Baptized catholic by my parents, did all the ritual things all my youth until i was 16. Then i was old enough to try to understand it, got exposed to other schools of thought, and it all collapsed like a house of cards.

I am now fully atheist, and I find religion ridiculous, like fairy tales for adults, based on nothing. Organized religions are also usually structures of power for men. This can all go.

My spirituality would be:

We are made of star-stuff. Temporary piles of molecules which work together and stop after a while, to recombine into something new. I don’t need to be remembered, I don’t need to leave my mark. Just try to do no harm, any maybe help others along the way, while on this ball of rock and water, tumbling into the immensely empty void.

The fastest I drove was 262 km/h on the German highway (which has sections without a speed limit). At this speed, you have to watch as far as you can, because a car on the left lane overtaking other lanes will usually be at most 180 km/h there, so you have to be prepared to slow down a very long time in advance.

300 km/h is just dangerous, you have to be fully concentrated to adapt to the other drivers and it leaves a very thin margin to react (if any), should something happen. You definitely put your life and the one from others around you one the line doing that.

My experience wasn’t particularly pleasant, but it was nice to feel once how the car behaves at its maximum rated speed. I haven’t done it again. But I’ll regularly drive above 160 km/h to just go with the flow.

Maybe you’d like Vintage Story, it’s not a clone, but there are many similitudes. Originally it was a minecraft mod with strong focus on survival and slow progress in the technical tree, i really like it

trust me bro, we’re almost there, we just need another data center and a few billions, it’s coming i promise, we are testing incredible things internally, can’t wait to show you!

Pauper staples for the top 8: DCI Promo Counterspells, Dust to Dusts (the Dark), Mental Notes (Judgement), Snuff Out (Mercadian Masques), Krark Clan Shamans (Mirrodin), Lotus Petals (Promo 30th Anniversary), Boosters, and goodies like sleeves, deckboxes, playmats, sets of tokens, vouchers to print full proxy decks

(in German) https://mtg-ortenau.de/mtg-ortenau-pauperparty-2/

White-Blue flyers is sweet, I have fond memories of my Sephara, Sky’s Blade standard deck. EDH is cool because you can really tweak slowly your decks. Other formats usually have their own fixed list and you need to invest a lot to make a complete deck. At least in Pauper the individual cards are pretty cheap, you can get a complete deck for the price of a single chase-mythic

Sounds fun, what boardgames do you like to play?

TYSM ☺️

Thank you! This is a Pauper tournament, so all cards in my deck are commons from throughout magic history. I play black-red-green called Jund Wildfire.

It tries to win through attacking with creatures from MH3 Writhing Chrysalis, Nyxborn Hydra, Refurbished Familiar, with spells to draw a lot of cards and get more lands into play.

And you, what decks and formats do you play?

I’m playing in a Magic the Gathering tournament on Saturday with 32 players, the biggest i’ve ever been in

EDIT: Tournament results

After 5 rounds of Swiss with 27 players (a few cancelled last minute), I finished with 3 victories and 2 defeats, landing on place 9, which was unfortunately 1 too far to make it to the Top 8 single-elimination tournament. I went home with 2 Krark-Clan Shamans, a Bloomborrow booster, a pack of assorted tokens and a voucher from a partner to get proxies printed.

It was really fun! I will play the same deck in 2 weeks again at my local game store and in another tournament.

i bought Wipr 2 a few months ago and i’m really happy with it, it’s regularly updated

https://apps.apple.com/de/app/wipr-2/id1662217862?l=en-GB

i suspect everything is transactional with the current admin, there’s surely something in it for them. Tim Apple seems to be ready to go with the flow.

they pulled the same PR BS in 2019 when they presented their all-american made Mac Pro. Device which then never got an upgrade and wasn’t even assembled in the US for international customers. It’s all posturing to look good until the current presidential mandate is over, then it’s back to normal business.

https://9to5mac.com/2019/12/16/apples-assembled-in-usa-mac-pro-is-made-in-china-for-international-customers/

rat erotica

aah thank you! now I can make sense of those last jumbled letters, quite the unusual word combination for sure ^^

Newsweek - The True Story Behind ‘Last Week Tonight’s’ Rat Erotica Painting (archive link)

good initiative but uh what’s up with that domain name?

anyone born after 2000 is young in my book.

Of course, when you’re young you don’t think about it, then comes the time that your grandparents pass, or a pet, and you get to experience a form of grief. As time goes by, you start losing more people you knew, a school friend, a work colleague, an aunt… And eventually death comes closer and takes away your parents, your social circle shrinks, you think of your own mortality.

Then you eventually think what will happen when you disappear. What if it was tomorrow, when crossing the street? What will people you leave behind remember of you? How can they deal with your stuff? Can you make it easier by lessening the amount of stuff you hoarded? Can you put down the important information to your online accounts somewhere? Will they be able to let the friends you made over the internet know that you’re gone?

Statistically, I lived half my life, and those thoughts come and go. I look at stuff in my cupboards that i haven’t touched in years and decide what to do with them. I start making preparations for the legacy of my many accounts for social media, banking, internet hosting, image backups etc. We’re all here on borrowed time.

Das letzte Hemd hat keine Taschen.

German saying: the last shirt has no pockets.

What you wear on your last day on this Earth doesn’t need pockets because everything stays behind after you die.

it takes a special kind of person to work for Lum💧n. Leave your sensitivity, common sense and empathy in your car before entering the building.