If “between specified locations” includes your oil wells and silver mines, enjoy.

Nah, it’s a German family’s last name.

Köln is indeed special.

Those cost increases are not unique to Cologne though. It starts with a cost estimate that’s way below a reasonable sum of money and that is highly unlikely to work out, but one that is politically feasible. Then (once planning and building is happening) costs increase and often enough, public sector decision makers are inept at damage control when unexpected things happen (which they do) and plans need to be reworked accordingly. Sunk cost fallacy is also real. Things then get out of hand and construction companies know that shit needs to get done at some point and there’s more money to be made once the child has fallen into the well.

You’re not gonna be able to start a 600 million euro project if you’re honest about it. You say it’ll be 250 million, get it greenlit, and go from there. It’s stupid, but that’s how it works everywhere. I’m not saying that there is no corruption involved, but I don’t think it’s the worst problem. Look at Stuttgart 21: It is now at least 5 years overdue and cost increased from 4.5 to 11 billion.

I’ll pick up reading again and watch the fallout.

Link to archived version

I was excited that you provided the coords. Thanks!

Oh boy…

Sounds like you’re into your Audis.

The thing is, the desk in the office does have presets. You still have to hold the button until it stops at the saved height.

Maybe I should, yeah.

Edit: Oh nice, they also barred my old phone.

Interesting. He always reminded me of that monk in The name of the rose.

That is true. Muggle to the left, wizard to the right.

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I’m trying to hang in there.

They probably get a cut from the money you spend paying with Revolut.

I’d love to try it, but a couple weeks ago, Revolut stopped working on my phone with a custom ROM. Now my entire account is pretty much useless. At least the app still works on my old phone which is running the same custom OS, so I can pull my funds and then ditch Revolut.

I now have a motorized desk at work and unlike the one we have at home, you cannot single-tap the memory setting and just watch it adjust. I need to hold it until my desired height is reached.

European here, how does that “register with a party” thing work?

Nobody said that the act of eating birdseed was the thing that makes the ducks birds.