As a European brought up free from any kind faith or religion, it can sometimes be tough to decide which level of religious extremism is worst, that in the US, Israel or the Iran.

NIEDLICHEN

Not only condiment. You can make great dishes using it. Decades ago when I was a poor student, I made a kind of bolognese with it cause I didn’t have anything else in my fridge, and it turned out so great that I still sometimes make that to this day.

I’ve started working in IT over 20 years ago. In my humble opinion, one of the keys is being specialized on something that not everyone else can do. Become proficient in a certain area - devops, quality assurance, security, whatever.

On top of that, try and acquire a niche skill that makes you the type of employee that’s hard to find and replace. For example, banks are really desperate to find Cobol experts because most of those are pensioners now.

I know it’s tough, and I wish you had it as easy as I did back in the days, but it’s all I can tell you, unfortunately.

Absolut, und der Kreis des Irrsinns schließt sich dann, wenn für die kirchlichen Missbrauchsopfer gebetet wird.

Muss toll sein, wenn man Christ ist. Man kann alle möglichen Sünden begehen, weil wir ja ohnehin alle Sünder sind, am Ende muss man nur bereuen und einem wird alles vergeben. Gutes tut man sowieso nicht aus sich selbst heraus, sondern aus Angst vor göttlicher Ungnade, von der man weiß - siehe oben - dass sie ebenfalls nur temporär ist. Und dann kann man obendrein behaupten, dass Menschen ohne die Religion keine Moral hätten.

“for monolingual speakers of english, it’s hard to learn a language with grammatical genders, but if you already speak a language with those, that won’t be a problem”

Not necessarily. I’m German and I still have to learn French grammatical genders by heart, because they don’t necessarily match ours. Familiarity with the concept doesn’t make it any easier, just less weird.

Example: The tower. LA tour, feminine. DER Turm, masculine.

No need for capitalization even to fuck with people, wrong emphasis is enough:

Da steht eine Frau auf der Straße. Ich werde sie umfahren.

(To my non German speaking friends, this can mean two things depending on how you pronounce “umfahren”: Either “There’s a woman on the street. I will drive around her.” or “There’s a woman on the street. I will run her over.”)

Well, also the fact that all variables are non-nullable by default anyway.

No NullPointerExceptions in Kotlin.

No because those usually clog my toilet.

Well, an ugly dude like me going trans would result in an ugly trans person, not an attractive woman, so there’s that.

I would love to be an attractive woman. It would be like an all you can f*** buffet. I’m an ugly dude who has to work extremely hard to get laid. I dream of being sexually attractive.

However, I really really would not wish to be trans. I simply don’t have the courage to face the backlash of all the bigoted backwards losers who hate on them. That’s why I absolutely admire and support trans people because unfortunately (and also somewhat ironically), in our day and age, it still takes a lot of balls to be trans.