

Stromberg is Germany’s “The Office”, btw.


Stromberg is Germany’s “The Office”, btw.


“Die Anstalt” is goated, yes. On the more lighter side I like Pastewka, Sketch History (basically Germany’s Monty Python), Die Familie Heinz Becker, Mitternachtsspitzen, Kalkofes Mattscheibe and Loriots as well as Gerhard Polts movies and series (very dated though sometimes timeless).


Don’t know about Apple. My impression is that they take privacy pretty serious. Android though has since a few version ago a green dot in the notification area that indicates when the microphone is active. Also you can set the apps to always ask the user if they want grant the permission for microphone recording. There are also buttons to deactivate the microphone and camera completely.
So yeah it’s easier then ever with current Android versions to not be spied on if the user invests 5 mins to set the microphone and camera permissions of all apps to always ask when used. Like you said other spying IOT devices and data retention (at least for traffic data) at the provider level pose a much greater risk for surveillance.


In recent years, genetic studies have demonstrated that, at least paternally, the various Jewish ethnic groups and the Palestinians are related to each other. Genetic studies have shown that Jews and Palestinians are closer to each other than the different Jewish groups are to their respective host countries. At the haplogroup level, defined by the binary polymorphisms only, the Y chromosome distribution in Arabs and Jews was similar but not identical.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_the_Palestinians
Not to mismatch with the people living in modern Israel which are often Western or East Europe descendants.


Just watched the first video. It’s 6 years old but the evidence presented seemed undoubtedly like Instagram and FB were listening to conversations and aggregating the info together with geolocation and surfing behaviour. The insta CEO tried to deflect it with insinuating that the user must have searched for specific keywords previously but the journalists specifically tested it with words in conversations they never exposed their phones to before. 20 mins later they got AD’s on insta.


That’s a blatant overgeneralisation. The biggest mass protests in recent decades were against the AfD. Especially after their secret Wannsee Conference 2.0 in November 2023 (which sadly was ruled against the investigative collective Correctiv to be libel in favour of the AfD by a court 2 days ago), but also in the recent 2 years after multiple landslide wins of them in elections.
Yes, a concerningly huge amount of people fall for the propaganda of their charismatic mouthpieces like Alice Weidel, overwhelmingly in the east Germany ex-GDR federal states where neonazism is brooding since the 90s and the youth was successfully indoctrinated by their parents generations and the political education regarding our dark past was way weaker then in the West. Couple that with a perceived (and often actual) economical disadvantage of east Germany and the AfD’s refined propaganda on TikTok and Facebook and you got this perfect storm.
Sadly in south Germany they got more strong over the years too, especially during Corona where the strategy was to fabricate a Corona and vaccination dictatorship, which fell on fertile ground with the boomers who more and more get duped by generative AI and tailored algorithms and CDU figureheads (who a lot of the boomers trust, because of their alleged economic competence), pondering a possible cooperation with the AfD.
But overall I think (hope) for many folks here the genocide in Gaza was an eye opener and they did a bit of research about Israel’s past and are not not in favour unconditional support anymore. Guys like Smotrich or Ben-Gvir, the settler violence, the Nakba etc. aren’t unknowns anymore. And we can very well distinguish between Jewish people and Zionism. The ones who seem to not be able to do that are some politicians and organisations who allege protesters of antisemitism and supress those violently. Just like in the UK and the US.


AFAIK Russia doesn’t need them anymore from Iran as they got multiple production facilities for Shaheds themselves and upgraded them in the meantime. And even if they were selling them to Putler, that is definitely not happening right now.


“When Iran gets into the news, especially with anything to do with war,” says religious historian Diana Butler Bass, “it’s a prophetic dog whistle to evangelicals.”
Last year a lot of those crazies proclaimed via social media, that the rapture was imminent and prepared themselves by undressing, writing last messages to the sinners who’ll be left behind or they even sold their homes. Can’t remember but it could actually have been when the 12 days war with Iran happened.
This rapture thing already should’ve happened a few times, just like with every end times prophecy. The fact the orange menace is in bed with the ultraorthodox christian movements (Dominionists, Seven Mountain Mandate) is well know since his first presidency. Same with their believes about the end-times. That he seems more like the anti christ is no problem for them as they believe, as stated in the article, that god will choose a flawed vessel for the mission.


Hatte immer Motos (meistens mit LineageOS) bevor ich mir jetzt ein refurbished Pixel 6 gegönnt hab und mit GrapheneOS nicht glücklicher sein könnte. Ist schon befreiend das immer im Hintergrund mitschwingende Gefühl dauerhaft von Google getrackt zu werden los zu sein.
Was ich an den Motorola immer super fand ist dass sie das Android ohne viel bloat ausliefern und das gute Preisleistungsverhältnis. Hatte zwischendurch zwei Xiaomis von denen ich eins weitergegeben hab und das andere direkt wieder umgetauscht habe. Beide kamen mit extrem viel bloat. Vorinstallierte Meta apps und irgendwelche games.
Hatte eigentlich vor letzteres mit Lineage zu betreiben aber nachdem ich rausgefunden hatte, dass der bootloader unlock erstens unnötig schwer ist und zweitens mit irreversiblen Einschränkungen einhergehen kann nämlich, dass Widevine kann nach erneutem relock nicht auf L1 zurückgesetzt werden könnte, was dazu führt, dass DRM geschützte Inhalte nur noch in SD angezeigt werden. Pixel bootloader können dagegen sehr einfach unlocked und wieder rückstandsfrei in den Originalzustand versetzt werden. Die GrapheneOS Installation war denkbar einfach.
Denke Motorola ist eine gute Wahl von den GrapheneOS Machern.


Using Google play services free GrapheneOS on a Pixel 6 (so swipe even works with reduced screen estate) with the FUTO keyboard and this paragraph was completely written with its swipe feature. The only problematic words were GraphenOS and swipe.
Writing this by tapping again as I’m actually faster that way. But from what I can say, swiping works really good. I appreciate the authors effort but I won’t pull in some Google library again (especially related to monitoring keyboard input) via a hackish way.
I’m completely satisfied with FUTO as an all-in-one solution already. The voice input using local models works especially good. I’m not 100% sure but I could swear the devs changed the key sizes in one of the current updates. They’re perfectly sized now. The one thing I miss is a TAB key for autocompletition, when I’m logged in on a SSH terminal. But otherwise it’s feature complete for me.


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I remember those from two decades ago from a shopping channel. In Europe btw. So this has to be even longer around in the US or wherever it was invented. We got more shopping channels on public satellite TV in the meantime. This will probably be advertised around here too, still to these days.
Were (are, if you’re still using it) you pleased with the results of the flowbee? Did it take you long to get a feel for it? The fact that it’s collecting all the hair is a big selling point.
I’m cutting my hair with an electric shaver and a pair of good scissors for years now and probably saved thousands off euros. I don’t think I’ll switch to flowbee as I can by now not only cut my own but others hair too as I tried in lockdown when especially practicing barbers were a rare sight and only let you in their chair after telling the secret passphrase.
Just want to know if I can commend that product to beginners when the next pandemic rolls around.


He’s been filmed flashing HH Nazi salutes to his goons on downtime from terrorizing innocent citizens. He IS a full blown Nazi.


While I wholeheartly agree with OP and believe Harris would have taken a different course than the self proclaimed zionist Biden and would’ve given voices like Mamdani, Omar, Sanders and AOC much more weight and I’m convinced that women have a much better potential to fundamentally change the world for good (there are micro loan programs only catered to women because they are so much more trustworthy), it’s still a women named Marina Corina Machado who cheers for this and wants to sell out Venezuela to the US. And other women who I deeply trusted to do the right thing fail miserably all the sudden:
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5ba3zjugf4kis434frdolgr3/post/3mbjb57n5uc2y
My favorite poster on Mastodon regarding the “Both Sides Bad” discussion always has excellent takes on topic of non- and protest-voting.
https://mastodon.social/@benroyce/115830646002048908
Multiple people in his vicinity including me tried to convince US citizens on Mastodon to vote for Harris to no avail. Some of them didn’t even know about the Heritage Foundation and their plans and if they knew they said it wasn’t in line with Trumps agenda.
Holland ist wie immer weiter als DE. Ab Jahreswechsel 26/27 ist dort Schluss mit dem Irrsinn. Also nicht Zeitumstellung sondern Privatfeuerwerk.
Bin kein Experte was die Spezifika von deutschem Knallgut angeht und in wieweit der TÜV für dessen Unbedenklichkeit sorgt aber in diversen Artikeln lässt sich nachlesen, dass ziemlich toxisches Zeug verkauft wird, dessen Schwermetalle und Mikroplastik in PM2,5 Form eine nachhaltige Verschmutzung der Umwelt mit sich bringen.
Ja und während Fiffi und Schnurri 1,2 Tage Vietnamflashbacks vom letzten Jahr durchleben müssen wird die Umwelt (und damit das Wildlebenden) nachhaltig gestört was alles auf uns zurückfallen wird. Sehr schön hier nachzulesen:
https://nachhaltige-produktion.de/wie-umweltschaedlich-sind-feuerwerke/
Ich kann nur annehmen, dass der Großteil der Bundesbürger keinen blassen Schimmer davon hat, wenn ich lese, dass dieses Jahr 62% mehr Feuerwerk nach DE importiert wurde als letztes Jahr. Die Nachfrage muss ja da sein.
https://www.destatis.de/DE/Presse/Pressemitteilungen/Zahl-der-Woche/2025/PD25_48_p002.html
Dann noch die ganzen eh schon prävalenten Atemwegserkrankungen und ein sehr starkes Grippejahr mit H3N2. Sollen se machen. Ich lass schon mal den Luftreiniger vorglühen.


Thanks a lot. I appreciate this as I often have to double-check and look-up idioms. Still, even after decades of communication in English. I’ll leave the error as is then, to not take the educational value from your post.


I hope the CDU and SPD are able to destroy them with arguments any day soon. Like in the US and many other countries. Franz von Papen had a brilliant plan. We should try that again. Party bans just don’t cut it. It worked once with the Socialist Reich Party but we can’t guarantee that will work again. Better don’t ban people like Frohnmaier, openly stating he’s a national socialists, from the Bundestag. That could anger the voters. Also please don’t call them fascists. That seems to really anger some of them.


I love the DW TV channel. Solid documentaries. Nice special formats on all kind of topics. Competent journalists and interesting and prolific guests in interview formats. Broadcasts in HD without a Pay-TV subscription. My default TV channel. Highly recommended.


Markus Frohnmaier looks evil AF. According to his Wikipedia he is. Mind you he is not from the AfD infested ex-GDR but from the southern Germany state Baden-Württemberg. Let’s dissect his Wikipedia entry a bit:
Born in Romania (lol) and never got to know his natural parents. First he wasn’t scheduled for adoption because of his weak constiution but was subsequently adopted by a german couple.
Got an economy high school diploma but dropped out of college.
Married to a Russian journalist previously working for the state affiliated Iswestija owned by Gazprom-Media.
Member of the parliament since 2017. Chairman of the far-right AfD regional association in Baden-Württemberg.
Employed multiple persons from the far-right-extremist spectrum. His own positions are openly far-right-extremist and xenophopic.
Media investigations found out that the Russian Federation supported him to influence German election campaigns in the parliament elections 2017. In a strategy paper that was obtained by the SPIEGEL, ZDF, BBC and La Repubblica, Wladimir Putin called him a “member of parliament under absolut control”.
The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution concluded 2019 that Frohnmaier legitimizes “Attacks on the state monopoly on the use of force”, has connections “to far-right-extremist publishers” and “to the anti-islam German Defence League” (which is also associated with the violent hooligan scene and is observed by Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution). Frohmaier demands after AfD’s takeover of power that the Federal Constitutional Court will be stacked with judges loyal to the party.
He was a chairman of the “Junge Alternative für Deutschland”, the youth organisation of the AfD which was deemed safe far-right-extreme by German federal judges and dissolved 2025.
In a speech in Erfurt he said: “To those left ideological terrorists, that party cronyism: When we take over we’ll clean up and throw out the manure. Then politics will be made for the people and only for the people - because we are the people, dear friends”.
He welcomed the Annexation of the Krim by Russia.
He met with the spokesperson Martin Sellner of the austrian Identitarian movement who’s got an entry ban to multiple countries and was the initiator of a meeting of AfD, CDU and entrepreneurs in 2024, notably in the vicinity of the first Wannseekonference, in which the massdeportation after an AfD takeover was discussed.
After Joe Biden was elected he wrote “No gratulations for the globalistic election fraudster Joe Biden.”
He met with Alexander Dugin and published on his rightwing-intellectual site Katechon
He met with pro-russian separatists in Donezk in 2016.
He founded the “German center for Eurasian Studies” together with a polish citizen who was deemed a chinese and russian agent by the state prosecutors office.
In 2019 he became a member of the “Yalta International Economic Forum” controlled by the FSB.
He suffered a heart attack at the age of 27.
In addition he send the ICE goons to airports. I’ve seen pictures where they operate the computer-terminals. Some looked like teens. Can’t say if they’re at JFK too, though.