Otto in Germany, although it doesn’t sell books and is beginning to reek of Amazon with its cheap Chinese crap.

For books there is Thalia and the Kulturkaufhaus.

MI6 is British.

I have metal ones. Much lighter.

Wiener Schnitzel.

And cats (not to eat, I’m not Alf).

Crunchy peanut butter with skins and no sugar is kind of similar to hummus. Sweetened smooth peanut butter isn’t similar at all.

The fat is optional. You’re supposed to add olive oil to taste after serving, not while you make it.

Only PB with added sugar is sweet.

He is a Doomsday cultist.

Bullshit.

My cat played fetch, just like a dog. Cats like playing.

I hate it when people just assume stuff about cats, treat them that way, and then say stuff like ‘cats are so aloof and they only like me because I feed them.’

Meanwhile, my neighbour’s cat loves my family even though we don’t feed her, because we snuggle her. The person who feeds her just chucks her outside when she gets home. And then she comes to us for scritches.

Cats meow at other cats besides their mother too. It’s a complete myth that they don’t.

Instant has a totally different flavour. It’s more of a caffeine delivery device than coffee.

Anyhoo, I get whatever is on offer.

Clean regularly.

The economic impacts will be disastrous.

My neighbour has one. He barely uses it because it’s doesn’t fit on the average Black Forest road.

Bye, EU economy!

Initially, import tariffs will primarily hit Americans, but even a “low” 15% tax may just give local producers an edge over European producers, resulting in Europe losing economic ground from the Americans in the long run. American companies will then grow more economically while European ones will see a limit to their growth.

This deal further frees the Americans to grow economically in Europe and compete away from our own companies: they will have to pay 0% in tariffs, while other European barriers (such as taxes on tech companies) will also be removed with this deal.

The combination of U.S. tariffs versus an almost completely free market for U.S. companies in Europe will skew trade and production relations between the two economic blocs. While this may not affect certain obscure or hyper-specialised sectors immediately, much of Europe’s agricultural, industrial and tertiary sectors will suffer greatly. Especially if the Americans manage to demolish our brand protections as well, thousands of farmers in the Netherlands and France, among others, may well close their doors, along with the European tech sectors, and perhaps even the German car industry if Trump decides to subsidise the American car sector.

On top of that, details are already coming out about what America will get on top of that: deregulation of the tech sector for US companies, 600 billion to only US arms producers instead of European ones, taking over the cost of arms supplies to Ukraine… if this deal really goes through then we will go off the deep end. It is to be hoped that the few countries with reasonably straight backs (France and Spain, among others) stop this deal.

Thank you for explaining the abbreviation.

And the north star, which is part of the big bear (plough) constellation is called Arcturus.

Wasn’t the ‘exodus’ just 5 families or something?

Iirc, for some unknown reason, they’re very similar to human eyes.