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Hello, old place

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Hello old place, how have you been while I was gone? I see you look very different, bought yourself some new clothes I guess. Changed your persona, changed your face. But what about your soul? Is it still that old well deep enough to awe and inspire me?


Can't blame you for changing, I guess, because so did I. And yet I didn't. Let's see if our new old selves can still be friends.


If anyone around here remembers me, feel free to say hello and link me to your newest deviation (or the one you are the most proud of).

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This is the time for the stubborn ones

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Being more stubborn and persistant than a virus, introverted enough to entertain yourself and a little scared of too close social interaction might come in handy these days. Go ahead and update your skills sheet with the odd pebbles you always kept hidden.
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Feeling old

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I haven't been here for what feels like a century and everything looks so different I hardly recognize it. It's not that the new design isn't beautiful to my eyes, but I get lost and can't sort things the way I want to, so I still keep switching back to the old one. Sometimes I wish the internet was more like a book that doesn't change after you printed it.


Besides that I'm having trouble gathering up my bones for yet another battle when they're still broken from the last. Sometimes I wish I were tougher, less sensitive - even though I wholeheartedly believe that what this world needs is not new steel walls, fighters or weapons, but more open arms, hearts and eyes.


I heard there is a thing called the ten percent rule. You need ten percent of people supporting a new paradigm in order to change the status quo. I know there's others like me out there, but it seems we aren't ten percent yet. I wonder if it's better I can't seee the current statistics, they might be too depressing.

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Nur noch kurz die Welt retten

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Die Klimakrise steht vor der Tür, aber ich mag sie ungern rein lassen. Helft ihr mir, noch schnell die Welt zu retten? Hier ein paar Optionen für kleine und große Weltretter:


Bringe den deutschen Bundestag dazu, sich endlich ernsthaft mit dem Thema Klimakrise zu beschäftigen:

https://epetitionen.bundestag.de/petitionen/_2019/_05/_02/Petition_94357.nc.html

Die Petition ist noch bis zum 23. Juli online.


Pflanze einen Baum! Oder lasse pflanzen:

https://www.plant-for-the-planet.org/de/startseite


15 Weiter Dinge, die Du ganz persönlich gegen die Klimakrise tun kannst: https://utopia.de/galerien/klimaschutz-tipps


Dank für's helfen! :)

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We overrate money, but underestimate its value

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We hunt down money like it's some kind of holy grail -
and in a way it is, it has this magical quality of being able to transform into anything.
And then it isn't - because you can't buy neither soul nor happiness.

Money in itself isn't evil. It's quite useful actually. It's a currency that helps us to exchange goods and services, so that we do not have to constantly run around like on some crazy adventure game quest, trying to find someone who will exchange our fish for bred, so that we can exchange that bred for an apple, and then exchange that apple for a banana... and then... and then...  until we finally get milk. This allows us to specialise on one thing we get really good at instead of doing everything a little, which in turn should create better products and services for everyone. So is money good?

Well, it depends. The key factor here is not the currency, it's how it's distributed. If everyone had the same amount of money and I offer you an unfair trade, you'd flat out refuse - and rightfully so. However, if you had no money and desperately needed some to buy food, you might be willing to sell the coal you mined in days and days of gruesome work for far less than it is worth.

Now here's the thing: As long as you have some money, you always have more than someone else. Which puts you into the position to make an unfair trade with that person - or to decide to make a fair trade anyhow, because you want to treat people the way you want to be treated yourself:fairly.

Few people are comfortable to propose an unfair trade right into the face of the cheated person. However, we are very careful not to dig too deeply into where exactly the goods we buy on a daily basis come from. And those companies are very customer friendly and will not stick it into your face or onto their product if it is produced unfairly.

Here's a simple exercise: How do you optimize your profits? You gain as much revenue as possible from as little investment as possible. So considering fair and unfair trade, which is the most profitable way to run a company?... Yes, exactly.

So unless a product has some kind of proof that it is produced fairly, you unfortunately would have to assume that it is not. Luckily, several companies have reacted to the customers wish to buy fairly, and there are several organizations that test products and award them with seals of quality regarding fair trade. See, this is the power of the tiny customer: If we keep asking for a certain kind of product, someone is bound to start producing it. As long as we keep buying the product, that person will stay in business.

So with every cent you pay for something, the power to decide is yours.
What do you want to invest in today?
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