Alfred J. Kwak was actually a co-production of VARA (NL), ZDF (DE), TV Tokyo (JP) and TVE (ES). Lots of people involved ;).

Didn’t know those German series were popular across the border! Very interesting. And hey, learning a language is never a bad thing, I guess. Sometimes I wish the Germans wouldn’t dub everything.

When it was released, Alfred J Kwak was wildly popular in Germany and I think the Netherlands, too. I still consider it to be one of the most beautifully produced European animated shows from that era. DVD releases were sparse and I don’t think you can stream it anywhere (except some shady YouTube channels that probably are only left alone because the whole thing has pretty much disappeared into obscurity).

Something that I guess is only popular over here is Tatort, which is essentially your typical crime solving series. It’s released every other Sunday and always plays in some German speaking city or town. Quality varies wildly, but that is also sort of what makes it nice to watch, Tatort just hits differently depending on whether it’s the one from Münster or from Wien.

Wildly popular over here is also “die Sendung mit der Maus”, “the mouse program”, maybe. It’s usually a set of entertaining animated or puppeteered shorts, educational segments and few-seconds-long animations of the mouse. It’s been on air for decades.

why would you bother with a jar? just leave the pan to cool then wipe it up with some paper and toss it in the food waste bin drain.

If it’s drawn art, yeah, same.

Yeah. He borrowed money for a house at 1.5%. Then inflation hit almost 10 during covid and our salary didn’t fully cover this but was raised way more than 1.5%. Money lost value much faster than his debt increased, so the banks effectively lose money on him while his paycheck grows faster than his debt increases.

Or in more generic terms, inflation is good if you borrow money.

If your interest is less than inflation.

Like my colleague who bought a house for about 1.5% before inflation nearly went to 10. Man.

BiteAway gang!

If you can bear the cringe of the interviewer, there’s a good interview with Penrose that goes on the same direction: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e9484gNpFF8

Not playing the anniversary edition?

It’s not a single bit worse than before the announcement.

No no no, you don’t get it! Humans only have eyes, so cars that only have eyes should perform just as good as humans! Disregard that humans don’t perform well in fog or rain or generally anything that isn’t good weather and also disregard that to match our eyes’ resolution you’d need extremely high resolution cameras that produce way too much data for current computers and also disregard that most of the stuff isn’t happening in our eyes but in our brains and also disregard that the point that is usually being made to advocate for self driving cars is that they should be better than humans!

Black and white are pretty overrepresented there though. Turning this into a sphere might help?

final fantasy

has sequel

I’d even say that this illustrates the success even more…

• lemm.ee shuts down, iirc, because it took too much time and effort to run the instance. Not really a sign of inactivity.
• the platform keeps going! The whole idea of a federated network works, as a single instance going down doesn’t impact other ones. As it happened before, see e.g. feddit.de.

So Lemmy as a whole is alive and healthy - and successful.

I don’t know. Maybe he still has a chance to become private jet guy’s third wife?

Hindsight is always 20/20

Thanks for the explanation. It kind of makes sense, but I’ll still try to play devil’s advocate… If people only get slightly more than 60 percent of the value they create, is the rest really only there to make the rich people richer or is it being used to pay off a loan the company might have gotten to pay for a large machine or something? With the bank receiving, obviously, the excess money, which they then use to pay their employees and buildings etc? These numbers seem to suggest that all money that isn’t paid to employees directly feeds the greedy ruling class, but it isn’t mentioned explicitly and maybe the excess money goes somewhere else as well? Not trying to say it has to be like that, just trying to get a better understanding.

Vets aren’t organised as a free market in Germany. Instead, prices are set by the federal government through the “Gebührenordnung für Tierärztinnen und Tierärzte (GOT)”.

I have no idea how that makes any sense.

First of all, according to your link, the richer countries seem to already be at much higher values, second I have no idea where that 50 percent value comes from even if we ignore the variety in distribution over the various countries.

Germany recently declared horses are no longer work animals but recreational, hiking vet prices astronomically. Also, horses might be driven around now but I’m sure there were more of them when 90% of the population were farmers and they all needed some of them.