Switzerland doesn’t play when it comes to trains:

https://www.iamexpat.de/expat-info/germany-news/sbb-cuts-deutsche-bahn-trains-switzerland-over-chronic-delays

If there’s nothing else, Germany can complain about Deutsche Bahn! I have a long commute to work (my employer ist sehr schlect in some ways), so I’ve spent many months playing “will it, won’t it” on RE train delays. I even had one vanish on the app after it claimed to pass through my station. Geistbahn!

The dumb part is that I started visiting Germany back in 1995. The trains ran much better. Nich so viel Störungen oder unregelmaßig dingen. Good memories only cover over so many cracks, though.

It’ll only take about 20 years of big investment to rebuild the train network after so many decades of underinvestment by conservative governments. No worries, any day now.

I kept seeing discussions about the way things generally work in Europe, the rights people have, and the cultural appreciation for people’s health and I finally said “fuck it! Let’s move to Europe”. I’d been visiting for decades off and on, so we made it permanent.

It only took three years of applying for jobs, saving, and finally getting all of our family needs in order, but we did it. If you can, give it a look.

Mülltrennung ist seht wichtig! Wir wissen das, aber die Gelbetonne ist komisch.

Unsere Wohnung hat kein nachbar jetzt. Es ist ein neues bau, und die Vermieter ist Meiter suchen. Ruhezeit ist sind die besten teil von Deutschland!

Bingo! Yeah, it’s bad there.

I had my first real sickness for time off since I moved to Germany. I had a call with a doctor, they pushed a sick note into the digital health system, and my company noted it as paid time off.

Modern civilization in a developed nation rocks.

Now if we could just get the paperwork to die down a bit… Oh, and find a way to get the trains on time!

Undeveloped societies can be like that. It’s often places that don’t have many rights for the citizens and are worse off in wealth then the pre French Revolution France. Basically peasants with smart phones given this day and age.

Vertical spinning wheels to pick the hours suck donkey balls. WTF is up with those? You want to set it to 9 pm, so we get to spin the hour wheel up and down until we hit 9, then it always defaults to the current minute, so you get to spin it up and up and up and up until you get to 00 minutes, overshoot to 05, and then dial it back down.

There’s WAY better solutions for this available. Why use the ones invented 25 years ago?

Bingo. You’ve nailed it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torment_Nexus

I just pulled out a spare laptop to try some new distros to help advise someone about their options. I installed a few and gauged how easy/simple it would be for each one in regards to their needs.

It wasn’t distro hopping in that I wasn’t really using them beyond testing, but it was checking out options, settings, and tools. In the end, they’ll have to decide on what works best for them.

How can you even fit it into a single chunk? You’ve got to set the chunk size big enough to have the room for the whole Redstone network. I made a spot with some simple logic gates (a flip flop and an xor gate for controls) and it took up a lot of volume for even something that simple.

Even just an ALU is going to be physically massive.

Brilliant.

I’d put it up there with the CPU emulator done in LaTeX.

A pair of simple latching straps from IKEA. They cost €5 and we use them constantly:

• hauling furniture
• tying up garbage bags for carrying bundles
• holding packages together for transit
• strapping blankets up for trips

They’re incredibly important to being able to easily haul/carry things around.

Both German companies. The Meile units are likely made in Germany while the Bosch ones in the US are made in the US.

Look up the German ChanceKarte. It’s a job seeker visa with a preference for STEM fields. You’d get a year to look for work while living in Germany.

We definitely noticed the cheap tickets right now. We’re working on flying more of our kids out of the US to Europe to emigrate permanently as they finish school. It’s a great time to fly out.

WTF even is a Microsoft SlopC? Something that has hardware to speed up their AI deleting important files and sending your private data to hackers? I don’t think we need that fast-tracked, Windows 11 already does it well enough.

“Give me a peace award or I’ll kill you!”

Given that there’s no proof he exists and (if you’re a Bible person) he claimed he’d be back before the original followers in 0 CE would die, he’s well behind on his own schedule. He’s about as fast as California High Speed Rail or any small construction project in Germany.

Once Cali HSR is finished, your “Lord” would consider taking it to SF for some R&R.

Cocktails. Just need some bottles.