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It’s an easy mistake to make since the Leibniz Kekse were originally copied from LU biscuits, so they look very similar

LU cookies (e.g., Leibnitz in Germany) | Mondelez

I’m pretty sure Leibniz Kekse are made by Bahlsen, which is a German company. Or am I missing something?

There’s Ghost Commander, if you want a foss alternative to Total Commander. I remember the switch as Ghost Commander feeling basically the same but slightly better.

Nice, I will immediately test if my microwave is modern enough. Brb

That’s exclusively through the matrilineal line though. The most recent ancestor is much more recent.

But your article linked to what I was referring to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identical_ancestors_point (and the mitochondrial Eve is a cool concept either way)

To bring it back to Shakespeare:

Adam’s sons are my brethren, and truly I hold it a sin to match in my kindred.

As a teenager I never wore dresses, skirts or nail polish because I didn’t want to be seen as a girly girl. I was into science and books and that didn’t seem to fit the vibes.

I’m glad that I figured out in my twenties that being in a male-dominated tech field doesn’t require you to dress masculine or wear nerd shirts. If you’re into that, that’s great, but it’s also okay to wear dresses or put on make up if you work as an engineer or a software developer.

I remember a professor at uni telling us that at some time in the future each of us will either be the ancestor of every living human or of none.

Equally, if you go back far enough, you will find a common ancestor with every other living person, thus making us all related.

While that seems unintuitive – what about the members of some remote tribe without contact to civilisation? –, keep in mind that even the most remote tribe has to have contact with some neighbouring people . Otherwise they wouldn’t have enough genetic diversity. And those neighbours are in contact with their neighbours and so on.

Edit: Changed “intuitive” to “unintuitive”… Oops

I think what they meant to say is that only a small fraction flees to Europe.

Take Syria for example. Of all the people displaced by the war, about half left the country (according to my quick Google research). By far the biggest portion of the ones leaving went to Turkey, a neighbouring country (about 4 million). Germany, the European country that took in by far the most Syrian refugees, took in something between half a million and a million, about the same amount as Lebanon, which is about 16 times smaller populationwise. Going down the list, before you get to other European countries, there are several other countries in Syria’s neighbourhood — Jordan, Egypt, Iraq.

So I think it’s fair to say that the majority of people try to stay in the vicinity of their country and only flee farther if they have to.

That was my first thought as well. I’m giving you five MeowMeowBeenz 🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱

Like how “algorithm” is just the westernized spelling of of al-Khwarizmi or “guy” comes from Guy Fawkes.

And Kaiser and Tsar both come from Julius Caesar.

Counterpoint: If success is what we base this on, then E. L. James (50 shades of grey) is a very good author.

She’s also incredibly funny (and sometimes savage) which also gets lost in many adaptations, since it’s in her commentary and not necessarily in the dialog.

She was not a woman of many words; for, unlike people in general, she proportioned them to the number of her ideas.

How does that rhyme with increasingly many men also being obsessed by their looks and more and more having surgery done?

I don’t see how that contradicts what I said? I talked about the pressure many people feel, not just women.

But most of the hatred I see online comes up when it’s a woman. Do you have any examples of men receiving the kind of attention and hatred that Kate Beckinsale or Ariana Grande recently received for their changed looks? Maybe I’m just in my bubble and missed them.

I know this is not what people want to hear, but at least one aspect of it is misogyny.

There was this recent clip of Kate Beckinsale going around and people went batshit over how she had ruined her beautiful looks. The thing is, she definitely had things done before, just go look up pictures of her when she started her career. She was beautiful even then but in a more “normal” way. And no one was outraged or concerned for her then. But now she dares to not be as beautiful as she was before. People have a right to see her be hot!

Don’t get me wrong, I wish there wasn’t such a pressure for people to look perfect and have work done. But I think a huge part of the outrage is actually men feeling that they have a right to decide how a woman should look.

So… The name Doppelbock comes from Bockbier which is derived from the town Einbeck where it originated. The town’s name likely comes from a dialect version of “ein Bach” (a brook).

The best feminine name would therefore be Doppel-<feminine noun meaning something like brook>. But alas there are very few feminine German words relating to bodies of water. Best I can come up with is Doppelquelle (Quelle means spring), but that sounds like sparkling water.

Me, reading this on my 86 month old phone and feeling like the left’s greatest hero for dealing such a mighty blow to capitalism.

They are if you don’t make them obese.

I’m not exactly young anymore and things have sure changed a lot since I learned my way around a computer. But here are the things I remember being fun for me back then:

• Drawing around in paint (you already have that covered)

• Creating presentations. Maybe like: Make a presentation about your favourite topic. This might involve collecting pictures either from the internet or getting them from a camera / phone on the laptop.

• Playing some games (in my case pinball, but that’s definitely not very up to date). You can learn quite a bit about clicking through menus etc from playing games.

Something else that would be important to learn early is created folders and keeping some sort of system with your files. I struggle to come up with a fun way to teach that though. Maybe someone else has a good idea?

Well, “misery still delights to trace its semblance in another’s case.”