Well not entirely true. We pay 9~10% out of our gross salary for this service

That’s how vampire mafia works

Short term: new shoes! I ordered them online, they should arrive any day now. Looking forward to having something nice to wear in the summer.

Mid term: forging our wedding rings! We have a workshop coming up in a couple weeks where we’ll be forging our very own rings under supervision of a professional jeweler. Jewelry is a very lovely thing on it’s own, even more so when I’ll be creating them from scratch together with my partner - the love of my life.

Long term: our wedding next year! There’s still so much preparation to be done and so much money to save up until then, as well as the honeymoon right after that. It’s all very exciting!!

I’m out of the loop. What happened?

Yes however today there aren’t tools available anymore that hitler had to make this happen. Our constitution is now far better protected and isn’t as easily dismantled as the Weimar republic’s constitution. Still sucks that so many people voted for afd though

Idk death and dementia don’t seem like a feasible solution to me

Although I don’t live with them, the topic comes up every time I am on the phone with my father. He keeps yapping and yapping about how great the motherland is, until I snap. It seems it’s all he ever wants to talk about - Putin this, Ukraine that.

Thank you for your advice, I’ll try setting up some boundaries next time he calls.

Disappointed and upset is exactly how I feel! Thank you for your input.

Thank you for your advice. Unfortunately though, I don’t live with my parents anymore. They seem to consume information mostly through telegram, news articles and Russian television. I wouldn’t know how to shield them from those influences, I don’t have access to all their accounts or devices.

Germany

Diese Kommentarsektion ist nun Eigentum der BRD /s

Ironically, my mom’s husband is from Odessa, Ukraine, yet he still sides with Russia. They’re small business owners and would likely profit from AFDs tax reforms. Their clients are also mostly “Russland-deutsche” and apparently most of them are also AFD voters. No wonder they were influenced towards this direction. Hard to tell if they have spoken to Ukrainian refugees, doesn’t seem too unlikely given their clientele.

I think your tip with money is right on the nose. I would also describe my family as opportunistic, now that you mention it, it sounds like a fairly accurate description.

They don’t seem fearful at all to me. My father for one thing believes Russia is the land of the free, where the government protects its citizens from evil NATO. I asked him what he thought about all those opposition journalists who disappeared or got jailed, or what about the laws forbidding to criticize the government on social media. His response was “nobody got jailed! It’s all fake news! My colleague criticizes Putin all the time and nothing happened to him! It’s those foreign agents and business crooks who got jailed, and rightfully so!”

It’s very frustrating, I feel you bro.

Do you happen to have any resources on how to counter pro afd/ pro Putin arguments? I remember seeing a YouTube channel debunking Putins propaganda in Russian, but I don’t know what they were called.

Well how else are you gonna visualize those things for the audience. Same with green smell clouds coming off of something or someone who smells bad. It’s difficult to make the audience understand and care about something invisible

That’s a template for a goose though.

I finally started working out again! I also work from home and my Job made me miserable, but I’ll be starting a new Job in November and that gave me hope and motivation to pull myself out of the depression hole.

Elden Ring.

Got stuck on the first “real boss” because I don’t have time to practice and playing for 1-2 hours on weekends doesn’t get me anywhere. I guess I’ll wait till the holidays where I can take two weeks off and grind my way through the boss then.

It’s nice to find a fellow “insurance worker” amidst all them software engineers/ IT guys here on Lemmy 😄

Oh yes, I usually end up saying “I work in insurance” because any more specific than that and people look at me with question marks in their faces

Starship trooper when I was still in kindergarten. The only thing I remember from this movie is the scene where the bug drills a hole in the soldiers head to drink his brain. Don’t plan to watch this movie ever again in my life

Had to switch from connect to Voyager to post this one

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