Singing and conducting choirs. Being a conductor is fascinating. I'm able to move and direct around 50 people in perfect harmonie and synchronisation (in theory :D reality sadly differs sometimes). The community aspect is also great. We share something we are passionate about and work on it together.

I really would love to get into music. As someone who would describe themselves as "without musical talent," where would you lead me to get into music?

Depends on what you want to do - sing, play, listen better?

I would recommend getting a ukulele and learning some easy 3-chord songs that you like. It takes some time to get decent at, but it’s easier than guitar and they’re pretty cheap.

You can also get into making electronic music or drum loops pretty easily.

Germany still pays for SMS, nobody here uses MMS because its so expensive.

Graph Theory in General is extremly useful for all sorts of algorithms [1]. What the application for this particular discovery might be is also unknown to me.

[1]https://mypages.valdosta.edu/dgibson/sjs.pdf

Is the freedom of speech as stated in law enough? I can imagine that a lot of journalists are afraid to say what they want (or need) to say. The thread of losing the job is possibly a great burden in the pursuit of truth. We should enable some sort of financial independence for journalists to give them every reason to speak and write truthfully. A young and starting journalist needs a job at an established organization and is therefore bound to theire agenda.

I agree that the world is better with independant journalists seeking and speaking truth to power. However, I disagree with your conclusion that the way to get this is basically state funded journalists. State controlled media is a sign of corrupt governments world wide, we must not go in that direction.

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In the german Bible the name is actually written: Sem. But I havent yet met a person named Sem.

That’s a different Biblical personage. The son of Noah from which “Semite” derives is Shem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shem), and is quite distinct from the prophet Samuel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel).

Pursue whats meaningful, not what is expedient. -Jordan Peterson

Helps me to keep asking, what and how should i do and approach.

Definetly interesting, but also challenging: Archipel Gulag from Solschenitzyn. I learnd a lot about human nature, shaped by circumstances. Scary stuff. But this book is a historic document. Names are real, places are real, events are real. Absolutely worth a read. EDIT: "The Gulag Archipelago" is the english title.

Im currently reading Archipel Gulag from Alexander Solschenitzyn and that joke sounds quite familliar. The reality of the past century in Russia really proved optimists wrong. Devestating to read that book. It literally puts me on breaks to just sit and think. Sad that humans are capable of such cruelty.

Actually, Solzhenitsyn was still residing in the USSR at the time of completion of the book.

The Discovery of Slowness Its not necesseraly a fictious book, but pleas give it a try. It really helped me understand myself and also other people better.