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Sometimes there’s so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can’t take it… and my heart is just going to cave in.

-American Beauty

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German Gothic: Seeing the latest advertising Poster, with Heidi Klum presenting the new Bikini-fashion feels like watching your mum in underwear…

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Well, i guess the valuable „thing“ in this world is having someone whom you can tell your secret thoughts.

„Thank you!“ to a very special person.

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Well, in my time it was one of the hallmarks of the dangerously stupid to blindly follow the „experts“. But times seems to have changed.

(I can show you some very interesting texts from german encyclopedias from the 1930s, in which ‘experts’ expressed themselves quite clearly on racial theory. All complete nonsense, of course. But – ‘experts’.)

More examples? The „experts“ who thought that cholera was caused by „miasma“ until John Snow (who knows nothing.. eh that was another one) proved it to be spread by contaminated water.

The „experts“ who said that Ignaz Semmelweis was stupid as he thought it would be a good idea for doctors to wash their hands?

Semmelweis himself was later classified as mentally ill and tragically died in a psychiatric institution.

Today, he is considered one of the pioneers of modern hygiene in medicine.

Max Planck was told by „Experts“ not to study physics, „because there is nothing new to be found“

The discovery that stomach ulcers are caused by bacteria—specifically Helicobacter pylori—was made by Dr. Barry Marshall and Dr. Robin Warren, both Australian researchers. This breakthrough occurred in the early 1980s.

At the time, the prevailing medical opinion was that ulcers were caused primarily by stress, spicy food, and excess stomach acid. The idea that bacteria could survive in the acidic environment of the stomach—and actually cause ulcers—was considered absurd by most experts. Marshall and Warren’s hypothesis was widely dismissed and ridiculed in the medical community.(All-„Experts“)

To prove their point, Barry Marshall famously drank a culture of H. pylori in 1984, deliberately infecting himself and subsequently developing gastritis. He then cured himself with antibiotics, providing dramatic evidence that H. pylori caused stomach inflammation and ulcers.

Eventuell, their work was accepted and revolutionized the treatment of ulcers. In 2005, Marshall and Warren were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery.

Oh- and what about the russian „experts“ who thought that their fleet of Strategic nuclear bombers were safe, 5000 km away from the ukraine?

And climate change? If you add up all the national plans to keep in line with the climate goals of paris there shall be planted so many forests until 2050 as to cover the whole of the United States. Nobody really specifies where to plant all these trees- but all these „national contributions“ were devised by „experts“ so- these nust be feasable, right?

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Thanks for all your generous love, and thanks for all the fun

Neither you nor I'm to blame when all is said and done

It's so strange, when you're down, and lying on the floor

How you rise, shake your head, get up and ask for more

Clear-headed and open-eyed

With nothing left untried

Standing calmly at the crossroads, no desire to run

There's no hurry anymore when all is said and done

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Anything that I expect from someone else is something I would be willing to do myself

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Dark Dreams

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Dark Dreams

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Dark Dreams

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Dark dreams

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Dark dreams. Turpentine Print

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And .. maybe it would be an idea to shift the value of democratic votes, depending on the income. Not a new idea, but what would Happen if the votes of high income individuals would be worth less? (The usual answer is something like : letting the inmates run the asylum, because it is taken for granted that people with higher income have (and I guess that is not totally wrong) a higher education.

But : people with higher income also have other ways, (having a higher social capital, for example) to influence politics. So on that premise it would be fair to give the votes of people with an average income the value of one(man, one vote) those with a lower income more votes (to make up for their relatively lower other influence) and those with a higher income less votes.

Call me Reg Shoe, today..

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Well, if I would want to „tax the Rich“ - I would increase the value added tax, or sales tax on goods, relative to their price. That seems fair to me.

I mean, I guess there are rich people, living a frugal life, and there are people who think that they need that gucci handbag or private jet- let the latter pay relativly more for that.

(The same with fines for speeding or whatever . Should be relative to the income. (With a baseline, maybe, but still.))

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Just for your information : a classic b&w print on baryth paper produces 3000% (!) more CO2 than a picture generated with midjourney and printed on inkjet.

A Polaroid only 525 % more..

And that is only if i would take a still life back at home.

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Some places in the U.S. you grow up with the idea that emigrating to a better system is taking advantage of the destination country, and when you're also instilled with values like independence and hard work, I think to some people it would feel like a weak move, like cheating

Well, for the first time , a few month, that may be the case, but , if you‘re working here (especially if you like to work hard) that will be paid back quite soon. (Not much independence , or freedom, but security.. ) but thanks for your answer.

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One thing that I’m really curious about- (without sarcasm) - is : I read so much about people of the USA being unhappy about their „System“ - (Lack of universal healthcare, lack of gun-control, etc.) - why don‘t we see that in emigration flow? If everything seems to be that bad in the US- why don’t you emigrate to europe - and why do so many people (Most of them intelligent) migrate to the US?

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In bloom. Yeah, for you it’s just a cactus. For me it‘s

heirloom. It‘s an offshoot of a cactus my grandmother bought, sometime in the 1960‘s . I know that cactus all my life.. and I’m happy to keep this offshoot alive and blooming..