This isnt about the official servers being online forever, this is about being able to host your own server without having to crack the game in weird ways.

Drug addictions spiral out of control because their lifes suck and they want an escape. If you make their lifes harder you dont help anyone. Drug addiction should be treated in the same way as mental illness.

But the most effective way to help them is to give them a perspective and a way to get out of their situation before they have to stop using the drugs, i.e. give them housing and have a doctor supply them their drugs, then slowly taper them off.

Or just dont let people get homeless in the first place.

That isnt without risks itself and it might not have been practically possible in some cases.

Would you desert if your family gets sent to a concentration camp when the army finds out?

Well, during the war ukraine has no choice but to kill the russian soldiers if they want to win.

But I think that ukraine treats POW fairly well and if the war ends they probably wouldnt force them to work in Gulag conditions.

Just because they were soldiers doesnt mean they were nazis. A lot of them were drafted and at the end of the war even teenagers were sent to the frontline because all the other young men were already fighting or dead.

If a soldier was part of the SS or SA, he was a nazi.

It is likely that we humans or our ancestors were responsible for the extinction of most of the megafauna around the world, so we would only be undoing our own damage I guess.

Happens all the time, nothing to be ashamed about.

Would be a little uncomfortable if something solid comes out though.

You do have to use winter tires here in Germany when the conditions warrant it, they just aren’t studded.

I have a Nissan NV200, which has a similar design.

I use it whenever my bike isnt practical, like visiting my family which live kinda rural or transporting something big. I also built a platform for my matress, so I can also camp with it.

It doesnt take up more space than the average car, but it has a lot of storage space.

Whenever I see stuff like this, all I can think about is how nice it must be to have to deeply inhale those fumes when trying to give all you have got.

I also dont get why they still have ICE vehicles at the tour de france for the same reason.

Most EVs just have one permanently engaged gear, so yeah, not really possible

Here in Germany studded tires are outlawed almost everywhere and its a good thing.

Where I live we usually only have one or two weeks each year where we have any snow or ice on the road and it usually gets cleared very quickly.

The amount of noise and road damage created by studded tires would far outweigh their usefulness for those 1 or 2 days where the snow hasnt been cleared everywhere yet.

I might get some studded bike tires this winter (those are legal) as roads are sadly cleared much quicker than the sidewalks and sliding a little bit with a car is not as bad as falling over on a bike.

It also isnt as loud as studded car tires and doesnt damage the road as much as studded car tires.

Why not? It might not need to actually hit anyone, just the chance of being hit is probably enough to scare anyone away.

I wouldnt wanna be in a trench or field and suddenly hear gunshots coming from above.

I have not seen one gas station in Germany and surroundings that didnt have it. I have seen truck gas stations that only have diesel though.

We do have some gas stations that just have diesel on a few pumps.

I mean, Ukraine did get a lot of NATO strategy training and the Ukranian military leaders probably also get some access to US spy satelite photos.

But the idea to invade russia and how to execute it was probably still done by Ukranians in Ukraine.

As a European its just insane how wide these streets are.

Did they want to build a highway or a neigborhood street?

US street designers and their bosses seriously need to get this “wider=better” mentality out of their head. Its no wonder people are driving this fast when the streets are this wide, its because it feels slow.

Its also bad in other ways: wasted money, needlessly destroyed nature, increased urban heat island effect and increased flooding risk because its sealed.

We will never live in an ideal world, we can only approach it.

So, yeah, I wasnt referring to reality.

Change it out for a lack of positive perspective for the future and you might even be right.

Thats maybe why the empty promises work to begin with.

This kind of right wing populism has sadly arrived here in Europe as well. Here in Germany we have the AFD which basically does the same thing.

My mother, her boyfriend and my brother have sadly also fallen into the right wing disinformation trap, it really sucks, its like a thought virus.

At least I still have my other half of the family whith which I can still have some political discussions where everyone enjoys doing it and its more about smaller details and how to turn the theory into practice.

I think it is because having sex is such an inimate thing and as a sex worker you have to do it even with people you are not intimate with and at times when you dont want to be intimate. The sheer number of sex partners probably also doesnt help.

And then there are the assholes who will straight up step over boundaries and directly create trauma.

I live in Germany where sex work legal btw (and I think it should be kept that way).

Comparing the risks to other work is hard, as the risks vary from person to person and from workplace to workplace in each job.

But I would consider doing sex work if I would have to work in a callcenter otherwise lol