It time for Spurdo Sparde thread :-DDD

Post all you in here frens

And remember, put the Benis :-DDDDDDDD
In the BAGINA X-DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

Hey
I brew beer at home and I thought I could make a thread for it here as well

today (& yesterday, chestnuts were roasted last evening already) me & dad were making chestnut beer
we make beer about ~23L at a time, you can get pretty damn good beer for cheap this way & you're free to go wild with the recipe
this beer includes both chestnuts and chestnut honey (yes I am breaking several german laws here), should be ideal for winter months

ingredients:
1250g roasted chestnuts (used about 2.5kg before roasting and peeling to get)
1900g Munich malt
300g Mroost black malt
1000g malt extract
500g chestnut honey
40g Styrian Golding dried hops
1 baggy (10g) of dried ale yeast (Mangrove Jack's M36 "Liberty Bell")

Steps:

Hello Bernd,

A while back I advertised a Vintage Story (https://www.vintagestory.at/) server, we (as in a small group of KC minecraft oldbernds) are playing again for the holidays and to experience the latest update(s).

We will be playing the latest pre-release (as of writing, 1.16.0-pre.6) starting without mods and will keep the server up to date as more of 1.16 is released and mods are brought up to date.

You will have to own the game to play this time around (update: I'm making the server pirate friendly, if you can find an up-to-date pirate client you can join with that, I won't be tracking down the client for you). Anyone is welcome to join, there are a handful of players I've lost touch with who I'd like to see again.

There will be no discord server at least to start with, but you can reach me by my handle sikandar#2264

The IP is 207.148.16.144:42420

The server is currently on 1.16.0-pre.5 and will be update and reset later today/tomorrow morning. The last map reset before server officially opens will be around 8-9 AM CST/3-4 PM CET

I've already mentioned the book titled On Killing - The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society by Dave Grossman (Lt. Col. of US Army). It gave some food for thought and I'm planning to write some of my speculation.

But what did the author write? Let's summarize.
He starts with the observation that most men has a natural resistance to kill (only 2% of men - those who have "predisposition toward aggressive psychopathic personality" - can go on killing without becoming a nervous wreck). This resistance is so high that even at times that our life is directly threatened (like others shoot at us) still difficult to overcome it. This resistance is the reason why infantry fire was so embarrassingly ineffective in the past 300 years - with the exception of machine guns - despite the fact that infantry weaponry (rifles) are reliable and accurate enough to cause massive losses among the enemy.
The author gives examples and sources, such as a Prussian experiment in the late 18th century, several reports and notices from several authors during 19-20th centuries (American, French, Israeli etc.), and an interesting work by a US Army historian who (and his coworkers) made mass interviews with fighting GIs during and after WWII. Also he cites his own conversation with veterans of WWII and Vietnam.
He gives new ideas on what's really happening on the battlefield. He compliments the widely known fight-or-flight model with two other options: in reality the soldiers can fight, posture, submit or flight. And most soldiers choose the second option.
Then he ponders on what enables killing (I'm gonna write more about this later) and how modern (post-WWII) armies achieve this. Then he compares these methods with the ways of contemporary mass media. His conlcusion is (after pointing out the exponential rise of violent crimes) that mass media has an undesirable effect on society.

What interesting for me is this resistance, and the enabling part. These things are actually give an entirely new way of looking warfare, and how and why battles were won.
For example the part officers (the demanding authority to kill) play in the enabling. When people (professional historians, history pros and other armchair generals) comparing the Hellenic phalanx with Roman manipulus and why the latter was more successful they compare everything but the officers. In the phalanx he's only one among those who stand in line and do the poking with pikes, but a Roman officer is one outside the formation and pressuring the soldiers to kill. It makes a huge difference if someone shouting in your ears "stab! stab! stab!" and generally pressuring you to kill. Especially if this one person is an exemplary one, a veteran whose skill in killing surpasses all the others in that particular unit. However noone talks about this because noone thinks about it.

I'll continue this sometimes, maybe only next weekend, we'll see. If you wish to read the book you can probably find it on libgen.

Right wing cute politicians thread.

Why right-wingers can into cute politicians?

Who are the bests posters and what are/were the best posts from kc? Along with ur favorite memories that you had in kc? What stood out for most bernds here. For me, it was

>Igor
>Ukrainian suffering bernd
>Grappa
>NordArab
>Sean
>Floridaman
>SwissKot
>SlovBerg
>Wojak
>AtlantaPole
>Audrius
>The plushie fag from Hungary
>Any Polish thread about [x] Poland
>Russia vs Ukraine posts during the War on Donbass

Because old thread is resting in peace

After a month or so (?) of unrest under Keilir on Reykjanes peninsula, last night there was finally an eruption. A roughly half-km long fissure opened in Geldingadal ("valley of the castrated").
How will it play out? How far will lava flows reach? Reykjanes peninsula is the most densely populated part of Iceland, though this is relatively far inland and in a valley that will limit spillover.

News articles (in Icelandic) with photos and such:
https://www.ruv.is/frett/2021/03/20/myndskeid-gaeslunnar-af-eldgosinu
https://www.visir.is/g/20212087267d/nyjar-myndir-af-gosinu-i-geldingadal

Coverage of the event so far on volcanocafe:
https://www.volcanocafe.org/possible-runup-phase-at-fagradalsfjall/ (02-26)
https://www.volcanocafe.org/a-reykjanes-story-2/ (03-01)
https://www.volcanocafe.org/imminent-eruption-near-keilir-likely/ (03-03)
https://www.volcanocafe.org/reykjanes-monitor/ (03-06)
https://www.volcanocafe.org/the-happy-dyke-of-fagradalsfjall/ (03-14)
https://www.volcanocafe.org/eruption-at-reykjanes/ (03-19)

Live webcams on míla, from distance:
https://www.livefromiceland.is/webcams/keilir/