TomK32

About 50% of passenger vehicle occupants killed in 2022 were not buckled in[0]. All cars are death machines, but as long as their users are too stupid and ignorant to do ONE SIMPLE ACTION before every drive to save their OWN LIFE, I don't see why a vehicle that is perfect for Japan should be banned in the USA.

[0] https://www.nhtsa.gov/vehicle-safety/seat-belts

The two hard things in computing: Naming things, invalidating cache and off-by-one errors.

Hans Christian Andersen died in 1875, the copyright is long expired but of course there might be other right-holders on the title or such.

Why would you want to write his story like this? The whole point of it is for the girl to die in cold, a critique of society's downlooking stance on poverty; just like Jonathan Swift wrote in his work a century earlier and looking at the number of children in poverty in Europe and the US I'd say there's no happy end in sight. 30% of the children in UK live in poverty, 21% in Germany, even Finland (which simply houses the homeless) has a rate of 10%.

Cinderella doesn't even have it's name from the German versions, that'd be Aschenputtel or Aschenbrödel, but from the French variant which was already 1700 years old when you take the story of Rhodopis from ancient greek as its origin (as far as we know now). The greek geographer recorded: "They [the Egyptians] tell the fabulous story that, when she was bathing, an eagle snatched one of her sandals from her maid and carried it to Memphis; and while the king was administering justice in the open air, the eagle, when it arrived above his head, flung the sandal into his lap; and the king, stirred both by the beautiful shape of the sandal and by the strangeness of the occurrence, sent men in all directions into the country in quest of the woman who wore the sandal; and when she was found in the city of Naucratis, she was brought up to Memphis, and became the wife of the king."

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

Two years ago I saw an excellent performance of Rossini's La Cenerentola at the Volksoper in Vienna, they put the choir into a 24-legged horse costume to pull the prince's carriage. https://www.volksoper.at/produktion/la-cenerentola-aschenbro...

That's true. In 100 years when people see Winnie the Pooh they won't remember that it was once used to make fun of some chinese dude.

Water retention also helps to prevent flash floods downstream and reduces the spikes in city water canals.

Do cars cease to exist when they are not driven? No. They sit in a parking space, most likely in the open air where they take away space for trees. Cars is why cities heat up. Put them into expensive parking houses or underground parking to have more surface space for trees.

Cars are used only 5% of the time, the rest of the day most of them sit around. They sit around in the sun, heat up and only disperse this heat during the night. Without those massive metal blocks in our streets, instead of large trees, the air could stay cooler during the day and night.

just leaving this here... https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/25/shadia...

In Nazi Germany you risked a lot more than prison for listening to the BBC, though most death sentences were in combination with some treason accusations. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verordnung_%C3%BCber_au%C3%9Fe...

Russia and China are doing it on a much worse level and as the language barriers are quite high we don't see and hear of what they say about the West in their media. The French-German broadcaster ARTE has a good series called Fake News that lifts the curtain a bit https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlQWnS27jXh8H1ej2-Sk0...

It's not just poor people who don't want to rely on cars but also those too young to have a license, or momentarily too sick or simply too old to drive safely and of course those with suspended licenses for whatever reason. Mobility should be a right for everyone, not just car owners.

It's quite sad how many disposable e-smoke thingies one can find littering the streets, even in a quite nice city like the one I live. OTOH: Most times it's another small rechargeable battery for my electronics projects. Madness

Or we have become stupid enough to start projects that in the case of nuclear power plants are mostly over budget, over time and with the unsolved long-term problem of nuclear waste. Imagine all that money back then invested into solar research and building wind farms.

It was only in 1991 the Sozialistische Partei Österreichs changed it's name to Sozialdemokratische Partei Österreichs.

Like most tutorials I've seen this lacks on the AllowedIPs part on the client's peer. First of all it creates routes on the client side and secondly you can configure this quite a lot by giving it a comma separated list of networks or giving it a route-all by using 0.0.0.0/0

Not that is configured on the client side, if you don't want the client to mess around in your server's network beyond certain IPs, then you need to add a firewall on the server.

Even 1 in a million (planets) would allow for 100 thousand solar systems in the 100 billion stars strong galaxy to have at least one tectonic active planet; not counting moons.

Of course they can and are welcome to, but even though I agree with many things any variations of the past German governments have brought into law it doesn't mean I have to agree on all of them. And let's be honest: The TV and radio landscape has opened a lot over the past nine decades, unlike print media it had a few decades of being shielded from competition but why does it have to continue like this?

The current Rundfunkbeitrag which forces everyone to pay for something regardless wether they own a TV or radio, was introduced on January 1st 2013 and AFD was founded on February 6th the same year. Are 35 days a significant difference?

I didn't mind the old system to finance ARD/ZDF/... as I don't care about TV or radio and choose not to have either, but the new system is just not fair.

The French were smart enough to change their funding to be drawn from the general state budget: Less effort and no more grumpy people like me.

I wouldn't call it "anti-competitive fear mongering" when one player in the market can rely on a virtually guaranteed income (you'd have to be homeless to avoid the Rundfunktbeitrag) while newspapers, private TV and radio have to fight for survival. ARD and ZDF buying and thus supporting the insane amounts that some sport events cost in license fees doesn't do FIFA and IOC any good as scandals of recent years have shown. Carlos Nuzman who ran the 2016 games got 30 years for his corruption schemes.

It's 18,36€ per month, not 17.

If you don't want people who don't care for TV or Radio (they do exist) to vote for AfD then you shouldn't have introduced a Rundfunkbeitrag that's very unpopular with many more. Scandals about money being badly spent just adds to the distrust and lack of interest people have in ARD, ZDF etc.

They even had electricity thanks to Charlie Watts.

6min/km is an average pace, so I do wonder why you still hate it? Have you looked into your cadence? Are you steps too long or the shoes too hard? Or do you have to run through post-apocalyptic ruins?

I'm a cyclist, 100km without much effort, but a year ago I started running and it was super hard. The muscles are used differently, the body get impacted with every step and it takes some learning to find the right speed to reach whatever your target is. Pain kills the fun, the only way to succeed is to start slow and on short distances.

My goal was strengthening hip (one side has a three plates and a few screws in it) and knee mobility, with losing weight being an extra that I only reach this spring due to diet changes. I did find my Zone 2, where I can chat with a running buddy, and slowly extended the distances I run: Now 5km at 5:40m/km are the norm and 10km is just as possible. Injury-free so far and no ambition for a Marathon. The thing I now have to work at is the cadence which I (at 193cm) had trouble with on the bike as well, but shorter strides at a higher cadence are important to prevent knee injuries.

Whatever you do, I think sticking to it at least three times a week so you look forward for the next run, feel well during it and keep healthy. This is more important than beating records or running insane distances. Those goals are for those with the right genetics.

I was curious, 300 minority languages are spoken in China, spread across 55 minority ethnic groups https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_China

It's not only Germany but also Austria and France (until 2004?). The Germany Wegzugsbesteuerung is meant to prevent cases where Germans leave the country for more than seven (or twelve upon request) years, e.g. to Switzerland, sell their Germany company stock and profit from paying a much lower tax or none like in Switzerland. Steuerflucht, tax evasion is prevented with this and there are certainly many who'd other move abroad, sell without taxation and move back again. There a plenty of exceptions though with countries Germany has a Doppelbesteuerungsabkommen (double taxation treaty) with to prevent cases where the individual would have to pay taxes in both countries.

Personally I never heard of this tax before, despite being a German living in Austria, but then: The tax targets wealthy individuals with company holdings trying to evade taxation. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wegzugsbesteuerung

It's amazing how much work they've put into creating this quite unique configuration just to find out the stall behaviour.

Isn't the most likely candidate for the Great Flood the Black Sea being flooded? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sea_deluge_hypothesis

Re 6. Listing so many mistakes the System Administrator surely never does is Blasphemy!

Having read the article: Yes, against Hutchinson will, customers kept buying the Rabbit that was about to be killed...