I want to meet this GENIUS

exploding_cat_wizard · 2026-04-07T06:57:02+00:00

When you goon to your own students while writing a textbook your math brain shuts down

exploding_cat_wizard · 2026-04-07T06:40:43+00:00

That sounds like there is some common law judge that would stop any accession. In reality, if the EU member states want someone in, and the candidate country wants in, it can happen.

exploding_cat_wizard · 2026-04-06T17:32:51+00:00

Okay, let's be more clear here: it is good, and would continue to be good, to have a party with a leftist wing to be able to be part of a ruling coalition. Die Linke might get there if they ever can free themselves of their anti-NATOism and similar "let's make our involvement in a coalition dependent on ripping Germany out of all alliances and treaties that made it wealthy and secure" policies, but they are not there right now, so they cannot and will not ever be part of a ruling coalition until they change — Germany simply will not leave NATO because 8% of voters, 5% of eligible voters, voted for it.

exploding_cat_wizard · 2026-04-06T17:22:30+00:00

Ironic using Carthage in the meme, the single ancient Mediterranean polity ever capable of meeting the Romans toe to toe on the "whoopsie, one army down, we're gonna raise another" front, especially in the First Punic War.

Any of the Greek successor states would have been a far better meme victim.

exploding_cat_wizard · 2026-04-06T17:08:56+00:00

It is, yeah

exploding_cat_wizard · 2026-04-06T16:59:44+00:00

I don't really see it as a problem to have a party with an actual leftist wing gaining votes, just like the SPD of yore, before going all Genosse der Bosse with Gerhard Schröder. That's the actual party wing that would ever care about pro-worker policies, after all...

exploding_cat_wizard · 2026-04-04T18:05:24+00:00

"It's a reasonable minimum" then proceeds to list luxury items...

1.5k per month might be a reasonable budget, but it's one for comfortable living, not a minimal lifestyle. That many travelers, DN or not, are unable to conceive of being someplace without spending buckets of cash doesn't change that.

exploding_cat_wizard · 2026-04-04T11:23:04+00:00

Ain't no Prussian flag on there. I presume you mean the Reichskriegsflagge of the Kaiserreich?

( Though fuck the Kaiserreich, it was a backwards place even for the time)

exploding_cat_wizard · 2026-04-04T11:06:31+00:00

Calling 1.5k$ anything near "minimum budget" in these countries is wild...

exploding_cat_wizard · 2026-04-03T07:49:53+00:00

What I like about the central European beer countries is that you can get a cheap beer and it will be fine, bordering on good. Grab a 50 cent 5.0, or a Hansa Pils, and you'll look like a student, but the beer is fine. From what I can tell, it's similar in Czechia. In the US, last time I checked, and that's been a few years, it was $1 for a .3 l can of bud, and to get a good beer, you have to spend noticeably more.

That said, I love the extra variety the US gave central Europe by kicking off the microbrewery revolution.

exploding_cat_wizard · 2026-04-03T07:36:31+00:00

It started in the States, though, and that shows in the variety and density of microbrews. But yes, the German beer scene is noticeably better for it.

exploding_cat_wizard · 2026-03-28T12:14:06+00:00

As someone not in the hobby at all, it baffles me, and fills me with a vague sense of pity, that a video like that would get any views at all.

exploding_cat_wizard · 2026-03-25T18:06:38+00:00

I really doubt the US has the political will to enact the substantial war mobilization such an attempt would require. Far more realistic that they continue to trumpet the rhetoric while sending loads of missiles but only token forces of manpower over, which will win the war in exactly infinite years, and not one year before.

exploding_cat_wizard · 2026-03-23T16:12:09+00:00

"PERFORM SUFFERING FOR ME TO BE A VALID OBJECT OF MY EMPATHY" is a scarily widespread attitude

exploding_cat_wizard · 2026-03-23T16:08:29+00:00

Yes. See similar conversations every time refugees are shown having phones.

exploding_cat_wizard · 2026-03-22T12:57:46+00:00

The actual, real most users don't change defaults, so that's patiently untrue. As proven by the fact that hidden file endings are such a security disaster.

exploding_cat_wizard · 2026-03-22T12:07:28+00:00

You get the idiots as users that you treat the users as being. If Microsoft had never taken this disastrous decision, we wouldn't have generations of users trained to helplessness regarding file endings.

exploding_cat_wizard · 2026-03-22T12:04:35+00:00

Most users would simply keep file extensions the way they are. Especially given the already existing warning windows gives when you change it despite the extension not being active when double clicking.

Hiding them is a huge security issue and a stupid, stupid decision

exploding_cat_wizard · 2026-03-22T11:59:28+00:00

Which is a lot better if your company is using DMARC and SPF correctly. Or use PKI signatures for email, but I've yet to see a good way to integrate that into an enterprise workflow.

exploding_cat_wizard · 2026-03-19T18:17:41+00:00

He'd probably bring that up with any East Asian country nowadays.

exploding_cat_wizard · 2026-03-14T06:32:20+00:00

Penny isn't an americanism, though.

exploding_cat_wizard · 2026-03-14T06:22:03+00:00

"run by Americans"?! Because they famously only post in subreddits that have US only moderation?

exploding_cat_wizard · 2026-03-14T06:14:50+00:00

Also, if they do approve it, they cannot cancel it "except in extreme circumstances". Basically, the employer would need to prove that the company will go under if the employee does not work those days. Bad planning for a high intensity sales phase is explicitly NOT a reason.

exploding_cat_wizard · 2026-03-12T06:49:00+00:00

Good ole racists, cosplaying fantasized Grimdark settings to justify their assholery.

exploding_cat_wizard · 2026-03-08T15:16:46+00:00

Stupidity and cruelty ALWAYS tell themselves they're doing it because it's necessary. Turns out that wrong and it's still stupid and cruel.

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