loaded an update for my glinet router, which broke my cellular setup. 3 hours of troubleshooting, trying different versions of the router and 5g module firmware, their setups etc later, I finally give up, just load the new version again to try again tomorrow, and suddenly it works. I hate technology

'German, probably below 30, who became super pro nuclear energy in the last 5 years but is now willing to compromise by "just" becoming a military rather than civilian nuclear power' is a type of guy/gal I really appreciate, ngl.

Finally reading the Vanity Fair piece instead of just pointing and laughing at the pictures, and lol, lmao

Idk if that isn't even giving him too much credit. He definitely had a first mover advantage in the political data analyst media space, but at this point I wouldn't necessarily claim he's particularly good at it compared to present competition.

Had a jumpscare in a Berlin museum gift shop

Tbf that just sound like the most American (derogatory) way to do a single payer insurance system. - no guards against moral hazard - no cost control regulations - somehow more regressive than private insurance Prop 13 for M4A enthusiasts-ass proposal

Sort of fun because both of them have always been able to rely on RW billionaire welfare (just that for one of them it's his dad), but they are now operating at a scale where that isn't really enough, and the business needs to function on its own terms.

Thoughts and prayers for the unfortunate job market candidates from our own universities, but thanks to state budgets for permanent positions this may end up a zero sum game.

I wish there wasn't a very obvious exception to this from the last decade

Only after a statistics class will you know that you ought to reinforce the dough where the cutouts could be made

I hate this bit so much, the Autobahn has local speed limits basically everywhere you can ever encounter dense traffic etc. And speeding, monitored by fixed or mobile traps, is fined, as well as very importantly mechanically leading to you losing your license with little cop or judicial discretion

Lmfao how did I not know/remember that this is the context of the most joker-meme JBP quote, and how is it that Nuzzi put it in her book?

Sometimes I think I'm a vaguely sane and normal person, then I tell someone that digging through the footnotes of federal budget documents for hours over the weekend is fun to me and they very quickly rid me of this illusion.

i hate UPS I hate UPS I hate UPS I hate UPS I hate UPS I hate UPS "We tried to deliver your parcel, but could not leave it without a signature." my ass, I can see that the doorbell hasn't been rung. I also fucking saw the truck turn around 200m away during my morning run, just like last time

Optimising your field course selection in econ grad school to minimise the amount of mandatory presentations because you are scared of them seems like a truly awful strategy based on some ~interesting~ seminar presentations I got to see recently

My wrapped is generally quite boring (I listen to the same few playlists, albums and podcasts every year for now 5 years lol) except for this one lmao

The claim that fuel economy standards killed the station wagon more than consumer preference and manufacturer strategies is extremely funny tbh. They still exist in markets where people buy Sedans, they're just not as popular as SUVs or practical as (mini) vans in the size range.

Norway, famously the European (not EU) country most desperate for foreign oil supplies

Very cool that bsky's smartest boys have decided more Fettermans but on purpose is the ideal strategy for the "labor movement" that definitely exists outside the dem party as an electoral force. A real shame of switching websites is that you can't just search their history of Manchin...

Please do not think about the other theory the guy is famous for and how that's going over at DoD right now though. Genuinely couldn't think of a funnier time to claim a W for Huntington besides maybe between Jan6 and the inauguration.

Now I get why they insisted on non-exclusive membership...

This is probably going to have to wait until next autumn at this rate, but I do think there is a case to be made that if you are interested in "incentive compatible" EU joint R&D and procurement mechanisms, not adding another large player with a severe budget constraint and a broad DIB is good.

Fascinating Christmas market experience in the rural palatinate last night: Elderly Syrian man is operating a stall registered from Damascus selling sweets and carpets, but for the 15 minutes I was around all he would talk about to customers was how amazing the fall of the regime felt to him

I'm not saying it would be worse than scrolls, but Astrosoft365's warp-based file sharing service also hold the keys to destroying it through editing conflicts and version control issues.

The annual advent season baking marathon is underway, currently it's looking like we'll be hitting 8kg of dough split between 6 different types (Admittedly like 3.5kg is just mini Stollen)

I think I've had an idea how I can turn a mediocre empirical research sketch in a subfield I don't really want to work in into a coherent contribution that would take it into the field I actually want to do my research in. I'm mildly horrified by the prospect of having found "a thing" here.

Tbf the former describes a majority of French politicians throughout history as best I can tell

presumably this is the face he also made whenever he remembered his underage son was about to be sent the precise porn he just watched

Okay, so maybe I wasn't too mean to him ...

Vindication for the 33% of haters

honestly 10/10 content, literally every section of this chapter is in direct conflict with the one above it and like half of the rest

Do better. There’s no excuse to he homophonic in 2025

I always thought the greatest strength of the Westminster system was that a parliamentary majority could actually pretty unilaterally decide to break some eggs to implement a far more abitious program than in consensus-driven legislative processes. You don't have immediate upcoming elections!

I actually hate how much more open and confident I get around strangers when I'm i) wearing a suit ii) speaking in English rather than German This sort of has implications for where I should be taking my life in the longer run that I'm not sure I'm quite happy with.

@sharonk.bsky.social 's poasts about it made me pick up Kilcullen's The Dragons and the Snakes and the HTS section in chapter 3 is quite fascinating, noting a slim chance that as an Emirate of Idlib it may evolve into a regular State among States. Solid call for 2019, yet still short of reality.

I was aware there is a decent body of applied micro literature on football, but what mad macro scientist managed to justify the use of vector autoregressive models for it?

Presumably the next scoop is going to be about him having dinner with IRS agents or providing constituent services on saturdays

Wadephul is fascinating, because he's the first CDU FM since the 60s as well as the first person in ages to get the job not because they're a party leader/grandee but because he's a FP guy. And turns out the (CDU) political class absolutely despises FP based on anything but purely domestic concerns.

I've got a wool sweater from the 80s that I inherited from my grandpa that is my single favourite piece of clothing and I just found out the company not only still exists but is still 100% made in Austria and still has the same kind of designs. Thoughts and prayers for my wallet.

Very fun family dynamic where for years I have told my mother to her vocal disapproval that I don't want to end up working like her, only for her to now tell me I should stop taking a direction where I'm effectively working like her.

Who do they think they are, the Argentine government?

Simultaneous editing of Word docs in Office365 may be awful, but have you heard of simultaneous editing in Dropbox? Lol. Lmao.

Oops! all creep fascists

The German navy is so funny, wdym our entire fleet has fewer VLS cells than two Burkes?

I managed to drop a third of my bodyweight in 2020, which did correlate with a whole lot of exercise, but the severely food intake for two months enabled by a change in medication was 99% the actual cause.

Doing a Sicario from the hit movie Don't Do a Sicario is back on the menu, apparently.

look at my European defence research, we're ngmi