I’ve only bought clothes (except socks, underpants, shoes and anything that’s supposed to be waterproof) at second-hand stores for several years now. I got two pair of pants for 100 DKK (~12€) at a second-hand store in the spring. Also easy to get cheap shirts this way. The biggest problem for me is not the lack of good items, but moreso that they’re usually too big for me.

from other comments it seems second-hand stores are worse in other places.

Won’t you need a map app? CoMaps for instance.

Could you explain instead of being so laconic?

What’s wrong with !historyphotos@piefed.social ?

When I’m with my husband, I can’t help but think about you.

This is a pretty weird thing for a married woman to say. Is she trying to leave her husband for you? Do you want that relationship?

Streisand time

Anyone know where this place is?

In the mod Kaiserreich for Hearts of Iron IV, Germany won WW1 but is now and overextended global empire. The first gameplay year for Germany involves playing something like four simultaneous minigames all on different timers, all the while having to juggle an army build-up as well. As a player you really feel as though you are trying to hold this global overextended empire together, having to sacfrice some areas to save others. I really enjoy it.

Just finished Prophet of Dune for the second time. It’s about how it’s not a gift to know the future, because if you do, then you have no free will. It also comments on the difference between morality and law and which is better suited to governing humanity.

It’s a weird book, but it follows Dune nicely and provides a fitting end to the story of Paul Atreides. It’s also quite short, about half the length of the first book. I’m looking forward to the movie coming out later this year.

it’s so over

sounds fun!

I’m playing Starsector with some difficulty mods. Looking forward to the upcoming “Extended mode” which is supposed to make the game require more more logistical planning as well as making ships harder to come by.

I personally find people’s lust for particular political ideologies disturbing In the same way I find those blinded by religion idiotic.

You are also following an ideology in which you value HDI, GDPPP and environmentalism. Ideology is simply a set of values that one thinks society is/should be organized around. I agree that we should increase HDI and protect the environment, and I think most people do, which is why politics is mostly focused on how to make life better, rather than if we should.

I don’t think anyone can really claim to not have an ideology, unless they will accept literally any suggestion and never disagree to anything. Most people have opinions. Even then, an argument can be made that they are just a part of the majority ideology if they aren’t opposing it.

Remember that your ideology doesn’t need to have a name or be expansive. But it sounds like you value human life in which case your ideology is different from for example nazism:)

What do you mean. Every direction away from the earth is up.

You’re right that I care, otherwise I would not have made my initial comment. I apologise for being rude, I just didn’t have the time to write a proper response.

The reason I commented is because I think that it’s important that the discussion about what is pagan and what is not is taken with all the facts in mind. It just so happens that I watched a video where an expert explains that, although many people think so, there is in fact no evidence that Christmas trees are a pagan tradition appropriated by Christianity.

The reason I made my rude comment is that you dismiss the evidence I provide for my claim. I am very aware that people might not believe me at face value, which is why I provide evidence for my claim. I am making the, to your eyes “fucking ridiculous and wrong”, claim, so to you the burden of proof is on me. I then provide proof. The reason i got frustrated is that you refuse to even engage at the evidence. At first you decice that you won’t watch the video. I assume this is because you prefer to read instead, which is fair.

You take a cursory look at the channel and deem it “nuts”, instead of looking into who the author is, what his credentials are and most importantly, you don’t look at the sources for the video which are books and other material written by other scholars. I link the blogpost because I assume you don’t care enough about this issue to read several books on the topic, and you dismiss this as well because it “has screenshots from twitter”. The whole point of the blogpost is the same as my initial comment; to correct a longstanding myth, which is why it “responds” to twitter-posts. The blogpost is written scolar, although, I will admit, not an expert in early christianity like Dr. Mark Henry of Religion For Breakfast.

I am not trying to defend Christianity; I’m not even religious. All the video points out is that Christmas trees were likely a recent invention, and that we have no evidence to suggest that they were appropriated from a pagan religion.

Again, sorry for being rude in the previous comment. I hope you now understand why your behavior made me upset now, and I hope you will engage with the provided sources now. If you won’t, then I stand by my original comment.

The reason I link that is because the other sources are books. I’ve provided evidence for my claims while you haven’t. Since you refuse to read the evidence you are not interested in learning, only preserving your own worldview. You are not worth my time.

You can read this if you want. It’s one of the sources for the video. Religion for Breakfast is a scholar with a PHD in religous studies; hardly nuts.

Christmas trees are not a pagan invention: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m41KXS-LWsY

In Danish it’s the same as in Swedish: Blækvard Tentakel

Downvoted because you answer your own question in the body. Extreme inequality, amusement park for the elite, “it feels fake”, full of western expats immigrants who don’t want to pay taxes in their homeland, built on the back of the polluting oil industry and underpaid workers who have difficulty leaving the country.

Of course it’s overrated! It should be despised way more than it is!