I know this is a joke… But just in case:

You know that you can turn off automatic updates, right?

They voted again, he is chancellor now

For now, most of the ad bullshit can be turned off. Though it turned back on after the latest software update and forced me to spend another 10 minutes digging through the horrendous settings menu.

What you think of is district heating, it (usually) just uses warm/hot water instead of steam.

The “cooldown” would normally be a stint in prison. Unfortunately he was only convicted but not sentenced.

If you live paycheck to paycheck you don’t own a Teala in Germany.

More like “breakes”, amirite?

Why limit yourself to the penguins?

They probably had a non-induction electric stovetop before.

Most of those problems would solve itself though. Things would just happen a minute too early, which might cause chaos for an hour or so, but overall nothing too serious. But IT people all over the world would try to find out how that mysterious gap in their logs and data happened for weeks afterwards.

Unfortunately Die Linke is traditionally close to Russia. They are also the predecessor of the PDS which is basically a continuation of the SED, the singular government party of the former German Democratic Republic (east germany).

Glass easily bends

“Give me liberty or give me coin” 10k gold on AoE3

Reality: $1000/month and $40k minimum down payment.

I cut the piezoelectric speaker off of mine. It now doesn’t make any beeping noises, which is nice.

This sounds like the stories my grandma told me about the GDR. They also had to get up early to get basic necessities, otherwise they were gone.

When Nick van Berkel left it turned to shit. He probably left at the best time.

I take the 25 cents per step, thank you very much. Being paid for going on long walks with my girlfriend and friends? That sounds nice.

Steel is cheap, scrap steel even more so, but labour isn’t.

Scrapping a ship in Germany costs money, it doesn’t generate any.