(I've settled for baba instead of papa) (papa is german for dad)

We have this music box for our 1yo and there are a lot kid songs in different pop music styles and she loved "the one with the trumpets". I never really was into ska so I'm asking the collective for the best ska songs they know so I can surprise her with a playlist.

edit: sorry its been hectic and I couldn't get to this "project", thank you all so much for your suggestions!

I'm screamen!

The last weeks have been really stressful and my exam prep suffered greatly, the last two days I was catatonic with anxiety, I was going through the options of whether it's better to pass with a bad grade or to throw and get more prep time (and more stress) for another attempt.

Well the questions were absolute softballs, compared to what I was preparing. My anxiety kept tripping me up so the prof had to give me hints otherwise I would have scored even higher! So even through all the sicknesses, the current high levels of stress and sickening anxiety and 4 hours of sleep I got freaking 85%!

Also in large parts thanks to my wife who basically carried me through this period.

This kid is reaching levels of cuteness that might give me a heart attack. He cant purse his lips so he puts his hand over his mouth and then extends it forward while making a smacking sound and then delights in all the adults around him losing any sense of propriety or dignity aahing and oohing and trying to get him to send them kisses as well lol

Then he shits himself. I love him so much.

We want to paint a rainbow on a white wall, but dont know what color codes to get. How am I supposed to convert light frequencies into RAL color codes this shit blows. Maths was never meant to be applied to the real world.

I've been going through Crit's absolute beginner reading list and I keep putting down "Elementary principles of philosophy" and skipping ahead to the other books because I just fail to see the value in a deep dive to philosophy in order to learn about history and economy and so on. I would like to skip it completely but don't want to miss important fundamentals.

It's such a hard read for me because it keeps rubbing me the wrong way with stuff like

Then there are the scholars, unknowingly materialistic and inconsequential. They are materialists in the laboratory, then, when they come out of their work, they are idealists, believers, religious.

In fact, [the shameful materialists] did not know or did not want to put their ideas in order. They are in perpetual contradiction with themselves. They separate their work, necessarily materialistic, from their philosophical conceptions. They are "scientists", and yet, if they do not expressly deny the existence of matter, they think, which is unscientific, that it is useless to know the real nature of things. They are "scientists" and yet they believe without any proof in impossible things. (See the case of Pasteur, Branly and others who were believers, whereas the scientist, if he is consistent, must abandon his religious belief).

so I cant be a christian and marxist? Even worse I'm also a mathematician, I formulate ideas and theories and proofs with absolutely zero regard for any material reality. None. I will take an infinite number of unprovable, non-material statements as true, and to top it all off, unable to show that my axiomatic set theory is at least internally consistent, just believe it to be free of contradiction. Thus if someone proves how some seemingly obvious statement leads to a contradiction in my system I will thank them for proving that the statement must be false. In fact the proof of such nonsensical statements is often the highlight of a math course (I mean this kind of shit is awesome). The poor physicists then have to deal with the fallout of our complete disregard for material reality. But they're the scientist so what do I (speaking as an idealist mathematician) care, they're the materialists.

As a christian I at least double check if what I believe in contradicts scientific statements and amend my belief system, not deny the scientific statement (oh the earth wasn't created in 6 days? Guess I will have to revise what I assumed to be true). But why should the scientist care if I believe in a reality outside of the material one, they won't be able to study it anyway.

Now if I want to understand history or economy or anything else within material reality, I obviously have to use my senses or rely on the senses of others and study the state of the matter at some point in time that would have existed even if I didn't. Then formulate thought based on those observations. But why is it so important to literally always do that?

And what am I supposed to be getting out of this whole mess in order to better understand marxist/leninist/anarchist/whatever else theory????

This is from the leading public-service news program. They are considered to be very objective and reporting without bias by large groups in Germany.

The former US Secretary of State has died at the age of 100. The german-born nobel peace prize winner had a decisive impact on US foreign policy in the 1970s under then President Nixon and Ford.

The former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger is dead. The controversial Nobel peace prize winner and diplomat died on Wednesday at the age of 100 in his home in Connecticut, said the consultancy firm he founded, Kissinger Associates.

As a security advisor and foreign minister to US Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford the republican significantly shaped US foreign policy. His efforts led to a opening of diplomatic relations with China, to arms regulation negotiations between the USA and the Soviet Union, to an improvement of the relationships between Israel and its arab neighbours and to the Paris Peace Accords with North Vietnam.

Born in Germany

Heinz Alfred Kissinger was born into a Jewish family in Fürth, Franconia, on May 27, 1923; his father worked as a teacher at a local high school. In 1938 he fled Nazi Germany with his family. The Kissingers eventually settled in Manhattan, where Heinz became Henry.

After a career in science, the political scientist became national security advisor in the White House and later US Secretary of State in 1968 when the Republican Nixon was elected president.

Nobel Peace Prize for contribution to the peace treaty with Vietnam

In the struggle for a peace solution to the Middle Ease conflict, Kissinger was the first to practice so-called “shuttle diplomacy”. He tried to bring the USA and China closer together through secret channels.

Kissinger also initiated talks on the Treaty of Paris in January 1973, which enabled the United States to withdraw from the deadly and costly Vietnam War. Two years later, Saigon fell to the communist Viet Cong. Kissinger received the Nobel Peace Prize for the ceasefire agreement with North Vietnam.

Much-criticized pioneer of realpolitik

Kissinger also advocated a course of detente towards the Soviet Union. During the Watergate scandal involving eavesdropping on political opponents under Nixon, Kissinger's influence grew.

He was considered an advocate of realpolitik, according to which the means of diplomacy should be used to achieve pragmatic goals and not primarily to advance noble ideals. His advocates credited him with serving American interests with his approach. Critics, however, accused him of pursuing diplomacy based on power politics, which ran counter to democratic values. His support of anti-communist dictatorships, especially in Latin America, also brought him a lot of criticism.

Publicly active until the end

Ford called Kissinger a "super-secretary of state," but also pointed to his sharpness and self-assurance, which critics described as paranoia and egotism. Ford said, "Henry never made a mistake in his mind."

Kissinger remained active after his 100th birthday, attending White House meetings, publishing a book on leadership and testifying before a Senate committee about the nuclear threat from North Korea. In July 2023 he made a surprise visit to Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Such a sweet sweet torture, I dont wanna be here but I cant learn with him in the same flat and the pictures remind me of what I'm missing but I also don't want them to stop.

IANAL