Austrian and Bavarian gibberish indeed is the same, one tribe, different states. The rest of the sign isn’t in Boarisch though so in Bavaria you’d expect it to be completely in Standard German. Bundesrepublik Standard German, that is, not Austrian Standard German with heuer, Jänner, Paradeiser, and whatnot.

The green sign reads “Please don’t leave empty boxes here. Bring them to the bin outside”

No it doesn’t. It has a bad slogan in big font: “If we all unpack here, we can all pack up” (the idiom probably works if you squint hard enough). Then “Please don’t leave waste paper (carton) in the self-service-zone. Carry your empty package to the container. The environment will be just as happy as us”.

It does not say where the container is (despite the definitive article in English, it’s not implied that there even is one at location), nor does it have relevant information in large letters, just lots of fluff. It’s accessively passive-aggressive, trying to give the impression that it’s all polite while simultaneously ordering you around. Trying to invoke social responsibility while completely ignoring that that’s a two-way street: Where’s the fucking container? You had one job with that sign, and you failed.

Here’s what would work: Big: “Waste paper container is around the corner”. Small: “Please. Thanks”. You don’t have to convince people, you just have to make it convenient and they’ll be happy to carry their stuff five metres instead of playing carton Jenga.

Also they’re using “Packerl” for package that’s probably Austria. Maybe Switzerland it’s not like I’m a specialist in mountain gibberish. Also not enough yellow for a Deutsche Post shop.

Yep if you run a seedbox you shouldn’t be surprised if consumer-grade offerings don’t want you on their service, they provision their capacities, whole business model, for a certain average usage.

There’s a huge difference between “I downloaded that ISO because I needed it and am going to seed it 24/7 because I’m too lazy to turn off my PC in the evening” and “I grab every fresh release and mirror it”.

OP you gotta pro up. You don’t want a VPN you want a server or rackspace at a datacentre or IXP. If all you’re seeding really is linux ISOs talking to the right people even might get you free access to overcapacity, as in free transit to wherever your location doesn’t pay transit for, and whatever minute-by-minute capacity doesn’t cost them anything on the upstream (those links are billed by max bandwidth used, not transfer volume, so if there’s a lull in their traffic you can soak it up and all it costs is electricity).

It’s not actually much different in Germany, there’s zero bins just randomly lining the streets. Areas with shops will have some, parks and playgrounds usually have one or two, but that’s it. “Park” here is to be understood quite broadly, it might be a footpath with nice view and some benches. Bus stops also tend to have bins.

They also have warehouses in the EU which means that as a customer you don’t have to deal with duties and import VAT at all.

In Germany the threshold is around 200 Euro, more precisely up to an import VAT of 10 Euros, where the state can’t even be bothered with the paperwork. 150 for import duties, though that doesn’t apply to alcohol, tobacco and perfume, unless everything is under 45 Euros and both sender and recipient are natural persons and no money has been exchanged.

You don’t want to completely abolish thresholds as you don’t want to spend more money on collecting taxes and duties than you collect. The general strategy of the financial police seems to be to make paying duties as inconvenient for private citizens as possible, they’ll hold back the parcel and you have to go to them, probably a couple of towns over, and fetch it in person. The smart thing to do when buying from alibaba or such is to choose shipping from a EU warehouse as then all the import stuff has been dealt with by the seller.

We still do have duties within the single market, btw, because different taxes on alcohol, tobacco, etc. Relevant mostly for ølvikingar.

Just skimmed through rustup-init.sh and executing half-downloaded things is not an issue, it’s all function declarations, one set -u and one variable declaration (without side effects) before the last line of the script kicks off everything with main "$@" || exit 1. It’s also a dash/bash/ksh/zsh/whatever-polyglot, someone put a lot of thought in this. Also it’s actually just figuring out the architecture and OS to know what binary installer to download. So don’t worry, it won’t accidentally rm -rf /usr.

With the caveat that I’m currently blanking on the semantics of sub-shells yes I think you’re right, -f is about not executing <hmtl><h1>404 Not Found</h1></html>. Does curl output half-transferred documents to stdout in the first place, though, and also bash -c is going to hit the command line length limit at some point.

And no I haven’t tried anything of this. I use a distribution, I have a package installer.

--proto ‘=https’ --tlsv1.2

That’s how you know they care, no MIMing that stuff without hijacking the CA at which point you have a whole another set of problems, and if you trust rustc to not delete your sources when they fail a typecheck, then you can trust their installer. -f is important to not execute half-downloaded scripts on failure, -s and -S are verbosity options, -L follow redirects.

A paternalistic, technocratic, party not shying away from authoritarian measures getting re-elected and re-elected does not a dictatorship make. Bavaria does the same but replace technocratic with wiley and corrupt.

Liquorice (there’s also an actual root, not just the confectionery) is very sweet and tummy-friendly, actually recognised as a herbal remedy over here for (mild) gastritis because antiinflammatory and antispasmodic (alongside helping with coughs and having some antibacterial properties) but too much will fuck with your blood pressure, avoid it if you have any issues there. A bit will probably be fine but a habit generally isn’t “a bit”.

There’s some medicinal teas over here which pretty much only contain it to taste better (otherwise makes no sense in combination with e.g. valerian). The stuff is actually sweet and pleasant, not a neutral but woody sweetness, not to be confused with North European liquorice confectionery where the predominant flavour is Salammoniac. Which are also very good… hey I grew up with the stuff, don’t look at me like that. Anyhow if you want a naturally sweet herbal tea adding a couple of shavings of the stuff should do the trick.

I will not be taking lexicographical flak from the colony of our colony appropriating the name “Saxon” for itself. You can have “Anglo”, the Angles left wholesale.

Also I’m not sure what you’re doing in your free time but usually I don’t open my mouth wide enough to shove in a Pringle at awkward angles.

But dear gamedevs, please, please, please for the sake of less savvy players, include at least some clue of what the user should do.

Look at the logs. Submit the logs in your bug report. I agree that displaying a message box would alleviate user confusion but a) that won’t contain the info devs will need to actually solve the issue, dialog boxes are too small, and a gazillion of bug reports saying “Game tells me ‘cannot initialise gfx window’” aren’t helpful and b) what if the message box fails to display. I mean technically writing to log can also fail but then the user probably is noticing that their disk is full in some other way so it’s not as much of an issue.

The ideal situation is having a secondary process watch the actual game process, if something goes wrong it will give you the choice between displaying the logs and just submitting a bug report. Another uncomfortable truth is that without a tech-savy user at the other side, some bugs just can’t be diagnosed because it’s a “works on all of our machines, we have no idea how yours is different” type of situation.

…and if the engine you’re using doesn’t come with that kind of thing built-in no devs won’t write it. It’s a PITA to do when you’re not acquainted with the code that actually does do the basic windowing etc setup and there’s more important bugs to squash and features to creep.

Chipsfrish Peperoni definitely have more heat, they’re saying they’re using 10000 Scoville powder (though not how much of it). Generally speaking if you order something hot in Germany you’re getting Turkish hot, which is about “able to eat pure Sriracha without breathing fire” kind of tolerance level.

But, granted, Pringles is American, I should have guessed.

If I read this article right, and I think their picture shows their Pringles stacked same-side up as mine, mine have the flavouring on the other side.

Which side is up in the can was never a question for me, they simply fit my mouth, and presumably mouths in general, better if the long concave side cups the tongue. It could be that they’re simply seasoned on the wrong side over here it’s not like they import them from the US, they’re produced in Poland.

In any case the store brand has seasoning placement down, but as this is Germany you’re limited to paprika and sour cream and onion. Which I will be sticking with in the future.

Someone else read it, judging by the upvote. Your loss.

The German directly translates to “Large and medium cities”. Small ones are smaller, and yes in English at some point you’d use “town”, German doesn’t make that distinction. I think “over 20k people” makes it very clear what I was talking about, though. They’re all individual municipalities, and if you look at large ones, e.g. Berlin: They have multiple protests about the same topic all the time. “Stadt”, “city”, doesn’t even have legal meaning in German it originally refers to special privileges (trading etc) that some places had over others, and those places tended to grow bigger.

What you’re listing is Metropolitan areas and no, that’s not anywhere close to a city. I understand that it’s often used that way in English, and there’s some parallels in Germany e.g. the Bay Area can be in some way considered one city, and so can the Ruhr Area, but when you look at Berlin-Brandenburg it’s literally the two states: Berlin and Brandenburg. That’s like… imagine Chicago being its own, independent, state, and then considering it and the whole of Illinois to be “the same city”, the smallest municipality (that’s the actual legal term) with the title “Stadt” is Arnis. 300 people, down from a maximum of 1000. Quirk of history.

20k pop is large enough to be a medium centre, meaning that the municipality provides things such as hospitals, specialised doctors, secondary education etc. to the municipalities around it because it’s the big kid on the block. About 7k pop would be a subordinate centre where you can get stuff like groceries and a hair cut, there’s a primary school, a pharmacy, such things. Even smaller places may have some of those things but do it for themselves, they aren’t set up to serve the surrounding area a complete package.

The organized protests are only happening in each state’s capital.

And that’s stupid. People won’t come because it’s not something just about anyone can work into their schedule, and you won’t be seen because only people living in the capital will randomly drop by. Differently put: Protests should be in commute distance, ideally on that very commute. Hence why I mentioned Walmart.

If we did that in Germany there’d be 16 protests, and population-wise btw the average German state is just about as large as the average US state: You have a few gigantic ones like California, and also some that are smaller than our smallest state, but mostly you simply have more states. And a lot more area.

Going by “A protest in every 20k pop place” Minnesota alone would have about 60, then add the county seats over 7k to that.

As said: Rookie numbers. That was my point. You’re not doing a protest wave, you’re doing rookie numbers.

Nah, 50 locations is rookie numbers. Like, Germany has 715 cities over 20k pop and I just checked and yep the smallest one did have a protest in 2024 when the AfD “remigration” plans became public.

Protest where you live. Protest where people are. Wait that doesn’t work in the US. Protest on the Walmart parking lot. Fuck trying to hit individual record numbers on prime time news noone cares noone watches that shit if it even gets reported, be visible to your neighbours they can’t censor that. Think globally, act locally. Have grandmas and cookies.

You’d quickly run afoul of lemm.ee’s “don’t cause the admins headaches” rule I think.

Still 14 unless the over 21yold exploits an underdeveloped sense of sexual self-determination. Only prosecuted on demand, cases are very rare, and usually brought on by parents and then thrown out by the court after talking to the younger party.

17 is still young enough to fall under sugar daddying protections, “in exchange for money or money-valued things”, those apply until 18. That would presuppose a transactional relationship, though.