bonifartius 𒂼𒄄 @bonifartius@social.cleverlibre.org

@cell that's why xmpp and matrix can have bridges (or however it's called) :) it's just sometimes hard to map the way one protocol works onto another

@Laconicif
only if i get to keep my rifle at home like the swiss do :)

@anonymoose @Zergling_man @Ariovistus @Moon @velartrill

@velartrill
that's the point, it's only diversity if it brings in profits. take all the greenwashing, you have to buy new things to be green while just keeping old stuff is likely the most ecological thing you can do. don't have to buy new vegan shoes if your 10 year old leather ones are perfectly fine 💁

@Zergling_man @Ariovistus @mute_city

@velartrill

i guess people like ian or hickok aren't exemplary for how most people are.

maybe the idea of US founding fathers about an armed populace doesn't apply today anymore because the populace changed.

i agree that training should be required to get a gun, the proper storage parts of the law also are sensible. i think the german gun laws are just a bit too much. iirc, you _have_ to compete if you want to own guns. i don't want to compete, i want to relax a bit shooting at stuff or do things like 2-gun matches if it's about competing. just shooting paper targets at the range is boring. the most fun you can have here maybe is clay shooting.

you also can get a hunters license, which costs several thousand euros in practice. i'm vegetarian since ages, so there goes that. although, _if_ i start to eat meat again, it's probably something i slaughtered myself. have to have the guts for killing and preparing to get to eat meat :)

i think the swiss have the best concept for this whole gun topic, but it isn't applicable to germany. it's a cultural thing there.

to return to the original topic, the thing which annoys me the most about todays germany is the combination of the classic german over-regulation with the ultrawoke-culture where you get canceled for sane opinions we imported from america. it could be _so_ fucking nice here in europe if we just get our shit together. we have the means and all the opportunities, but somehow the motive is lost between all the bullshit and dystopian rainbow capitalism which takes your last penny.

@Zergling_man @Ariovistus

@thebitchisback @Zergling_man
then don't eat it? :D

@thebitchisback @Zergling_man there are no weeds ;)

@Zergling_man @thebitchisback because i don't know where you all live, note that it is neophyte in the new world so.. maybe not there :P i'm sure nature has equally good plants there though :)

if you have a garden and like animals, get this plant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galeopsis_tetrahit

flowers multiple months (even into september!) so bees have plenty to eat. small birds seem to like the seeds.

note that you'll probably have them everywhere next year though :)

@Ariovistus

> Germany is rapidly being americanized. Things got so much worse here just in the past decade it unreal.

couldn't have found better words. also we only get the shitty wokeness stuff, not the fun parts. :sadgunjesusface:

@Zergling_man @velartrill

@velartrill i think the point is that you would give up free will if you set up galadriel with the ring. sauron is evil, it's easy to hate him even if he has the ring. with galadriel you'd have an omnipotent ruler which is so beautiful that you couldn't even hate her if you liked to.

@velartrill sounds like

> In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Queen. And I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Morning and the Night! Fair as the Sea and the Sun and the Snow upon the Mountain! Dreadful as the Storm and the Lightning! Stronger than the foundations of the earth. All shall love me and despair!

i'll see myself out now :)

@niclas yeah, i've had contact with the syntax back in the days because of ejabberd and it's config. wasn't pleasant to be thrown in there without warning :) on the other hand erlang is really an interesting system with the.distributed actors etc.

,i guess i'll just watch the.presentations you've mentioned and move on from there.