In the short term, we should probably focus on fixing our problems on earth. Some space research should still be funded, but not as a major priority. Once we finally have our shit together, we can start exploring the stars.

Kia EV3. It’s generally nice and I don’t want a different one. But I’d prefer not to drive a car if that were practical for me right now.

Nicht eher das “normale” römische Reich? Westrom hatte Germanien kaum noch unter Kontrolle und Konstantin war vor der Teilung Kaiser.

Probably Middle Earth/The Lord of the Rings. (1937-2026)

I really liked how the 48fps version of the Hobbit looked (even though the movies themselves were mediocre).

For me, they’re just a nice to have. I don’t actively chase them or anything, but it’s sometimes neat to see when I did a thing that only 1% of players managed to do. I personally don’t care that they’re public. If I did, I imagine I’d have a private Steam profile anyway, so the achievements would be a moot point. I don’t see a meaningful difference between publishing my achievements and my other game activity like play times.

Not regularly or often, but yes. It’s actually legal from the age of 14 here (under parental supervision and only lower-alcohol stuff like beer). So I’d have a bit here or there for special occasions like New Year’s Eve. From the age of 16 you’re allowed to drink unsupervised. At that point some of my classmates already got drunk regularly. I never liked alcohol (or rather its effects) that much though and to this day I’ve never been drunk. These days I might drink something like a glass of wine every few weeks or so.

I don’t think anything like that is likely to happen. The leading CDU-candidate has already publicly conceded to the Greens. Also the Greens and CDU have successfully governed with each other for years here, so there’s no way they’ll be desperate enough to consider a coalition with the AfD, with all the fallout that would bring.

The Greens are a center-left party that focuses on environmental issues in most of Germany. But their local branch in Baden-Württemberg is way more centrist and even economically conservative, without a big focus on environmental issues. For example, they’re quite friendly towards the car industry, which is big in BW. This has made them very successful in a state that was firmly in the grips of the christian-conservative CDU for many decades. But it has kind of alienated them from the rest of the Greens.

Yeah, but still, a win against the CDU is a win against the CDU. Also nice to see a person of Turkish descent become MP for the first time.

There’s a Pokemon fan forum that I originally joined around 2004 I believe. They’ve had a relaunch since then, so my current account is “only” from 2009 though. I’m still ocassionally active on there, along with like 5 other users.

Well, it comes from Spain. Even if all your American ancestors came from Norway (which is unlikely), people in Europe have been intermixing for millennia. “Pure blooded” people don’t exist.

That’s 2 different companies (Nintendo vs The Pokemon Company). But also yeah, obviously they have much more to gain when it’s about $200B.

This. Also older people falling for that kind of stuff was pretty much expected, but that came with the hope that those ideas will soon die out along with them. So fascism finding significant support among younger people (even if it’s not even close to the majority) kind of killed that hope.

Do you recall where you saw that? I can’t find that statement. Would be cool if true though. Wasn’t possible for Index Controllers.

If they work like the Index controllers, no, they won’t connect without Steam VR running and the HMD connected. But maybe they’re different.

I don’t think you can do a whole lot with the Frame controllers without the Frame though.

For German, I guess Pennsylvania Dutch would come closest? At least in the sense that it’s a variety of German spoken in North America. It’s barely understandable for modern-day Germans.

Hier kommt manchmal ein Kartoffelhändler vorbei der an der Haustür verkauft. Den würde ich als seriös bezeichnen.

Maybe so, but getting neither kind of terrible tattoo is always an option, isn’t it?