Maybe you tried “sudo touch grass” before.

That’d probably lead to the privilege issues, but is easier to forget about.

I use a safety razor too and I don’t really have these issues.

I can shave in any direction I want, no problem and just have to watch the angle of the blade if I want it to work properly and provide a close shave but not because I run the risk of cutting myself. Only thing I have to pay attention to in that regard is to NEVER move the blade perpendicular to the handle.

But in my experience, what makes the biggest difference is how the skin and beard is prepared. It all works so much smoother if I apply hot damp cloth beforehand or I shave right after a hot shower. Also a nice foam from a good shaving soap helps a lot as well as using a fresh blade.

But I can also just ignore all of that and go at it dry and with a months old blade. Only in that case do I have to be more careful and won’t get as nice a result. Probably helps, that I don’t have a very thick beard growth in the first place, though.

So yeah, looks like it can be a very different experience.

Oh but also the kind of razor make a difference. I once had a very light and tinny safety razor, that was barely useable. A nice stainless steel one with a heavier head is so much better.

Two and a half months, they weren’t joking about slow German bureaucracy 😱

Bureaucracy has nothing to do with it.

No no, if you just use Stuhl it works perfectly in German. This word has exactly the double meaning that is necessary for the pun, it’s not even a stretch. I’d have more trouble finding an appropriate verb for the translation.

A Schemel is really a very small seat, no taller than knee-height. It’s something you sit on to milk a cow for example.

And a Hocker is a kind of chair with usually neither arm nor foot-rest of any height. I’d say it’s pretty much a perfect match for the English stool. You could call a Schemel a kind of Hocker, but a Hocker can also be as tall as a normal chair or even taller at counter height, in which case we’d call it a Barhocker.

People who have never played Wacky Weels or Road Rash (PC edition) from the nineties are missing out! Legends of my childhood.

Oh! You’re bringing up an example from the Australian state of Victoria!

I was just wondering for a minute why homes built during Queen Victoria’s reign were a special challenge for the electricity grid.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_house

I too was confused about the indicated countries.

Cheers to your wife.

Looks like she enjoyed herself. 😆

I think it’s kind of a natural evolution. The fear of the unknown effect of Alien wears off for the viewer, once the creature has been revealed and defeated in the first part. So a sequel in the same vein woulndn’t really work, but recycling the creature as a fearsome enemy in an action flick surely does.

I also don’t really gravitate towards horror movies as I find most of them to be pretty cheesy or tryhard edgy. Alien is the exception. This one is a work of art.

Imho, they are different genres altogether.

Alien is a real horror-movie, while Aliens leans more towards the action-movie genre, of course retaining horror elements, but it doesn’t quite play on the body-horror and fear of the unknown as much as the first part does.

Hierzulande und rezent, ja. Zeitlich und geographisch weiter gefasst findest du aber auch Gymnospermengruppen die im Wesentlichen auf Insektenbestäubung setzen.

Der Punkt ist, dass die Fortpflanzungsstrategie kein Kriterium zur Zuordnung zu Nacktsamern oder Bedecktsamern ist. Der Autor hat das vermutlich nur ins Spiel gebracht, weil man dann bei Angiospermen den Bezug zu Sperma herstellen kann und das zu seiner Erzählung von wild umherejakulierenden Bäumen passt.

Birken gehören zu den Bedecktsamern, sogenannte Angiospermen, die Windbestäubung betreiben.

Nur falls hier jemand meint aus dieser Glosse einen Bildungsgewinn zu ziehen: die beiden Fakten, dass Birken Bedecktsamer sind und dass sie Windbestäubung betreiben sind zwar wahr, stehen aber in keinem Kausalzusammenhang, wie hier suggeriert wird.

Nacktsamer und Bedecktsamer ist die grobe Unterteilung aller Gefäßpflanzen, da treten alle möglichen Fortpflanzungsstrategien auf. Das Eine hat mit dem Andern nix zu tun.

Little nitpick: Graphene OS isn’t artificially restricted to Google phones. Pixel phones just happen to be the only ones that fulfill the safety requiremets that Graphene OS wants.

Other manufacturers could do the same and Graphene OS devs would welcome it, they just choose not to do that.

Be aware that part of ich_iel humour in no small part consits of comically literal translations of English expressions. That has nothing to do with proper German and as a learner you probably won’t be able to spot the difference.

Bad idea to try to learn German there.

Yeah, she was weird anyways. Our session mostly consisted of arguments about our conflicting world views.

Unfortunately it was my first therapy and it took me way too long to call it quits and find a different therapist. But I did, eventually.

I made my therapist lose her shits, because I sat in her chair once.
The arrangement was a small table and two identical chairs on either side, with no indication who has to sit where, other than how we’d usually do it and no clear instructions.
She couldn’t handle it and couldn’t let it go weeks after that session.
Am I winning?

My therapist asked me this on some occasions. Part of my problem is to realize and acknowledge how I’m actually feeling.

“In my brain” was never the answer, when she asked that, I always felt different parts of my body.

Does therapy actually help you if you know what your problem is?

Yes, then you’re already steps ahead. For some people, figuring out what the problem is, already takes therapy, but it doesn’t end there. If you know, what the problem is and know how to fix it, you probably don’t need therapy. But if you know what’s wrong but can’t fix it alone, that’s what therapy is for.

Also knowing that they’re talking to you because it’s their job feels like the whole thing is a lie and a waste of time.

Only if you somehow follow the idea, that the therapist has to like you. That is not the case. It is their job and that’s okay. You’re also just talking to them because it’s their job. Why would you open up to a stranger otherwise?

I mean you should get along together somehow, but you don’t have to be friends with your therapist.

Das muss man so sehen, außer man ist halt AfD-Dulli. Die kriegen den Gehirnspagat hin, zu behaupten da gäbe es ja gar keine Diskriminierung mehr, während sie gleichzeitig dafür agitieren dass Diskriminierung bestehen bleibt, bestehende Rechte weggenommen werden oder einfach deine Existenz leugnen.

Dann ist der politische zu politisch und der unpolitische nicht politisch genug.

Der CSD mit dem richtigen Maß an Politik existiert eher nur so als Ideal auf einer arisotelischen Metaebene. Alle realen Umsetzungen werden vom Ordnungsamt abgelehnt.