Enkrod

Enkrod , 1 day ago

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

Enkrod , 7 days ago

www.google.com/search?q=google+translate+Hraunflæ… and it does sound like expected

Enkrod , 8 days ago

Is that a ukrainian cope-cage?

Enkrod , 8 days ago

noice!

Enkrod , 8 days ago

Russia, over Ukraine, hand on their throat, continually punching a country that desperately tries to defend itself, red faced with rage shouting at the people standing around the fight and trying to help Ukraine from the sidelines:

“YOU DAMN WARMONGERS!” punch “ALL YOU WANT IS TO THREATEN ME!!” punch, punch crack “WHY CAN’T YOU JUST LEAVE ME ALONE?!!1!” punch

Enkrod , 8 days ago (edited 8 days ago)

German Law is very sane in regards to voting rights.

§ 13 of the German Federal Election Act (BWG) stipulates that only who is disenfranchised as a result of a judge’s decision is excluded from the right to vote.

This provision does not conflict with the general principle of equality in Article 3 of the Basic Law (Grundgesetz - GG) and the principles of equality and universality of the vote, because the right to vote is not automatically revoked, but may only be revoked by a judge’s ruling if certain legal requirements are met.

However, this exclusion as a result of a German court ruling is only possible in a few cases expressly mentioned in the Criminal Code (StGB) and the Federal Constitutional Court Act (BVerfGG) and applies for a maximum of two to five years. Exclusion from the right to vote applies if a person has been sentenced to at least six months or at least one year in prison for the following offenses, for example:

• Preparation of a war of aggression and high treason against the Federation
• Treason and disclosure of state secrets
• Attack against organs and representatives of foreign states
• Obstruction of elections and falsification of election documents
• Bribery of members of parliament
• acts of sabotage of means of defense or intelligence service endangering security (in this case, a prison sentence of at least one year is required).

In these cases, the deprivation of the right to vote is at the discretion of the court in accordance with the special criminal law provisions and is not an automatic consequence of the conviction for these criminal offenses.

Furthermore, the right to vote can be revoked by the Federal Constitutional Court due to the violation of fundamental rights.

The disenfranchisement from voting is btw. also the foundation that makes one ineligible to be elected.

According to the Federal Election Act, anyone who has German citizenship and is of legal age on the day of the election is electable. This does not apply to those who:

• have lost the right to vote and therefore their eligibility to be elected as a result of a court ruling or no longer have the capacity to hold public office
• is permanently dependent on a statutory caregiver / guardian
• or is in a psychiatric hospital due to a conviction

Enkrod , 9 days ago

This is it, it’s the perfect example of adaptation through sexual selection.

Enkrod , 14 days ago

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

Enkrod , 19 days ago

Where are the ten commandmends listed again?

Enkrod , 22 days ago

I was very very lucky.

I turned 26 when I heard myself coughing like a 66 year old chainsmoker with cancerous lungs, found I was unable to run up stairs and out of breath after carrying groceries inside. I had to have a cig every morning so I would be able to have a shit at all, but if I did… that first drag sent me rushing to the bathroom, it got so bad, I had to light the first one while sitting on the loo, or i’d shit my pants.

That’s when I found myself disgusted with myself. I stopped, I simply stopped. From 38 cigarettes per day to 0. I am so happy it worked, because I am a very easily tempted personality and tend towards addiction in anything that gives my brain pleasure.

It took a year before I completely stopped coughing and two years before I could run up those stairs again, but one day I simply realized “Oh my! I’m not out of breath. What… what happened? Oh, yeah I quit smoking! Damn this feels nice!”

Enkrod , 27 days ago

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.

Enkrod , 1 month ago

Hell yeah!

Enkrod , 1 month ago

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.

Enkrod , 1 month ago

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

Enkrod , 1 month ago

oh, like Iran 1979, yeah that worked out great!

Enkrod , 1 month ago

I like like like

Enkrod , 1 month ago

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

Enkrod , 1 month ago

and also with the NATO members UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, and Kuwait.

??? Those are not NATO members!

Enkrod , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

The difference is everyone CAN install a bad anti-cheat, or decide to not do it.

But if people who bought the game suddenly CAN’T legally play it anymore, because PSN doesn’t allow accounts in their country, they don’t even have a choice.

Selling the game in those regions in the first place was deeply wrong, but then taking away the ability to play AFTER they sold it to people, that’s a bridge too far.

And we’re not just talking about most of Africa (not that that would be less bad), we’re also talking about countries like Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania, those are EU members, how is there no PSN available there?

Enkrod , 1 month ago

With face scans! What the hell Sony?!

Enkrod , 1 month ago

And for so many people there isn’t even a choice. They bought the game, and now they can’t play it, because no PSN in their country.

And even for some countries with access to PSN, creating an account requires photo-id and a face scan. That’s complete bullshit.

Enkrod , 1 month ago

Odds of a sexual abuser need not be high for the man, they’re simply 0% for the bear.

Enkrod , 1 month ago

Bullshit, Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia are EU countries, people bought HD2 and now can’t legally play anymore. Steam has already issued refunds to some.

Enkrod , 1 month ago

I’m absolutely not sold on the lower ecological footprint, the same hubub was made about vertical farming and that was either highly expensive or came with a gigantic footprint.

But I sure hope it pans out.

Enkrod , 1 month ago

There’s five million ants for every human, should they decide to fuck us up, they will.

Enkrod , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

There are dinosaurs right outside my window right now. I think they might be nesting, one is collecting sticks while the other is hopping across the lawn to look for worms.

And by the way, same as the extant dinosaurs, many of the extinct ones had an extremely optimized pneumatized breathing apparatus that would likely allow many to survive today. Maybe not the really big ones though.

Enkrod , 1 month ago

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 , 1 month ago

Chicken is equally close to T. Rex as all other birds. They all go back to the same common bird-ancestor who was a relative of T. Rex.

T. rex is more closely related to birds than to all non-theropod dinosaurs.

T. rex also lived closer to us in time than to Stegosaurus.

Same reason why humans don’t actually descend from monkeys, both monkeys and humans descend instead from a common ancestor that no longer exists

But that ancestor was a monkey! We are monkey, you can’t evolve your way out of a clade.

This is why, IMO, Digimon could be a better representation of evolution than Pokémon, since one Digimon can evolve into many different forms, so that kitten could become a fridge, but also a dragon or a knight with cannons

But that is specifically not how evolution works. You can’t evolve your way out of a clade, everything a cat would evolve into, would also be a cat. Maybe a weird cat, maybe a whale-cat (like whales are still ungulates, even if they are really weird ones) but still a cat. You can’t evolve out of your ancestry.

Enkrod , 1 month ago

How is horizontal gene transfer between microbes in any way relevant to a discussion about the ancestry of chickens that only reaches back to the dinosauria clade? Chickens are invariably a sub-group of the bigger group dinosaurs.

Enkrod , 2 months ago

For some definitions of noses.

Do they have a weird bump over their mouth in the center of their face? Some do yes.

Do they inhale or exhale with it? No.

Has it got anything to do with their sense of smell? Also no.

What do they use it for? Well functionally it’s more of an upper lip than a nose.

How do they smell? Awful. But also they use the chemorezeptors in their antennae to smell/taste the air.

Enkrod , 2 months ago

Did you know

Cicadas can sexually transmit a fungus that will infect the new host, pump it chock full of amphetamins and lets it run on a no-sleep-all-action hypersexual rampage where the fungus completely replaces the sexual organs of the cicada so when it has sex with another one that other will become infected and do the same?

Enkrod , 2 months ago

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.

Enkrod , 2 months ago

Perfectly balanced

Enkrod , 2 months ago

Tell me you didn’t read the article without telling me you didn’t read the article.

Enkrod , 2 months ago

In Christian Satanism the Devil exists and is being worshipped. This is “classical” or “theist” Satanism where there is a belief in the existence of Satan.

Contrast that with modern atheist Satanism, where the Devil is merely a psychological symbol of rebellion, independence and freedom that serves to trigger theists while also being a representation of revolting against christan authoritarianism and, through the exploitation of rules stemming from theist-political decisionmaking, as a counter to the blatantly unconstitutional abuse of religious freedom laws for the benefit of a single religion.

Enkrod , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Theistic Satanism, otherwise referred to as religious Satanism, spiritual Satanism, or traditional Satanism,[2] is an umbrella term for religious groups that consider Satan, the Devil, to objectively exist as a deity, supernatural entity, or spiritual being worthy of worship or reverence, whom individuals may contact and convene with, in contrast to the atheistic archetype, metaphor, or symbol found in LaVeyan Satanism.

The Satanic Bible is LaVeyan Satanism and as a product of the 20th century very much more modern than the “traditional Satanism” of de Sade and Huysman in the 19th century.

LaVeyan Satanism is still much more on the “spiritual” side of things than, for example the explicitly atheistic, sceptic and rational Satanic Temple, but both fall under the umbrella of the more modern, non-theistic understanding of Satanism. While a more historical form definetly existed, even if it wasn’t widely practiced.

Enkrod , 2 months ago

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

Enkrod , 2 months ago

Absolutely agree with you!

People who use biology as an excuse to hate on people have no grasp on how biology even works.

“There’s only two sexes, that’s biology 101”, yes, it’s literally 101, it’s what you get taught before you learn the specifics, the exceptions to the rules and the finer details of the multi-dimensional spectrum that is the impact of our biology on sex and gender.

Enkrod , 2 months ago

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 , 2 months ago

<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 , 2 months ago

It’s just revenue divided by number of employees

Enkrod , 3 months ago

Meh, our esoterics are basically religious anarchists or spiritual hippies. They still fall into all the trapping of religion without the “organized” part of “organized religion”.

Enkrod , 3 months ago

Baboons gang up on leopards all the time, our genetic line has been ganging up on threads since we weren’t even apes but monkeys. It’s the age old tradition of forming a mob and curbstomping everything that brought us to the top of the food chain.

Enkrod , 3 months ago

EOL, they’re stuck, no updates, nothing fresh, their flaws are open, known and won’t be fixed and if you get them, they’re a seriously risk to your safety.

Enkrod , 3 months ago

LTS males for the win!

Enkrod , 3 months ago

Roche et pierre, mon frère!

Enkrod , 3 months ago

Hey!

I’ll have you know I’m 6’6"

Enkrod , 3 months ago

Not necessarily. And I don’t think you meant it like this could be read.

You can absolutely be pro something but recognize the downsides of it. You can be pro vaxxination, but be critical of how the government handles rollout, you can be pro EV but still remain convinced that the resources needed for batteries are (at the moment) produced using child labor and causing environmental destruction. Constructive critique is valid and necessary.

People don’t need to be fanboys, sitting on the fence is completely okay in regards to many topics.

What I think you meant to criticise (please correct me if I’m wrong) is that lots of invalid critique and unreasonable opposition hides behind a thin veneer of “I’m actually in favor of {x}” and yes, we’re all sick of it.