My girlfriend does ❤️

Huh old Walter Koenig looks a lot like Elliot Page.

Iirc for the DB a train is considered on time when it's not later than 7 min on arrival. Which is a joke if you miss your following connection.

A “normal accident” is an emergent disaster, arising from a complex and highly technical system whose components are tightly coupled, meaning that the state of one component significantly affects others. Perrow wrote that in simple mechanical systems, a high degree of reliability can be achieved through the use of independent and redundant components, but as system complexity increases, especially when human organizations are involved, true redundancy among the components ceases to exist, and failures or errors may trigger a “cascade” that propagates through the system until disaster occurs. Cascades are, by their very nature, difficult or impossible to fully predict until they occur.

• Admiral Cloudberg paraphrasing Charles Perrows 1984 book 'Normal Accidents'

Last week my girlfriend and I bravely ate a whole cake in the shed to protect the kid from the sugar.

"Hitler - bad. Moving on."

What about wind turbines? They use wind, which mainly is generated by the Sun unevenly heating a vast body of fluid, creating pressure gradients that set it in motion, which... in turn drives a turbine… goddammit.

Sometimes I forget there are places where health insurance isn't universal and was a little confused reading your comment.

Modern medicine makes anything possible, so much that STDs became an issue in old folks homes. Granny still likes to get freaky.

Initial planning of Nordstream 1 started in 1995, building started 2010 and was finalized 2012. Nordstream 2 on the other hand was planned 2013, although building started 2018 so well into the war, but was stopped by US sanctions in 2019. Nordstream 1 was a project to connect the Russian federation closer to Europe, at that time a reasonable project (although still fucking greedy) Nordstream 2 is a different story propelled by greed and disregard for Russian crimes.

Just trying to point out the nuances in German/Russian relations during the last 30.years.

I have two furry air defense missiles, ever time something flying enters my apartment I just wish it good luck. Bugs, flies, mosquitos, they all die and get munched within minutes. I just have to keep an eye out for wasps and bees because I don't want to take that trip to the vet. It's a purring iron dome.

The grandma of a friend used to say 'Wish in one hand and shit in the other and see which one is filled afterwards'