If you have to tell everyone you’re a king, then you’re not a king.

I used to be intrigued by tiny homes. They’re enough room for one or two people, but not a place I’d try to raise a kid.

I recently went from a 3k sq ft US home to a 1100sq ft apartment and this apartment feels big. The difference mostly centers around how much furniture and other home maintenance materials I used to have.

It also helps that we moved to a European city so we don’t have a car and related support equipment.

Looking at a 350 sq ft tiny home, if it was just down to myself and a partner, we could do it. The whole goal would be to not spent huge amounts of time at home, but to go to 3rd places and hobbies away from home. Rural or suburban living makes that harder than where we’re at now, but it’s doable.

The bigger the cross you wave, the smaller the heart is behind it.

I guess they’ve got spare time now that everyone in the Epstein-Trump files have been brought to justice for the child rape and Dow is over 50,000.

Ist this the same kind of shit the government pulled in the 1950’s with Elvis’ early performances? These evil people really do want to bring back the 1950’s.

This kind of stupid: http://www.elvis-history-blog.com/elvis-sex.html

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.

And then when the wheels come off you just need to sit through a bunch of boring congressional hearings before they cut you a really big cheque.

Now that’s a dedication to Nerdiness that the Web used to reek of! Thank you for linking to that.

I would challenge their final paragraph about medical staff. Given the length of time Voyager was traveling, I’d expect at least one or two members to learn at least some medical skills to augment sickbay. They might be official medical staff, but any sideways references to a ‘team’ or pluralized sickbay could be easily handled by anyone who crash coursed into it.

I would also like to see the square meters per Voyager crew member. The ship had tons of space to go around.

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

The EU at least tries to deal with these criminals. The US is just a “fuck the peasants” kind of place.

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.

Really‽ That sounds bannanas!

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.