Thank you very much. I actually took two really beautiful pics that morning. Hope you enjoy a swan spreading its wings in the morning mist:

The Altmühl valley is a popular bike or canoe tourist destination.

Germany has taken some serious “renaturation” steps to fix the grave errors done since the 1940s to 1980s where they straightened rivers and dried up a lot of land. E.g. at all of Altmühl’s weirs they dug a little creek around it to enable fish to migrate or sometimes even bigger projects like this one:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/yTYY9TDoMbmgHsGo7 The EU however to this day pays subsidies if you drain your land which is just beyond stupid.

If you’re interested here is the full album. This is the best desire path though.

https://imgur.com/gallery/z1ddA72

you misspelled papered

In bavaria they made exactly this. You have a “Vorzugsgebiet” (loosely translated area of favourited power accumulation) for either wind or solar. Some people then had the outrageous idea of setting up a wind turbine in the middle of a solar park. Guess what happened? It wasn’t approved because it was only allowed to build a solar park there. You can’t make this stuff up. That’s German bureaucracy for you.

I used Der Spiegel as it is the first big reputable newspaper reporting on this. Haven’t found an English source yet. I have all trackers blocked through noscript and am on mobile, so don’t really know if this is better, but here’s an alternative link: https://www-aerzteblatt-de.translate.goog/nachrichten/149595/Aorta-als-eigenstaendiges-Organ-eingestuft?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=de&_x_tr_pto=wapp

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Thank you!

Ah, thanks!

Could you please explain the joke to a non native English speaker?

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Finally an article mentioning that CDU members were also present and supporting the plans of the AfD. They are the enablers and cause for the “Rechtsruck” with their policies and rhetoric, trying to fish for far right votes for years.

I totally agree. I’m just saying there’s a huge cost factor to take into account, plus it’s not easy to transform an industry so huge.

You honestly think anybody would be working those hours if they don’t even own anything? Also, if the state did what they do, employ a whole lot of foreign people and pay them way below the minimum wage, the outcry would be extreme. The state needs this to be private, otherwise it would be way more expensive.

Yeah I’m an SW engineer and my job is 30% coding max. Equal part is requirements engineering (so translate sys reqs to sw reqs, ensure traceability and such), static code analysis and dev tests plus 10% change management. The last part is the most interesting part as this includes analysis of feasabilty, risk and impact assessment as well as proposing/reviewing sys reqs for new or existing features. Glad I’m not a sys dev though as they don’t get to code at all.