Band in Question, Antilopen Gang once put forth they’d fight the Occupy movement alongside the police because to them, being against the 1% is being antisemitic. They also publicly stated to be on the police side in the protests against Stuttgart 21 (a new train station for Stuttgart that sucks) where the police blinded one guy and used water cannons against children

What I’m saying is these people are not what anyone outside of germany would ever call leftists

the most charitable reading possible with some knowledge of the band in question is basically saying Hamas are the new nazis because they want to kill jews, think spiritual sequel

even that one is not great

but it would be difficult to navigate accusations like that.

Go for broke, start telling their kids whenever they eat meat an animal is killed for that

Yeah but home ownership is sold as wealth building to the home owners isn’t it? I can’t spend money while I’m dead

The whole homeownership as wealth building never made sense to me. I mean I don’t pay rent, sure, there’s less of a leech thing going on so maybe I get get more money. But how is it an investment? It’s not like my singular house rises in price and everyone else’s doesn’t. Great, my house is now, in the twilight years of my life, worth 900% more than what I bought it for. I can now sell it, have 900% profit, then immediatly spend all that 900% profit on buying some other dwelling that also rose 900% in price

consider, however, not dying in a minor fender bender is gay. why you trying to stay alive, to have sex with men?

This bicycle shifter pull conversion box is neat as fuck and would be a major pain in the ass to build at home without 3D-Printing

To offer some explanation here; most modern bicycle shifters are indexed, i.e. you click some sort of trigger and it pulls the cable a set amount to shift one (or more) gears up (or down).

Problem is depending on manufacturer and model this pull length is different by a bit and if your shifter doesn’t match up with your rear cassette or parallelogram rear shifter you just get the crunchy gears because the rear shifter keeps shifting inbetween gears.

with this and some math you can print a conversion box that adjusts pull length so everything works with everything. It does require you to use two cables but it’s a boon if you wanna rig some shit together

I’ve also seen other useful appliances there, broken dust covers for shifting parts which aren’t structuturally important but you do not want the fine mechanics of your shifter to get gummed up. Sure, you could tape it up or whatever but manufacturing a new one yourself seems cool. Also seen this for other replacement parts out of plastic that were either never manufactured or have long gone out of stock.

3D-Printing feels like it’s a great side hobby to other hobbies but if you do it yourself, barring maybe doing some cool prototypes, it just ends up at “wow, look at this sick Rick skull with a weed!”

It seems largely fallen out of favour but I’m genuinely wondering how Teamspeak is still going and hasn’t succumbed to enshittification

Buddy the other option here is not them managing to deal with it, psych health care in germany is abysmally absent, it’s becoming alcoholics

Oh so this was a “when” question not an “if” question

I’m sorry you mean to tell me a few seconds of power losses is all it takes? I’d get like 10 or 15 minutes or whatever adrift but a few seconds is all that stands between clearing the bridge and just fucking taking it out?

This feels like the “respectable” (i.e. concerned about optics) right wingers clashing with the online weirdos

I mean he’s possibly like the only actual victim of cancel culture because he just can’t get any venues to play at

Being a leftist is to be cursed with a memory

I switched from Shotcut to Kdenlive as it seemed a lot more feature rich to me, still FOSS obviously

I’d argue Kojima leans Anarchist, I felt like the games made a lot more sense approached through that lens

I was really expecting with the whole theme there would be more disinformation, propaganda, narrative control, persuasion techniques type stuff

I mean you run a private army made out of kidnapped-brainwashed conscripts

YMMV on the CDU vis a vis being fascists but I’d argue you can look back at Adenauers “Radikalenerlass” (“Radical Decree” or something) that purported to stop extremists from both sides from holding certain important jobs and somehow managed to find 1000 left wing extremists for every right winger in '70s germany.

I feel like you’re assuming germany functions exactly like the US here.

Every time the police shows up in the documentary it’s because whoever the kid photographed insists on having them called as he insists there’s no need, but is happy to oblige. Parking Violations don’t even fall into the jurisdiction of the cop-cops in germany, that’s handled by a municipal department - the actual cops aren’t gonna show up for this shit unless you park your car sideways on a main road and then that’s because that’s not a minor infraction anymore. Everyone in the video would otherwise - maybe - if the municipal department decides to follow through on the cases - get a letter with a fine that they can either appeal or pay and that’s a big maybe, they don’t usually do anything about any parking violations anyways.

Do the not-cops tasked with minor infractions still suck a lot for related reasons to the cop-cops? Yeah, sure, probably still a lot of racial profiling in there and such, but they’re not armed because that’s not their job. At most they have some self-defense training in case somebody starts to assault them, usually for writing them a ticket for parking like shit, as that happens a lot. The only way you can get arrested for parking violations in germany is to rack up a huge amount and then refuse to pay any of them despite having the means to, if you show proof you can’t pay them they’ll just get rain checked until you can.

I live in Germany and delivery drivers are not anywhere close to the majority of cases of parking violations, especially not in places like Gräfenhainichen in Sachsen-Anhalt

What’s the alternative, bulldoze a historical district and build some parking lot? Ban people living there from owning a car? Just let people park on the side if they’re not blocking anything.

You can’t be against turning the historical district into a parking lot and also think you should be able to park there, that’s ending up at the same thing.

Anyways, he seemingly walks past the noted big tree, then past the Market Plaza and then in the background we can see a T-Intersection which should put us roughly somewhere here , maybe on the Paul-Gerhardt-Straße. Which means the alternative is park on a parking space that is at most 100m away from where he parked and then do like 30 seconds of walking.

Also the reason that the parking there is illegal, even removed from making sure the bit of pedestrian zone there doesn’t turn into a parking lot, is usually so the fire brigade can actually come to your house should it burn, you’re not fitting a firetruck between that car and the planter there. The fire departments (and ambulances) in germany regularly get delayed or their access made inaccessible by people parking like shit.

But lets keep going here with the second example, the kebab guy who claims to have actually delivered goods in the gartenstraße I don’t even have to look at one up on google because our guy here entirely correctly points out you could’ve just parked your car for unloading and loading right around the corner, on the road, and that would’ve been fine. Sidewalks aren’t built to accomodate vehicle weight, assuming this guy and probably a fair share of customers do this they’re death-by-a-thousand-cuts-ing this sidewalk despite the legal, non destructive alternative being literally 5m around the corner there.