I would try to weed out where possible. But I am also aware that many forms of lies are largely institutionalized and accepted in the context of the market economy and various political and ideological systems that I am part of. For example, I am exposed to a constant stream of lies from various companies that say they care about me, my personal data, my health, the environment et c.

I don’t know how realistic it would be to try to completely break away from these systems while at the same time maintaining the social relations I need to function socially and emotionally. Also, since the educational system only taught me how to be part of these systems and not how to break away, I lack much of the knowledge and skills needed to do that.

My conclusion is that while I can sometimes weed out on an individual level, some kind of political organization and action is also necessary if I want to at least try to do something about the institutional and system levels.

Homeless people aren’t a public transport problem even if homelessness can become visible in public transport systems. Delays, crowded and constructions are common in other forms of transport as well.

Yep, something good, guaranteed!

Some classics are Conan by Howard, Michael Moorcock’s Elric books and Fritz Leiber’s “Swords” books. I really like Dune as well (but that’s sci fi I guess). Have fun with Discworld!

Blood tests. I guess it is understandable from an emotional viewpoint but it is certainly not logical. I also can’t watch scenes in movies where they inject drugs. Eeeeh!!!

For my own allowance, it might have been a space shooter, Bosconian, on the C64. I must have been 12. The game was pretty bad unfortunately.

I’m not German but would absolutely recommend Babylon Berlin!

In Swedish there is Linnéa. After the Linnaea flower (Linnea in Swedish). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linnaea

There is also Rosa, Viola and Iris but Linnéa is probably more common.

The time when when you could trust the US to honour alliances and agreements is obviously over anyway. Better to find other trading partners!

Very sadly, Rutte is not anywhere near a position to ignore Trump. And pushing back currently comes with a much higher risk than sucking up. I think Rutte is playing a short term game because in the long term Trump is too unpredictable anyway. I think Rutte just wants to make sure that Trump leaves this meeting feeling that “NATO likes Donald, NATO good” so that he doesn’t do anything drastic. Tomorrow he will probably focus on something different anyway. Golf, tariffs, Canada, Biden - who knows?

It’s just a strategy for dealing with an ego in need of constant external reinforcement and validation. Absolutely embarrassing but it probably works.