Mark me shocked. Well, not too shocked.

Of course they’re a bunch of lying fucktards. They want power over other people because they’re failures in life (either by their own efforts and/or society failing us all). They don’t care what lies they tell to get it.

If you add up all of their penis lengths, you almost get an average one.

So a combination of bribery for votes and a pathetically small amount? $100 isn’t even a half cart of groceries anymore in the US.

I have a an automatic $2/mo donation to Wikipedia set up. Of all of the sites I’m more than willing to support with hard currency, it’s the one.

$2 isn’t much, but if we all do it, it’ll keep the best online resource for general information we have on the planet operating. Very worth it.

The secret ingredient is either racism, homophobia, or religious hatred. It’s like choose your own adventure with these people.

Some 25 years ago when the RIAA was going apeshit over online sharing of music they were happily suing people left and right.

At some point they argued that no computer should ever make a copy of music without a license. The opposition proceeded to demonstrate how computers work. They make many copies of data files while processing them in the CPU, RAM, cache, omin temp files, etc. The judge did temporarily order that only one canopy could be made, but after the education, said fine: if the RIAA wants to let it stand, then they can’t distribute via any computer systems anywhere by their own rules.

In the end, the case was dropped and computers got to keep processing data as per normal.

I’m in Berlin, Germany.

Inside the Ringbahn (a circle route train around the city), most of the city is inanely walkable.

Within a few minutes walking if my apartment we have everything for daily needs. Within 15 minutes by public transit we have everything else.

It’s wonderful.

At the moment I’m having to wait outside a Starbucks in Northern Idaho (family obligations). The sheer pain of the traffic, pollution, noise, and knowing that I can’t walk to anything in a reasonable timeframe (car mandatory life) is awful. It’s my first time back to the US in a year and it’s convincing me minute by minute that I made the correct choice by leaving.

Not yet. It’s often discussed, though. Once you’ve got free movement for work, businesses quickly begin expanding internationally, which boosts all kinds of economic activity.

Finally! Barcelona is leading the way to a modern city. This is what a developed nation looks like.

Being dependent on a car for your survival is just asking for trouble.

A nation built upon requiring gas cars to survive is in a self-created national security emergency just waiting to happen.

Awesome. My neighborhood scores a 95. I moved there for many reasons, but never owning a car again is on the goal list.

I’ve lived there for a year. Never missed my old USA style car serfdom for a single day.

They’ll spend 6 months decision ng which color of paper to use for the first angry letter to send. Then, another 6 months arguing about what topics to include in the first angry letter.

Once they send it 18 months after the election, the fascists will ignore it for 6 months, and then everyone says “oh well, time for another election” and then tries to claim they should be reelected for a fourteenth term because they’re doing such great work.

The rail upgrades in Germany are ongoing and extensive. The problem is the sheer scale of the work. Germany has a massive rail network, and they’re about 70 years behind on rail maintenance.

It’ll just take time, and fixing sections doesn’t make those sections all fixed if other sections still have breakdowns that cascade over.

The stations are also undersized for the scale of passengers and trains. Those take even longer to fix, often because they decide to go for awesome architecture and non-disruptive tunneling instead of quick and disruptive options.

Germany will sort it out someday, but it’s a 20 year fix, not a two year one.

This is the kind of over the top nerding out that makes the world an awesome place.

Why write in Brainfuck? Because we can. Why make a complex mathematical rendering system in Brainfuck? Because we can. Why share it? To be a ruler among princes.

Thank you, crazy techies of the world. I’ll be citing this project for years to come in my classes alongside others like the 32bit cpu in Minecraft and the processor simulator in LaTeX. Fuck yes.

If a vehicle goes over 25 kph in Germany it’s a moped. You need a drivers license, insurance and registration. So, many imported E-bikes legally require moped rules, but all too few follow it.

You already could. Her boyfriend (while not in jail) had a startup in an secretive, novel, and huge promises medical devices company…

Seriously, the grift never ends.

I had two stolen this morning!

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

1984, by George Orwell

That needs to be branded on everyone who demands it of us. They’re your enemy and should be treated as such.

We are lucky to have moved to Germany. When building out our kitchen almost no appliances had “smart” tech features. We just bought slightly upgraded defaults from the kitchen designer and they’re big standard devices. It’s wonderful and normal.

In the upper photo it’s more like 15 people at most. The inefficiency of cars astounding once you actually start paying attention to it. Moving to cars for every transit mode is in the 10 ten worst decisions humanity has ever made.