I think it’s fun how Zeug has gone from a technical meaning to a cute one.
The current meaning of Zeug is something like stuff or unimportant things.
It used to mean kit, gear or equipment though, which makes a lot of sense and is still visible in words like Zeugwart (equipment manager of a sports team or army).
With that knowledge, Werkzeug would just be a tool kit.
Took me a while, too.
There’s a character called “The Brain” on the children’s cartoon “Arthur” that was previously voice acted by “Steven Crowder”. After Crowder left the role, it was taken by “Haus of Decline” (person in the post).
Hard to parse if you don’t know what 3 of those 4 names are.
Personally, I turn to activism. I realized that regardless of how horrible the future will be, there’s good to do in this world.
The world is full of people who are as scared as you and I are. I can make their lives a tad more positive.
The environment is collapsing? Educate and organise, think about how to build mutual aid systems and how to sustain yourself small scale.
The economy will crash? Help others, people who got thrown to the curb by the social system, homeless people, orphans,…
Civil rights are ending? I’m trans and scared. And there’s so many other trans children that are counting on me to be the representation that I wish would have had when I was their age. I’m not going down without a fight.
Democracy is ending? Let’s focus on preserving what we can and try to rebuild. It won’t be over forever.
People being nice to and helping me often makes my day in an otherwise miserable time.I want to be that person for others.
Yes. Trumps cabinet leveraged the German company SAP to adhere to their DEI agenda. Trumps ideological ilk connects with each other worldwide to share strategies and knowledge, which of course includes our AfD, which used to be pretty vocal about their support for Trump and has now become uncannily quiet about it.