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.

I agree with jay: unless you’re already an EU citizen, you’ll need to look at the visas and immigration rules for each of the countries more than just which languages to focus on.

I don’t know a lot about their immigration rules or LGBTQ+ situations. I moved to Germany because of the work visa options I had at the time.

Berlin is such a melting pot. “Whatever, just wash your hands and recycle that trash properly.”

Mülltrennung (waste separation) is a big deal in Germany.

Actually, I haven’t tried it yet. It’s on the list for a visit, though.

Captured is for people at war. Kidnapped is the right term for what happened here.

Yes! Also quite tasty. Sehr lecker.

I like it much more than my kids, but I’ve always been a huge fan of wraps.

We’re doing our part! We moved to Berlin from the US. Brought two STEM phds and four kids with us. The kids are all going to university (now or will be soon).

Aside from learning new papierkram skills the real only problem has been finding ways to not eat döner every day.

Berlin is up to about 30% first and second generation immigrants. It’s very international. It’s the second largest city in the world for Turkish populations after Istanbul.

Those early days (Quake, UT, CS). Grab a gun and go. No real levels, buying hats, or special equipment only the richest can afford.

Yeah, I’d get thrashes by good players, but not because they have different equipment or loyalty/grind/pay-to-play items. A level playing field where getting murdered was just. Those were good days.

Not great, mostly because we don’t have close enough family in Canada. They’re all too many branches out on the family tree to count.

I might have filled things in wrong since I did it quickly, but it’s fun to see how governments try to balance different kinds of immigrations needs and skills.

• Pro slavery
• Pro racism & fear
• Flag of traitors.

If someone actively wants it around they get to pick from that list as to why. Any other stated reason beyond academic study is just them being cowards in addition to their real reason from above.

You’re spot on here. The list there was heavily subsidized by government funding. NIH, DARPA, NSF, NASA, etc made those be discovered and initially refined. Many are still heavily subsidized by government funding.

There’s an initial investment stage that takes risk, but after that, it’s mostly about refinement and efficiency. Capitalism tries to exploit those government funds then spread the risk followed by retreading old ideas for new dollars. Capitalism invents few things because it’s risky. It’s really good at monopolizing existing things and eventually driving the efficiency of exploitation to the umpteenth degree.

It’s all about attention. People need attention. They’re willing to do anything to get it. The question becomes whether they have positive and orderly means of getting attention or negative and chaotic means.

When were young we get shown what it takes. Our strategies are formed by our experiences. Unfortunately, there’s some very large cultural groups that only teach their children how to get attention via negative means. They’ll get angrier and order until you notice them. You don’t have to like them, only see them.

One route to getting attention is to just be a loud, angry, asshole in public. Generally do things to make people deal with you because you’ve got no other routes to validation or attention. The US loud car cultures are one of those strategies. Cara are anonymous, we live in isolating communities, and if you can make your presence loud enough people will be forced to give you the attentive n you crave. It’s pretty, childish, and spiteful, but at least you’re not nobody anymore.

Choosing loud cars is literally killing people. The research is finding that living in places with elevated noise levels is shortening lifespans through stresses from fight or flight reactions over time.

All of this are showing symptoms of much deeper societal trauma that will plague us for generations.

In the mean time, I vote we find cars that exceed a sound db rating and crush them immediately. No questions. Drag them to the machine and cube them.

Fingers crossed we can find a few more episodes of Doctor Who as well. The cache of tapes found a few years ago at a TV station were a wonderful find.

Nothing but the basics that way!

The hardest core version I saw someone do that was long ago. My best friend and I were using OpenBSD back in early 2000’s. He installed a minimal install. From there he pulled the source tree makefiles. Then he started running make on Mozilla (pre firefox days). He just kept building, patching, fixing, and hammering away. Eventually he built the whole GUI environment, dependencies, and Mozilla which took that computer months to complete it all.

Today, he’s the lead engineer for a massive tech company.

The annoying younger sibling?

After a run of RedHat - Fedora - OpenBSD - OSX to about 2007, I gave Debian more of a try in the form of #! Linux. That was a great minimalist distro. Ever since then it’s just one Debian variant or another. It does the job with minimal fuss.

It really helps that I don’t push the hardware with shiny new equipment or need much in 3D drivers. Linux Mint on desktops, Debian servers, Ubuntu only for driver issues, Raspian/Armbian on SBCs.

Here’s the dumb part: nothing beyond old men wanting to grab power.

I was on the Tesla 3 waiting list many years ago. When I hit the top of the list I wasn’t totally ready to buy it just yet so I stalled. Eventually I got moved to the Tesla Y list and again waited while family things sorted out. In the end, I got my reservation money back and I’m very very very glad that I didn’t buy:

• A new car for no real reason (I drove my 2004 Subaru for another 10 years or so)
• A car product that’s turning out to be of terrible longevity
• From a Nazi

Drove the 2004 Subaru until we sold it and moved to a country where we don’t need a car at all. Much better way of life.

Planting trees and posts by the roads also helps.

Pedestrian first timing on the crossings.

Even better: roundabouts. They fucking work, even if people have to learn how to use them for a bit.