09 August 2024
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Sometimes, once in a while i reenter the "normal" surface
web besides the few pages i visit normally to just get a
feeling for what i am missing. Yesterday, after now living
"abstinent" for a longer time i peeked into reddit
again... oh boy. Perhaps i am getting old, but the simply
mind numbing idiocy going on even in big subreddits (just to
give an example: r/de) is just unbelievable. There hast to
be just ONE OPINION and if you don't subscribe to this idea
or think you may just have a slightly different take on this
idea you are a Nazi, a fascist, a horrible person, stupid and
absolutely lost. After losing as much braincells as if i had
spend the time gulping hard liquor i closed my browser,
reintroduced my reddit block into my firewall and headed
back for the much calmer waters of the smol net...

On a more positive note: Yesterday we also took a little
family trip to the Zoo in Frankfurt, the first time for
junior and he absolutely loved it. What I personally loved
was how good the rail transport worked, against my fears
(somewhat justified ones after commuting by train for a
long time) everything worked absolute flawlessly... we rode
by car from our village to the next bigger city (our village
HAS a train station, but a train arrives only every hour),
from Marburg we then rode by train to Frankfurt (about an
hour) and from there by tram to the zoo. We first feared
that junior would be bored on the train ride, but he quiet
enjoyed it. The zoo itself is worth a visit, and there was a
lot of people (especially those with children)
visiting. Astounding on a normal work day like
yesterday. The ride home did also go smooth, even a bit more
so because junior was sound asleep most of the time.

We think we will do more daytrips like this one in the
coming weeks / monhts, our son seems now at an age where he
starts to enjoy those things.