You think normal people are packing papers to read?

The top right corner is supercritical fluid, which is correct, it’s not the same as plasma, which doesn’t really fit neatly on a pressure/temperature phase diagram.

Two “program files” folders, user and generic “appdata”, wherever the user unpacks things, yeah

That’s roughly the equivalent of a $100 fine for someone who makes 75k

You’re not meant to stick your head in there, the whole point of it being so low is to keep you from breathing in the stuff that’s in there

In Anglophone countries there are usually other pathways. In Aotearoa/New Zealand, for example, it’s normal to start a PhD with a master’s, but you can also do it with a BSc(Hons) or “honours” degree, which is a one year programme added on to the end of a bachelors. It’s roughly half graduate courses and half research for a small dissertation. A real master’s degree there is a bit more intense than it would usually be in Germany, and would usually involve half a year of graduate courses and a year and a half of independent research for a thesis to be examined by independent examiners. It should really contain some novel work, even if it’s just replicating, comparing and synthesizing existing techniques from the field. Often if people want to quit their PhD program halfway, they are given the opportunity to write up what they have into a thesis and submit it for a master’s, and that does roughly correspond with the work they have already done.

Suits are to keep you safe, glove boxes are to keep the things inside them safe. Also never seen them used together though, you’re right about that.

But that’s pretty much exactly what this is? Just some random unlockable phone with rebadged lineage on it…

Maybe some of them are, but I think most of the down votes are just from people who recognise this as an obvious scam

Why? It’s pretty much just dropshipping some year old low end chineseum phone with rebranded lineageos. I could probably do that by April starting now…

Can you fiddle up a weird black screen with lots of $ and # symbols? Yes, its a Unix and its probably Linux.

You heard it here first folks, windows is a Unix and probably Linux!

The SPD has zero incentive to roll over

And yet they do it every time

I agree it’s a huge concern and I also absolutely don’t trust the CDU, and especially Merz, as far as I can throw them. However I’m just saying that the situation is not identical to the USA, there are some points of difference.

The mid-right said they wouldn’t work with them, but as we have seen that means absolutely nothing. I wouldn’t be surprised if the SDP CDU broke that and started working with AfD.

I’m also very worried about that, but it’s another point of difference - there were historically enormous protests (tens to hundreds of thousands per city, well over a million total, more than a percent of Germany’s total population) several times recently because CDU looked like it was slightly cooperating with them with an informal and unbinding agreement about immigration. These protests had the support of the churches, the sports leagues. Various senior government figures support outright banning the AfD. It would not be as easy for them as in the USA, where everyone immediately capitulates.

But yeah I agree it’s a political difference and not just about “education”, you’re totally right about that.

Let’s be clear here, the right extremist party got over 20% which is really bad for sure, but the mid-right party rules out working with them in a coalition no matter what. That’s rather different from where the rest of the republicans and many democrats fall over themselves to do whatever the lunatic fringe says. Further, the American billionaires are strong influencers of these trends in other countries. The core of the disease is the USA even when there are symptoms everywhere.

They have extremely similar laws in Switzerland

Stop spreading misinformation, Switzerland is fully in Schengen since 2008.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX%3A32008D0903

If you use arch (btw) it still does

Cars’ buttons need to be used while preferably not looking at them, that’s a pretty different situation to a smartphone

That’s not flying, it’s falling (and based on the shape of many flightless birds, rather likely without style)