Important context for people only reading the headline: This is about state elections in Sachsen-Anhalt, a “traditional” stronghold of AfD.

The second-best time is now though

I wouldn’t say a moon base is idiotic on its own. It seems the next logical step in space exploration after a space station like the ISS to me. But as someone who also didn’t really follow the mission: I think this is because at the same time our home (i.e. earth) has such massive problems that take up all the attention. I’m sure at boring times I would have followed that mission very closely…

I would support that plot. Don’t threaten me with a good time 😊

Trump is president. I would not be surprised at all if the US is pulling out of NATO, even if it hurts them.

Nothing that I know of🤷‍♂️

I think it is similar in Germany. Businesses buying from each other don’t have to pay VAT (so they can mark it as 0%, but it isn’t misleading either, because they actually pay 0%), so that the vat is only paid by the end consumer.

But I am just writing this from memory, so I could be off. Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong

I will lose my shit if the EU now agrees to an even shittier deal🫠

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All true, but you know: The US puts tariffs on everyone, everyone else “only” has to deal with the US. We even just made a new trade deal with half of South America. That has to be worth something, if we have to cut off the US?! Well, in practice it is now complicated because our politicians are a bit slow to recognize that the US might not be the strong partner anymore, that we had for the last 80 years. But even they will get there eventually, I hope

Yes, Wero would be a PayPal replacement, but I highlighted “widely accepted” for a reason. So far I didn’t see a single online shop where I could use it for payment. Also most banks don’t support it. As long as it stays that way, it is close to useless to me.

Also we need european alternatives to Visa and MasterCard, which Wero doesn’t even aim to be.

All in all: There ist still a long way to go… :(

All I want is some widely accepted and easy to use payment method, that I can use instead of american companies like Visa/MasterCard/PayPal. If the digital euro gets us there, let’s go!

How did nobody mention “Master and Commander”? It’s so good!

I 100% agree with you but I have a hard time convincing my team of that. And so we have a mess of a codebase… It’s not directly important to business, so it is secondary. And obviously nobody notices when fixing bugs take way longer or implementing new features introduces more new bugs than necessary, as it always has been like that. 🤷‍♂️

My only problem with vsauce is that they post only once every 2 years now. But when a new video drops I still like it a lot.

To work around that, just need to book a connection where the last train only goes once an hour (or every 30 minutes or something) with a connecting time of like 10 minutes. Then you can claim a refund even if the original train is delayed for less than one hour. Remember: The relevant part is the total delay at the destination, not delays of individual trains.

At this point I’m literally surprised when my train arrives in time. Recently I took one and even the train personnel went like “We will arrive 1 minute early, no idea how that happened”. At least it means you can almost always calculate with some partial refund😂

Or put another way: While there are bad things coming from the EU, there are actually often also pretty good things coming from it. It’s all relative of course, but I also can’t see another place where I would rather live.

FREUDE

I almost never came across a restaurant without physical menus here in Germany🤔