You’re not wrong about the reward being earned. That’s definitely the unspoken part of it.

It’s also heretic AF. As in: It directly contradicts Orthodox, Catholic, and Lutheran, doctrine, all for different reasons.

Blitzkrieg is not a Nazi strategy Germany had already been fighting WWI like that, or at least tried its hardest to do that, they used the term Bewegungskrieg (manoeuvre warfare) to contrast Stellungskrieg (trench warfare), that’s all there is to it. The German preference for decisive battles over wars of attrition dates back to at least Moltke the Elder, whence also Auftragstaktik (mission command) and “no plan survives first contact with the enemy”.

Then, the Nazis were way more deliberate and careful when taking over state institutions. And yes they did care about popular opinion that’s why they e.g. switched over to nabbing Jews in quiet instead of publicly making a show out of it didn’t play well with the population. Trump with Nazi strategy would be saying “We’ll re-take Cuba, get rid of socialism, and turn it into a beach resort and every American will be able to go to state-sponsored holidays there”. Like this, but bigger.

It’s kinda weird to say this as a German but when I look at other countries’ fascists they’re a clownshow. Nazis of course are also self-destructive, fascism inherently is, but there’s a fierce edge of competency in their madness.

That Signal leak? Under the Nazis, heads would be rolling, they would have no qualms bending actual incompetence into high treason to make an example to enforce discipline.

The US has a treaty allowing people to travel to the US bases there, there’s some language about not being an ass while travelling through but it’d be a pain to invoke for the crime of knocking on people’s doors.

Cognitive empathy, yes, absolutely, affective empathy, no. Difference between flinching when someone gets hurt and understanding that someone gets hurt, including the theory of mind to understand that they don’t like that. Which is why the well-adjusted ones (mostly a function of nurture) make damn good surgeons. Maladapted ones will use that (very acute) cognitive empathy to do the usual dark triad stuff.

DB is still 100% owned by the federation, it’s only organised privately. Trouble is they expected it to turn a profit, to do that DB had to run its infrastructure into the ground, invest abroad, get into fucking trucking, you name it. Don’t get me wrong there’s nothing wrong with operating rail/road interface warehouses, but when a rail company is building a logistics warehouse without rail connection you know something’s deeply fishy. Meanwhile, the Autobahn network got plenty of tax money pumped into it. And those DB profits.

The failure is 110% political, decades of car-brained infrastructure ministers, “but won’t someone think about the car producers and their workers”. Bipartisan issue. In US terms: UAW and Blackrock vs. Amtrack. Guess who’s winning the lobby battle, difference being in Germany people actually like trains.

Oh, Finnish, EU, this is going to be easy: We have thousands of small gourmet chocolatiers. The big gourmet ones like Domori generally have a “may contain traces” list, but e.g. Bonnat Chocolatiers should be completely allergen-free. Expect 60-100 Euro/kg but the taste is worth the price (at least once in a while), finding a shop that delivers to Finland shouldn’t be too much of an issue.

Regarding sauces: Try gelatin as a thickener, boiling it, as happens naturally with glace, so it doesn’t turn into jelly just a thickener. I usually use roux because it’s slightly better than plain starch but gelatin, it just coats the whole mouth. Buckwheat should also be an option for noodles. Modern soba noodles generally contain wheat but traditionally they were pure buckwheat, steamed instead of boiled they’re too brittle to survive that. Ready-made glass noodles should often be gluten-free, best if fried IMO.

And yes you definitely should start a food blog. Restrictions foster creativity every artist knows that. Probably did my best cooking when keeping pretty much keto for “this looks like really good food” reasons, not even nutrition. You can make a cake out of almond/nut flour, carrots, whipped honey and whipped egg, and it’s darn good. Also fills you up after a single slice.

That information is for people with allergies. Not for people without allergies. Which is the distinction that I made, somewhat colloquially (people with allergies will understand the presence of sentiment over lack of nuance), with “running around with an epi pen”. “Standing in the middle of a bakery”.

Are you desperately trying to be offended on behalf of others.

Sorry if this was offensive, I’m not attacking you, I’m attacking the rhetoric, because I know how much more believable it is than my story, but I also know which one is true.

I mentioned the epi pen not really because of epi pen but to make precisely that gluten insensitivity vs. allergy distinction. People who have an actual allergy know, they aren’t the uninformed ones, but I couldn’t tell from your original comment. Back to chocolate: You can have a look at premium chocolate makers, bean-to-bar “the only thing but cocoa in here is sugar” type stuff. More expensive, but certainly also damn good, many only make pure chocolate so there’s no chocolate with crisps and nuts and raisins line to contend with.

The fad thing correlates, in time, with an increase in use of glyphosate to fast-ripen wheat, btw. I don’t think the science is yet in but people with somewhat sensitive stomachs having symptoms when eating traces of glyphosate is not a far-fetched hypothesis, the whole thing is kinda too large to be just a fad.

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Unless you are literally running around with an epi pen because miniscule amounts of allergens could kill you you really don’t need to worry about those. It basically means “produced in a factory that also produces other stuff”. They’re not putting things in there, they can’t 110% rule out that some flour particles made it over from one production line to another. You get more exposure by standing in the middle of a bakery shop.

The 1933 elections were unfree, and within the two election 1932 they dropped from 37.4 to 33.1. Still not enough votes to pass the enabling act so they arrested SPD+KPD politicians and then used a simple majority to change the quorum rules such that the absent votes would not count against them.

It’s fascinating how much legal theatre they did to give a legalistic paint job to their power grab. Completely different to Trump, more like corporate lawyers.

Quick, someone translate “dackelkrawattig” for the Anglos.

Oh, and for anyone who doesn’t recall: He’s the one whose clothes got nicked.

Game publishers could’ve changed it way earlier but noone bothered to bring a case to court but opted to self-censor instead, thus the BPjM had to follow an age-old, singular, court ruling.

The game that prompted the change was this one, in particular Gauland’s special move is a swastika. Someone, predictably, complained, and the case didn’t even make it before court as the state attorney said “this is obviously completely legal political commentary”.

To top it all off the game was published by public TV. Same people who made this sketch.

It’s not a thought exercise but a modelling discipline.

It’s systems thinking and if you think it’s terrible then because it’s terribly good at getting rid of excuses. “Oh but you see the intent of the prison system is to reduce crime, never mind it doing the opposite, move along, nothing to see because intent is all that matters”.

Nono you’re not allowed to judge the man individually. You’re required to judge before you see both the man and bear so that we get a properly over-essentialised judgement how else are we going to propagate in- / out-group divisions.

But nobody is purposefully “wedging a stick” between allies and enemies.

The purpose of a system is what it does.