On one side of the Atlantic, you have a 79-year-old former game show host who believes windmills cause cancer, personally ended a war that hasn’t ended, and that crowd sizes at his inauguration defied the known laws of mathematics.
On the other side, you have a 72-year-old ex-KGB man who has just accused Finland of secretly plotting to invade Russia.
Finland. Famous for saunas, reindeer, and minding their own business since approximately the Bronze Age.
Putin’s reasoning, delivered with the solemn authority of a man who hasn’t slept since 2003, was this: Finland joined NATO because they were waiting. Biding their time. Lurking. Ready to swoop in and grab Russian territory the moment Russia collapsed.
“Swoop in and grab what they could,” he said.
This is a man who sent 200,000 troops across an internationally recognised border, seized territory by force, and has spent four years reducing Ukrainian cities to rubble. Describing someone else as the type who swoops in and grabs what they can.
The psychological term is projection. The clinical term is considerably less polite.
Meanwhile, across the ocean, the other one is imposing tariffs on islands inhabited exclusively by penguins and receiving world leaders at a golf club in Florida as though the White House is simply too far to drive.
Two old men. Two fantasy worlds. Zero connection to observable reality.
The Cold War at least had the decency to be frightening. This is just embarrassing.
When your entire worldview runs on paranoia, grievance, and whatever the Kremlin version of Fox News feeds you at 3am, a fence looks like an invasion. A neighbour looks like a threat. And five million Finns quietly getting on with their lives looks like a geopolitical conspiracy.
Things I have learned from the movies"
Having watched hundreds of movies, they have taught me many things that I would like to share with you today:
1. If being chased through town, you can usually take cover in a passing St Patrick's Day parade - at any time of the year.
2. All beds have special L-shaped top sheets that reach up to armpit level on a woman but only waist level on the man lying beside her.
3. All grocery shopping bags contain at least one stick of French bread.
4. Once applied, lipstick will never rub off - even while scuba diving.
5. The ventilation system of any building is a perfect hiding place. No one will ever think of looking for you in there and you can travel to any other part of the building without difficulty.
6. Should you wish to pass yourself off as a German officer, it will not be necessary to speak the language. A German accent will do.
7. The Eiffel Tower can be seen from any window of any building in Paris.
8. A man will show no pain while taking the most ferocious beating but will wince when a woman tries to clean his wounds.
9. When paying for a taxi, never look at your wallet as you take out a note - just grab one at random and hand it over. It will always be the exact fare.
10. If you lose a hand, it will cause the stump of your arm to grow by 15cm.
11. Mothers routinely cook eggs, bacon and waffles for their family every morning, even though the husband and children never have time to eat them.
12. Cars and trucks that crash will almost always burst into flames.
13. A single match will be sufficient to light up a room the size of a football stadium.
14. Medieval peasants had perfect teeth.
15. All single women have a cat.
16. Any person waking from a nightmare will sit bolt upright and pant.
17. One man shooting at 20 men has a better chance of killing them all than 20 men firing at one.
18. Creepy music coming from a graveyard should always be closely investigated.
19. Most people keep a scrapbook of newspaper cuttings - especially if any of their family or friends has died in a strange boating accident.
20. It does not matter if you are heavily outnumbered in a fight involving martial arts - your enemies will wait patiently to attack you one by one by dancing around in a threatening manner until you have knocked out their predecessor.
21. During a very emotional confrontation, instead of facing the person you are speaking to, it is customary to stand behind them and talk to their back.
22. When you turn out the light to go to bed, everything in your room will still be clearly visible, just slightly bluish.
23. Dogs always know who's bad and will naturally bark at them.
24. When they are alone, all foreigners prefer to speak English to each other.
25. Rather than wasting bullets, megalomaniacs prefer to kill their arch-enemies using complicated machinery involving fuses, pulley systems, deadly gases, lasers and man eating sharks that will allow their captives at least 20 minutes to escape.
26. Having a job of any kind will make all fathers forget their son's eighth birthday.
27. All bombs are fitted with electronic timing devices with large red readouts so you know exactly when they're going to go off.
28. It is always possible to park directly outside the building you are visiting.
29. A detective can only solve a case once he has been suspended from duty.
30. If you decide to start dancing in the street, everyone you bump into will know all the steps.
There can never be a helpful depression treatment algorithm because depression is not a single condition.
Depression is most helpfully understood as the psychic equivalent of fever. Fever is a NON-SPECIFIC physiological response to an enormous range of underlying conditions, from the common cold to Ebola.
Likewise, depression is a NON-SPECIFIC psychological response to an enormous range of underlying causes which may be psychological, social, biological, or a complex interaction between them.
In other words, depression is an effect, not a cause. The DSM diagnosis is merely descriptive, not explanatory—and not as basis for treatment decisions. Algorithms that incorrectly assume the diagnosis “depression” defines the problem will always lead to poor care.
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Hallo Herr @bundeskanzler ,
Ich habe Ihnen heute Populismus vorgeworfen.
Sie sprechen von „dem Problem im Stadtbild“, ohne es zu benennen. Stattdessen soll ich meine Töchter befragen, die könnten mir helfen.
Falls Sie auch nur den leisesten Zweifel daran hatten, welchen dogwhistle Sie damit betreiben, empfehle ich Ihnen die Kommentare unter diesem Post zu lesen. Die schlimmsten und rassistischsten habe ich ausgeblendet.
Ich empfehle für die Zukunft: wenn Sie ein konkretes Problem im Stadtbild erkannt haben, benennen Sie es und schlagen einen konkreten Lösungsansatz vor. Ansonsten wird die AfD und ihre hasserfülltesten Anhänger Sie einfach weiter vor sich hertreiben. Und Sie werden deren Forderungen nie erfüllen können.
Kriminalität bekämpft man zB mit Polizei und einer schnellen Justiz, Obdachlosigkeit mit Unterkünften und Sozialangeboten, Armut, Hoffnungslosigkeit und Arbeitslosigkeit mit wirtschaftlichen Impulsen und Integrationsmassnahmen, Drogenkonsum mit Justiz, Frankfurter Modell, Bekämpfung organisierter Kriminalität oder anderen geeigneten Maßnahmen, Vermüllung mit Müllabfuhr und Ordnungsamt.
Und wenn Sie schon dabei sind: Ein paar mehr Fahrradwege, verkehrsberuhigte Straßen, Grünflächen und Parkanlagen würden dem ein oder anderen Stadtbild auch gut tun.
Wie auch immer, befragen Sie dazu Experten, ich bin mir sicher, es gibt einige in erreichbarer Nähe einer Bundesregierung.
Dabei wünsche ich viel Erfolg und gutes Gelingen!
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Das Ganze ist zerstörerisch, vor allem für die Union. Alle in der CDU sollten größtes Interesse an Aufklärung haben.
Erster Schritt - alle sollten diese Recherche genau lesen! 2/2
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Rechte Kinder sind sehr empfindlich
Treffen sie Homosexuelle, setzt eine ‚Frühsexualisierung‘ ein.
Kontakt zu Menschen mit Kopftuch ‚Islamisiert‘ sie.
Fernsehen ‚verdummt‘ sie schnell.
Fünf Minuten in Köln und du hast einen Muezzin im Lederstring, der die Schule abbricht.
BREAKING:
Researchers at Sheffield Higher Institute of Technology analysed Dihydrogen Monoxide gathered from chemtrails and discovered that it forms self assembling microstructures when exposed to temperatures of <1° C.
Someone asked "Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?"
Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England, wrote this magnificent response:
"A few things spring to mind.
Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem.
For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace - all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed.
So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.
Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing - not once, ever.
I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility - for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman.
But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is - his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.
Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers.
And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults - he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.
There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface.
Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront.
Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul.
And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist.
Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that.
He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat.
He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.
And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully.
That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead.
There are unspoken rules to this stuff - the Queensberry rules of basic decency - and he breaks them all. He punches downwards - which a gentleman should, would, could never do - and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless - and he kicks them when they are down.
So the fact that a significant minority - perhaps a third - of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think 'Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:
* Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.
* You don't need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.
This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss.
After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum.
God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid.
He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart.
In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws - he would make a Trump.
And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish:
'My God… what… have… I… created?
If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set."
Wisst ihr noch damals, als Leute noch versprochen haben, dass die ePA freiwillig bleibt, die Gesundheitsdaten nicht von anderen Institutionen wie Sicherheitsbehörden verwendet werden dürfen etc.?
Habt ihr alle geglaubt. LOL.
Die deutsche Synchronisation bzw. generell Synchronisation darf niemals von KI Stimmen übernommen werden. Wir haben hier in Deutschland mit die besten Synchronsprecher der Welt. Keine KI kann Emotionen genauso auslösen, wie echte Menschen. Guck euch die Datteltäter Disney Videos an. Ich hatte die ganze Zeit Gänsehaut, weil man auf einmal ein Gesicht zu den Stimmen hatte, die einen als Kind die ganze Zeit begleitet haben. So was kann und wird eine KI auch nie auslösen können.