Because the Verfassungsschutz sucks, but that’s not the fault of the Bundesverfassungsgericht.

And they repeatedly declared laws of the government unconstitutional, not matter which parties were in the coalition at the moment.

Also, Hitler had to declare a state if emergency to gain the absolute power the Supreme Court has just handed to the US president.

Suffice it to say, something lile this is impossible now in Germany. The justices of our highest court, the Bindesverfassungsgericht, can only hold the job for 12 years and can be no older than 68. They are also always equally voted in by two different branches of the government and need a two thirds majority for any decision.

Our democracy isn’t without faults, but this is probably our strongest bulwark against another descent into facsism.

Yes, by Saruman who tried to create a new Mordor.

I get why it’s not in the movies, but all the hobbits turning into absolute badasses after their homes are threatened was amazing to read.

The Shire was unprotected. Sauron is not going to waltz up to one of the last Elven strongholds because someone speaks Mordor. But he might send a bunch of orcs when someone uses it in the middle of nowhere all of a sudden.

Als jemand der lange im Print gearbeitet hat, da ist zu 90 Prozent die gute deutsche “Haben wir immer so gemacht, das neumodische Zeug brauchen wir nicht”-Mentalität Schuld.

This the way the world ends. Not with a bang, but a whimper.

T.S. Eliot - The Hollow Men

Fun fact: If (big if) Goliath really existed, he was probably suffering from acromegaly. It is characterized by a person not stopping to grow after puberty. The reason for that is an enlarged, tumorous pituary gland in the brain. So David hitting Goliath between the eyes might actually have ruptured the tumour, leading to internal bleeding in his brain and killing Goliath.

So the whole biblical story might be based on something that actually happened and then probably got more and more dramaticised every time it was told.

I agree and I would even say that a crucial moment in Return of the King works better in the theatrical version and should be experienced first like this. (The arrival of the pirates to the battle of Minas Tirith.)

I really like my water pillow.

Yeah, but he’s described as having the form of a wizened old man.

…das außerdem nur einmal im Jahrhundert auftritt. andiestirntipp

Well, maybe not wizard typecast, but typecast to play much older than he was. He was only 63 when he first played Gandalf. To put it in perspective, that’s only one year older than Tom Cruise is right now.

Fun fact: McKellen was asked to play Dumbledore after Richard Harris passed but he declined because he didn’t want to be typecast.

Fürst (von) Pückler, a German nobleman who that icecream is named after.

Tattoine is my favourite dessert right after icecream!

That’s what happens when people who don’t understand LLMs try to profit off of LMMs. You can be sure that the actual programmers at Google told corporate that this would be the exact thing that would happen, but corporate pushed ahead anyway. The programmers shrugged, did their job, and brushed up their CVs just in case.

And he’s also married to a black woman. Strange behaviour for a supposed rascist.

It’s a disgrace Madonna wasn’t even put on trial back then!

Yep. Also, Trump is constantly in the news for being on trial, they need something to create whataboutisms about Biden. It’s just Buttery Mails 2.0.

They are not prequels, they are very loose adaptations of the book. Basically very expensive fan fiction.