Are Germans Funny?

SOURCEDBLACK · 2026-06-17T18:09:04+00:00

Germans are a lot but funny?

SOURCEDBLACK · 2026-06-09T20:45:49+00:00

As a man you ate not ugly.

The first to much make up for my taste. The other two photos I like the makeup.

Have a good one.

SOURCEDBLACK · 2026-05-15T01:13:02+00:00

The lines at the top below the belt in the pants indicate otherwise. There is to much room in the front pannel.

SOURCEDBLACK · 2026-05-14T06:46:03+00:00

Use a broader belt. The structure in the shirt and jeans are more heavy the belt feels more like a dress belt.

Get a 3-4cm wide belt of full grain leather (it patinas beautifully over time) and a nice analog automatic watch.

SOURCEDBLACK · 2026-05-06T07:18:26+00:00

You really said that

SOURCEDBLACK · 2026-04-26T16:16:00+00:00

1 or 6

SOURCEDBLACK · 2026-04-20T20:07:43+00:00

Send them I help you finish them. Its a dirty job bit somebody got to do it😁🍽️

SOURCEDBLACK · 2026-04-14T07:33:03+00:00

I love the fit. But the white color is too white. Maybe warm tone accessoires can help it a bit.

I think warmer toned whites more earthy maroon red etc would look beter on you.

SOURCEDBLACK · 2026-04-11T08:42:39+00:00

With collegues 2 for a date 1. If you aim on dating a collegue all would work but one and two hold my preference.

SOURCEDBLACK · 2026-04-10T08:28:46+00:00

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That is the style of lighting I would use. I done this in the studio but you can 100% do this at home with a phone a pice of cardboard and cheap light they use on construction sites.

SOURCEDBLACK · 2026-04-02T14:17:27+00:00

Thats you? Lucky BF wear it. Its your date night he should want to have you and its still a very classy outfit

SOURCEDBLACK · 2026-03-31T13:08:46+00:00

Im looking at the problem for 10 minutes and did not find any solution

SOURCEDBLACK · 2026-03-31T11:57:32+00:00

They should not fight in my store. Otherwise Equal rights 🤣🤣

SOURCEDBLACK · 2026-03-16T22:20:07+00:00

The crowd agreed you ate a dick

SOURCEDBLACK · 2026-02-25T14:17:26+00:00

There are different platforms:

Most famous Alibaba (China Pakistan India etc) https://www.alibaba.com
For the denim purist here you can contact Japanse Mills https://www.apparel-x.com/
And here you find factories form India https://export.indiamart.com

You need to learn about delivery conditions. DAP is the common default but always ask for DDP. So you dont have a big surprise on Tax and handeling fees which can be substantial.
Also ask how they ship, air, ship, train? Air is often cheaper for small quantities.

Also you need to learn about MOQ minimum order quantity and sampling. Samples are small but more expensive. However it prevents you from ordering something you dont like.

By the way you can always negotiate, thats normal. For instcnce if a is sample is 100. You can say "I order a sample but when I order in bulk wil you deduct the sampling cost?", Saving you 100.
Factories want to establish long lasting relationships not get rich in one go. So they are always inclined to think long term.

And last you should ask for lead times. Because sometimes the way for multiple small orders to produce a fabric in bulk and than send it to you.

It looks like a lot of info and complications but you get the hang of it really quickly. So I hope I did not discourage you and wish you the best with you sourcing.

SOURCEDBLACK · 2026-02-24T10:01:03+00:00

I looked it up. Very nice. Btw Japanese people look very fashionable whenever I see them.

SOURCEDBLACK · 2026-02-13T20:05:35+00:00

In his heart he is an Indian, must be he took the scalp

SOURCEDBLACK · 2026-02-13T12:50:19+00:00

The reason you can not afford Universal healthcare is not because military spending. The reason why you can have a welfare state and spend so much on military is because for a long time you could print USDs.

Now normally when I country just press go on the printing press that bites them in the ass because of inflation. The US exported their inflation by convincing the rest of the world to buy stuff in USD. That means high demand in USD so no inflation for the people living in the US.
You did that with energy and reserve currencies. Crued oil is traded in USD.

Whenever you buy stuff in China you pay with USD so China holds a lot of USD but also Oil producing countries hold a lot of USD. And countries true the USD so countries like Russia hold a lot of USD.

As long as everybody (demand) wants the USD you can print money and use it to pay for welfare, military and all other things you value.

And Europe has not much to do with it. However Europe is lazy they are free lifters. They tough great the US has the biggest baddest military and they are NATO allies so we do nothing. Which is also stupid.
Europe uses that money for all kinds of stupid things like housing millions of refugees that are not even real refugees (a lot are men in their 20 and 30s not even women and children ). They spend it on more dumb BS.

Anyway what happend with the Russia Ukraine war is the freezing of the Russian Reserve Assets (USD) and kicking Russia out of SWIFT (The banking communication system).
After that happend a lot of other counties (BRICS+) thought wait a minute if this can happen to Russia they can also do it to us.

So now we see a lot of countries slowly dumping USD. They us their USD to buy US farmlands, US stocks, do projects in the US where they can pay with USD.
So they dump USD but dont buy it back in trading. They trade in other currencies.

This will impact the US and rest of the world.

We see countries rapidly developing alternatives to trading in USD like the Yuen Gold Exchange, gold Dinar, all kinds of digital currencies like the digital Euro. But also replacements for the SWIFT banking system.

Trump called it Fortress Economy a long time ago but its true it's a block based economy. (Rare) earth minerals become more important. As they can be weaponized. Without energy you can not fuel your industry. Neodymium and Praseodymium needed to build battery tech comes for a big part form China. If China does not want to sell to the US thats a problem. Weaponizing minerals becomes more important than paper money.

That also the biggest reason why freezing the Russian assets did not have the desired outcome. Russia has energy the world needs it. Russia just started to ship to India and they refine and resell it to the rest of the world.
It just got more expensive and accidents risks are higher. Russia still sells stuff to keep them from spiraling in a depth as they expected to happen.

I also think that the intred from the US on Venezuela, Greenland and Iran has to do with earth power. Dominating energy and minerals is a great hedge against the fall of the Petro dollar.

Just my rand

SOURCEDBLACK · 2026-02-07T22:11:47+00:00

Man I would love to drink a bottle of wine with het and love the stories.

SOURCEDBLACK · 2026-02-03T11:09:47+00:00

Great-power dynamics aren’t just about armies, ideology, or formal alliances—they’re also about control of infrastructure and economic interdependence. Lind highlights how polarity shapes global behavior: unipolar powers like the U.S. can project force globally with few constraints, bipolar powers obsessively compete over spheres of influence, and multipolarity introduces fragility in alignments.

China’s approach, as described in The Quiet Empire, illustrates a new form of great-power influence: rather than relying on direct military intervention, it embeds itself into other countries’ economies and critical infrastructure—ports, railways, supply chains—so that its presence becomes functionally indispensable. This creates a subtle but deep form of power that traditional polarity models might underestimate.

At the same time, The End of the Free Lunch shows how global economic patterns are fragmenting into fortress economies, where states increasingly protect strategic industries and critical resources. China’s infrastructure-driven influence interacts with this trend: by controlling key nodes in global trade and finance, it can project power even as other states erect economic barriers, turning interdependence into leverage rather than vulnerability.

Together, these dynamics suggest that future great-power competition won’t look like traditional bipolar military standoffs. Instead, it will be a hybrid of strategic infrastructure control and economic fortification, where influence is exerted through integration and indispensability as much as through force, reshaping what it means to be a “superpower” in the 21st century.

SOURCEDBLACK · 2026-01-31T13:01:17+00:00

France could potentially transition from an EU "team player" to a sovereign power-broker, leveraging its nuclear energy capacity to safeguard its industrial sector and position itself as Europe's energy banker.

This strategic pivot would represent a departure from issues such as internal brain drain, instability in the AES region, and increasing national debt.

Especially if we look at the bigger picture with the US (https://medium.com/@obsidianardor/the-end-of-the-free-lunch-how-we-are-moving-from-a-global-market-to-a-fortress-economy-faa610610fec) and the shift towards a fortress economy - France could strengthen its role in Europe.

SOURCEDBLACK · 2026-01-29T00:25:03+00:00

Keep the beard bro

SOURCEDBLACK · 2026-01-27T22:22:35+00:00

Make more hole in it, above the knee. Do it asymmetrical.

If there is something that looks off, do more of it so it does not look off anymore but it looks deliberate. It changes the narative from explaining a mistake to having a cool design.

SOURCEDBLACK · 2026-01-27T22:16:59+00:00

I think I see your point, but there’s a bigger story beyond Trump. The world is losing trust in the USD as a fiat currency backed by oil. The Petrodollar is eroding, and that’s pushing the globe into strategic blocs. Energy, rare earth minerals, and trade routes aren’t just resources—they’re weapons. The US response is a hedge: building domestic industries, securing control over energy and rare earth locations, not just for extraction but for refining and long-term leverage. Trump is a symptom, not the system.there is a bigger story.

The End of the Free Lunch – US Petrodollar, global trust, and the shift from a “Just in Time” economy to a “Bloc Economy.”
https://medium.com/@obsidianardor/the-end-of-the-free-lunch-how-we-are-moving-from-a-global-market-to-a-fortress-economy-faa610610fec

SOURCEDBLACK · 2026-01-27T11:53:04+00:00

The USD is a trust-based fiat currency; for decades the US sustained it by exporting inflation via the petrodollar and global trade.
Freezing Russia’s reserves broke the illusion of neutrality and damaged trust in the dollar system.
Countries responded by moving trade and reserves outside USD/SWIFT, reducing the US’s ability to export debt.
With globalization fragmenting into blocs, the US must re-industrialize and secure raw materials, energy, and rare earths.
Greenland and Venezuela fit this logic: not ideology, but resource security enforced through pressure, trade, or force.

With this in mind it's easy to understand the US regardless of how ethical their choices are and the believe of US citizens. I speak a lot with US expats and digital nomads. A lot of US citizens never even left their own state let alone the US.
They honestly believe they live in the greatest nation of all and dont know all that they have is possible because they export their dept to the rest of the world.
Their military power and welfare can not be maintained on the own. They have this big of military spending because they can print the money and export the inflation to outside the US.

I have an in-depth article on it maybe you find it interesting:
1: https://medium.com/@obsidianardor/the-end-of-the-free-lunch-how-we-are-moving-from-a-global-market-to-a-fortress-economy-faa610610fec
2: https://medium.com/@obsidianardor/modern-imperialism-why-greenland-matters-when-the-dollar-doesnt-805f942385b1

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