ring ring, I'm a bicycle boy now

Cleaning my apartment. Testing for appropriate emojis:

Yesterday I called my mother and she started talking about the "world situation". What confuses and worries me is that every time I corrected a point she made, she acted as if this was her position from the beginning. For example: She started by saying that she feared that Putin and the leaders in the west will start throwing nukes because they are mad and are just stupid people. When I tried to explain that the current situation in Ukraine is the result of a very specific strategical thinking and a reaction to economic demands, and that they are not just going to throw nukes out of spite, she said that she completely agrees and that she's glad that we are both so like-minded. Another example is when she later said that it's important to look at statistics to keep yourself informed about the world in an objective way. When I told her that this might not be a good idea and explained the flaws of statistics to her, she said that she of course knows that they are not objective and shouldn't be used in that way as if she knew all along.

To me it appears that she definitely understands the differences between our positions and then immediately tries to correct them by drastically changing hers (basically gaslighting me into thinking my response was wrong). But why does she do this? It's so irritating and when I try to point out that she changed her position, she just says that that's not true or she just quickly changes the subject.

For some context: This protest took place in the context of the Rosa Luxemburg conference, which is a yearly event organized by the newspaper "junge Welt". As they reported, multiple participants of the protest were heavily injured, including broken bones and a life threatening injury of an elderly man (German interview with a paramedic). As far as I can tell, the injured policemen are, unfortunately, not in a life threatening situation. The headline that they are injured is probably only right wing propaganda.

If you scramble a block of tofu in a pan and season it with kala namak (black salt), nutmeg, paprika and chives you get a pretty good scrambled egg, you filthy blood mouth you.

I can't believe I just spilled a whole cup of coffee on the wall behind my desk. Now the wall looks like shit and I will have to paint it eventually. What an annoying way to start the new year.

stuck in a train > stuck in a traffic jam

This comes off as needlessly insulting. Declaring a bunch of philosophers as Hitlerites (Adorno had to flee from the Nazis, you know, and psychoanalysis didn't have such a good standing with them either) without elaborating and then saying someone is seething with Hitler particles (whatever that means) because they expressed a genuine interest in discussing philosophy is some weak ass shit.

Yeah, I thought as much. I will not agree to anything but being paid and if they insist I will make them do so in writing.

A few month back I was offered a new contract at work with 50% more working hours, which I accepted. So the past few month I've been working according to the new contract. But because I have a ton of things to do besides working this job and because I am really bad with my finances, I didn't notice that they never adjusted my pay. Apparently someone in the administration has misread the new number of hours I was supposed to work and they now told me that it might not be possible to pay me the missing amount of money (they didn't say why). Instead, I will be compensated for it by having to work less in the following month.

But I do want my money and I already talked with one of my superiors about it, who told me that she once was retroactively paid for over a year of work. So it seems that the administration just doesn't want to be bothered with suckers like me. I will know how this all turns out next week.

I'm also confused about how they blew it up. I assumed they bombed it when I read about it but it looks like they used controlled explosives to collapse the building, or am I wrong? The fact that they filmed it in this way seems to affirm that they did it with controlled explosives (at least I haven't seen them film a bombing in this way).

Whenever I read about this shit I always have to think about Adam from Doctor Who.