To be very German, here is my favourite Max Planck quote: Scientific Progress marches on one funeral at a time.

Perhaps it was meant like that. And the old guard that disliked his papers is now dead and progress has been made.

So what. I’m also fascinated when I see Humans without a gag reflex.

Why? Did the Eastern Hummingbird fuck a couch?

Damn nature, you scary!

Have you heard that there are great serialised file formats like .parquet from appache arrow, that can easily be used in typical data science packages like duckdb or polars. Perhaps it even works with pandas (although do not know it that well. I avoid pandas as much as possible as someone who comes from the R tidyverse and try to use polars more when I work in python, because it often feels more intuitive to work with for me.)

Well. The folk punks always knew that we all are just compost in training.

Shaka when the walls fell

This is what CRISPR was invented for

Can’t even light my shire after the “Scouring of the Shire” anymore. The hobbits returned from their adventure to a overly bureaucratic shire with pollution and destruction of its old trees.

Now that sounds dystopian as fuck. Because at scale this will involve human workers being tracked all the time and limited in their freedom. Ironically an AI might be used to track what workers do in such a scenario.

I did not try the night trains yet, but did use regular high-speed trains to go on vacations. I have good connections to Austria, Italy, France, Netherlands, Czechia and even Denmark from the middle of Germany that I have used for various vacations. But you waste two days of your vacation for traveling to your destination and back (which you usually also have to do if you go by car or fly).

Hey, the kidney fairy gives you a bath tub full of ice for your kidneys

Oh no, now I feel like I have awoken from turbulent dreams and find myself suddenly transformed into a beetle.

I did read about Linux on the internet. But i wasn’t crazy enough to download something as gigantic as a Linux distribution with my limited DSL connection in the early 2000s. So I did go to my local Mediamarkt (German electronics store chain) and bought a copy of Suse Linux 6.4 which had a bunch of CDs that i used to install my first Linux system. The first time I installed linux from the internet was around the time Ubuntu was already big (I think i installed Breezy Badger then)

You could also you any jarring combination of colours, fonts, gifs, marquee tags, and anything that you desired with your geocities sites. There was no tyranny of design principles or minimal corporate webdesign.

I was in the Delta this year. It’s really beautiful. Had a nice little boat tour ans saw a lot of birds. The Saint George arm (that is completely in Romania) is still mostly safe but aquatic mines were already spotted near the very end at Suliman, so we obviously did not go there. The captain of my boat told me that in earlier phases of the war you could see the russian drones attacking the Ismail grain terminal on the Ukrainian side from Tulcea.

Despite the really bad reviews by the famous Roman poet Ovid, who was banned to Constanta, it is a really nice city.

Aren’t there hundreds of independent fritures (small places that serve traditional Belgian fries)?

There are ads I deliberately searched for like the fun viral music videos by Berlin public transit authorities. There’s even adds I physically ordered per mail. My home state in Germany had an ad-campaign where they printed stickers with “Nice here! But were you ever in Bade -Wurrtemberg?” that you could get per mail. Vandalism got these stickers everywhere and there was even a subreddit about spotting these in weird and faraway places. I also did paste a few in interesting places.