Iirc for the DB a train is considered on time when it’s not later than 7 min on arrival. Which is a joke if you miss your following connection.

A “normal accident” is an emergent disaster, arising from a complex and highly technical system whose components are tightly coupled, meaning that the state of one component significantly affects others. Perrow wrote that in simple mechanical systems, a high degree of reliability can be achieved through the use of independent and redundant components, but as system complexity increases, especially when human organizations are involved, true redundancy among the components ceases to exist, and failures or errors may trigger a “cascade” that propagates through the system until disaster occurs. Cascades are, by their very nature, difficult or impossible to fully predict until they occur.

• Admiral Cloudberg paraphrasing Charles Perrows 1984 book ‘Normal Accidents’

“Hitler - bad. Moving on.”

Sometimes I forget there are places where health insurance isn’t universal and was a little confused reading your comment.

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I have two furry air defense missiles, ever time something flying enters my apartment I just wish it good luck. Bugs, flies, mosquitos, they all die and get munched within minutes. I just have to keep an eye out for wasps and bees because I don’t want to take that trip to the vet. It’s a purring iron dome.

Tragically that was part of the idea of some of those concepts, connecting social security with social control.

For example Alfred Krupp pioneered a lot of those concepts in his business, next to company stores, company apartments, company hospitals and schools he also started having some sort of insurance for his workers, in case of sickness or disability you were secured by the company insurances.

Krupp didn’t do this out of the goodness of his heart, in part those programs secured productivity and helped attracting and keeping qualified workers. On the other hand those things were also leverage that could be used against the workers, especially against strikers, unionist, political agitators or social Democrats. Of course workers profited from those programs, but when you live in a company apartment, shop in company stores, go to company hospitals and schools, the company holds your pension and your health insurance all of that can be taken away when you go against Krupp, you’d loose everything.

Like I said up top, it was always a mix of social security and social control.

I feel for you, sometimes I forget to be appreciative for things like this.

The whole thing was as uncomplicated as it can be. I was at the doctor’s for a regular checkup, during the little interview I mentioned I was taking vitamin d to alleviate the symptoms of almost no sunlight during the winter (working nights), she then explained the vitamin d - potassium relation and took some blood to check. I got the results a couple days later via email and that was that. As it was during a regular checkup it was also free of charge.

It’s awesome to be in a place where I don’t even have to actively seek out that kind of medical attention. I got an email reminding me of the checkup with some possible appointments, I clicked on one, two weeks later I mention the vitamin d in passing and it gets tested in a timely manner for free. Easy as that. I had bowel movements more complicated than that.

Check whats in you B complex, if B6 is a high dosage you should check in with your doctor, prolonged intake of high B6 doses can cause minor nerve damage. While you’re at it let them check your potassium levels, too much Vitamin D can lead to drastic Potassium levels which can cause health problems. At least in Germany the blood work for both is about 25€ and you tune your dose to what’s safe :)

It’s probably safe but some people metabolize those vitamins differently and the tests are quick and simple.

There’s been a bunch of people lately who seem to never have heard of the magic of perspectives.

Don’t mind me just saving that image for the collection of reaction images I send to people who dare to call me way to early.

Huh, where I’m from, when you order a simple coffee you’ll always get it black and then there is a little station where you can add milk, sugar, creamer yourself and the lids are also at that station. You’ll only get it ‘pre mixed’ when you order a coffee specialty like Latte or Cappuccino.

Also in my personal opinion, from a good espresso machine, percolator or even French press I like a black coffee once in a while, but drip filter coffee is only palatable with milk. Sometimes not even then.

You want people shitting in the streets? Because that’s how you get people shitting in the streets.

The disaster is the third deadliest aircraft incident in aviation history (after American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175), and is the deadliest accident in aviation history.[1][2][3][c]

The other two are the planes that hit the world trade center on 9/11. I always understood disaster to be describing more of an accident, but obviously it can also describe a terror attack where someone intentionally crashes an airplane, fair enough.

Worst aviation disaster in history happened on the ground. Tenerife Airport disaster

I use emegency blankets. They also work and are more robust than aluminum foil. They are also cheap.

We did that during my military service in the shitty barracks we had. In the summer silverside pointing outwards to reflect the sun, in the winter silver side pointing inside to keep more warmth inside.

A friend recently said to me “you’re at least a village 8.5”. I’m still not sure if that’s a compliment or an insult.

I agree but the term ‘class traitor’ does not appear in Marx or Engels texts because they do not discuss individual ‘guilt’ or any form of individual morality, they discuss the overall econimcal and societal relations to each other.

Class traitors as a term appears later in revolutionary rhetoric and it usually describes a conscious effort against the interest of the own class. Soldiers act within the power structure of the state, not as free actors representing their class. Their role is institutionally dictated, not a individual ideological ‘betrayal’ like for example union busters.

With the term lumpen Proletarier Marx himself describes something similar but different. The Lumpenproletariat according to Marx does not live within the structures of typical class, they do not own means of production, but they are also not giving their labor for a wage. Through that they can not have a unified class consciousness and act largely indivualisticly. He means economic minorities like beggars, vagabonds, criminals, grifters and the like. According to Marx they are 'politically unreliable ’ and usually reactionary in nature.

It’s worth noting that this kind of classification was criticized widely, the term itself is seen as problematic even within Marxist circles.

According to Marxist theory the individual soldier usually is working class since class is not defined by the function or moral evaluation but by their position within the economical and power structures.

A regular soldier does not own land, a factory or any other means of extracting profit, they are selling their own labour, they do not exercise power over their own labour other than providing it in exchange for a wage and they are usually recruited from lower/middle class.

With Marx class does not equal a political function, a soldier can be objectively working class and still be used by their employer (state) against the interest of their own class. In Marx’s theory that is not a contradiction but a feature of the state as a class instrument.

And to have an ETA.

I used to be able to do that in my head. Like look at a map, eyeball the median speed we’ll be able to drive, the distance and I was usually within a 10-15min accuracy.