I mean, nobody is going to read it anyway now. Might as well just write it tomorrow morning and send it then. Here’s what I’ll do, I go to bed early tonight, get up extra early tomorrow, and then I’ll do it!

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hAvE yOu TrIeD bReAkInG iT dOwN iNtO mAnAgEaBlE pIeCeS aNd SoMe DiScIpLiNe

Yes. Yes I did. I took both pills, ground them up to very manageable pieces, took a straw and just very disciplined snorted everything up.

And then I asked for more pills.

So…? 🤷‍♀️

There’s even a website that translates it for you: https://www.composerize.com/

but that services shifted away from it because they didn’t want to have the kind of open ecosystem.

Well, of course some part of that is true, but the “death” of XMPP wasn’t walled gardens, it was text messaging.

I studied, graduated and worked literally all the 2000s at a German university in the middle of nowhere. Which was for some weird reason at the technological vanguard. We had Facebook before Facebook existed. Everyone who lived on campus had 100 Mbps Ethernet and was 24/7 online, at a time when Germany extremely slowly picked up DSL and maybe used email.

Rarely anyone except the nerdiest of nerds used jabber (or IRC), but what really everyone had constantly running was ICQ. That “oh-oh” sound still haunts me.

Most of the people already had mobile phones of course, but texting was still prohibitively expensive, especially considering that you had a free always online service at home.

But over time “flat rates” for text messages became cheaper and cheaper, and here’s the thing: ICQ/XMPP/etc never really worked on mobile phones, and at that time most of the people didn’t use “smartphones” anyway.

So more and more people just flat out stopped using instant messaging in favor of texting. Much to the chagrin of the people who couldn’t afford a flat rate… I vividly remember heated arguments from people who were suddenly cut off from their social life. It really had a measurable effect on social circles on campus.

And there wasn’t a big migration of people from ICQ to Google who then got locked in. I don’t remember anyone using Google Talk at all. ICQ and instant messaging just died – surprisingly quickly I might add. Or rather, it went into hiatus until iMessages and Whatsapp appeared.

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No, it isn’t? Look, if you only get to the store every other month it’s probably safe to say you’re living so far away from everything that it’s just far easier to have fucking chicken instead of buying shitloads of eggs at fucking costco… It’s not like they’re complicated animals.

Six eggs. That or 10 are the normal packages here. I don’t run a bakery nor do I have a family of 50 to feed, so I don’t need a pallet of eggs… Also I walk to the supermarket, which is 5 min away, so if I’m out of eggs I just get new ones.

Doesn’t matter though, if you can’t work through your batch of eggs over three weeks you’re doing something wrong and should just buy less eggs.

No, not unless it’s really hot, but I also got one of those french water cooled butter dishes, so that helps a lot.

Sure, hey, put in your fridge whatever you want. I knew people who kept their onions in there. Maybe you have a walk in fridge with endless space, I use my fridge for things that actually need to be refrigerated. And if you can’t get through a six pack of eggs in three weeks, why bother buying them at all?

That’s… what I said?

US eggs are washed and chlorined since the hens are not vaccinated, and once you wash them you need to refrigerate them.

No, I mean some people do, but you don’t need to. Because EU eggs are from vaccinated hens there’s very little fear about salmonella. It’s perfectly safe to keep them at room temperature for several weeks and in fact they’re sold unrefrigerated at every store. It’s also perfectly common to use raw eggs, e.g. for home made mayonnaise etc.

US eggs are washed and chlorined since the hens are not vaccinated, and once you wash them you need to refrigerate them. US still has like 150k cases per year of salmonella poisoning from eggs alone. Germany has like 10-15k cases in total.

(I also don’t get why people don’t understand they don’t go bad for weeks at room temperature. I mean what do you think the chicken that normally would grow in these eggs eat while growing? Rotten egg?🤪)

What’s bothering me is not how much that hits home, but the fact that Americans keep their eggs in the fridge …

It was a joke ;)

There is no word for that.

(But to be fair, if there was, this one would kind of work)

Oh course there is, it’s:

Existenzerinnerungsverlust

Mmh, yeah… Sucks to be you I guess…

Now fuck off.

This comment chain doesn’t have the words “authoritarian nationalist state capitalism.” in it, and you don’t know shit about anything, go back to facebook.

I’m also not your fucking “bro”, asshole, get lost.

No, I don’t know which ones “he” meant, because nobody mentioned Nazis, and apparently you still haven’t understood the difference between concentration and death camps, and assuming everyone here is male is also kind of yuck you know.