I’ll look different at business meetings now. Probably with a little smile. TY TIL

Sad German noises

Would be wonderful if we still had some manufacturing industry left to make use of our inventions.

Kurzarbeit not kurzzeit.

You are trying to recreate that bit of nature that is useful to you on ~4 sqm of balcony, using a highly technologized approach. It doesn’t work like that. Please bear in mid that I read all your posts with interest and sometimes fascination. But you cannot only take that part of nature that suits you, and will it to work. I’ve got a small garden and planted some trees and a row of hornbeams as hedge. Did not tend to them over some years due to issues. And a nice little nature reserve developed with a ton of small birds that seek refuge in the growth developed, taking care of my insect “problem”, plus the plants lowering the summer heat significantly. So probably you’ve got to rethink your approach.

Now I want one.

"Entweder ist Fraktionschef Jens Spahn nicht in der Lage, die Fäden zusammenzuhalten, oder er will es gar nicht.

Beides wäre fatal; die letztere Vermutung wäre allerdings verhängnisvoller. Denn einen Stümper kann man auswechseln. Einen machtbewussten Karrieristen, der immer wieder durch rechtspopulistische Ausbrüche aufgefallen ist, muss man sehr ernst nehmen. Nicht ausgeschlossen, dass wir hier Anfänge einer Annäherung zwischen rechtskonservativ und rechtsextremistisch erleben. Jens Spahn sieht sich jedenfalls als Mann der Zukunft in der Union; in seiner jetzigen Position ist er die zweitmächtigste Figur hinter dem Kanzler und Parteichef, der bei der nächsten regulären Bundestagswahl schon 73 Jahre alt sein wird."

Yup. Zweiteres.

Yup. Cig smoke with cat hair was worst.

TY. Someone needs to do the math on this, because I assume it would net more to rent all if you own >100 properties, and would not make a difference if less, depending on the city size ofc, especially when you leave the majority empty.

Thank you. Understood. Was not thinking in a scale that would impact market value, and still think this would not generally apply here (Germany), where - in my bubble - only small scale landlords exist.

Probably I’m really, really dumb, but I still do not understand where the landlords would get their money from, even with your second text. If they don’t rent, but just sit on their unrented property, they loose money imho. Even if its only threough property taxes, and other cost. So could you clarify your thesis?

Could you explain? Why would it be profitable not to rent and generate cashflow? Because they speculate on rising building prices? That may only be true in a very few high value areas.

The last two panels :-)

Goosebumps moment only you mentioning it.

Wow, joined 5 hours ago, already half the comments removed, and the rest full of hatespeech. Go outside, drink a beer or sth and calm down, bot.

And I didn’t even think twice, cos… well Australia…

TIL too

The article is really really looong… I nearly missed it as I got somewhat bored at the end.

From the Wikipedia article: “Ukraine In August 2019, a Ukrainian military delegation visited Embraer’s military division in São Paulo and flew the Super Tucano.[153] In October 2019, the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, in a meeting with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, informed that his country would buy the Super Tucano.[154] In December 2022, the Brazilian media reported a Ukrainian interest in the Super Tucano, to equip its air force for the Russo-Ukrainian War; however, the sale was blocked by the Bolsonaro administration.[155] A diplomatic effort by the United States to persuade the president-elect of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, to unblock the deal, has been reported.[155]”

SANE scan server? Paperless ngx also comes to my mind, find it pretty useful.