SerialExperimentsGay [she/her, comrade/them]

France is transitioning

can’t spell uranium without yum

So, a friend of mine was streaming Night in the Woods and we finished it two days ago and i’m still blown away by what a perfect metaphor it is that

I’m fairly sure the point is to have a handle against literally anybody to the left of Julius Evola.

To complicate things further, raccoons also exist as an introduced species in Japan, but they are known as araiguma or “washing bears”.

Yeah, which means we have to deal with lugging around several kilos of microplastics between our legs. I’m glad raccoon bottom surgery is a thing, the lower back pain got pretty intense after a while.

The assumption is probably that they will have to do imperialism without the US sometime during the next decade. I do not think this is for any war that is already underway, even Germany has refused to aid with the shitshow in Iran and Ukraine has always worked as a proxy war.

I guess one of their pet despots in the gulf monarchies is scared for his marina.

So i looked this up and apparently Freeway 401 has up to twenty lanes at the widest sections, how tf do you even drive on something like that, this must cause a traffic jam every time somebody wants to get to an off-ramp.

What war is g*rmany even preparing for?

Mostly the war of line go up, but when you buy enough murderdrones from Rheinmetall and Thyssen-Krupp you obviously end up wanting to use them.

But this is actually the part I’m most interested in—how easy is it to get a deferral/exemption from conscription?

Advance warning, this is gonna get extremely German. CW for hair splitting, legalese, homophobia, transphobia, genital exams and SA. Yes, in a post about conscription.

At the moment, there is no conscription, as that has been on hiatus since 2011. This is the first step towards reactivating it. Right now, the situation is as follows: Young German citizens, and we’re talking really young here, 17-18 years old, are currently getting Musterungsbescheide. That’s the legal notice that you are summoned for a medical examination to test if you are fit for military service. Women and nonbinary people are free to ignore them, men however are legally obliged to answer. For the time being, they can just say “nope, not interested” and will not be drafted. If that does not yield enough recruits (it will not yield enough recruits, nobody wants to serve), this process is then rolled out to anybody below 45 years of age. If that still doesn’t get them enough cannon fodder (and again, there is no way it will), they plan to actually bring conscription back.

As this hasn’t been done yet, we can only guess how much of the old conscription laws will remain on the books. Most of it will likely remain in place, but they are already discussing minor changes, like not checking the testicles of recruits anymore (i am not making this up, back when i was military age and still had my balls, somebody from the mlitary actually grabbed them to check if i had cancer. Honestly, the Morgentau Plan didn’t go far enough). Historically, it was very tricky to completely dodge the draft. Outside of just being overlooked by the buerocracy, permanently leaving the country or being too criminal to be considered eligible, the most likely way was to be ruled medically unfit and that was very hit or miss for able-bodied people unless you knew a doctor who knew how to tailor just the right diagnosis to get you de-listed for sure. Historically, being gay or trans were grounds for exemption from service, but they moved to being rainbow imperialists and even before that, just telling your recruiter that you’re gay would lead to a ton of invasive questions and having to prove you’re actually too gay for the army (btw, the new self ID law for trans people has a clause about retroactively voiding your legal recognition as a woman if you make that change up to 3 months before the start of a war, i expect that to be made worse when they bring back the draft as the CDU is transphobic af).

In practice, almost everybody who did not want to serve in the military did Zivildienst aka Wehrersatzdienst (“replacement service”) instead. That usually meant working as an assistant nurse, helping with social work, delivering food to the elderly, doing disaster relief and so on. Originally, this required to go on trial and prove that your conscience prohibits you from taking up a gun on moral or religious grounds, and the trials were notorious for asking loaded questions like “what if you’re at the park and your spouse gets assaulted by Russian soldiers?” (yes, that’s an actual, real life example how these tribunals went). Later, i think in the 1980s or so, this got changed to only having to write a letter about why you are a complete pacifist - answers like “i do not mind self defense, but i will not go to the middle east to murder brown people” expressly did not count, you had to tell them you were an “i would never even touch a gun” peacenik.

As of now, the plan is to ditch this entire part and let conscripts choose between military and civil / social / medical service. But forced conscription for men will almost certainly come back. There will always be loopholes, nepo babies will have ways around this, but the normal pathway will be “you will work for the state for about a year”.

We just had a thread about this. You should probably repost it there as an additional source.

Edit: https://hexbear.net/post/8148313?scrollToComments=false link to thread

Bombing foreign countries into coerced liberalism is the contemporary version of white man’s burden discourse from the colonial era, although it is slowly being replaced by literal DEVS VULT hitlercrusader shit due to fashization.

Not all of us, i generally prefer to be the one holding the leash.

Which is SOP in organizations ran by upwards failing idiots. He’s simply firing everybody who doesn’t nod along to his bullshit.

The puck shaped ones tend to be frozen, fresh ones usually end up in a golf ball or football egg shape. And the fresh ones are usually a lot juicier, plus spicing them with fresh parsley makes a big difference taste wise. They should be green on the insides, and not too dry.

I’ve seen that as well and i also do it when i make falaffel dürüm at home, makes it easier to roll.

Well, that’s one way to eat them, and the best for takeaway. Lots of places also offer falaffel and hummus on a plate, with sides like tabboule, rice or french fries. Sometimes you can also get pickles and deep fried vegetables, mostly in Syrian or Lebanese owned shops that will then typically give you a little basket with the flatbread used for the wrap that you can then tear into pieces and use to pick stuff up from your plate (apparently using a fork for that is a white people thing, and the flatware is usually on a little side table and you get it yourself, the vendor just hands you the food and a little glas of chai). And ofc there’s combinations with other proteins like shawarma or seitan döner, very often you can also get fried halloumi cheese or cigköfte.

Keep in mind that this is a dish that’s spread all across the middle east nowadays and there’s a ton of different ways to prepare it. Lots of Turkish shops will, for example, use pide bread as in a döner kebab instead of the kind of flatbread used in the Levant, sauces and salads will vary as well.

Made in the PRC and sold simply as “basketball shoes” as they weren’t branded, but otherwise literally the same shoe.