Crazy. North Korea throwing poop. China going on an axe rampage. Which asylum will take those two please?

I also have been personally victimized by honk!

Given this reaction, he seems to be doing something which is working.

What people do for media attention…

Maccaroni and cheese were really meant to be Käsespätzle but for some reason didn’t.

But the are definitely called “Müllpandas” which literally translates to trash pandas.

At this stage it’s all hot air. Nobody has even started talking about how to finance it and the defense minister isn’t even 100% sure he will get his requested additional funds for the next cycle. When somebody asked him about the topic he replied that he isn’t categorically against it but he would have to finance (and restructure, as the necessary infrastructure for it has been degraded/scrapped) more important topics first.

Which will result in only those remaining which are complicit. This is clearly a negative outcome. 1. For the people resigning, as resigning didn’t advance their cause, but made the situation worse. 2. For society, because it made the institution less trustworthy.

Not surprising in a kleptocracy thogh.

In the general public I don’t think it’s pure xenophobia, but in large parts a fear of not being able to communicate. The behavior they expose then is almost indistinguishable from xenophobia and for the receiving person in no way better, though when a foreign looking person is able to communicate, most hesitations will fall away.

I know that this is obviously not applicable to 100% of the population, but so is the other belief. There are obviously also die-hard foreigners hating nationalists, as in every country.

When I was thinking about it a bit further, I realized that carbon capture is probably doomed from the start.

Most carbon emissions happen as a side effect for something which generates economic value, and thus the emissions got scaled to the extent we observe today. Everybody wants to make money, or help their community by doing so as so they (necessarily) emit carbon.

What economic incentive can people have to capture carbon? You can’t sell the result, you don’t bring value to your community, you can’t do it as a side effect… so: it won’t scale.

Having a price on carbon seems the right way, but I have the feeling that this won’t bring the extent of scale we would need.

My guess is that carbon removal will be our new normal for decades to come. We will hope to be able to change something with it, with uncertain outcomes.

Just rewatched “The Visitor”. Can’t believe I forgot about that one. I’m definitely not crying right now, no no. Thank you.

Restating my assumptions…

How much power does this thing draw?

The way I perceive PRQL is somewhat like SQLAlchemy-Core (the SQL expression layer, not the ORM). Almost a 1:1 mapping to SQL but softening the rough edges in SQL when constructing more complex queries dynamically, in particular: no function calls, no real variables, only string concatenation. While SQLAlchemy-Core lets you even extract sub-queries into variables, I don’t know about how powerful PRQL is in this regard.

From what I see from the docs I’m rather hopeful though.

The one argument that even flies understand:

Switch light on outside of my room. -> Get out!

Because they want it. It’s the main reason why they’ve built the app.

Corporate fuckups come in waves. We will have to wait for the next Twitter/Reddit/Threads/etc. protest wave and see.

Er oder sie hat ausgeschissen.

Literally means “has pooped” but has different subtexts depending on the situation, including a sense of finality.