Anyway. Just to stay within the theme: it's not always great

https://mastodon.online/@Pepijn/114648409161447822

https://mastodon.online/@Pepijn/115246601270441019

@collectifission @sternwarte

@collectifission

It's underfunded and should improve. And people love to shit at it. But just like the Dutch system it's still a functional (there's almost always a quick next train if you miss a connection) and extremely dense* system if you just want to use it.

*going to the size of towns that in countries like France, Denmark and Italy one would have to take a bus or rental car to.

@sternwarte

Each day German rail carries about the same number of passengers Canadian rail does in a year though And with a better punctuality.

@sternwarte @collectifission

@irgndsondepp Thanks! I *think* I can figure that out.

You don't see a lot of 34 character long domain names btw. Good choice

@CiaraNi

@irgndsondepp I'm pretty certain some people here would appreciate a tiny manual

@CiaraNi

@CiaraNi Super!

I wasn't trying to be pedantic btw. It's just that we have the same setup and even though I DO remember (I told myself "this is a thing on the first sunday of the month") for the past months life got in the way.

And then on Friday evening my laptop crapped out.. I eventually fixed it but it would've been very frustrating to have the backup disk be very much out of date.

@CiaraNi

Talking from experience I'd add one thing (if it's a manual action):

Regular calendar reminder to actually do the backup.

edit: not that the reminder actually makes one do the action.. but it's a start.

It's a sad thing that these days there's sooo many ways to read that second paragraph.

> superpower which is committed to green energy and science.

China?

@lionelb @benroyce

@benroyce And I must say that I find it harder by the day to hear quotes from US citizens like "I didn't vote for him", "not my president", "not in my name" and especially: "50% of us disagree".

I get it. And I believe people when they say that. It also doesn't mean anything to me. That's internal.

What is external, to me as a citizen of another country, is that the USA -the country, with all the history, friendship & agreements we share- is actively threatening my country with invasion & war.

@benroyce For many of us the mistrust has long been there.

Lots of people are aware stuff like the Hague Invasion Act has never been repealed, even when the so-called good democrats had decades to do so. It just wasn't important. For a long time that was still theoretical though.

Still I think it was really the lack of accountability and system fixing after the coup attempt that taught us to fear the US as a nation of people who just don't care about "others", foreigners in specific.

@ckd

Chatting about tools with @mk I was reminded of a curious interaction with a colleague, a technician.

He complained about his fading eyesight, and having issues identifying tools. So I suggested color coded hex tools, already used by others in the shop.

"I WILL NOT USE GAY TOOLS!" [and walked off angrily]

It really threw me off how a well-educated, soft-spoken and otherwise likeable person turned into a demented hermit crab when confronted with small bits of colorful metal.

#gay #tool