A good month ago I wrote a short artictle about the Coronavirus and Panic. Now, with the virus spreading the situation has changed a bit. It is now no longer possible to contain the virus, in big parts

The Japanese have a faible for new words. Especially if you can re-use old ones. With the CoVid19 forcing people to stay at home, meeting online is a possible work-around for those craving for more social

I opened the AkibaSteem community. Seems you can only post to community OR your "personal blog" as it now seems to be??? If there is a way to post it in both, please tell me.

I don't want to steal anyone or anything. But there is AkibaSteem, which of course is about manga too. And still basically died out because of not enough people, so I don't think a manga only community

Hello everyone interested in anime, manga or Japan! This is the place you are looking for! Honestly I have no idea how that Community thing works, but I will try to find out. AkibaSteem has been founded

The national monument, also place of one of only 686 UNESCO biosphere reserves, has been a treasure trove for biologists and archaeologists. But now 10.000 year old bones are flying through the air in

OMG Holy Shit! That was my reaction when I just read this. The Foundation Trilogy - THE Foundation Trilogy - is going to become a film. Wow. The work that got the Hugo Award for "Best All-Time

Hey there! I am just dropping in with a little objective POV on the corona virus. There is a lot of panic going round at the moment. Masks are sold out, I heard. If you are in panic mode too, I want to

There is nothing that reeks more like abusive capitalism than subcontracting. If you are the subcontractor of the subcontractor of a subcontractor, you basically are a underpaid, rights-less worker drone.

And by that I don't mean that you can kill an elephant with green power, if you want to. In a forum I just read that one person's friends, those that are climate change deniers, increasingly say that there

Or do you prefer 8-Balls? Because in Rebel Galaxy Outlaw you can be the bane of traders or pirates, religious fanatics or even dice poker players. But first back to the basics. Rebel Galaxy Outlaw is the

Zapfic entry (see here for explanation): "That's your aunt?", the housewife from next door asked the man ten years older than her, staring at the top of the table. "Isn't she a bit young?"

Steemit claims to be a social network. It certainly is like other "social" networks in some aspects, like bubble building, feuds between groups and other horrible stuff. But while Steemit claims

It is a long time ago that I wrote something on Steemit. There are several time consuming reasons for this. But the one that might interest you is that I played several games that sucked all the few hours

Coming in contact with people from other countries and cultures is interesting, not least because they may have such a different view on things you take granted, that it dumbfounds you. For me one of those

Are egoists getting wealthy, or does wealth make you egoistic? This seems to be some sort of conundrum, but in fact it is like we all thought for millenia: money makes you immoral. Every religion has to

All the techies out there will probably read about this on the real computer websites like here, so I will only point out the big stuff here about AMD's announcements a few hours ago. CPUs - fast 8 core

Germany has long been a country where the protection of nature has a high value. From the 70s anti-atomic movement the Party Die Grünen (literally The Greens) was born. For a long time they have been in

That is what many of you may think now. Bitcoin has hopped up roughly 40% compared to the start of the month, with even higher prices in between. Normal market movement? Hell no! I am convinved that Bitcoin

100 kilos of fish That is the topic. How much do 100 kilos of fish cost? Less than what the average American pays for healthcare, I guess. What a depressing thread. How can that be? Are there really people