How often do cults end in mass suicide?

Don’t ever give out your templates or show your process. If they can hire someone less experienced at a much cheaper rate, they eventually will.

I think you're usually legally obligated to. I mean, crappy boss never ask is one thing, but if they inquire how you do your job, which templates you use etc, the employer owns the templates you created during your paid work time on probably the computer which is also the employers property. You don't have to throw every detail about how you do your job on the table yourself if no-one asks, but if they do you should or they'ld win any legal dispute and you could be fired on bad (financial) terms. Likely whatever you show and explain is still to "complicated" anyhow.

Thanks! Do you think I'ld be good with this for example:

https://www.conrad.de/de/p/asus-notebook-vivobook-s-15-oled-k5504va-ma105w-39-6-cm-15-6-zoll-wqhd-intel-core-i9-i9-13900h-16-gb-ram-1-tb-flash-1-tb-ssd-intel-iris-x-graphics-win-11-home-schwarz-90nb0zk2-m004h0-3059355.html

I9 13900h. On paper it beats the bit more expensive ryzen 9 6900hx version by about 10 % in single thread.

https://www.conrad.de/de/p/asus-notebook-vivobook-pro-15-oled-m6500rc-ma028w-39-6-cm-15-6-zoll-wqhd-amd-ryzen-9-6900hx-16-gb-ram-1-tb-flash-1-3059354.html

Tho the difference in default clock speed is in favor of the ryzen?

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/4867vs5210/AMD-Ryzen-9-6900HX-vs-Intel-i9-13900H

Main use are big excel queries, power apps builder, power bi etc...

Yes, in a similar way, north Korea is closer to being a monarchie than anything else. Totalitarian monarchy.

Derek: https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/60655-derek

because macos fanboys are rich hipsters and spend large amounts of money on software and accessories for their already expensive computers. Linux users usually aren't very alike, the first 4,5 % isn't anyhow.

And for the unlikely situation that vito wouldn't do, there's still stuff like the Mercedes sprinter.

I don't think ikea even sells furniture that requires such gigantic vehicles in the first place.

That said, furniture is an excellent example of why you could just drive a normal vehicle, a bicycle or a bus to go windowshopping and later have the new furniture delivered to your doorstep by a specialised company and/or vehicle or rent a specialised vehicle for the odd occasion. The cost for society will actually be a damn lot lower.

Was very satisfying for a few months for me. Space Exploration mod looks tempting, but I think it's just too much and too big

Pikuniku , it's on sale on steam

Slow reply but it might still be worth it. It got easy to request the refund if you've booked in their DB Navigator app, then it's just: open the trip, go to tab "ticket" (where qr code is), scroll all the way to the bottom for "more actions" and select "submit compensation request". No paper form required! Quite the feat for a German bureaucratic company!

This looks very promising. Thanks for linking to it here. I hope it gets launched soon.

I think this perception is false.

On many big rail corridors like Antwerp/Rotterdam through Germany/Switzerland to Milan/Torino/Genova a lot or the rails are very shared by freight and passengers.

There are dedicated passengers rails mostly on (expensive to ride) high speed lines and there are dedicated freight tracks within ports and such, but a lot of tracks are still shared by both.

Plenty of saturated lines where you can see everything pass by: intercities, S-bahn style, freight all on same tracks and only at certains stops can they overtake each other.

I think the Swiss beat you aswell. They run a rather dense network too. Not dense like NL in the urban sense of the word, but Swiss connections are very well frequented and they run through some quite difficult terrain adding to the difficulty of running it all smoothly. The Swiss and Dutch network has quite some resemblance actually in how it is ran, both more perceived as a transfer model with rather easy to read, logical timetables ("runs every half hour": 13u00 13u30 14u00 etc), both barely having any real high speed lines.

From having travelled with trains in Europe, i'ld intuitively say in Europe Swiss wins, followed by the Netherlands and then perhaps the Austrians or the French. Belgium up there is this ranking is just lies and deceipt, in my experience the Germans the Belgians are about as reliable (not), but the germans do still win from Belgium because they are (often but not always) more fair in the communication and they hand out "request a refund"-forms in delayed trains.

running it slower on schedule does solve the problem of being more predictable and being able to plan a bit better if you have to catch connections. I much rather have more realistic timetables over trying to achieve overall shorter travel times.

The 'fast' version of Mechelen-Leuven (the 25min) is a lot slower now because they rerouted it to add the new Brussels airport stop on this line. Of course a train with fewer stops will run faster. But this airport stop seems worth it to me for both cities, though longer route it now runs almost the same time as the slow stops everywhere L-train (31min) between the two cities.

Anyhow, not really punctuality to blame in this example, it's a planning/routing choice. One you might disagree with, sure, but it's not punctuality.

Sometimes trains become "faster" in the same way because stops get skipped more often or cancelled altogether. They could run a very fast train between Eupen and Oostende, but what's the point if you're not picking up and dropping off any passengers along the route? Filling up the path for a "fast" connection almost noone can actually use. Trains in Belgium are slow in general because there are just villages and stops everywhere, every single train not on an actual highspeed line has the same hard choice: how many stops, where yes, where no, how many passengers a day does a stop need to be worth it? I've cursed often at the Beveren stop on the Antwerp-Gent line, but there are always people getting on and off there... Our city planning has just been shit for 200 years and this is a consequence, much of our rail network functions more like a large metrosystem.

even the little bits of grass around the peaks in foreground could actually be used. I'm amazed how risky cows behaviour is regarding to the abyss, and goats somehow are just completely not afraid of heights at all and hop around on 400 meter cliffs like a walk in the park. So you can grow food (meat+milk) on mountain sides during summer

thanks for the links!

the amount of equivalent USD is mostly meaningless in regular life. What matters is what you can buy in that place for how much they make. And also what you have to buy and what goes besides your paycheck (socialised healthcare in scandinavia vs higher wages in usa for example).

For example within Europe: yes, wages are way lower in eastern EU countries than in some western EU countries, but so is the price of coffee, the rent etc. That only becomes tangible when you travel.

Yeah, the spirit of your comment i agree with, but not the letter.

Nothing should be completely free, because nothing is free. Water needs processing, electricity needs a grid, sewage needs treatment, etc.

Basic things should be affordable for all: housing, water, electricity, internet, food etc.

But "free" creates incentives to be careless with resources. Which is counterproductive to making sure they are available for all at affordable prices.

Dutch has the same word: angst. In my experience it's not as "heavy" as Angst in German, but rather interchangeable with "schrik hebben" or "bang zijn". Though "angstig zijn" might be more of longer duration, like a character trait of a person.