I am pretty sure it’s just an effect of the photos’ perspective, but it looks like there are stairs on the far side, leading out of the enclosure: Tortoises can climb by pushing themselves up! Keep that in mind when adding more interior to the enclosure. We had to pick up my mother’s tortoises at our neighbours quite a few time.

… and there was that one time when a neighbour “returned” a tortoise which wasn’t my mothers.

OK, I am going to try arguiung that privacy supersedes food:

To have a right to anything means there is something that I own. Owning something puts a division between me and others who can not own this specific thing: My right is my own, I do not have to diminish it by sharing. The most fundamental form of division is absence. Having a right to privacy is a right to the absence from others. Therefore the right to privacy is a more fundamental one than the right to food.

However, I agree that in practice eating in public beats dying in private any time of the day. 🤷

I fully support sending Taurus to Ukraine but I am afraid this might be one of Merz’ ‘Stammtischreden’ that he does frequently: Just blurb out whatever he thinks at the moment and sounds good while at the bar, but then decides otherwise once sobered up.

I see the point in my projects yet I am frustrated and depressed by my perceived lack of progress.

Want to start a project and procrastinate on it together?

life is unfair and the big dog eats the small dog.

Life is unfair, because people choose not to be fair.

You might ask her why she believes this an acceptable state of things. Is it maybe because it is beneficial to her? Would she accept the system if she wasn’t beautiful and/or smart?

Another possible approach I see is taking away some privileges or force her to do more work around the house? After all, as parent you are top dog, so why not treat her unfairly? Its the natural order of things after all, isn’t it?

Maybe sprinkle in some historic lessons about child labor and tyrannicide to show that just because something is like this does not mean that it has to continue to be like this.

I am using PassAndroid

Most of the time these ‘Add to X Wallet’ buttons lead you to an .pkpass File which you can import. The app doesn’t look very nice but it does the job for me.

Techbros

My head canon is that creatures such as ghosts, demons, djinns, … enter our mortal realm willingly from time to time and sometimes form a connection with a person, who they then teach how to summon them in times of need. This knowledge is then passed down.

So effectively otherworldly creatures are tourists who gave a local their number and now they get bothered by their greatgreatgreatgreatgrandkids.

Ah, a person of class!

It might certainly be a factor, though: German citizenship is very “valuable” in the sense that it opens a lot of possibilities for travelling. A lot of countries (and we are not just talking EU member states here) do not require as much paperwork or none at all if you own a German passport compared to a US one.

Oh, they can do that if need be. They already tested it.

Friendly reminder for everyone downvoting this piece of news. The downvote button is not a dislike button.

Not sure how to interpret your question.

In case my message wasn’t clear: I think the reason the rightwing extremist AFD has overtaken the conservative CDU in polls is twofold. On one hand the CDU is adopting more extreme rightwing rhetoric and this validates the AFD as ‘the original fascism’. Secondly the CDU opposed new debt based investments for the last four year and campaigned heavily based on this sentiment. Now they approved a plan for up to one TRILLION € of debt to finance defence and infrastructure related projects.

Why choose the off-brand when you can get the original fascism for the same one vote?

Especially considering that the conservatives fooled every voter by throwing out basically every fiscal austerity policy they so vehemently defended during the last years, the moment they won the election and now need money to form a functioning goverment.

IANAL. It’s the other way around: You do everything as required per your contract. If the company believes you owe them money for June, they will sue you if you don’t pay.

If trouble is on the horizon it is however advisable to contact an actual lawyer in advance to check your paperwork in case you missed anything.

*Der Spiegel

Just for clarity

The difference I see is that Ukraine has an offical foreign legion while Russia categorically denies any involvment of foreign forces on their sides.

There are dozens of us! Dozens!

Bro, you can!

Except, no employer will allow you to use your own AI model. Just like you can’t bring your own work equipment (which in many regards even is a good thing) companies will force you to use their specific type of AI for your work.