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  • You are misremembering. Germany extended a coal mine to maintain its current coal usage. Germany’s coal usage has be declining for decades and declined in 2024 as well.

    Germany won’t (and probably shouldn’t) give up on coal completely as it is the only kind of fuel that they have direct access to (besides renewal ones) and being able to generate a lot of energy on demand, can be important in war settings. So Germany has a military interest to maintain some coal mines and power plants. It sucks but someone somewhere is always starting wars.






  • My advice for you is to humble yourself.

    You make some big mistakes that will upset people that you care about.

    1. Their issue

    You are mistaken if you understand symptoms as cause. You see them complain about e.g. women but that doesn’t mean women are actually the problem or the cause. So if you look at them complaining about women, you might think why are they so focused on women and make themselves sad. But reality might be, they are sad and the attention of a woman gives them a lot of e.g. dopamine and makes them happy or proud of themselves. If the woman is now the source of comfort, any rejection or conflict is more than what it is, the women “steal” their comfort from them. That is just an example that I have seen played out around me in my teenager years. I am not saying that it is your friends issue.

    1. Source of issue

    You seem to think the source of the issue can be located in their decision to focus on the issue. That might be an issue at times but not always and if it is not, it is very insulting, rude, and maybe even harmful to assume so. In my example of what a common issue was in my teenage years, they didn’t focus on the issue (self-esteem issue and societal expectations) but on feeling good and those who “played” judge on whether or not they were allowed to feel good. Obviously a very deranged perspective on reality, but an understandable one. When we burn ourselves while cooking, we usually don’t question the decision that we want a warm meal. They feel pushed down a cliff when a girl whose they thought gave them positive attention, rejects them. They might not question if they should be seeking validation from others when they don’t approve themselves. They are the issue and not the woman but they are suffering and not seeing it clearly.

    Again I don’t know if that is an issue, I am just giving an example to highlight your flawed thinking.

    1. Consequences

    The consequences of assigning a wrong issue and a wrong cause might not seem as big but you described some already. Alienation, both you from them and them from you. If you have an overly certain and/or overly simplified version of their issue, you will feel annoyed by them because they won’t go for the obvious solution And they will be annoyed by your attitude. Imagine your parents would die and a friend would say “they would have died eventually anyway”, would you take that positively? Because obviously, the issue isn’t that they are dead as much as they are dead now.

    But with the alienation comes isolation, for e.g. actually medically diagnosed depressed people, isolation can be deadly. But it can also feed into alienation by reducing opportunities to bond and understand others. But once again, isolation is affecting both, you and your friend. If your friend starts to dislike you, they have one less person that can support them in their struggles. And if you lose enough friends like that, you can talk to yourself or post publicly to people about how you are happy and don’t understand your friends, because you don’t have friends to talk about it. I am not trying to be rude but I hope you see my point, instead of talking to your friends about their unhappiness and trying to get an understanding of them, you talk about your friends with random people online who don’t know you or your friends. That is like asking the random guy on the train if your mom has bday today.

    1. Solution

    Step back, accept that you are not them and that you can’t feel what they feel and that you don’t know them like they know themselves.

    Don’t act like you know better, if you obviously don’t know.

    Don’t talk about your happiness as if it was relevant. I am happy but I didn’t mention before because no one cares, it isn’t about me. It makes it seem like you are bragging about it, to those who aren’t.

    Look into actual depression, just so you can humble yourself a little bit by realizing that they can’t easily control their brains chemicals and judging them for that might be a dick move.

    In short, become someone who respects the struggles of others especially if you don’t know the struggle.

    Lastly, your ability to do stuff with your body might be peace to you but others are struggling with just that. I know people who are smart and generally able but they just can’t make themselves do stuff. They sit there for hours, trying to focus on a task but their brain drifts away. Their knowledge of their possibilities if it weren’t for their inability to focus, pains them greatly and makes it very difficult to not blame themselves for it, even though they are medically diagnosed that their brain is just not working like a “normal” healthy brain. Your source of peace might be the source of great pain for others.


  • Pokemon is a non-political IP where checks notes the evil group usually torture pokemon, and oftentimes want to change the world to better reflect their ideal world.

    Pokemon became political when checks notes again you treat people like people when they change THEIR body and don’t expect anything more from you than before

    As yes, makes sense. What is next? A Pokemon that can transform in other pokemon? A Pokemon that dresses up like a different kind pokemon? I bet the woke pokemon company will release a black Charizard that is more special as the original Charizard./s

    Fuck morons. In a world, where everything is political, they manage to point at a 9yo girl wearing pants in a movie and claim that it is political.

    Edit: THEY ARE LEAVING THEIR HOBBIES AND PASSIONS OVER THIS! THEY ARE LEAVING THEIR COMMUNITIES OVER THIS! that is mental.








  • Ofc, there is a difference. But that difference is not in where you think it is.

    If you celebrate it for everyone, you celebrate that for every individual. You don’t create a group in your head. If you would celebrate it for republicans, you would create a group in your head and it would be less about the individual. But importantly, republicans are individuals and the celebration for everyone includes those individuals. The coverage for republicans would be as much celebrated as the coverage for potato farmers. But I don’t think anyone would be insisting that democrats didn’t celebrate that potato farmers get aca, outside of silly linguistical reasons.


  • What kind of weird mental gymnastics is that?

    Do you think people don’t know that republicans are included in “everyone”?

    So, just to be clear, if you would celebrate your child amazing school report, you aren’t celebrating their A in math? Because you are celebrating the school report and not the math grade?


  • I remember people being happy that everyone got “Obamacare” and everyone includes republicans.

    I haven’t seen any suggested policies that said “everyone but republicans should get …”. But there were a few about e.g. giving children “free” lunch in school to ensure children have at least 1 meal per day. No one wanted to check if the parent of the child is a republican or if the child was. In fact, when the program was running for a little while, every child got their “free” meal.

    Yes, people celebrated that republican got healthcare because that is what everyone means. Republicans are part of everyone.


  • There are a lot of moving parts here.

    My parents and grandparents are fully aware of my lack of belief. So my parents won’t be shocked that my children don’t believe. I don’t mind letting e.g. my mother tell them about Jesus because realistically, humans believe what their environment believes and for my children, I am mostly their environment. So I don’t think some exposure to christian beliefs will have a bad influence and my counter-influence would be present, so my children can choose.

    My so’s parents and grandparents don’t know about our lack of belief. Her mom is aware of my lack of belief in a religion. Now that makes the whole children thing more complicated but… We are a couple thousand kilometers away… So… I hope they accept that we don’t want to provide our children with any religious education until they are ready to understand it. So at an age at which children are able to lie in the worst case.


  • Who is “you”? I didn’t make any such claim. I commented to the conversation that you had with someone else, because I really didn’t see any contradiction.

    So I certainly didn’t imply any of that.

    I fail to see how the other person implied it is a good thing. The other person implied it is inconsequential if you don’t intend to attack. That isn’t good. Whether or not, that statement is accurate, is a different discussion, then whether or not a person implied that it is good.

    I don’t understand what failure you are talking about but clearly you aren’t mistaken in with whom you are talking. But given what you wrote and based on that your understanding of the situation, I don’t understand where you see grief in what you think, was written.

    I mean, it is valid perspective. You can doubt the existence while welcoming the existence and encouraging it. E.g. i doubt that there is a god, but I think the existence of a god would be good and I would welcome someone to be that god.

    Again, I don’t see them saying what you think they said but if they did, it would be a valid perspective.


  • Where is the contradiction?

    What expansion?

    Doubting the expansion of NATO.

    Why would anyone be afraid of a defensive alliance growing?

    Hypothetical question after which context is provided, “when you don’t want to invade them?” Asking a hypothetical question is not contradictory to doubting the expansion.

    How about trying to join yourself?

    I don’t understand why you quoted that.