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I’m atheist who went through an agnostic phase earlier.

So - as a thought experiment - let’s assume there is a god and heaven and a judgment day.

There are two persons in front of the ultimate judge.

One behaved “good” but just out of fear of ultimate judgement.

The other one just he didn’t want to be an asshole out of his own wishes.

Who’d pass?

So I think god is irrelevant. Belief is irrelevant.

Ultimately these ideas led me down the path of optimistic nihilism.

And my most important rule for life: Just don’t be an asshole.

I miss my poop knife copypasta.

When I was in 7th grade I had the same teacher in Latin that my dad had.

That teacher was really old. It was hard to cheat in a test, as he had extremely crossed eyes and I never was sure where he looked.

Weird memories.

I don’t have a lot of VR experience, but for me being “in” a scene does it for VR, while 3D Glasses are still meh.

Try non-stereoscooic VR by just closing one eye while using your headset - it’s still great. The difference is the one between stereoscopic tvs and normal ones.

Oh, and the 3d tvs are non-interactive. Move your head a bit, you still don’t see around things. But that’s what makes a lot of 3d effect for me.

I had a TV that was 3D capable along with a PS3. I think I played 30 minutes of 3D games on that TV before I got a headache from the flickering shutter glasses and then they staid in the drawer below them tv for a year ar or two. Next time I wanted to try the batteries were empty.

I also saw a number of 3D movies in the cinema but it’s more for block busters and after a while it just is “meh”.

It’s a wow cool effect in the beginning, but in the end it’s just a gimmick. IMO it’s not more immersive but rather distracting from the movie itself.

Why is everyone ignoring Wham? Whamageddon starts at Dec 1st.

In every fucking commercial for a washing machine someone is in their garden and turns on the machine by wifi. How does the dirty laundry get in?

The only interesting thing might be a notification when it’s done.

“Evidence”? What a quaint concept.

As a Bavarian (South of Germany) I agree with the Ch at the start of the word being pronounced like a K (Chiemsee starts with the sound K), but with it depends on the region. I start “China” and “Chemie” with K, but a lot of people start it with “sch” (which sounds like sh in English). But that’s really weird for my ears.

And the father of my ex wife is from Cologne, his “ch” sound quite like “sh” as well. Kirche (church) sounds like Kirsche (cherry) when he says it. Funnily his last name has two “ch”.

German is my native language , so yes. It sounds a lot different from what you might think if you can’t speak “ch”. But if you’re American…

Please read this German sentence aloud:

Ich suche den Koch.

(I’m looking for the chef.)

Anything else, sir?

Fortunately in English classes (I learned English at school) we read Macbeth. There’s a lot of layers to Shakespeare - for example a lot of allusions which you’ll only understand when you know about the time it was written in. And our English teacher dragged in a native speaker to help out with conversation, who was a student living in my town.

In German (my native language) however, we were presented a poem without not enough context about the author and had to answer “what’s the meaning of this”. Most of the German teachers I had were boring, lazy or both.

Your literature problem - I had that in German, Thomas Mann’s “Der Tod in Venedig”. Yeah, I as a teenager was so eager to read about the homoerotic thoughts of an older man traveling to Venice and lusting about a young boy. Yes, of course it’s symbolic but - fuuuuck me, really? Do I need to read that.

Mark Twain has written an essay about the “awful German Language” (I don’t agree). Amongst other things he complained about long sentences.

Ha! He know NOTHING! He had not seen the works of Thomas Mann. Thomas Mann must have been hugely intelligent. He managed to write a single sentence that is too long for a single fucking book page. With a random number of subclauses in between. Exploiting all the cleartext encryption mechanisms the German language allows! With the most boring content a teenager in the height of puberty can not relate to.

I still have a visceral hate for Thomas Mann. In my 40s I thought I’d give that book another chance. Nope. Still hate it.

Ah, soon I’m 40 years past school and I still get PTSD about it.

No no no.

In school in higher education we had to interpret poems.

I am definitely sure, that neither the author’s opinion or my opinion are relevant. It is only the teacher’s opinion that is relevant.

(Do I need the /s?)

My ex-wife and me divorced amicably, so we still talk.

One day, about two years after separtion she called me whether I still had my credit card.

(Typically we pay by payment cards called ec or giro card - but they don’t habe a credit card number, so not usable for ordering something from overseas)

So I said, yes, why. “Uhm, I want to buy something from the US” she answerf with skirting around the topic.

A certain assumption forms in my mind, as she speaks on I’m getting more sure every moment.

I answer: Look, <ex-wife>, don’t try to order the Hitachi Magic Wand from the US. It can’t be imported due to the no-lead-in-electric-devices law. And even if it arrived you 'd need a transformer for plugging it into our 230V system. Just buy one of the knockoffs available on Amazon in Europe

She : “Um (pause), OK”

Some years later my teenage kids found it when they were at her place. They asked her what it was and she said “a microphone”. I swear by my kids, the “it is a microphone” meme happened once in my family in real life. (And of course these teenagers knew what it was).

Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch’mangiate.

Something like that, I’m no Italian.

Because 12 and 60 are great numbers to divide. You can take a half of it, a third and a quarter and still get whole numbers.

Iirc the French did try decimal time at one time, it was not convenient.

Heh thanks for explaining it, I never knew if noon was 12am or 12pm. In German we say “11 in the morning”, “12 o Clock (noon*)” , and “1 o Clock (in the afternoon)”

But typically we don’t say whether it’s am or pm, it’s clear from context if “i need to be in the work meeting at 9”

Clocks, TV listings, my work timesheet read 24h times. We read 15:00 as “three” most of the time.

Btw some software tools (my timesheet for work) differnciate between 0:00 and 24:00. I can work (theoretically) from 0:00 to 8:00 (8h in the night to morning) and from 16:00 to 24:00 (8 hours from afternoon to midnight).

So 0:00 and 24:00 are the same moment but thought to belong to the next or previous say, respectively.

I love that thought.