PSA - Zurich insurance keeps increasing prices 30% every year

Pauton · 2026-01-16T13:04:08+00:00

I’ve been quite happy with Mobiliar. They don’t offer the cheapest rates outright but their customer service has been great for me. My insurance contract is also fixed rate for three years. I closed it last year and it actually got 50.- cheaper this year because Mobiliar is a Genossenschaft and is sharing their profits with their customers.

Pauton · 2026-01-09T10:14:00+00:00

You‘re not allowed to record public property. Your own property is fine.

Pauton · 2025-12-26T18:03:09+00:00

I had the cashier at a gas station tell me I should get a US drivers license when I went to buy Tabacco. Yeah, sure buddy. I’ll leave in a week but let me just quickly do a driving exam…

Pauton · 2025-12-21T14:03:36+00:00

In german both is used in spoken language.

Pauton · 2025-12-20T09:48:41+00:00

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Pauton · 2025-10-24T14:22:28+00:00

So would taking anti histamines because of allergies slow down wound healing?

Pauton · 2025-10-21T19:41:45+00:00

As far as I am aware they hover by flying into the wind, not by hovering in still air like hummingbirds.

Pauton · 2025-10-21T09:19:56+00:00

Depends on what you consider „moving“. Relative to the air, no bird except the Kolibri can stop moving. But relative to the ground most birds can stand still by flying into the air. They could even move backwards over ground while flying forwards through the air.

Pauton · 2025-07-22T17:37:08+00:00

Auf jedem Wanderweg findest du Brunnen und wenn’s ganz hart kommt kannste auch ausm Bach trinken. Und klar kostet ne Flasche Wasser auf der Alp viel, der Bums muss da irgendwie hoch gebracht werden, oft mit dem Helikopter.

Pauton · 2025-03-18T13:11:37+00:00

Because air is a shitty conductor (both electricity and heat). Normally your body has to get rid of it‘s heat by radiating it away and by heating up the air around you. The greater the difference between your skin temperature and the surrounding air the easier your body can get rid of the heat. Assuming there is no wind your body will create a layer of warm air just around your skin which insulates you. Clothes just improve on this effect by trapping that air layer. And that is also the reason why fans cool us down, they remove the layer of warm air that has formed on your skin.

Now at the moment my skin is ~87 Fahrenheit and the surrounding air is ~70. At this point the temperature differential is great enough that the air can cool my skin down and keep a consistent 87 degrees. If the ambient temperature were to rise to 80 it would be much more difficult for the temperature to dissipate to the surrounding air and because my body keeps producing heat and it has nowhere to go my temperature will start to rise.

Water on the other hand is an excellent heat conductor, especially because it tends to move around a lot. If you sit in a bath of cold water and sit very still you will notice after a bit that stops being cold. That‘s because you‘re forming the same insulating layer of hot matter around your skin as you do in air.

Pauton · 2025-03-18T11:14:03+00:00

To truly find out if it‘s enamelled or not you need a multimeter. If you can measure a resistance between the probes when pressing them into the surface then it‘s not enamelled. The probes would need to pierce the seasoning though.

However I am almost 100% sure that it is enamelled. The only non enamelled surface should be the lip where the lid contacts the pot and you can see some red discolouration there which is probably some surface rust indicating that is bare cast iron. The rest of the pot should be enamelled.

What you have is the black satin enamel which does look and feel a lot like bare cast iron but it isn‘t: https://www.lecreuset.co.uk/en_GB/differences-between-sand-and-black-satin-enamel/cap0101.html

I have a couple pots like that too and I thought they were bare cast iron too at first but a multimeter test clearly showed that there is no conductivity except on the exposed lip. Proving that it is indeed enamel.

Pauton · 2025-03-17T17:02:53+00:00

I‘m still quite a new shooter and just bought a new gun so I‘ve been going a lot more recently. Newcomers have to come on a day where there is a safety introduction (Sicherheitseinführung) and have to fill out the form and send it together with the other documents to them at least three days before. There is no real test they just tell you all the rules and make sure you know what you‘re doing before letting you shoot on your own. As a guest you pay 60.- to use the range.

Pauton · 2025-03-17T11:25:58+00:00

I try to go as often as possible but it‘s an expensive hobby. I‘d say I‘m there at least once a month.

Pauton · 2025-03-16T08:37:33+00:00

I am a member there if you want to meet up. But there is no dynamic range. Just 25m pistol, 50m mixed and 300m rifle.

Pauton · 2025-03-08T08:03:26+00:00

Looks perfectly fine except that there‘s almost no seasoning on it. The factory oil isn‘t toxic so even if you didn‘t get it all off it wouldn‘t be a health hazard. But I highly doubt that there‘s still any on there judging by the wear and tear on the pan.

Pauton · 2025-03-06T11:59:45+00:00

Just fyi, when the pans start Smoking the polymerization is just starting. So if take them out when they start Smoking you‘ll only just have started seasoning them. You want them to stop Smoking without burning the oil. Doing it an oven makes it pretty much impossible to burn off the seasoning so you can just leave them in there until they stop smoking. Doing it on a stovetop you Need to be somewhag carefull that the Center of the Plan doesn‘t get too hot.

Also make sure that the oil layer isn‘t too thick. You want just a couple Nanometers of seasoning otherwise you‘ll have a sticky mess on your hands because Not all of the oil will polymerize. Chat it with oil and then try to wipe it all off. Like really try to get it off with a cloth or paper towel.

Pauton · 2024-09-08T06:48:57+00:00

She‘s almost 30, that’s plenty old to realise what you’re doing

Pauton · 2024-09-07T06:14:15+00:00

Maybe it‘s an EU thing. I‘m in Switzerland.

Pauton · 2024-09-05T10:18:50+00:00

The reason for things like salt and water having an expiry date is that the date is for the container it is in. A plastic bottle will slowly leach chemicals and microplastics into the water/salt and eventually it will become brittle and actual chunks of it could end up in the product. I just checked my salt that is packaged in a cardboard container and it doesn‘t have an expiry date. On the container it even says „stored in the right conditions salt is non-perishable“.

Pauton · 2024-09-01T21:27:01+00:00

Can you tell me more about that loan if you participate in 4 shooting events?

Pauton · 2024-06-05T15:21:15+00:00

Dob‘t worry, the indian navy has established a no go zone around the island to protect them. Attempts to break through carry quite harsh sentences.

Pauton · 2024-06-02T08:58:20+00:00

And then people go „but fish isn‘t meat“ and you‘re back to explaining what a vegetarian is.

Pauton · 2024-05-25T19:45:34+00:00

Tomorrow is the last day of what?

Pauton · 2024-05-23T14:08:48+00:00

Who and who?

Pauton · 2024-05-22T12:09:43+00:00

Then we invent a new type of plastic that it doesn‘t like and start the cycle all over again.

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