Treczoks

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Treczoks ,

And if they spend 10% of that into thoroughly investigating tax fraud and -avoidance, they will probably unearth at least twice the total amount again. All without needing to raise any taxes, just by making the culprits pay what is due.

Treczoks ,

"The boys were early for the hanging." (from memory, not sure about the exact wording, as I read this book 20 years ago)

Treczoks ,

Wait until they notice that insurances covering elemental damages are getting rare and expensive while the mortgage-holding banks still require them.

Treczoks ,

FTFY: Teachers and GPs ‘staggering’ under extra demands caused by gouvernment imposed poverty in Great Britain

Treczoks ,

Even though the Queen stood in front of a gold encrusted fireplace, the forced poverty problem is solely a result of Tory government. Even if you kick the royal family to the curb and sell off all their palaces you could not fill the holes left by the Conservatives in the social net for even a year.

Treczoks ,

Yep. Just like it was in Germany in 1933. Think about what happened back then...

Treczoks ,

It was 1 year earlier; 1932

Well, the ramp up to the "Machtergreifung" was, but the actual ascend to power was 1933. Again, just like in the US: Vote in November 2024, inauguration Januar 2025.

But also, the situations are eerily similar, at the core.

Which makes me shiver. I know that most Americans learn only a very limited subset of history in school, and they get even that wrong (How many people in the US still call the civil war the "War of Northern Aggression"?). If I were a history teacher in the US, I would see to add a thorough lecture about first half of 20th century Germany at the next avalable chance. And tell them why American soldiers gave their lives to fight it.

And maybe they should add "The Wave" by Morton Rhue to the literature curriculum, if they have not done that already.

Treczoks ,

But only one has an openly fashist agenda. And it pains me to see that Americans know so little about world history that they don't recognize this.

MOC creators - do you also have a massive amount of resealable bags?

I buy Lego pieces from Bricklink probably at least once every few months and have been doing so for several years, so I have collected a massive freezer bag full of the little bags, and I don't really do anything with them. Does anyone else have this problem, and do you use them for anything?

Treczoks ,

Yes, I have. I use them for storing parts, i.e. I have boxes like "Black slopes 45°", and inside that box I have bags with the different kinds of matching slopes. Of course, BL orders are a mixed bag there, some have one bag for a number of different parts, some use re-sealed bags from sets or normal plastic bags sealed thermally, and usually, those bags are rather small, as I don't oder large quantities there.

So I actually buy resealable bags, mostly medium and larger size, but I also re-use the resealable bags I receive as long as they are still OK.

Treczoks , (edited )

My sorting works as follows:

  • There are four sizes of transparent boxes: About 4.5 liters, 9 liters, 18 liters and 36 liters.
  • Some colors I have so little of that all pieces fit into a small box, often just unsorted like "Bright Light Yellow" - although there is one part of which I actually have a bag of that makes up 80% of that color.
  • Some colors have more parts, so I have a 9/18/36 liter box with bags of all parts with that color. Basically a color grows until it fills up a 36 liter box, and then splits, but there are exceptions like "Dark Red" of which I have a 18 liter box for the miscellaneous bags, but also a 9 liter box full of "Dark Red Plate 1x2", as I need them en masse for brickworks.
  • Sometimes, I have boxes for groups like "Yellow Bricks", "Yellow Plates", "Yellow Tiles", "Yellow Slopes", "Yellow Technic Parts" (all depending on the amount) and "Yellow Other".
  • With other colors, depending on the amount, I may even split those in e.g. "Dark Bluish Gray Plates Small", "Dark Bluish Gray Plates Medium", and "Dark Bluish Gray Plates Large".
  • And, while I do have a "Dark Bluish Gray Plates Small", the "Dark Bluish Gray Plates 2x4" have an extra box on their own due to the amount I've got.
  • Some parts I have so many of that I have dedicated large boxes for a single kind of part of that color, e.g. "Black Slopes 45° 2x4" or even several large boxes like "Dark Green Leaf Elements 5x6".
  • Most of those "group" boxes are of the 18 or 36 liter variant.
  • Most of the "dedicated" boxes are of the 9 liter variant, but 18 and even 36 are not uncommon. The parts are usually specially collected/bought for previous or for future projects. Like I have an 18 liter box of "Tan Plate 1x2 with one Stud (Jumper Plate)" from a past project.
  • I have two shelves of boxes for black parts alone, one shelf for Dark Bluish Gray, one (currently overflowing) for Light Bluish Gray, one for Tan and Dark Tan, and one for Green, Dark Green, and Lime Green. All the other colors share another five shelves.
  • Boxes may "grow" or "shrink" or even "dissolve", depending on the project state. At the moment, I have only three smaller projects built as MOCs, and over 10 square meters of landscape and stuff torn down, so most of my parts are shelved. When I build larger MOCs for which I have collected special parts in large amounts, even a 36 liter box of single parts can vanish in no time. I had a box of "Light Bluish Gray Plates 16x16" before I started my Moonbase project. Now I'm down to exactly one plate, which moved into the "Light Bluish Gray Plates" box, together with the original boxes tags (I have laminated signs for my boxes). That box will soon be reactivated (I'm expecting another 100 plates in the next month or two), and then deplete over the building time of the project again.

Juggling that man parts is a headache alone. On top of that I've got a stack of ten boxes of "presorted" stuff, i.e. parts coming back from cleaning and drying which are already bagged together with new purchases which all have to move into the right storage boxes.

I hope that answers your question...

Treczoks ,

Is that "horrible city" thing documented, i.e. is there a video of him saying that?

Treczoks ,

Americans seem to have guns everywhere. Even inside prisons...

Treczoks ,

Dying during a Christian pilgrimage has happend often enough. Our pilgrims log goes back to the time of the black death (actually right after it), and they took a coffin along on their pilgrimage even in the 19th century in case someone died (and, that was the believe, would ascend right into heaven). And yes, people really died doing strenous things for several days in a row that they were not used to.

Given the amount of people on the Hadj, the heat, and the age and medical conditions of quite some of those people, I think we have to give credit to the Saudis that it were just 14.

Treczoks ,

So he fits perfectly into that circle, don't you agree?

Treczoks ,

Well, when the Cascadia Subduction Zone strikes, the Tsunami will only be No.2 on their list of problems...

It will be No.1 for Japan, though.

More than 171,000 people traveled out-of-state for abortions last year ( www.axios.com )

Some 171,300 patients traveled out-of-state for abortions last year, new data estimates from the Guttmacher Institute show. State abortion bans that took effect in the post-Roe era have severely curbed access to reproductive care across the U.S....

Treczoks ,

Wait until they have to move to a civilized country for that instead. And see what else is possible outside the US.

Treczoks ,

I'm not talking about emigration. But you know that Canadas biggest pharmacy is right behind the US Border and has the size (and turnover) of a supermarket? If things go further downhill, the Canadians (or Mexicans) will offer affordable medical care for women in need.

Treczoks ,

I was just saying that there would be solutions. I never talked about affordability. And if those who cannot afford to survive in the current political climate keep making the same mistake in the voting booths, nobody can help you.

Treczoks ,

If all those women in Texas voted with their own personal wellbeing in mind, you would not have a Republican problem. And therefor no abortion crisis.

Treczoks ,

I don't blame the victim. I'm just telling you that problems like that need fixing from the inside. I am not the inside.

Treczoks ,

Voting won’t fix the problem.

If you think like that, you already lost.

Treczoks ,

I am already well aware that Republican states of the US are heavily gerrymandered. The GOP would no longer be an issue in most places without that.

Treczoks ,

If Trump wins, it will be like Jan 30th, 1933 in Germany. Only in the US, and with a way more dangerous military apparatus. For anyone knowing history, the similarities have been strinking for a long time now. Luckily for Trump, most Americans have no clue, substandard education to be "thanked".

Treczoks ,

First, when it comes to anything outside the US, they definitely have.

Second, at least half the US is uneducated enough to vote Republican.

Treczoks ,

At the moment, about 82k a year.

Treczoks ,

They wanted thrill, they got thrill. And at no extra cost!

Treczoks ,

Especially farmers. Many of them have stores of diesel fuel and fertilizer...

Treczoks ,

The pronunciation of words can generally be inferred from the spelling

Definitely NOT. English is among the worst languages in that regard.

Treczoks ,

You know the fun thing about "The Chaos"? It was written by someone who had English as a second language. Most native speakers simply don't get how chaotic their language is.

Treczoks ,

As someone who has learned the English language primarily by reading thousands of books, I wholeheartedly agree. On the other hand, English pronounciation sucks big time.

Treczoks ,

Uhh! A new variant of "The Chaos".

Treczoks ,

You got me there. Im a very systemic person, and pronunciation is higly asystemic, even in the English language.

Treczoks ,

Just wait until enough MAGA heads have drunk raw milk out of pure spite and turn the bird flu into the MAGA Malady pandemic.

The first pandemic caused primarily by human stupidity...

Treczoks ,

Yep. Cats and the Black Plague. Actually, they were a complicating factor for some. The Christians killed (primarily black) cats, as they deemed them helpers of the devil and therefor complicit in spreading the plague. The Jews, on the other side, kept cats to keep house and storage vermin-free. So the Christians thought the Jews were in league with the devil, so they killed them, too - at least that was one of the "reasons" for pogromes. And it is also a reason why there are way less black cats in Europe than colored ones. It is a crazy topic...

But even if they had not killed those cats, the Black Death would have come. Maybe it would have spread a tad slower, but not much.

Treczoks ,

Good. Why wasting money on Florida anyway? There will be much less of it, anyway, due to global warming.

Treczoks ,

And how much of that violent crime is committed by rightwingers and politically motivated?

Treczoks ,

Lets see who shows

  • Agitation and restless behavior
  • Depressed mood
  • Fatigue
  • General feeling of discomfort
  • Increased appetite
  • Vivid and unpleasant dreams
  • Slowing of activity (psychomotor retardation)

in the next days...

Treczoks ,

The best way to stop that war is to bring Putin in front of the ICC for his war crimes.

Treczoks ,

If he actually did this from a position of power, one might understand this. But in the here and now, it is totally ridiculous.

The FAA is investigating a new incident involving a Boeing 737 Max 8 jet in midair ( www.npr.org )

Less than an hour after taking off from Phoenix on May 25th, the plane experienced an uncontrolled side-to-side yawing motion known as a Dutch roll while cruising at 32,000 feet. The pilots of Southwest flight 746 were able to regain control and the plane landed safely in Oakland, according to a preliminary report from the FAA....

Treczoks ,

When will they finally close down Boeing, turn the company inside out, and let them back on the market only when they are really, really sure that they are actually safe again?

Treczoks ,

The old "We are suffering (because we are stupid), so you should suffer, too!"

Treczoks ,

Of course he is saying that he will be losing the debate on purpose. He knows that he will lose any real debate, so by pre-announcing this, people might actually believe he did this on purpose.

Treczoks ,

Of course we have bagels in Germany. But with a good Baker having one or two dozen variants of rolls anyway, nobody actually needs defect rolls with a hole in the middle.

Treczoks ,

Maybe bagels are better than American rolls, but that is not exactly aiming high. Have you ever tried German rolls? Because after that, you won't touch bagels anymore, unless you go back to the US. And yes, I've had them all, and I don't understand how you can stand those squishy, HFCS-loaded things.

Treczoks ,

The America bagel is definitely at the wrong end. It is better than American rolls, but that's it.

Treczoks ,

With an error rate of 52%? Nope.

Treczoks ,

AFAIK there is a bad heat wave going on in Greece at the moment. Hikers "vanishing" due to being underprepared is no miracle at all.

Treczoks ,

Or a sudden wave of people "accidentally" falling out of windows in Jerewan. They do have an 85m high "skyscraper" there...

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