Eike Pierstorff
@eikepierstorff.bsky.social
I do not know how to make a cogent argument in 300 characters and don't really like tit-for-tat, so I am not sure what I am doing here. Also I am a lefty who likes dogs and science and home cooked food.
No, it is not because we shut down nuclear power. Our minister of the economy is a fossil fuel lobbyist, our chancellor a former (?) Blackrock employee, and Germany economy depends on a car industry that has proven incapable of building a competitive electric car. Broadly, that is why.
September 11, 2025 at 5:08 PM
No, it is not because we shut down nuclear power. Our minister of the economy is a fossil fuel lobbyist, our chancellor a former (?) Blackrock employee, and Germany economy depends on a car industry that has proven incapable of building a competitive electric car. Broadly, that is why.
Darf ich das mit Geld bezahlen, das nicht wirklich Geld ist, sondern von mir gedruckt? Erstmals?
September 11, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Darf ich das mit Geld bezahlen, das nicht wirklich Geld ist, sondern von mir gedruckt? Erstmals?
German writer Kurt Tucholsky observed the same about 100 years ago. In his view the leading "no" serves to dismiss whatever has been said previously, so one get can their own opinion in without having to engage with the opinion of others. Humans probably haven't changed much in the last 100 years.
September 10, 2025 at 7:47 PM
German writer Kurt Tucholsky observed the same about 100 years ago. In his view the leading "no" serves to dismiss whatever has been said previously, so one get can their own opinion in without having to engage with the opinion of others. Humans probably haven't changed much in the last 100 years.
This seems to be missing an Avi Loeb joke.
September 9, 2025 at 7:07 PM
This seems to be missing an Avi Loeb joke.
I thought the ending was when we discovered we are but the germs in the giant Universe-shark, and the sea sharks are the antibodies that are out to get us.
September 9, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I thought the ending was when we discovered we are but the germs in the giant Universe-shark, and the sea sharks are the antibodies that are out to get us.
Nothing new under the sun. Or under the sea, as it were.
September 9, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Nothing new under the sun. Or under the sea, as it were.
A big shark that is made from a lot of tiny sharks for more heads (but then that might just be piranhas). Or you do "The Return of Joseph Heiter - The Sharkoid Centipede" (although technically no "pede" w/o legs, but who is counting).
September 9, 2025 at 4:24 PM
A big shark that is made from a lot of tiny sharks for more heads (but then that might just be piranhas). Or you do "The Return of Joseph Heiter - The Sharkoid Centipede" (although technically no "pede" w/o legs, but who is counting).
Social security will help with that, but only after close relatives have exhausted their funds. General healthcare offers a lot more democratic access, though - not as good as high end private healthcare in the US, but at a decent level accessible for everyone. Comparing systems is difficult.
September 6, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Social security will help with that, but only after close relatives have exhausted their funds. General healthcare offers a lot more democratic access, though - not as good as high end private healthcare in the US, but at a decent level accessible for everyone. Comparing systems is difficult.
I'm not in disbelief and I am German. German healthcare only still works because long term care was separated out into a different system that pays completely insufficient lump sums. Copay for a nursing home is around 3000 Euro per month, which is more than the median net salary.
September 6, 2025 at 7:20 AM
I'm not in disbelief and I am German. German healthcare only still works because long term care was separated out into a different system that pays completely insufficient lump sums. Copay for a nursing home is around 3000 Euro per month, which is more than the median net salary.
I do (barely) remember there were protests when the paper id was replaced with plastic that embedded the contained information in machine readable form, but I think that is as far as opposition to id cards in Germany ever got.
September 4, 2025 at 9:16 PM
I do (barely) remember there were protests when the paper id was replaced with plastic that embedded the contained information in machine readable form, but I think that is as far as opposition to id cards in Germany ever got.
the discussion about voter id in the US, where the idea is to make an id mandatory without making it easy or at all possible to obtain one, which is a measure to exclude people). Since I have to identify myself on many occasions anyway, it's more a timesaver than anything else.
September 4, 2025 at 9:13 PM
the discussion about voter id in the US, where the idea is to make an id mandatory without making it easy or at all possible to obtain one, which is a measure to exclude people). Since I have to identify myself on many occasions anyway, it's more a timesaver than anything else.
Germany has the "Personalausweis", mandatory (the Nazis made it so which is not great advertising) to own, but (mostly) not to carry. Does not look like an instrument of oppression, but then I am so used to it I wouldn't know. If you mandate an id card you should make it easy to get one (that's
September 4, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Germany has the "Personalausweis", mandatory (the Nazis made it so which is not great advertising) to own, but (mostly) not to carry. Does not look like an instrument of oppression, but then I am so used to it I wouldn't know. If you mandate an id card you should make it easy to get one (that's
That's the thing, it is not particularly MCU-ish. And while it's not particularly subtle, as someone who is in treatment himself there was something cathartic in the way the movie explained depression by way of metaphor (even if the metaphor was sometimes dished out with a ladle).
September 2, 2025 at 6:48 PM
That's the thing, it is not particularly MCU-ish. And while it's not particularly subtle, as someone who is in treatment himself there was something cathartic in the way the movie explained depression by way of metaphor (even if the metaphor was sometimes dished out with a ladle).
Lest you think you are the only ones, the German "Grundgesetz" has literally no requirements for the office of chancellor (head of government), not even minimum age or citizenship. It just says they have to be elected (by the parliament; we do not get to vote on our executive).
August 30, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Lest you think you are the only ones, the German "Grundgesetz" has literally no requirements for the office of chancellor (head of government), not even minimum age or citizenship. It just says they have to be elected (by the parliament; we do not get to vote on our executive).
Wenn ich einen Tipp geben müsste würde ich vermuten, dass Dobrindt den Georg Maaßen vorschlägt.
August 30, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Wenn ich einen Tipp geben müsste würde ich vermuten, dass Dobrindt den Georg Maaßen vorschlägt.
Zum Thema KTF vermute ich, dass die Regierung EU-Strafzahlungen mittelfristig nicht für ein Problem hält, weil sie (wohl mit Recht) darauf setzt, dass die Rechtsaußen-Fraktionen Klimaschutz auch auf EU-Ebene abschaffen werden und eventuelle Haushaltsfolgen sich damit erledigen.
August 30, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Zum Thema KTF vermute ich, dass die Regierung EU-Strafzahlungen mittelfristig nicht für ein Problem hält, weil sie (wohl mit Recht) darauf setzt, dass die Rechtsaußen-Fraktionen Klimaschutz auch auf EU-Ebene abschaffen werden und eventuelle Haushaltsfolgen sich damit erledigen.
Per the article, "Letters and personal gifts under US$100 will still technically be exempt from tariffs after Friday but some services have suspended all US postage of goods and others have suspended postage to the US entirely", so the exemption may not always help.
August 28, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Per the article, "Letters and personal gifts under US$100 will still technically be exempt from tariffs after Friday but some services have suspended all US postage of goods and others have suspended postage to the US entirely", so the exemption may not always help.
Ein Projekt zur Beschimpfung von Hans-Georg Maaßen finde ich gut. Haben die noch Kapazitäten, um andere Rechtsextreme zu beschimpfen? Ich hätte Vorschläge.
August 28, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Ein Projekt zur Beschimpfung von Hans-Georg Maaßen finde ich gut. Haben die noch Kapazitäten, um andere Rechtsextreme zu beschimpfen? Ich hätte Vorschläge.
I talk to tech support of various companies a lot, so going by experience I'd say there is a decent chance that a random relative knows more about their technology than the help desk (not even joking, first line support usually is not tech savy but reads from a script). So maybe they're just honest.
August 28, 2025 at 7:56 AM
I talk to tech support of various companies a lot, so going by experience I'd say there is a decent chance that a random relative knows more about their technology than the help desk (not even joking, first line support usually is not tech savy but reads from a script). So maybe they're just honest.
president routinely brags about passing a dementia test (which by itself puts the test result into question). If that is what DEI previously managed to prevent, then it is a very powerful concept indeed.
August 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
president routinely brags about passing a dementia test (which by itself puts the test result into question). If that is what DEI previously managed to prevent, then it is a very powerful concept indeed.
Looking at this from the outside, your defense secretary is an abusive alcoholic who was fired from a previous job of destroying health insurance for vets for passing out in a strip club, health secretary is a carrion eating addict who cited brain damage as reason not to pay alimony and your
August 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Looking at this from the outside, your defense secretary is an abusive alcoholic who was fired from a previous job of destroying health insurance for vets for passing out in a strip club, health secretary is a carrion eating addict who cited brain damage as reason not to pay alimony and your