A very reasonable concern.

Same here, bru.

No, what was it?

Has to be a transition element.

Forensic DNA phenotyping is actually being used. Of course it’s not perfect, but it can give a direction.

You’re kind of describing forensic DNA phenotyping.

Identical twins also share the same womb, so it’s not 100% genes.

Note that “poisonous” has always also had the meaning of “harms by injecting a toxin” (the Wiktionary entry “poisonous” has examples from the 1600s to the 2000s).

I completely disagree. The people I meet in my daily life have a very healthy sense of humour, not mean at all. And in popular media? Look at Loriot, Sebastian Pufpaff, Hazel Brugger (sure, she’s Swiss, but hugely popular in Germany), Anke Engelke and Bastian Pastewka, Ladykracher in general…

How long have you lived in Germany?

People who don’t think Germans can be funny haven’t seen Loriot.

Es war die NPD, die zu klein zu verbieten war.

More reporting here: https://www.spiegel.de/ausland/schweiz-patrick-frei-soll-ein-maedchen-40-mal-betaeubt-und-missbraucht-haben-jetzt-droht-dem-opfer-die-abschiebung-a-be5d1a25-c918-40a9-b90f-d27bd62af852

So he’s a right-wing politician who is against immigration, but had a Polish immigrant “housekeeper” and her daughter living with him, but apparently never paid her.

He’s very vocal about his theory that immigrants commit sex crimes against Swiss, but he drugged and raped his “housekeeper” and her 14 year old daughter.

He recently signed a bill requesting harsher punishments for sex crimes against children, but he drugged and raped a 14 year old.

And now the victims are being threatened with deportation.

The mother and her daughter were repeatedly drugged and raped, and didn’t even know it until the video evidence came out - he had been filming the abuse. Now the mother is in psychiatric treatment and the daughter has stopped her training as a baker due to the stress of the whole situation.

He even accused her of theft from his jail cell - after investigation the charges were thrown out.

I love selling things that have served me well - it feels better knowing that they’re helping someone instead of sitting in a drawer, untouched.

Same!

I had bought it, installed Debian on it, and had been using it for more than a week before I discovered that it has a touchscreen :-D

Very nice laptop.

Depends on what he’s goblin.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elefantenrennen

There is no correct answer. The reason why there’s no correct answer is that it’s a self-referential paradox, but imagine you saw this:

What is 1+1?

A) 9

B) π

C) 76

D) Syria

There’s no correct answer, so it’s not a valid multiple choice question.

In British slang, if you called someone a brick, you meant a solid, dependable person. If you go onto Google Books and search for “You’re a brick”, you’ll find lots of examples, applied to men and women.

It comes from someone asking where the walls of Sparta were, and Lycurgus pointing at the army, saying “Behold the walls of Sparta, every man a brick”.

There’s a super old joke (I first read it in a Leo Rosten book), that an antisemite claimed that the Jews had caused the war; the reply was: Yes, the Jews and the bicyclists. Why the bicyclists? Asks the antisemite. Why the Jews? asks the other.

Maybe this is referring to that?

Diese Zeitung ist ein Organ der Niedertracht. Es ist falsch, sie zu lesen. Jemand, der zu dieser Zeitung beiträgt, ist gesellschaftlich absolut inakzeptabel. Es wäre verfehlt, zu einem ihrer Redakteure freundlich oder auch nur höflich zu sein. Man muss so unfreundlich zu ihnen sein, wie es das Gesetz gerade noch zulässt. Es sind schlechte Menschen, die Falsches tun.

[This newspaper is an organ of malice. It is wrong to read it. Anyone who contributes to this newspaper is socially absolutely unacceptable. It would be a mistake to be friendly or even polite to one of its editors. One must be as unfriendly to them as the law allows. They are bad people doing wrong things.]

– Max Goldt (author, columnist and musician)