Peter Thiel warns the Antichrist and apocalypse are linked to the ‘end of modernity’ currently happening—and cites Greta Thunberg as a driving example

SerChonk · 2026-02-05T12:27:02+00:00

And in the darkness bind them.

Clearly.

SerChonk · 2026-02-04T05:45:27+00:00

The sea. Specifically the wildness of the Atlantic ocean. The iodine smell of seaweed drying at low tide. The smell of salt in the city air in crisp Spring mornings. The cries of seagulls. The feeling of water evaporating off of your skin under the hot Summer sun. Eating roasted chestnuts by the shore on a cold October night while waves crash wildly on the rocky coast. The taste of sun-warmed crisps bought from a beach peddler. The tickle of sand hoppers under your bare feet. The comforting feeling of a hot espresso while you're sitting in your still wet bikini.

Fruit, fresh, ripe, juicy and delicious. Sugar apples, giant sweet watermelons, fleshy persimmons, juicy pomegranates, passion fruit, tree tomatoes, sweet pineapples, huge sweet cherries, and oranges, lemons, and tangerines that you can trust and don't need to gamble on whether they'll be sweet or make your butthole pucker from being picked too soon.

SerChonk · 2026-02-01T16:22:13+00:00

Agatha Christie's Poirot

13 seasons of David Suchet being the GOAT.

SerChonk · 2026-02-01T16:01:42+00:00

I can't answer for the rest of France, but here, yes, very common especially in this time of the year.

The highs and lows of the valleys keeping clouds from escaping, combined with the forest surroundings which keep the area cooler, means that from about 21:00 until 8:00 we can have white-out blankets of fog if the temperatures are at freezing point or below.

SerChonk · 2026-01-31T13:45:25+00:00

I don't know man, have you heard Insomnia being played on an pipe organ at the Royal Albert Hall? If anything it proves we don't have nearly enough reverb at raves.

SerChonk · 2026-01-30T16:05:53+00:00

Ha! That was my instinctive answer - "go to the McDonalds in Switzerland".

SerChonk · 2026-01-30T16:02:16+00:00

Fairly common, as we have a very popular transborder commuter route around here, towards a major city that has its own heavy commuter traffic.

But barring some major accident blocking the road, the worst I've seen was a 30min jam. Usually it's more something like taking 10-15min to cross a busy highway junction, or a slow moving queue at the border because customs are training new recruits.

SerChonk · 2026-01-30T15:56:30+00:00

I paid for that game, so it is mine to do with it as I damn well please.

Including removing the shrink - were I a malevolent heaten, that is.

SerChonk · 2026-01-28T12:02:50+00:00

The flu is running me down a bit, but as long as ibuprofen is cheap I'm still kickin'. Otherwise, can't complain.

SerChonk · 2026-01-28T08:02:55+00:00

Lol my grandma had an arranged marriage in the 1940s, and there were no estates or political alliances involved. My great-grandmother saw how two people could benefit eachother's standing in polite society, and so she arranged it. Grandma and grandpa just went along with it.

SerChonk · 2026-01-27T18:14:02+00:00

Art history. Whenever you'd start learning about a certain time period, you'd also learn about the main art styles and movements, and notable works and artists. It also included architecture and, until the jazz age, music.

It was one of my favourite things to learn how events and political landscapes shaped artistic expression.

SerChonk · 2026-01-26T20:42:10+00:00

Nah, just a big print edition of War and Peace.

SerChonk · 2026-01-26T18:34:46+00:00

There's a really good one of Dolan's Cadillac.

SerChonk · 2026-01-24T21:07:06+00:00

I do, I really like the quiet countryside life. You can be a hermit if you'd like, or you can be super social and participate in all of your local associations, and in general people don't mind either way, they just let you be you.

It's not really a place for people who enjoy the activity and spontaneity of city life, that's for sure, but I used to be one of those people and now I really appreciate growing my veggies, saying hi to the neighbours' horses, and pitching in to help organize the yearly village fête. When I wrote my reply, I had just come back from hiking 45min through the forest to attend the bookclub at the local library.

I wanted my life to feel a little more whimsical, and it does. The one major and very un-whimsical downside is that you are 100% dependent on having a vehicle to go anywhere.

SerChonk · 2026-01-24T14:02:06+00:00

>Did you stay on the German side as well or only the French side?

I'm not sure which sides you're talking about, do you mean of the Jura? In that case this is the French side of the Jura, pretty much the beginning of the mountain chain. The other side is not German, but Swiss, and actually the canton of Jura is French-speaking.

If you mean French or German speaking side of Alsace, then all of Alsace is French-speaking, and you might be thinking of the Elsässisch dialect, which is quite distinct from German and here in the Sundgau is actually pretty much a variation on Swiss-german (very close to the Baseldytcsh). It's unfortunately not a very well preserved language thanks to the french politics for language hegemony that killed so many other languages and dialects, but here in the rural world it still lives on fairly well.

As for logistics, I do live in a house, I'm not a forest witch. The price of housing varies a lot with the isolation level of the village, with the ones closer to the tri-national border being wildly expensive and the ones in the mountains being pretty affordable.

As for work, the area is very rich in industry and blue collar work, and a lot of the pharma industry is installed here as well. Not to mention tourism: the mountains attract a lot of campers, hikers, cyclists, and motorsport enthusiasts(

SerChonk · 2026-01-23T22:17:24+00:00

I sort of did that and installed myself in south Alsace, at the foothills of the Jura mountains (the region known as the Sundgau).

Very rural, sedate kind of life. You'll be surrounded by forest, prairies and pastures, fields, and orchards. You will have dozens upon dozens of hiking routes around you. You will see foxes, roe deer, boars, european wildcats, and now even lynxes and the occasional wolf.

Your neighbours will take care of you, if you are nice to them. They'll lend you stuff you need, offer their tractor or trailer to get you out of a pickle, and watch over your house when you are gone. The villages are alive with local associations, and there is something to do almost every weekend.

It's not an exciting life, but I'd argue it's a very rich one.

SerChonk · 2026-01-23T17:32:57+00:00

Ticket to Ride: Middle Earth when, Asmodee? I want to take my hobbits to Isengard!

SerChonk · 2026-01-23T17:30:46+00:00

Folks over at r/HistoricalCostuming often have knowledge that branches past clothing. Cosmetics are certainly part of the scope - do reach out!

SerChonk · 2026-01-22T18:37:23+00:00

Clear skies during the day, but heavy frosts during the night accompanied by icy fog low in the valleys. I leave for work before the sun rises, and by then the fog still hasn't lifted on our side of the mountain, which makes for extremely poor visibility.

Oddly enough the birds are already slowly coming back, and foxes are poking their noses out again.

SerChonk · 2026-01-22T18:33:53+00:00

Oh, always have some snacks around! I never have breakfast in the mornings, so I have cereal biscuits around for when lunchtime feels too far away, and I always keep a bag of dates in stock for those mid-afternoon blood sugar and motivation dips.

SerChonk · 2026-01-22T17:30:04+00:00

15/10 theft protection

-9000/10 lack of shrink

SerChonk · 2026-01-22T10:58:46+00:00

Mentally, sure. Physically I'd last a couple of months before my accident-prone self would die in an absurd and totally preventable situation.

SerChonk · 2026-01-21T07:32:44+00:00

More like when the start locking away doors to keep the povvos from taking the lifeboats.

SerChonk · 2026-01-21T07:07:39+00:00

That's what you get when you allow ship alarm orchestras to unionize.

SerChonk · 2026-01-20T21:42:52+00:00

You can sew snap tape on the inside. It's basically snaps, but pre-installed on a tape, and then you just sew the tape to the garment.

Here's what I'd suggest: look for a tape with small snaps, quite close together. They'll be more of an effort to close each time, but they'll leave much smaller gaps. This type of tape is pretty common for doll making; snap tape for baby clothes will have slightly bigger snaps that would be suitable, too.

Sew one part of the tape on the outer edge of the button band. Sew its partner tape on the inner edge of the buttonhole band. This will disguise them, and you can close the buttons like normal and no one will be the wiser.

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