So I have to assume this started with the pool cleaners having to admit they couldn't magically fix the thing, somehow escalating into this mess?

I have to say after the first semester of doing this I don't hate teaching after sort of expecting I would, but I did not expect that marking would be quite as infuriating/depressing as it turned out to be.

A ceasefire where both sides conduct daily strikes (and there is an ongoing land war in a secondary theatre that both parties disagree about being covered by said ceasefire) may not be appropriately named. Like, at most you have a Russian ceasefire here.

It feels somewhat age inappropriate, but good lord do I enjoy that I can just step out into the vinyards after coming home from a shit day. (And enjoy some of last year's grapes over dinner)

Just saw someone refer to France as a US client state, and I'm sorry, but there isn't a non-neutral western country for whom that description could be less accurate. Their policy towards Israel and their own former colonial possessions is in fact driven by motivations independent of the US.

Barak Ravid is truly the Jake Sherman of NatSec reporting

Marking the beginning of summer by switching my daily thermos to iced filter coffee

Introducing levelised cost estimates to personal consumption items can be kind of brain breaking

this is an objectively good take, but someone should consult Neera Tanded about how much of a pain in the ass the writers at ThinkProgress were in constantly demading editorial independence when the whole point of their outlet was to be partisan hacks

I feel like I'm being uncomfortably German with this take

The British elite anxiety part here is a fun comparison to e.g. Eastern Europe where the "rather a small fish in a big pond than a big fish in a small pond" logic worked exceedingly well. But memories of past imperial preeminence remain too cherished to give up on for a chunk of the British elite

As someone whose greatest aspirations is to be a faceless bureaucrat in the bowels of Berlin or Brussels, I'm deeply offended.

Didn't think about this much, but yeah, I'm not a fan of Big Consulting for reasons entirely orthogonal to them being evil or capitalist or whatever.

They are doing the meme

Having a certified German admin data moment: >Looking for per-student expenditures for different school types. >fed. stat. office publishes an annual PDF report with 2 years of data in the appendix >the series they actually host online (GENESIS) only has the aggregate, not by type

I would interpret this as a statement about the aviation gas supply situation

the greatest account on this site, the real louvre

put on some Law and Order SVU as background noise recently, and Dick Wolf's politics are an incredible bit. Threading the needle on your show about supporting sexual assault victims with a full episode dedicated to victim advocates being evil. not to mention civil rights advocates.

Train cancelled because of vandalism to the tracks, bus replacement service finally gets me to my bike, whose front tire has been slashed. Hell of a start to the week.

I've recently realised that 4.7 keeps putting absurd amounts of time per step into the plans it writes (particularly on auto mode) and then finishes the first in <10% the time and says we should to the others in a future session. Very funny if this is a good fix.

Mildly intrigued by this

Mildly intrigued by this

I feel like I my current primary research topic is perfectly suited to the German job market, because I have yet to meet a German male economist between 30 and 65 who hasn't given significant amounts of thought to getting a PV and battery system. Great hook to talk about their more systemic impact.

It would be so cool if any of the new EU+ DIB policies could fix that of 6 large countries: -one can't budget -one insists their domestic firms should get 99% of every contract -one can't write feasible specs -one just buys exEU licenses -two think mil spending is fake and useless anyways

European governments not willfully killing their next-gen fighter project challenge (impossible) www.ft.com/content/8766...

I feel like my bigger worry would be his prolific use of (((parentheses)))

I don't think someone's dad being an arch conservative calvinist is necessarily a skeleton key to anything about this, even if reading up on the 30 years war has taught me that blaming calvinism is generally a safe bet

how it started vs how it's going

More than anything else, this is a colossal failure of imagination on the side of policy makers. A less bogged down regulatory environment on grid and renewables expansion could leverage the private investment glut in data centres towards funding the opposite!

Lmao, woke up and found out *something* happened based on people liking this

10/10 content to book a slot at the BPK to complain about the government refusing to talk to you. Also the government's official position of "he's a private citizen" [whom we thus have no reason to dignify] is a surprisingly sensible stance by the standards of German FP in the region.

I love the EU and European Integration, but it's also the most EU thing imaginable that the answer to how the EU finances the DIB is a chart of a dozen overlapping programs, institutions and jurisdictions that is functionally illegible unless you are already familiar with EU financing structures.

I had already shifted anything where I'm not forced to use word/ppt to a mixture of md, rmd and tex files, but the "fun" of seeing claude code disassemble docx/pptx files into a horror show of XML files to make them legible makes me hate them even more.

I have minimal interaction with German language bsky (outside some econ and pol people that themselves post mostly in English) and every glimpse this account has shown to me is both hilarious and supports my decision to avoid it.

Looking at the cohort design of the policy, was this proposed by an applied microeconomist?

honestly would be less dumb of a cycle than DImon's bullshit

In this alternate canon, the Minions were in Congo. The native that Conrad is talking about, the one that waves to you as if you're joined in a great civilizing mission while hacking off childrens limbs? It was actually that minion with two little hairs poking out of its scalp.

sovereign citizen ass poasting

Die neue Traumschiff Staffel ist aber auch anders

Ok I'm just fascinated that "Netflix Game Controller" is leading the US app store charts here.

everybody knows the Ron Paul 2012 to Bernie Sanders 2016 pipeline, but 2016 has been long ago enough for a whole host of Sander '16 or '20 first time voters to turn out to be the same kind of lolbertarian

Folk religious practices can be so funny. Isaiah 63, "God’s Day of Vengeance and Redemption", is an odd choice to cite on a random cross in the countryside, but some vintners went "wine making mentioned!" And selectively cited "I have trodden the winepress alone" without all the death and vengance

Found a sign thanking Henry Villard of Northern Pacific Railway fame for funding a hiking rest and viewpoint in the rural Palatinate. (He was born in a nearby town as Heinrich Hilgard, explaining both the double name on the sign and why he'd donate to the area)

trying to get a workable research dataset from a db made for feeding into proprietary industry software

Talking AI usage among colleagues is extremely interesting, I would say 90% of juniors and a majority of seniors in both of my institutions use some sort of LLM, a good chunk of juniors uses Codex or similar VSC integrated tools, but only a slim fraction has adopted Claude Code or other CLI tools.

This is uncomfortably real

Not judging, but I feel like the thread is a good case of how a significant part of the gap in capabilities that mtsw is observing here and that a lot CLI model users describe is that the two things may as well be completely different products. Especially once you customise the latter to your needs.

got myself an airfryer last week and I can already tell that this is going to increase my potato consumption by a factor >4

could say today would be a good day to tell people to read theory (Mahan), but actually the early chapters of this on the Entente's blockade in WW1 doing away with any of the norms of neutral shipping (that the royal navy was never particularly married to) would probably be more interesting.