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She doesn't read the forum, no, but the necklace is not a secret present either. Not buying (kinda pricey) jewelry without checking if she likes it first.

Usagi has a fight with her mother over not having cheese in her omelette and runs away from home, eventually ending up with Rei when Zoisite finishes his 'Requiem for a Princess', the music sheets coalesce into a monster and the monster begins to attack princesses all over Japan with a... song, and the Guardians with CGI notes. Pretty sure they stole that idea from a Mario game or two. It's strange to see Rei and Usagi get along as well as they do. It's not them being friends that is strange, but Rei had plenty of opportunities to berate Usagi in this one and she never did. It's unnatural, I tells ya. Edit: Usagi starts crying when she learns that they're all from the Moon Kingdom, because it means her mother isn't her real mother. I shall award a bonus point for bringing it up. I'll deduct it when they inevitably come up with a contrived, silly explanation.

Surprised there were no red cards. That foul, combined with kicking the ball at the Dutch substitute bench, and the Dutch player running over the Argentinian player, well, dunno, feels like there should have been at least one, if not two. On the other hand, the Dutch are pretty much immune to getting red cards for attacks, so why am I surprised?

Incidentially... my wife's Christmas present arrived too: Matching companion piece to the earrings from two years ago. Well, the image link's broken. Boo. Boo.

Well, they're pretty efficient. One shot, one goal. Not bad. Maybe the last five minutes will make up for the rest of the game.

Don't worry, I've basically hated every Addam's Family offering except the 60ies black and white series. I'll check it out eventually, I guess.

Who gives a damn about them dancing or not? Seriously, some people. That said, this WC is officially over for all I care, all that's left is rooting for Morocco to win the damned thing for a bit of a shakeup.

Yeah, Microsoft's potential monopoly is bad, they might use their market power to hurt the monopoly I like.

I used to think that was a factor, but it randomly happens even while staying on the same page. Posting to a new page is not the root cause, but it seems to happen more frequently when a new page is created while typing. It also happens in PMs, and therefore is really rather unlikely to be linked to any specific amount of postings in between beginning to type and pressing Submit Reply. Whether that problem is linked at all to the CR/LF issue our Danish and Swedish members are experience is anyone's guess, but I'd say no. They get the first paragraph of their reply through after all. An eaten post is gone completely, and the fact that it still remains as saved draft means that something goes wrong during the posting itself.

I was just worrying about you losing a post like that, honest!

That does not always work, it sometimes randomly decides to not save drafts (or a moderator locks the thread in the meantime ), or you'll get older versions of your post when hitting backspace. Copying the text to your clipboard is the only way to make sure.

Started watching a German documentary about the three lawyers defending Beate Zschäpe. I came close to posting about this in the funny thread, because there's something inherently amusing about the lawyers of a famous Neo-Nazi terrorist having the last names Heer, Stahl and Sturm. If someone came up with these names in a movie script they'd be laughed out of the writer's room.

I'd point and laugh but we're way ahead of you as we already had two (technically three) governments where the Nazi Freedom party was a major part of. Luckily, they imploded twice, but they did enough lasting harm in the process, and the courts are still busy with cases that go as far back as the early 00s - but they always seem to bounce back, and their current chairman is a highly dangerous demagogue who helmed the protests against any COVID related action taken by the government, shills ivermectin as suppressed (because cheap!) treatment against COVID and refused any innoculation because they're untested and dangerous. Not that I buy that he really believes that. He's just telling the riled up masses what they want to hear. Depending on the polling institute, they're currently set to become the strongest, or second strongest party in a general election. Three years after the video of their former leader wanting to sell half the nation to the Russians came out. You bet that none of those dolts voting for them would post comments any better than the ones we can't see. There's times I wish there really would be a world-spanning conspiracy to forcibly sterilize half the planet. Humanity is a blight on this world. People's Republic of Vietnam?

Minor local issue and musings: a 'concerned' parent complained to the Viennese school council because the school his son attends segregates classes based on religion. There's one class with catholics and orthodox christians, and one class with all other relgious minorities and those who are non-denominational. I myself am Lutheran, which here is a religious minority (behind muslims and orthodox christians), and indeed, I too, have experienced segregation: I was always in classes that had all other Luterhans if there were any, as well as other religious minorities. I fully understand that we cannot be allowed to fill the catholics' heads with heretical nonsense, that always seemed fair. Imagine, our priests are allowed to marry, if something were to happen to the catholic celibacy... Well, all joking aside, as I am Luterhan in name only, the real reason for the segretation is not that the schools are racist, but it is simply a matter of expedience, and one where the fault lies largely with the untoward influence the catholic church still holds over politics, particularily over our conservative party (who formerly called themselves 'christian-social' party before switching their moniker to 'people's' party). Since every school has to educate its students about the invisible sky fairies they believe in, or at least nominally should believe in, and most students are catholics, schools generally have a dedicated teacher at hand to tell them about the catholic invisible sky fairy. Teachers of the muslims, orthodox and lutheran invisible sky fairy however, have to teach at several schools, and it is much easier to find free time slots when the minorities are all in the same class, because otherwise one runs into an issue that I also experienced, namely that we'd start a day at school later, because the first class was about the catholic sky fairy, and our sky fairy classes were after everyone else went home, or worse, sometime in the afternoon. So, it was coming home from school, doing homework, and going back to school to learn about our special sky fairy. Except... they're apparently all the same invisible sky fairy anyway, making this even sillier than I ever imagined it to be when I was a lot younger. Clearly, there's one ideal solution to this issue: remove religion from the curriculum and replace it with ethics, and change the curriculum to include knowledge about a broad range of religions, rather than just one. Alas, such left-wing commie heresy will never happen. The complaints would be endless, from catholics, muslims and orthodox christians alike. So, sky fairy segreation it shall be, forevermore.

Well, yes. Or rather, no, because this is how the end of the article looks like: Tried it with Firefox and Edge, both with and without ad-blockers. Malcador doesn't have an EU-cookie policy issue that is potentially the cause for this.

I don't see any comments on the article. Is the comment section hidden from us dirty foreigners, or am I finally going completely blind?

Yeah, our stupid morons are trying to score political brownie points at the expense of everyone else. Bunch of incompetent assclowns we're stuck with until 2024. *sigh*

The mods and the loader are probably perfectly fine, but we're talking about my parents PC, and if anything goes wrong, it'll be me who has to solve the issues. I guess I could give him a VM to play around with. It also doesn't help that the mods are all hosted on these super stupid download sites that have ten "download" buttons on the page, of which elven link to ads of suspect repute and the button "continue" hides the actual download link. Looks like CurseForge has Minecraft support in its standalone version. The one that comes without the Overwolf framework. Well, it's not paranoia when they're really out to get ya, right? I guess that could work.

Today's fun discussion: "I want to install Minecraft mods." *checks* "Nope." "Why not?" "Because." Because... yeah, beause they all apparently require a Java based mod loader. Thanks, but, you know. No thanks. Quick check tells me there were 'only' 29 vulnerabilities discovered in the Java runtime environment. In 2022. And that is without figuring out a way to prevent my nephew from loading up MINECRAFT_HAXXOR_BITCOIN_MINER.JAR. Yep. Like I said. Nope.

Having a time travelling daughter?

PGSM can't have funny moments like turning Usagi into a giant tennis ball, and they know that, instead they work with their limited budget to come up with silliness. Whether it is Usagi cosplaying as unicorn, her mother wrestling her down so Ami can get a coffee she doesn't even want or, as it just now happened, Usagi imagining several different Tuxedo Masks, one looking sillier than the other. In terms of storyline it is playing it rather loose with the manga, but still keeps major plot points. Thankfully, the girls are much less into MURDERDEATHKILL'ing everyone. On the other hand, that could mean the series picks up on that alternate semi-canon idea that everyone was in love with everyone that Crystal ran with. I'm of half a mind to go and spoil myself just to be prepared if that happens. That was, bar none, the best scene in Crystal to illustrate everything that is wrong with the anime. Beryl's four henchmen are staring down the Sailor Guardians while Usagi thinks Mamoru is dead and tries to run a sword through her stomach (Usagi being Usagi, she can't even do that properly). Minako (I think, I repressed some of the memories of that series) is all like 'REMEMBER YOUR PAST GUYS, WE YOU!' and they're all like 'well, we'll be damned, them gurls are right, we them', and then out of Nowhere, Off-Screen Beryl is like 'you useless twits, DIE ' and that was the end of the four generals, just like that. Edit: Ami is pretending to be Rei in order to check if a weird older guy who is excessively polite and refers to her as 'Master Rei' has the Silver Crystal. Since Ami was absent from the last episodes, it makes sense to give her a larger role for a change, but it does not make sense for her to not use her transformation mobile to actually change into Rei. I mean... she so clearly isn't Rei that the guy can't possibly think she is. Edit2: An entire police detachment is guarding the appraisal. Naturally, as the show has zero budget to do anything with, it looks like the super cheap glass bauble it is.

Blizzard learned nothing from the fiasco that was The Oculus, and decided to make it even worse? As Karl Marx once said: history repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. More and more I get the feeling he was right.

Should probably go get that checked out to make sure there's no myocarditis.

Shingles vaccination costs 250€ here. Per shot. Two needed, of course. It is a constant source of debate as it is one of the few recommended vaccination not covered by the regular health insurance, in spite of a full rollout being cheaper than the side effects of having to treat affected people in the hospital. Most others are free*, with some exceptions accounting for age here and there, the HPV vaccine is free for people under the age of 18, while flu shots are reduced for the elderly, and some exceptions when it comes to the more exotic vaccinations - like any shots you need to get before going on vacation. No sense in everyone chipping in for someone's brothel visit in Thailand. *Usual caveat, 'free' as in 18% of everyone's paycheck is going towards social insurance. That's healthcare, pension plans and unemployment insurance (and some other things).