It’s a surprisingly effective equation. It basically works for everyone 14+, with just a little “not so sure” zone when you’re 20 and they’re 17. After that, it gets back on track.

Can German be any less confusing, please?

We have started into various forms of past tense sentence structure and the rules… Oh the rules.

Add in how written German is different in places then spoken…

I’ll make it, I know I can.

Still reading B1 books. Classes are helping a ton on structure and rules. Listening is getting better.

I’ve managed several good interactions in stores, shops, and museums entirely in German. Many people are very understanding when I ask to at least try since I’m learning.

Wir wohnen in Deutschland. Ich muss Deutsch sprechen!

I know. It comes in about 300 variations from the 50 cafes within a 5 minute walk from my apartment.

Those cards are “Give up, lie, steal, cheat, neoptism, insider trade, pedophile protection, and narcissist nap time”. Conservatives LOVE them for it because it lets them be racist and bigoted in public.

I’m not a Torontonian and I still want that for the city. It looks wonderful.

My city needs to keep building our own transit system. It’s one of the best in the world, but it hasn’t had the investment to match the continued city growth, either in sq km or densification.

That’s the exact reason I’m holding onto my (not so great) job in Germany. Going back to the US is incredibly unpalatable. I LOVE living in a modern city where I can actually walk to errands. It’s wonderful.

Is that monstrosity over 10 lanes wide? I think it’s closer to 18 in actual width. That could be as wide as 63 meters (206 ft). Insanity.

Anything but building some trains and putting buildings closer together… We’d sacrifice anything and everything on the altar of cars.to appease the rich and the selfish.

But roundabout require people to think and interact with the traffic! We want to drive fast, but stupid.

I’m waiting on the last birth certificate we need for our application. Let’s go Saskatchewan administrators! Find that old birth record please, we know it’s in there somewhere.

Paris is doing such a great job of reclaiming the city from the oily grip of automobiles. Keep it up! Once again France leads the way to better society.

Get Ukraine and Iceland in.

Call up Canada and work on the rules so they’re a member, even if a non core country.

The EU could be crushing it going forward if the member states can keep dictators out of presidency seats.

I’ve started a real German course with in person classes. Hopefully it’ll help with smoothing out the conversational parts and basic grammar that I’ve never truly internalized.

My reading keeps improving. The speaking, oh the speaking…

There’s a couple on the root org readme:

https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet

Is it affirmative of AI? It’s not a good look for what should be one of the utmost professional software projects I the EU.

Die Straßenbahnen brauchen eine echte Vorrangregelung an Kreuzungen und einen Bulldozer in Bereitschaft, um Autos zu entfernen, die ihnen im Weg stehen.

Wenn sie schon dabei sind, sollten sie das Gleiche auch von der Chausseestraße bis zum Hauptbahnhof tun.

Into the pockets of military industrial complex contractors. Rich people got richer. The troops got… whatever that is on that tray.

Dependence on oil is a national security risk of epic proportions.

The README.md file also has lovely emojis in it. Their documentation writer is either a 14 year old or generated with an LLM in places.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969724011422

There’s been a wave of similar articles coming out over the last few years. People are finally noticing that this is yet another way cars are killing us.

I’m a Morlock by attitude and choice. I train young people who want to be engineers to also be Morlocks.

Jedgras is either a non-native English speaker who is unaware of how their prose reads, an asshole, or a troll.

I gave udm14 a look. It’s a good tool in the toolbox.