Flirting with my beautiful, smart and altogether amazing wife back when we were just associates. I congratulate myself on that brilliant idea every day.

what the fuck are you doing to have been permabanned three times

Since most of these comments are quite over the top: The worst way to do it imo that you can still realistically do every time you put your shoes on without much issue is wrapping the laces around the sole of the shoe so you walk on the laces with every step.

You don’t want to ban advertising, you want people to have an interest in only making their services known honestly and with the intention of letting people know “this exists” instead of with the intention of getting people to buy something. Because it’s actually good to let people know where they can get services or goods and what kinds of services and goods are available. And the only way to truly get to this point is by abolishing capitalism. As long as capitalism exists, there will always be incentive for people to make advertising more than just letting people know. As long as capitalism exists, you can do stuff like “going after false advertising more rigorously”, “banning certain types of ads” or “restricting how many ads are allowed and where they are allowed”. But that only limits the harm advertising can do, it can never stop it completely.

Depends on your interpretation of better. My parents definitely led a more comfortable life filled with more happiness. At my age, they had already been able to settle down and establish themselves professionally. Meanwhile I’m struggling to find a job, may never be able to buy a flat and have been mentally ill since I was 13.

Morally though I am fully convinced I lead a much better life than them. I live more sustainable and climate-friendly. I am politically active trying to change the world for the better and fighting discrimination. In the work I do I try to help young people along in their journey, while my mother as part of her job has been keeping homeless people homeless.

I would not want to have led my parents’ lives. Even though they are far better off than I will ever be in many regards, I am proud playing a tiny part in changing the world for the better where they were at least complicit in the world staying that way.

I think I’d be good at that, considering how much I listened to the Metal Gear Rising soundtrack

Ironically, when cishet men are being hunted for sport, it’s usually by other cishet men

Also fun fact, Schmitt actually is the direct translation of Smith

I’m lucky in that about 1/4 of women’s shoes in my size actually fit my feet. But I also have had a number of heels where I helped myself out by buying them a tiny bit too large and then wearing 2-4 pairs of socks.

Social Media itself doesn’t imo, but if a food becomes trendy, often times restaurants or bistros try to sell that food and do it badly, but cheaply. So people who don’t know better could buy it there, at times increasing issues for people who (1) make a good but pricier option or (2) want to find good options but are overwhelmed by bad ones. In my opinion, this happened with Chimney Cakes for example. They have Hungarian and Romanian roots and in the original form I think it’s a very nice treat. But a stale and weird version filled with shit like ice cream has become so popular for tourists, that it has become harder in many places to find good, fresh chimney cake.

Everyone is obsessed with ruining Pizza, so our regional “Dünnele” (or I think “Dinnete” for Swabians) is very unharmed. Like, if someone sells “Dünnele” I’ve never seen them be shit or butchered.

As a German: There’s nothing to ruin, it’s already shit

That’s the main way I cook because I’m usually not good enough of a planner to buy groceries with a plan in mind for more than maybe 1 or 2 meals. So we are always stocked up pretty well for what little space we have in our flat.

Watching my cats fly halfway across the room in pursuit of their toys and then having them lay down by my side asking for cuddles. Adopting them a few weeks ago has given my life so much meaning and joy.

I mean, being a pet seems like a really good life if you have good owners

I have never in my life met a person who thought that insects aren’t animals, what are you talking about?

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Yes, but not you

I think that’s a thing in many Central European countries

If we’re being honest, everything Robert gets paid for could be classified as child labour sometimes