.

Enkrod,
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UwU, OwO and OwU represent Cute Face. It is used to express various warm, happy, or affectionate feelings, often with an overtone of arousal.

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I absolutely support the right of Israel to exist and defend itself against Hamas. I just don’t think that this sanctions the bombing of innocent Palestinians in Gaza or to pursue an aggressive settlement policy.

I am in favor of Israel.

I am strongly opposed to Netanyahu. Fuck that guy and his entire government.

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This is PATENTLY wrong. It’s 1.49% of GDP, not budget.

Defense budget is 10.9% of the governments budget, it’s the second largest budgeted item after social wellfare and in front of infrastructure (which is crumbling) and debt. To increase it to 2% of gross domestic product means spending an additional amount equal to the entire budget for education and research.

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When the AfD marched through our cities with cries of “Volksverräter!”, I should have recognized it as a declaration of intent.

Russia threatens Britain with retaliation if involvement in Ukraine war deepens (www.pbs.org)

Russia on Monday threatened to strike British military facilities and said it would hold drills simulating the use of battlefield nuclear weapons amid sharply rising tensions over comments by senior Western officials about possibly deeper involvement in the war in Ukraine....

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What’s Russia gonna do? Lose on two fronts instead of just the one?

Enkrod,
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In Germany we don’t “need” to do taxes as an employee, but you won’t get anything back if you don’t do them. You can usually just do them in some app, send them to the tax office, get some money back and pay the app a tiny fee for the help.

Then again if you own a house or a company or have any income that isn’t taxed as receiving a salary, you better get a tax consultant and those can be pricey.

Enkrod,
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Hans and Sophie Scholl definitely need to be on every list of people to admire

Enkrod,
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It is! Even if it’s very, very rare.

But it does exist, for example in the Name of Bernhard Hoëcker, where it denotes a pronounciation of Ho-ecker instead of Höcker.

Enkrod,
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It’s three fedoras, looked at from the top!

Thank you for making me look, but fuck you for not telling me, it took ages of staring at my screen before I got what was actually depicted.

4-star generals side with Smith, tell SCOTUS Trump immunity claim is 'assault' on democracy (lawandcrime.com)

A distinguished group of retired four-star generals and admirals from the U.S. military have argued in a brief filed in the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday that Donald Trump’s claims of absolute “presidential immunity” from criminal prosecution tied to Jan. 6 is an “assault” on the “foundational commitments”...

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The word “disinfornation” came from the press. The authors stated it “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation”, adding:

We want to emphasize that we do not know if the emails, provided to the New York Post by President Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, are genuine or not and that we do not have evidence of Russian involvement—just that our experience makes us deeply suspicious that the Russian government played a significant role in this case.

Politico (owned btw. by german far right Axel Springer LLC, Germanys Fox News) distorted the meaning of the letter:

There was message distortion. All we were doing was raising a yellow flag that this could be Russian disinformation. Politico deliberately distorted what we said. It was clear in paragraph five

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Republicans won both 2000 and 2016 despite losing the popular vote.

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Casual reminder that Politico is owned by Axel Springer SE, the german Fox News

Enkrod,
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That’s how you get turned into 20 dollars

Enkrod,
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Sigurd Felix Wolfgang Atreides

Such a weird mishmash of German, Latin and Greek, although Felix is extremely common in Germany too. Sigurd isn’t though, that’s some old germanic kinda name, like Æthelwulf in the anglosphere.

Enkrod,
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<span style="color:#323232;">> Golf pal of dad go to Japan for business,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">> he has prostitute over,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">> goes at it like a wild rabbit
</span><span style="color:#323232;">> she keeps screaming "Ana chigai!! Ana chigai!!"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">> he thinks she mean big praise, great or wow
</span><span style="color:#323232;">> next day he go golf with japanese businessman
</span><span style="color:#323232;">> Japanese man get a hole in one!
</span><span style="color:#323232;">> dad pal scream "Ana chigai!" to praise him
</span><span style="color:#323232;">> Japanese man turn to him, looking confused
</span><span style="color:#323232;">>
</span><span style="color:#323232;">> "What you mean, wrong hole?"
</span>

Your flash drive: “Ana chigai!”

Enkrod,
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Hey!

I’ll have you know I’m 6’6"

Enkrod,
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I’m here to provide the divided opinion: God Emperor of Dune is the best book in the series imho.

Enkrod,
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Nah, the US-system is mathematically locked in a two-party system, it absolutely demolishes the chance for a third party but doesn’t tolerate a single party either. Though it might take 8 - 12 years for the (former) republican vote to congeal around a new point of possible agreement.

Enkrod,
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  • PEGGY - Villains aren’t born (they’re made) with a boner
  • Neil Patrick Harris - A brand new day with a boner
  • Divide Music - Say my name with a boner
  • Sick Puppies - You’re going down with a boner
  • Nate Wants To Battle - Phantom with a boner
  • In Flames - I am above with a boner
  • Dope - Die MF Die with a boner
  • Godsmack - I stand alone with a boner
  • Avenged Sevenfold - Hail to the King with a boner
  • Disturbed - Warrior with a boner
  • Ashley Johnson, Laura Bailey, Sam Riegel - Your turn to roll with a boner

Not even picked to work well with this, that’s just my Black Paladin Playlist for my D&D Char

Enkrod,
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I can’t decide who’s more dangerous, the zealous madman or the power hungry charlatan. But the mix of both is just… yikes.

Enkrod,
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Then it’s not tea, it’s an infusion or decoction.

Tea is made from a specific plant, the tea shrub (Camellia sinensis).

These infusions might be called tea, but they are tea in the same way as a hotdog is a heated companionable mammal.

Except if you talk about Kukicha, then it’s made from the stems of the tea shrub. The important part here is the tea shrub. Without tea in it, it just ain’t tea.

Enkrod,
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Thanks for correcting me then

Enkrod,
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<span style="color:#323232;">Yes, the world doesn't need billionaires
</span><span style="color:#323232;">And we can do it without guns
</span><span style="color:#323232;">No, we won't kill you and we won't lock you up
</span><span style="color:#323232;">On the contrary, you'll become millionaires!
</span>

Knorkator - Die Welt braucht keine Milliardäre

Enkrod,
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Well I’m certainly a fun guy!

Edit: You all know somebody had to say it!

Enkrod, (edited )
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Let’s throw “Neuroanatomy?” in there too, just for fun!

In short and what @miss_brainfart @miss_brainfarts is alluding to:

Everybody who want’s to tell you there are only 2 biological sexes has a reductionist view of a very complex subject and likely doesn’t know how much about that subject they don’t know.

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Oh, my bad, sorry for dead-instancing you, good to see you’re better about your phobia now.

Enkrod,
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Breathing is at least 150k a year, that’s more than enough, even after taxes and has me covered when I’m old and can’t go for a walk anymore.

I don’t need more, I’d rather enjoy my quiet time and taking an walk and standing still for a while at a nice vista, enjoying the view. I don’t need the constant chase for money and even more money in my life and the stress of having to keep moving to get even more. When I walk at the beach with my better half, I’d rather think of how nice this is rather than how much this earns me.

Enkrod,
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is at least

Enkrod,
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Not all snakes are venomous

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Well yes, but no.

Every snake swallows it’s food whole and every snake (except teethless eggsnakes or wormsnakes or sum such freaky things) bite.

Constrictors (no venom, suffocating the prey) do bite and then wrap around the prey, that the snake tries to hold onto the frog seems to indicate it being a constricting species.

Venomous species bite and then often let go, as usually the venom is enough to kill or stun small prey and using your mouth to hold onto something that has the ability to fight back is usually a bad idea if you can just let the venom do it’s thing. Though many venomous snakes with less potent poison will also constrict their prey.

Most snakes, big and small are constrictors. Everything bigger than a king cobra is a constrictor, but most small species (like rat snakes, milk snakes, corn snakes and king snakes) are also constrictors.

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I have absolutely no idea, there are around 4000 species of snake and this one doesn’t have especially distinct coloration.

The narrow shape of the head and the long, slender body tells me it’s not a species of viper, it certainly is no python (except maybe a young black water python), or boa. It’s active, fast and slender, so personally I think it’s either a colubrid (most likely, colubridae make up about 60% of all snakes worldwide) or an elapid (less likely, but possible)… Am I the only one thinking that the body looks very triangular? Could be a black krait, but they only live in northern India and are most active during the night.

It’s most likely just some sort of black rat snake (Pantherophis obsoletus) or black racer (Coluber constrictor sp.), which are both black american colubrids with a white belly and both constrict their prey. Both are active during the day, great climbers and hunt frogs. So I guess that’s my best guess.

But like I said, I don’t have the slightest idea.

Enkrod,
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Yes, atheism is not a belief, it’s a realisation. One day you realise that you don’t believe, that you are simply not convinced. You don’t decide to be an atheist, you don’t belief in atheism, you simply can’t make yourself belief something that you are not convinced of. It’s not in your control, you haven’t been provided with sufficient (or any) evidence and realise that the label of atheist accurately describes your state of mind.

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