Alone in your basement?

Time is relative

There are pictures that show you the exact age you are now. Sometimes they are called “mirrors”

You can take a picture of yourself holding an empty piece of paper and photomontage a later picture into it. You just need a speech bubble and you are good to go

No, because he came up with the portmanteau word “cattery”

The joke works because people do use the argument. And to play the devil’s advocate: Wind energy takes up a lot more space than conventional energy. So for every coal power plant that destroys one landscape, replacing it with wind energy will “destroy” many more.

That said, I like the view of wind wheels. I don’t think they destroy the landscape. But we shouldn’t silence all criticism. While we need to get to 100% renewable, we also need to reduce what 100% means. Too often, renewable energy is used as an excuse to use even more energy.

Don’t worry, it will come back.
Source: trust me bro

Who else is in the lower right corner? 🙋‍♂️

They are actually closer related to mammals than to any modern reptile

I’ve been to a tasting for Japanese green tea and they would never sweeten their tea but if needed eat sweet things alongside

Everybody wants cake but no one wants to live happily ever after

“I voted for the yellow design but that’s democracy”

But don’t forget that the next election is the most important of our lifetime! They say that since decades so it must be true

Don’t forget that they stick to themselves and form parallel communities while also stealing our wives

Fascism is colonialism turned inward

Ah, now I get it. In that case thanks 😊

True, I think it’s no coincidence that these people most often end up on the same end of the political spectrum as he did.

When your problem is how it looks, well…

The thing is that the “do your own research” folks use the aesthetics of critical thinking to spread misinformation and thought terminating clichés to promote their view as unquestionable facts. I, on the other hand, gave my impression after being asked to and made it explicit that it doesn’t really add up. If you see other parallels, go ahead, share them. If it’s really only the aesthetics, maybe rethink what the problem is.

I read the autobiographical part where he describes his radicalization. At some point it’s about politics and that’s where he lost me (I mean the beginning is also about politics but you know what I mean)

And honestly it’s just bad story telling. It’s the same plot over and over again. He’s sympathetic and interested towards a group, be it Jews, Bolsheviks, social democrats, I think unions as well but I’m unsure. Than he encounters them, talks to them, reads newspapers both from and against them, and after considering both sides comes to the conclusion we all know.

My personal impression is that he didn’t radicalize in the period he describes (after being rejected from art school and living more or less on the street) but while writing the book. The book reads like a reenforcement more than a report. Reusing the same trope isn’t plausible. This can’t be the whole story either because the wrote it in jail and he wasn’t there for nothing.

I read it (not all of it) on my eBook reader so no one knew what I was reading. Once a guy looked at me in a way that I felt he catched enough to know. He wasn’t angry or frightened, his eyes just said “poor soul” but maybe I was imagining it