adiwan (adiwan)

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My train ride was suspiciously smooth. No big crowds. The train was on time. I had no issues with my folding bike in the train. However my trust in Deutsche Bahn has not improved. Other trains had delays of 20+ minutes and I had to switch platforms.

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While ICE slams minorities in the USA, ICE is crashing against a horse with 300km/h (186mi/h). ICE is an Inter City Express train in Germany.

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I bought myself the first train ticket ever. I rode by train many times before but back then either the school teacher bought them for excursions, or it was included with my university ID. I have to travel because of work and would have preferred the car, however it is both time efficient and financially efficient to take the train, also car parking sucks at the destination, and the train station is very close to the destination. I have to use is my folding bike as the distance to my train station is further than I am willing to walk in the night when I come back (about 2.5km). I wish my folding bike wasn't so clunky to fold and carry. Bromptons are out of reach and the necessity for folding bikes outside of this is way too rare to justify the costs.

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I'll miss the CBS show "After Midnight". Sadly it'll be canceled soon. It was the right amount of cringy humor that my brain doesn't reject outright. Also I really like the host Taylor Tomlinson and her standup routine and the vibe she radiates: "I don't give a grape" and "panic anxiety".

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Preordered a Taiga Saejima figure... Still need Ichiban Kasuga.

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Yesterday I saw the anime "Paprika". I knew someone whose favorite movie of all time was this. I was quite sleepy when I started it but I don't think it is why I find the movie stupid. I liked many elements but the motivation of each character was unexplained or nonsensical. I dare to say it was banana on a technical story-telling level. It is a movie that lives on the vibes of dreams and dreamscapes but the non-dream story glue didn't held up in my opinion.

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It's pride month. For me it's pide month https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%B0%C3%A7li_pide

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I've built 3 more boxes for my eight remaining tomatoes. Per box there will be 2 plants planted, so two plants will be left behind for now. The paint has to cure a little bit and then I can place them in my garden.
In total I'll have 36 tomato plants. I don't know if I make another box. I already spent a lot. I guess it should be enough... What am I saying? Of course it's not enough!

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Rick and Morty is back. Dark episode but good.

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Got rid of 8 tomato plants (i.e. gave away). Still have 8 left. I guess I give up and just plant the rest myself despite already having enough and more than I planned. I bought another set of buckets and a full load of dirt, as well spiral rods. Next year I'll add more other plants than tomato. I have a few salad plants, cucumber, and jalapeno, and a few beans. First some bushes have to go to make more room.

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Fleamarkets are wonderful. I bought the exact same model of backpack that I have since 2008 and got me through university. The price was 5 times as much as I bought today, for only 18€. The old one is still in a fairly good condition but there is a hole forming at the bottom from sliding on the floor and there are abrasions in the lower back area. The good thing is that I don't have to readjust to a completely new backpack once the old one falls apart. I was eyeing on some backpacks but they are flawed as they often don't provide an extra big secondary compartment for stuff like a rain poncho, umbrella, bicycle repair tools and such. And if they do they are behemoths and cost too much.

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I have a wild strawberry plant in my garden that stem from the previous owner. A few days ago I saw some fruits that were almost ripe. My mother likes them and would have been ripe when she visits me again. Today I saw that they were lying on the ground. It's either mice or birds that plucked them. I think it's rather the latter than the former. Mice would have gnawed on the fruit. My guess is on pigeons. I saw a few of them landing my garden several times and I trust them that they are dumb enough not to eat the berries.

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Yesterday I watched "Venom The Last Dance". It was a mindbogglingly awful movie. Fun-ish awful, but still awful. The plot makes no to close to no sense. The characters are one-dimensional. Their actions are coincidental. Of course the big bad guy does nothing and sends his minions to do the job. Understandable as the BBG is imprisoned BUT as the audience I had no real grasp WHY he is so dangerous and there is only a pair of lines even mentioning that. Also it is sadly funny that the multiverse jump at the end of the previous movie was undone within the first scenes.
It is a 2/10 for me with a trash factor of 5/10, higher if friends are around to goof off.

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Had my first time a militant vegan was commenting on my post on bluesky. Shouldn't have replied to them. It baffles me that they cannot frame their interaction in a more positive light like saying that other products might be better and be positive to try more. Guess that's the Internet in a nutshell.

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Tried vegan "minced meat". It was fine.... I didn't spit it out but it wasn't a delight. No wonder it was at a reduced price. Gonna buy soon the real deal to make up for the disappointment to my taste buds.

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I've seen some of those lawn mowing youtube channels and it is astounding to see the transformations. One thing, however, is pretty appaling: Huge backyards without anything but grass. An area 4 to 5 times bigger than the house.
HOW THE FrankerZ are you not using the area to grow vegetables or fruits?

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I love to get rid off my excess tomato plants to my neighbors. I have still 12 plants left.

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What if school classes were RPG classes in a game? Having a party of students that is composed of a physics student, a foreign language student, a history student and a religion student could be for example a fantasy equivalent of a wizard, a bard, a rogue, and a cleric.

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I bit the bullet and ordered a Sony Xperia 10 VI. I am annoyed that 1) didn't get any cheaper and 2) the successor wasn't released/announced this month and 3) my battery of my Blackberry KeyOne only lasts barely half a day at idle and shuts down when any higher strain on the CPU is below 40% charge. The successor comes probably out at the end of Fall but it is too long to wait any longer.

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I'm digging through the campaign book. It is a slog for a slow reader like me. Additionally there are a lot of parts that make me think hard to solve the riddle on how to implement the written plot in practice as the instructions are very vague at times. Not an insurmountable problem but annoying. Also there are a few parts that could be incompatible with my group.

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I have decided to run "Hoard of the Dragon Queen" as my first campaign. I heard that it's not so good however none of my players have played that. It is definitely easier to DM than to make a campaign from scratch as a beginner. Also the other "good" campaigns some of the players have already played. I wanted to try a campaign in the MTG Theros setting, however my ability to create a large campaign from scratch is a little bit too low for the time I can spare. Also finding appropriate (battle) maps is impossible. I thought people would create more maps with white pillars and Roman/Greek architecture.