Snuggledick von Scratchensniff, soup-centric saint of rude dogs turned son of a bitch just to spite Muscovy.

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Cake day: June 21st, 2023

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  • In Firefox (other browsers probably as well) you can add custom keywords for searches. For example visit Wikipedia, right click the search field and pick “add keyword” from the menu. As keyword enter “!wiki” or whatever you want and from now on you can just type “!wiki whatever” in the URL bar, no need to take the detour to duckduckgo or some other search engine.










  • I read a more in-depth analysis some time ago and a lot of them are just desperate people with financial or other problems, and becoming a Reichsbürger is more like a form of escapism from reality than something they really believe in. Imagine you have a crippling amount of debt and/or are about to be evicted for example, and then you read on some nutjob website that the state actually doesn’t exist so you don’t owe them anything and they have no authority to evict you, doesn’t that sound great? All your problems solved by just burning your German ID card and printing out a new one of some made-up country. Of course reality gets them eventually but psychologically it’s easier to bear for some people to believe that they’re the victim of a huge conspiracy rather than face the fact that they fucked up and are screwed.


  • snuggledick@lemm.eetoBuy European@feddit.ukBooks in EU
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    6 days ago

    It would help to know which country you’re in as you probably got your own online book stores. In Germany for example buecher.de, bol.de, hugendubel.de just to name the big ones all have it.

    This is totally not advice but I thought it’s a bit funny and worth sharing: after I recently found out that you can borrow ebooks from your local library with a convenient app I started looking around a bit and it turns out you can sign up online with the Kansas City Public Library without any verification, you just need a madeup name and an existing Kansas City address (just pick a random house on Google Maps). I just checked and they have it both as ebook and audiobook, although there’s a long wait as it seems to be quite popular.
    Long story short if you’re not in a hurry then in theory you could read it for free and America pays for it. ;)