Enjoy the show. In the last two years, I was at 2 shows where a male companion and me were the oldest. And one show we were only beaten by boring parents which waited in the bar area instead of listening to a great show (imagine grumpy older Gen X being on their phones the entire time). It felt weird at first. Teens and young adults all around me. Every teen had so much swag and I needed Vexillology lesson because there were so many queer flags and didn’t know existed. The shows were nice (Tessa Violet and Cavetown) and I had a great time. Everything was calm, the bar always free, I guess because money is a lot tighter when you are young. If people notice you they’ll think you are a cool dude cause you enjoy good music.

Energie ist nachhaltig, Klimawandel ist ein Problem, dass alle angehen. Konsum ist kein Statussymbol mehr, sondern alle Dinge/Technologien werden danach beurteilt, ob sie der Gemeinschaft Mehrwert bringen. Alles ist Future Proof.

Alle schwere, gefährliche und doofe Arbeiten sind weitestgehend automatisiert. Das Auge liegt auf Schöne und saubere Umgebung, die jeder nutzen kann. Jeder hat mehr Lust und Zeit für Kunst, Kultur, Handwerk und Musik.

Menschen begegnen sich auf Augenhöhe, unabhängig von Geschlecht, Familie und Job. Der ÖPNV ist das beste Fortbewegungsmittel. Er ist sauber, luxuriös und einfach zu benutzen (natürlich kostenlos).

Third places sind für jeden zugänglich und für alle Altersgruppen. Jeder hat ein Hobby und Möglichkeiten es auszuleben und Gemeinschaft zu finden.

Jeder hat ein Zuhause.

Veganes Essen schmeckt jedem und macht den Großteil der Ernährung aus.

Lebenslanges Lernen ist gelebt. Menschen können Unis immer wieder besuchen und sind motiviert Neues zu lernen.

Betreuung und Erziehung von Kindern hat einen viel höheren Stellenwert. Kindergärten und Schulen sind die Aushängeschilder. Hier wird nicht gespart sondern geklotzt.

The biggest hurdle is that someone played with you. If you got someone, the rest is easy. If you crash the weekly bingo night with a game you take Cabo with you. If you sneak into a magic tournament, you take Radlands.

Radlands. 2-player tower defence game. Minimal space required. Tight gameplay. I have the retail edition without the maps.

Cabo. Up to 5 players. Anyone can play it. From primary school kids to granny. Remember your cards and try to swap to get the lowest score.

The Dark Tower really really really resonated with me as a teenager. As did It and the stand. I liked goosebumps and horror in general. In recent years I read the Stand again and I realised I have a lot of questions about the story I didn’t have when I was young. So it really depends when in life you read them.

But one I haven’t seen mentioned much is Tommyknockers. I really liked it and of course you follow an author. Running man, the longe walk I liked too. Rage is an odd read, maybe because of the context of its legacy.

I prefer his older books. But only because I don’t like Krimis (Crime fiction). Therefore Mr Mercedes and later the Holly stories don’t work for me as good as his older books.

Joe Hill (his son) writes similar stories located at the east cost. Initially I thought I read his dad’s work.

Wie “hilfreich” das ist sehen wir hier:

CCC

Currently we run an Arcs Campaign. 2/3 games. Initially I thought I just have to concentrate on a C fate, because the first game I made barely any points. But game 2 I won. But I can’t count and therefore I will play a C fate after all.

We are in game 10/13 of Charterstone. It is a very lightweight legacy worker placement and okish.

My partner bought Deep regrets after having it played once and loved it. It is nice. Need to play it with higher player count.

Thank you for the arte documentary. Will watch it immediately.

Thank you. I asked myself same. Telomeres I guess you would need to know the length after birth. But we only have one sample (moment of death). Plus the victims bodies are probably not very good preserved. My best guess is, the text is just not accurate and they might used DNA testing for different things (sex, etc).

See my reply to a different comment.

I don’t know how the laws are in different countries but just analysing and matching them against anyone sounds highly illegal to me. Next, people need to first be sequenced. Unless they asked them, how do they have their data if they are highly private.

Maybe my question was misleading: for me it sounded like they only analysed the infant DNA and did not perform matches etc. if they used skull size etc to identify the victims it wasn’t a DNA analysis to identify the victim.

But that would mean they collected maternal samples as well. And they didn’t say that. In the 60s that is highly unlikely.

Oh I love it, cause I actually remember: It was around 1998-1999. I was a child. A new mall opened and they had some kind of special. 1 hour surfing for 1 DM or 1 €. We had no internet at home yet only an old computer for fun. Nothing fancy. And I really wanted to go on the Diddl website. Imagine something like a german Mikey Mouse but as collectible like Beanie Baby’s. I was obsessed. Anyway I think each click took 5 min to load. There was lots to discover like the mid 2000 Gorillas website. My mom was annoyed. But I was hyped. 10/10.

How do they determine age with a DNA test? Wouldn’t say look at the remains from the death baby’s? I have questions.

Wenn es um Platz und Plastik geht: Waschmittelblätter. Das offene teile ich und pack es in eine Dose, damit die ja nicht feucht werden. Kommen in der Regel in Papier verpackt. Spart Platz, Plastik etc

Wir haben das erste Mal mit dem DeutschlandTicket eine Grenze durchquert.

Früher ist die Familie und dann später auch ich mit Freundinnen immer nach Venlo zum Einkaufen gefahren. Kaffee, Pille, Zigaretten etc. Freunde wollten immer für Wacken Dosenbier ohne Pfand. Ich kannte nix von Venlo, außer den Parkplatz und die 2 Brüder. Mit dem Zug ankommen und nicht zum einkaufen da zu sein, war eine ganz neue Erfahrung.

Wir waren im Limburg Museum. War nett die FEEST und Erotik Ausstellung. Die Stadt ist mega cute und lädt zum verweilen ein.

Crafting, crochet, knitting, sewing, drawing etc I like to do it for myself and my loved ones. I like to cook and I live for gossip.

The DeutschlandTicket is the best thing! I love it. I want that with their Steuernummer, baby’s get a DeutschlandTicket. Everybody needs a DeutschlandTicket.

I understand that. I find it hard to commit myself to something which I don’t burn for. I can start a huge crochet project let’s say because I want to gift it, it has a clear start and end (starting a magic loop -> finished product). My driver for the programming was: you are unemployed, they got you the course, if you don’t go your unemployment benefits would be cut. And I rather choose my own course instead of being pushed to do something I don’t like. I don’t enjoy the programming, but I enjoy pretty data. If I was still working I wouldn’t have started. So the stars aligned.

TLDR: commit to a course.

For the last two to three years I tried a couple of times to get into Python on my own. Each time I find the very basic steps extremely boring. And once I come to a bit more complex question I am like: you didn’t teach that yet! Since I am interested in biology, I want to look into data. I tried my hand on already published stuff but often felt like I am not making anything new, just copy pasting.

The last year I took 2 day classes and are now in a “full on learn 5 month from scratch programming course”. The first two weeks were rough because we went over the very very basics in a slow tempo. And now the “fun” stuff starts.

One day we had a a different tutor and he showed us that some cities (in Germany) provide public data to their citizens. And that this is a good resource. I checked for my city and I have plenty of csv files to choose from. Just waiting to be made into a graph. It helped me stay engaged in the first two weeks. Did I code it myself? Hell no. ChatGPT was a huge help. The haters will tell me I just “vibe coded” but I had so many error messages to work through I think I learned a lot while analysing the data and going back and forth checking if anything made sense. The gist of it is that I am now committed to a course, where I have to show up every day (online). I still often feel like a failure when I don’t understand a question and it is hard to judge if the others are as lost as I am. But it is also kind of fun and having others going through the same makes it more tolerable.