These words were just on my tongue.

Jon needs a carbon monoxide detector and a new oven.

Use this instead when you’re in Germany:

https://youtu.be/3GkjtGKbo94?si=P3UGgXr4pZmRIPfM

Ascheim? Kirchheim? Heimstetten? Ich meine das war irgendwas nah an der A99 hier bei München.

Oh man, from time to time I miss my W124. It was a 300CE coupe in that violet-ish color (Bornit), that people either love or hate.

Where’s the problem? If the door opens blows out en route the astronauts will probably still reentry.

Now I am completely unsure whether to call this a dad joke.

https://youtu.be/0XOKvFyNquM?si=3vnkLur3A79V3J9q

Sorry for making fun about your typo, but the thought of a cussion - a cushion that cusses like a sailor every time you sit on it - is too funny.

It’s probably also a matter of perspective and where in the world you live.

I feel specifically the last 25 years have been specifically bad with the outbreak of quite a number of wars. Starting with two gulf wars, balkan war, several wars around the russian influence sphere, a lot going on in africa, wars nearly forgotten by the media like Yemen, and ultimately Israel/Gaza…

It 's a shit show, globally right now.

The footrest is still there in a manual car. The brake pedal is smaller, the clutch in between.

When you brake you hit the clutch with the left foot and brake with the right one on the brake pedal. Unintentionally smashing the wider brake pedal can happen if you switch from a smaller car to one with a very wide brake pedal. (Mercedes have quite wide brake pedals, for example)

It also happened a few times to me over my. life until I got used to put my left foot very close to the seat when driving automatic, so I don’t subconsciously use it. (Just “away” from where I’d have it in a manual car)

It typically happens if you need to do emergency braking anyways and just all the reflexes kick in. In normal situations it never happened to me.

I was sarcastic. In Germany. He was very adept at arranging himself during the war and also afterwards.

I have reason to believe he was one of those who chose to ignore things, that’s why I can’t stand such people - just like the woman in the video.

“They are all Nazis over there” is something you try to put into my mouth.

I said it is the same situation in Russia where people do not speak up against what their country does. I also understand if they fear repercussions.

But this woman, who said she was in Brazil before, just whines around, “Russia is strong” and obviously is very OK with what happens or chooses to ignore it. She has been out of Russia for some time, she has seen other. media.

What I said - the same what happened in Germany is happening in Russia right now. People CHOOSING not to see and not to, speak about it.

I never said anything about “all” Russians.

Don’t try to put words in my mouth.

What I expect - yes demand - from someone like this woman is acknowledging what happens.

All those Hitler comparisons hit very close, as I’m German, born long after the war. It was. my grandparent generation that allowed things to happen.

I have utmost respect for people who speak out against atrocities their country does, but in sucj a case - Hitler or Putin - being silent is agreeing.

The woman in this video just whines how everyone treats her badly. If she had said one time, she understands because of what her country does - and then say, how it makes her life bad, I could somehow sympathize. This way - I can not.

I have a Russian coworker who started business meetings with a minute of silence for the Ukrainian victims during the full invasion. That is something I can respect.

I never got any details, but I have reason to believe my own grandfather arranged himself with the Nazis, some say he was a party member. Others say, he and my grandma hid someone from them. Nevertheless he managed to own a soft drink factory (and quickly got a Coca Cola contract after the war)

I’m fucking fed up with people who arrange themselves with dictators and are just opportunists. As this woman obviously is.

Yes, riiiiiiight - as well as my grandparent generation had noooothing to do with the things that happened here in Germany during WW2.

I would get it if she’d acknowledge what her country does and state that she doesn’t agree with Russia invading other countries. But this tearful “everyone treats us soooo bad”, blaming everyone else… fuck, no.

Ja ich weiß wo ich bin, aber:

https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV-B-Gone

By the way, random selection is one of the few methods to guarantee a fair and representatative sample.

In case of a library I’d want at least part of the catalog represent media of the times is was created, because science also uses that.

One reason archaelogy in Pompei is valuable is that everyrhing - including pornograhic graffiti and slander was preserved, giving us a different perspective into those times than books by medieval historians.

Of course, I’d also want - in another part of the catalog - books/media by manually selected scientists, artists, historians.

As gas stations have enough room for more expensive “ultimate” versions of fuel, I don’t think that’s the reason. You can frequently get two kinds of Diesel and three kinds of Gas at the pump.

O. t. o. h…maybe the whole “premium fuel” hype resulted from stations having additional tanks after leaded fuel was phased out.

Tbh, I have no idea. The whole of Europe was late to this. The first catalytic conveter cars were sold in 1973 in the US and 1985 in Germany.

Switzerland made them obligatory in 1986, Germany made them obligatory only in 1993 - because that was an EU-wide regulation.

The only thing I can imagine is the big political influence car makers have in Germany, but that’s just “what sounds reasonable to me”, no proof.