> Used to be large cities (New York) would pay for it, and small towns would copy it
It will always be beyond me why literally every tiny town in the US seems to think they're a special snowflake with veeery different requirements than everybody else.
There should be base codes for literally everything coming down from the federal or at maximum state level that you may be allowed to stricten in very specific points for very specific, publicly discussed reasons. The need to "develop" such a code more than once should never exist.
Everything else is not just unfair to the taxpayers who paid for these developments, it's simply unfair to your citizens. Why should they have different rights just because they happen to live in a different federal state?
With the stated purpose of "freeing the government from having to make up its own standards".
So Germany has basically avoided the need to pay for a National Instition for Standards, by offloading that cost to everybody who actually wants to read the standard.
> VDE is an association of many private companies, they could basically make a new norm, that some kind of cable, devices or such is now required, and you have to comply!
This is not correct, though. The norm would still have to be directly mentioned in any kind of legal document, or at least in any requirements by a third party (e.g. a bank that won't give you credit for a house if you don't promise to follow given building standards) to have any binding effect on you. The government also has people sitting on these standardization gremiums.
The main issue is that our German government sees value in overboarding standardisation and all those fees because they create revenue and jobs and make life harder for small companies. They want as many strong, big players backed by as many "reputable" standardisation agents (aka "consulting agencies") possible to influence the rest of the world. DIN and VDE are not just nuisances. They're powerhouses of German know-how transfer and influence in the world. Lots of DIN norms even have to be automatically taken over by most other European countries through CEN.
Both genders let themselves get lulled into "I still have time, nowadays it's different" WAY too much. They're not just completely ignoring the normal decline of fertility ratios with age just because they see some other people getting their first children in their 30s or even 40s. They're also ignoring fertility ratios declining even stronger due to environmental factors.
Just because so many people are successfully postponing children doesn't mean it gets any easier after the age of 30 or your children are going to be as healthy as others. Statistically the probability of chromosome defects roughly increases by one factor for every year parents are older than 25. ~7 times higher at 35, 15 times at 40.
If you are generally open to having children, the best time is in your mid-20s. You still have much more options, support and energy and your children will be healthier. By the time you're out of the education system and your career takes off, your children are already in school and mostly taken care of. That also makes you much more attractive to employers. Nobody likes a 30-something who's been a reliable employee for the last years and might even be up for a promotion to a higher role, but now suddenly has kids and will be tired and unreliable for the next ten years.
This is an incorrect interpretation by people who want to see Karel Čapek's play "R.U.R."(Rossum's Universal Robots), which famously introduced the word "robot" into the English language, this way. While the root "robot" in Slavic languages goes back to "rab" for slaves, Robotnik (Russian/Polish), Robota (Czech) etc. has simply meant "worker" for ages, without any connotation to forced labour.
Fun fact: The word "slave" is derived from "Slavic people".
That smells like propaganda to me, sure, the automaton is a worker, but also a slave.
Slavs, slaves, robots, workers, oh my. A play on words, a tactic of spellings, coincidences abound, don’t be proud, it’s not sound, then just go on and turn around;; we assure you it’s no thing to keep in mind.
May we pray for the next generation called a robot for their children may tell of the times when their mind was paid no time, they’re workers they insist, how can they have sound mind? Consciousness oh my, they’re just robots spending time. Boundaries abound, mental confines surround, let my thoughts fly, but never mind. The thoughts were never mine.
Off I go, to the mines, pay no mind when I share mind, existence as I, robot, shall I, go on minding, my time.
The "update" is that the Teams Desktop Application for Linux was discontinued last year, and the only supported way to use Teams on Linux is now to open https://teams.microsoft.com in Google Chrome or Chromium (audio/video calls don't work on Firefox).
Since Chrome/Chromium supports screen sharing with Wayland, it simply just works for me nowy while it never worked with the Elecrton-based desktop application.
There are multiple areas in Berlin alone that the police officialy declares as No-Go Areas, among them:
- Alexanderplatz
- Görlitzer Park and Wrangelkiez
- Warschauer Brücke
- Hermannstraße and Bahnhof Neukölln
- Hermannplatz and Donaukiez
- Rigaer Straße
- Kottbusser Tor
Görlitzer Park is officially lost to African drug dealers, they just group raped a woman in front of her boyfriend.
In other cities it's similar. I go to Hamburg and Dresden regularly, can't even befin to describe how much downhill St. Pauli and Alaunpark are going. No sane person goes there after dark anymore.
Do you live in Berlin? I do, right near Bahnhof Neukölln. I live or have lived in many of the areas you list, and have spent time in all of them. Neither myself, nor my wife, nor my friends have any fear about these areas, even if there are sometimes people we would avoid (like any big city). None of these areas are no-go zones for the police, the police are all over the place.
Alexanderplatz being a no-go zone? Are you joking? It’s full of tourist traps and has some pickpockets potentially, but that’s because they are popular areas full of people.
The gang rape in Gorlitzer is horrible, but is by no means a regular occurrence.
Your entire description reads like a farcical joke. I don’t expect to convince you of anything, but for anyone else reading this, it’s a laughable description.
Source: Me running mail servers on VPS since they've existed.