When my life turned upside down and a lot of shit happened I got interested in Stoicism to the point I even read a bit of Seneca.
I never felt it as a way to be emotionless or a way to hide or suppress emotions , but rather as a way to just accept my them and "yeah, I see and acknowledge I feel like crap, no need to go crazy about it" (in my situation). It brought an understanding to me that not everything that happens is about me personally and I stop fighting what I can't change to put my focus where I can have an influence.
Warning: this is not a definition of stoicism, but what I took away from it for myself.
I'm living in an apartment on the 8th floor. Heating is geothermal heating (from a big geothermal plant owned by the city I live in). So no heating in winter. My second worry would be the food spoiling in the freezer. I'd probably move everything down into the car to drive to my family's place (that's a bit of work, 8th floor, no elevator) and then notice that my car is trapped inside the garage below our apartment block due to the electric garage doors not opening. I'd probably get some help from other people in the house opening them by hand (might involve dismounting of the electronics box).
In other words, in case of a longer city-wide outage I'm screwed.
In case it's a shorter one and my electric window blinds in the bedroom are still closed, I wouldn't worry and find someone to screw.
Als Arbeiter hast Du i. d. R. da nicht so einfach die Wahl. Und in einem Konzern kannst du vergessen, dass Du innerhalb "aufstreben" kannst und Dir Top Positionen innerhalb sicherst.
Das "hätte man Manager unabhängig vom Erfog besser bezahlt, dann wäre der Konzern besser gelaufen" habe ich nicht gesagt oder impliziert.
Was ich sagen will: Wenn ein ohnehin schon schwerfälliger Konzern durch so eine Krise läuft, dann führt das intern nicht zu einer Erneuerung sondern im Gegenteil zu einer. massiven Schwächung.
Die Tatsache ist, dass die Probleme bei ner großen Firma aber stark an der Denke der Mitarbeiter, die Entscheidungen treffen, liegen (auf allen Ebenen) - und so eine Krise lässt eher die Betonköpfe zurück.
Die streiken nicht, die, die was können sind bei nächster Gelegenheit einfach weg. Ok, die nächste Gelegenheit lässt in der aktuellen Situation vielleicht noch 2 Jahre auf sich warten.
Übrig im Konzern bleiben die, die woanders keine so gute Chance haben. Also die unfähigen Middle-Manager, die alles nur danach entscheiden nix falsch zu machen, was man ihnen vorwerfen könnte. Also lieber keine Risken, nicht auffallen, nix Neues.
VW wird mit so was NOCH EHER zu nem "weiter-so" Konzern
Both my kids favorite veggie was broccoli when they were small. I'd prepare it the way you'd get it in an Italian restaurant - small parts of it just bleached for a short time, so it stays firm, served with nice olive oil and salt. (And a bit of lemon, if I have it on hand)
Broccoli (like so many veggies) tastes awful when overcooked into a soft and mushy consistency (and then it also changes its taste in a bad way).
Here in Germany grandmas typically are amazing cooks, with the sole exception when they cooked veggies. That generation loved their vegs really soft and overcooked.
Any idiot in a car can kill me at any time, because he's getting road rage. I'm living in Europe, grew up in the 80s where nuclear war was a very real danger that could break out any moment, vaporizing all the cities. Even though we were allies of the US, highways were prepared to be outfitted with nuclear mines so the Russians couldn't roll all over Western Europe. We have a war right now next to our countries which could turn into WW3 at any time. A close friend of mine is Bosnian, she has seen the fighting in the Balkans few years agom
People kill each other all the time, because they consider each other bad persons. I just refuse to live in fear.
And the longer I live, the more I believe in violence as a legitimate defense. If someone shot Putin tomorrow, I would be happy. If someone had shot Hitler in the 30s the would would probably have been a better place.
So where is the line that divides killing someone is a good thing vs a bad thing? I used to believe it is always evil, but I can't anymore.
Of the erogenous zones, breasts are the ones you can see most often. It may be different in the US, but where I grew up, topless sunbathing is quite a thing and I even saw a lot of boobs in shower soap commercials at 6pm on public TV as a kid. When my kids were babies, my (now ex-) wife would also just nurse them on a park bench - which also I isn't unusual.
I was not breastfed as well (as couldn't even digest my mother's milk), still I like boobs very much. I find them very beautiful - and also like different forms and sizes.
I only don't like boobs with silicone implants, they're not soft and cuddly.
I switched over to have water delivered to my home in glass bottles (fortunately multi-use glass bottles are still a thing here in Germany). It tastes so much better than the same brand from PET bottles.
(Why don't I drink tap water? Because I want my water sparkling with CO2 bubbles, and I don't like the simple carbonaton appliance)
The greatest - I don't know. The most recent I used: I have this box of instant dark cocoa powder I bought around 5 years ago or so and it's best before Sep 2023. I had a nice cup of hot cocoa with whiskey last night.
That ticket is already included for free when you order the console.