Deflation is actually bad because it would be an incentive to keep rather than spend money as its value would just increase by itself.

And on top of that they are generally much more expensive than American houses to begin with.

That very much depends on the area and the house itself.

So… I guess the first question is if the books should be written in German or if a good translation is enough. I’ll assume the latter and just won’t look whether a book was written in German or just translated.

Books aimed at children are a whole industry, more or less. Kids that learn how to read are their own target group, so you’ll find any genre you want. However, as the children are supposed to easily identify with their protagonists, they are often about school children doing stuff. More often than not about kids that read a lot and are quiet outsiders. If you can’t bear with that trope it’ll be a bit harder, but still manageable.

For criminal stories, there are some franchises that have been going on since more or less forever… “???” (“die drei Fragezeichen” and their “kids” spinoff that is targeted at younger audiences) or “tkkg” come to mind. A very German classic is “Emil und die Detektive”, which plays in Berlin in the 1920s and holds up very well.

If you’re more into fantasy, maybe Michael Ende’s more famous works are more to your liking. “Die unendliche Geschichte”, “Momo” or “Jim Knopf und Lukas der Lokomotivführer” are classics as well and just excellent. Cornelia Funke also wrote neat books, “Tintenblut” or “Drachenreiter” work really well. Recently, “die Schule der magischen Tiere” was pretty successful and my daughter loved the series.

Astrid Lindgren has good translations. All her stories are terrific. Pick anything. Some “Michael aus Lönneberga” book maybe.

Have you read the article you linked? The memorandum contains several obligations, including respecting Ukraine’s borders.

You couldn’t. It was hidden underneath ie flag.

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I can be a backpack while you run

Hauptsache die Wirtschaft brummt.

Zweifel.

Eine Neurowissenschaftlerin erklärt, warum das so ist und wie sich die Menschen dennoch aus der “kollektiven Selbstzerstörung” befreien können.

Gleichwohl bleibt Urner optimistisch, was die Chancen angeht, von dieser “kollektiven Selbstzerstörung” wegzukommen. “Wenn ich davon nicht überzeugt wäre, dann könnte ich mich nicht motivieren, morgens aufzustehen”, sagt sie. Zentral sei, “sich aktiv hoffend dafür einzusetzen, dass es besser wird”. Dies bedeute, “nicht zu wissen, dass es gut ausgeht, sondern davon überzeugt zu sein, dass das, was man tut, sinnvoll ist und dazu beitragen kann, dass es besser wird”.

Die Antwort ist also “aktiv hoffen”? Na viel Glück damit.

Their website:

“The level of offence that a vagina or penis can generate is absolutely bizarre.”

This makes me wonder so hard why people don’t switch to Mastodon instead. Like… You have literally seen this before! Why are you doing it again?

The archive link is right there in the submission text.

or all the credit Elon Musk takes for the startup he bought his way into

Nice

No bullets either.

it still has a long way to go before it starts replacing LCDs and OLEDs.

I really don’t think it’s even trying to fill the same niche. No eReader is attempting to sell you Netflix. It’s just an entirely different device.

Aw fuck l, I knew I remembered that shit from childhood The Wizard of Oz.

Ich bin 40. Meine Eltern sind wahrscheinlich so sein Alter. Ich wurde nicht geschlagen, der Typ ist einfach damals schon ein aus der Zeit gefallener Widerling gewesen.

…fuck everything about Milon’s Secret Castle, though…

I was an snes kid, so I never played that one and was blissfully unaware of its existence until I saw that review…

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kMz7JkVplpM

Oddly enough, of all the avgn videos that I watched, this and the battletoads one really stuck with me.

But temperature is not just the speed of a molecule right?

It pretty much is.

Like a molecule moving very fast through space can still be at a very low temperature, right?

That very much depends on the relative speed of the molecule and you. If you’re not moving in relation to the molecule, a collision between you and it won’t do much. Now try being hit by it (or a bunch of them) at high or even relativistic speeds. The area of you that’s hit will surely become pretty hot then.

Like, have you seen footage of asteroid impacts? Have you seen shooting stars? Those are hot. Like, non-figuratively.

As if they had the funds for an original ps2 controller… They used a logitech ripoff.