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  • trollercoaster@sh.itjust.workstoich_iel@feddit.orgich🔪iel
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    7 hours ago

    Der hilft nur, wenn die Messer noch nicht zu stumpf sind.

    Für richtig stumpf braucht man schon einen Schleifstein. Die 2-seitigen aus dem Baumarkt (mit 1 groben und 1 feinen Seite) funktionieren eigentlich ganz gut, ohne sonderlich teuer zu sein. Zur Not, wenn man nix Anderes da hat, tut’s auch die Unterseite von 1 Teller, bei den Meisten ist da 1 Rand, wo keine Glasur drauf ist, das funktioniert wie 1 Schleifstein.















  • Frederick the Great, despite being associated with military glory in the modern day

    Throughout Germany, he’s still known for his efforts for introducing the potato, which earned him the affectionate nickname of “Kartoffelkönig” - “potato king”. (To this day, people still lay down potatoes at his grave)

    Initially, people in Prussia, just as the French, wanted nothing to do with potatoes, thought of them as potentially poisonous and at best suitable as pig fodder. In order to overcome those misconceptions and superstitions, Frederick famously had soldiers guard potato fields, instructed them to only half arsedly pursue potato thieves so they could get away, and to allow people to bribe them to look the other way.

    He also was a bit of a reformer and introduced ideas of enlightenment into his government. He for example introduced compulsory education for everyone (that was not out of pure altruism, though, because he wanted his soldiers to be able to read and write), and instituted religious freedom. (He asked all religions to have their sacred weekday on the same day, though, because he liked the thought of all religions in his realm worshiping their god on the same day)






  • The “journalists” whose job it is to research the background of the story do blame the product and/or the seller.

    Instead they could have done a public safety announcement about long hair and loose clothing in combination with rotating power tools. Apparently modern day society is in dire need of some education on the topic.

    But they chose not to to jump on the China/Temu bad bandwagon. There are tons of things to criticise about both China and Temu, but a rotating power tool having the inherent dangers of rotating power tools isn’t one of them. The low quality of Items sold on Temu might have even saved that stupid mother’s poor child from a scalping injury, which more powerful tools are perfectly capable of inflicting.