Bonjour, I live in Germany right by the French and Swiss borders.

Do you have a laptop? I use my old work laptop to watch movies. Bonus: adblocker.

The newer versions are just as bad as the old ones (and more contagious AND you’re immune for just a few months after catching them). Vaccinations just make them less bad.

Test again. It can take a while for them to work.

Not hunting either. High viz unless you want to get shot.

They’ll succeed somehow. Even the awful people who die a ‘natural’ death tend to die a terrible death because literally nobody wants to treat them properly.

I’m not conflating anything. I know her. She’s smart. I know a lot of scientists, plenty of them are dumb as a box of frogs.

She was persuaded by a friend to go to a particular church and she was brainwashed in no time.

I would buy Neuschwanstein and finish decorating it the way Ludwig wanted it.

UK too. The VW is the new Audi.

TomTom did this too. You paid them a life time fee and then they decided you had to start paying an additional fee every month.

They just seem to put their foot down and zone out.

We had a lorry driver here who got caught over the limit at a Raststatte (a place where you can take a break that doesn’t have a petrol station). It meant he wasn’t allowed to continue his journey. Next morning: failed again. They called his boss and told him to come and fetch the lorry. Week later: still drunk, boss still hasn’t showed up. Apparently many lorry drivers drive over the limit.

Look up Time Ghost’s ‘The Rise of Hitler’ series on YouTube. They’ve also done a shorter one about Mussolini.

I know a very smart lady (university professor, STEM) who voted for him. Church bubble.

I don’t find Germans reserved at all. Maybe it’s because I live in BW? I see spontaneous conversations between strangers all the time. On the train, sitting on a bench in town, during a hike, even on a parking lot (like today, a lady started a conversation about my Brandenburg license plate).

Try all the sausages. Seriously. Every butcher has a different recipe. Whenever I’m somewhere in Germany I haven’t been before, I try a local Bratwurst.

Lampshades made of human skin. How about no.

Damn it.

How government spending actually works.

He’s barely in anything. If you see him in ‘everything’ you’re seeking him out.

If you find it, can you also check for the remote control of my fan?

I usually find stuff in the last place I could possibly look.