Babel, by R. F. Kuang

By the way, there are also book communities here on Lemmy. Check out

!books@lemmy.world

Will do! Its pretty interesting so far.

I read as always several books at once.

One of them is Babel by R. F. Kuang. I was blown away at first, but after the first third of the book I’m not as as enthusiastic anymore. Everything to do with languages and translation is awesome, the characters are well defined but a bit one-dimensional so far, but I think the plot is nothing to write home about and has some „young adult“ vibes to me. It’s still good though, and I’m far from finished yet.

Another one is „the notebook a history of thinking on paper“ I just got it today, but it looks very promising.

Yeah, never could get into the baroque cycle von Stephenson. And he wrote at least 2 of my favourite books, Snow Crash and cryptonomicon. Reamde is also very good. But Quicksilver is just not as interesting as the premise suggests.

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Yes! Brother, we might be few but we are here. Fuck Wintertime, summertime all along.

Naja, der 1. Atomausstieg zum Beispiel. Oder diese Idee der FDP jedes Quartal beim Arzt eine Gebühr zahlen zu müssen.

Ja, genau und die nächste Regierung macht dann alles wieder rückgängig nachdem sie aktiv Wahlkampf gegen dieses unpopuläre Thema gemacht hat.

Sorry, ich will nicht sagen dass das eine schlecht Idee ist, nur eben nicht so einfach.

Danke!

Genau. Weil ja keiner gekifft hat, bevor Gras legalisiert wurde. Ich denke schon dass deine Idee was für sich hat, aber: Du bist jetzt Bundeskanzler. Du setzt jetzt diese Plane um. Was glaubst du was passiert? Brauereien wegen Zeder und Mordio schreien. Politiker werden von Zerstörung deutscher Traditionen und Kultur sprechen. Wörter wie Verbotspartei und gängelung werden die Runde machen. Zeitungen und soziale Medien werden sich überschlagen. Das ganze wird sehr schwer durchzubringen sein und an politischen selbstmord grenzen.

Es ist sehr schwer die Bevölkerung mit verboten und erlassen erziehen zu wollen.

Btw, warum kann ich diesen Faden manche Kommentare nicht lesen?

Stimmt, könnten wir machen. Für wie realistisch und wirkungsvoll hältst du das?

Ohne die fatale Wirkung von Alkohol runterspielen zu wollen: Du befürwortest also Prohibition? Wie willst du das konkret durchführen und durchsetzen?

Yes, and sad. Eastern Germany is really beautiful, it could be such a nice part of the country.

Funny. I encountered exact the same thing a few hours ago in post where somebody called South Korea occupied.

Of course I was first downvoted and then banned after I was pointing out some things. They really don’t like the word „tankie“ on Lemmy.ml…

I don’t mind being banned, I wear it as a badge of honour. But they are cowards and hypocrites, which is rather sad.

And Nazi. Don’t play cute on me.

Yeah, but maybe people want to downvote a community dedicated to a nazi?

Good question, unfortunately I’m not an expert and don’t use one.

But if you like a recommendation for a regular rugged watch: Try a G-Shock. Or try a dive watch from a reputable brand, they are built like tanks most of the time.

Nothing. I like to be home alone.

But of course I like it even better if my partner is here with me.

I personally hate these fucking data collecting things, but have you thought about getting a smartwatch? It think it can inform medical services if something happens to you and if you have configured it that way.

It was created by the Lemmy developers and is one of the original Lemmy instances. And while Lemmy itself is fantastic, unfortunately the developers are not. They are tankies, extreme authoritarian communists.

Other than their other instances lemmygrad and Hexbear, lemmy.ml tries to look more moderate and has many active and great communities. But if you post things they dislike, you might run into similar troubles like OP.