Found the American.

In a fantasy world I designed, a butterfly is one of the worst killers. Its touch is toxic, landing on any exposed skin is deadly, but in a horrible way. The victim is just paralyzed, not killed, and the butterfly returns to the victim to lay its eggs, and the larvae eat their way into the still living body…

Thank goodness this is illegal in my country.

Yes, yes, accurately observed.

Have you ever seen how long it takes for a tree to grow?

Luckily, there are Nuka-Cola bottle caps…

Back when I studied in that city, I did commute by bike, 20km each way, and was much faster than public transport. I am happy that I only have business there two or three times a year.

The problem is that it does not remove cars in that city. People still need to get to work, and public transport is so bad, it is hardly an alternative.

The mayoress simply f-cks up car traffic, only marginally improves bike traffic, and public transport (busses) have been victims of cutting into car traffic, too.

Better make a big detour around that place.

I would not mind. In the mean time, I skip that city and actually drive to the next city over and use their tram to get to the city center. Even though it is much farther, it is still quicker.

Be happy that you can use an e-scooter or bike. Imagine being unable to use such a device, crappy public transport, and that in a city that cuts off cars…

Well, AIX (one of IBMs UNIX variants) is old, and, AFAIK more or less legacy stuff. The other is RHEL, which is s Linux.

Windows? On a mainframe? Microsoft may be ambicious, but that is a few number to big for them.

For closed and proprietary stuff, and things that still run on FORTRAN and COBOL, yes. But about anything running a web frontend, it’s Linux (RHEL).

Guess what most IBM big irons are running nowadays?

I once bought a 12V, Dremel like drill kit. One of the thin (1mm) drills was broken. They send me a new set.

That kind of fuckery drove me off a company-sponsored training course.

About every country forced to hoard USD for business purposes subsidises the US.

He is a Narcissist. He needs to be loved, that’s why he thrives in his role of Almighty President-King.

Polls are showing that he isn’t, so he pushes ads here and tries to buy love there.

There are people like me who occasionally read all/new.

Get a book on German history 1930-45.