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.

Their high speed train network is impressive, but none of it was new technology when they built it. The first train sets they bought were Siemens Velaro D, a mature high speed train system that has been around in Europe for almost a decade prior.

It ISN’T cost effective, but in China that doesn’t matter: what the state wants the state gets. No matter the cost. And I’m willing to bet that in 10 years time a lot of the stuff just doesn’t work anymore, line speeds get reduced and stops cancelled due to infrastructure not being maintained.

We have seen chinese prestige projects fall into disrepair time and again, and their extensive transport network will see the same fate.

Russia had some until the 90s as well.