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  • Oh, I’ve seen plenty of alternatives, but I’ve never seen any of them work out in the long run. They always sound good on paper but end up disastrous when implemented in the real world.

    Also, banking, the main feature of capitalism, which turns capital into a tradable good, is much older than you think. Making loans and charging interest are already mentioned in the Bible, an in fact, have been around for at least 2000 years before that (Source).















  • I can’t argue with that, because the German “wenn” is definitely more ambiguous than the English “when”, but since it’s a lullaby, you kinda have to assume that perhaps it’s leaning more on the positive side, because who on earth would want their baby to die in their sleep?

    If Germans really were this cruel, they would have been wiped off the face of the earth a long time ago.




  • This seems to be a mistranslation, because in German, “wenn” can mean both “if” and “when”, but it’s actually closer to “when”. If you really mean “if”, you use “falls” instead of “wenn”.

    So the intended meaning is in fact “tomorrow morning, when God wants it (ie. at the time God wants it), you will wake up again”


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    Hieroglyphics, let me be specific: I wanna be down in your South Seas
    But I got this notion that the motion of your ocean means “Small Craft Advisory”
    So if I capsize on your thighs high tide, B-5, you sunk my battleship
    Please turn me on, I’m Mister Coffee with an automatic drip
    So show me yours, I’ll show you mine, “Tool Time,” you’ll Lovett just like Lyle
    And then we’ll do it doggy style so we can both watch “X-Files”