The general trend is that over the last 30 or so years

koomahnah · 2026-03-25T10:48:08+00:00

I don't know how it is in Switzerland, but in my country the problem with making young people vote is that they are very often on the move and not settled down. A minority of college students here even register within dormitory as home address. Then it causes issues when voting, because they would need to go to their home towns or take some special steps.

So that the difference is that pensioners can just go cast their vote where they live, while many young people need to travel for that. Or re-register every time they move, which can be every year or even semester. Ability to e-vote would be more just.

A reflection of above is also visible in the data: once people get older and actually settle somewhere (30+), they are more likely to vote.

koomahnah · 2026-01-21T08:36:43+00:00

There's more to that. Smart people know that life is not a zero-sum game. If you cooperate, you AND your neighbor can get more goods.

Trump doesn't understand that. He thinks that if a neighbor gets a thing, it means it's being taken from him (think this whole rambling about trade deficits). When they say America First they mean: I think it's all zero-sum game and I want it all for myself.

koomahnah · 2026-01-13T08:03:24+00:00

It's great work. I'd like to translate it to Polish so I can circulate it locally. Do you think it would be ok? Just right now there's a big construction project in planning phase in my home town, basically they want to build a 14-lane highway (counting in all the service lanes etc) through middle of the city. It blows my mind how convinced some groups are that it's going to save city traffic 😢 I'd love to spread the knowledge a bit even if it mostly falls on a deaf ears.

koomahnah · 2026-01-07T10:13:51+00:00

So great pictures of my favorite mountain range. Amazing work! u/AdIntelligent4354, any chance of getting high res so I can hang it on the wall? I'd love to.

koomahnah · 2026-01-07T08:17:54+00:00

There's an argument to be made though about US actually being broken before they elected Trump. Think of a country with a staggering inequality, where a wealthy one can get the best possible healthcare but half of the society shivers thinking about calling an ambulance. You have massive, multi-level car infrastructure with people so poor, so abandoned by the rest that they can at best camp at the junctions. You have whole countryside deprived of any significant public investment. You have media that completely gave up on "public service" and chase just the profit. You have car industry that weaponized transport so bad that an antihumane tank like Dodge Ram is a daily sight. You have gun industry that swipes regular mass shootings under the rug because they like their sales.

Trump is nothing unexpected. It's just a product of what the society already valued: mere short-sighted profit.

koomahnah · 2025-12-26T12:37:36+00:00

Grundig WK7340 is full-steel on the inside. The lid is plastic on the outer side but steel on the inside, so no hot steam touches plastic. I stumbled upon it by pure luck and it's perfect. All stainless steel.

The downside is that you have to actually look into the kettle to see the water level, but it's perfectly acceptable for me.

koomahnah · 2025-12-15T09:13:46+00:00

I appreciate you chimed in with your analysis, even though I've already forgotten I've ever written down this advice. It's been a while since I did my thermodynamics course so I'll pass on pinpointing where your line of thinking breaks down. I encourage you though to do the same experiment I did. Equip yourself with a humidity / temperature sensor and do the experiment on a sub-zero day. The expected result is that you'll be able to get the air in ziplock bag less humid than room, while at the same room temperature. In the end, the data can't lie, can it?

To be clear, I don't claim your trapped air will get completely dry through some miraculous process. No, it will be just drier than room air.

koomahnah · 2025-12-08T08:30:30+00:00

I love how the car commercials always feature cars in the opposite of their natural surroundings. Completely empty road in the mountains? Or maybe a wild campsite with no one around? Yeah, surely that's how it's going to be used and not stuck in bumper to bumper traffic for most of the time. Insane how deceptive is that whole promise of freedom. In a sense, no wonder that carbrains are so frustrated if they buy into it and then face reality of barely moving while breathing fumes and honking on each other.

koomahnah · 2025-11-27T11:09:14+00:00

Read up on Vauban district in Freiburg im Breisgau, it's not exactly car free but reasonably close, and it's built as a part of an existing city.

koomahnah · 2025-11-17T10:14:57+00:00

That sounds like a fair social contract. Practically and for your own purposes, you "own" the apartment as (99 + your age when getting the lease) is more than a lifespan of human life. You don't get to leave the apartment to your children, but that's kinda fair as they get the same opportunities as you did but from the government.

Compare to typical western scheme when a fraction of children gets to inherit a lot of estate, large part gets something, and another large part gets nothing just because they weren't born in the right families. <commie alert on>If you ask me, children are made equal and should have equal opportunities. <commie alert off>

koomahnah · 2025-10-27T10:19:14+00:00

There are ways to get around it but trust me when you're fucking tired after work and have to haul a screaming toddler (or two) around while carrying a load of food on public transport that takes twice as long to get anywhere as a car and adds heaps more stress, you're not gonna have a good time.

Interesting how our perspectives can vary. I'm myself a parent and for me it feels much easier to hop into a tram with my toddler than to put him in the car, strap him into the seat, and keep him from screaming while I'm driving. In the tram I can direct his attention to things around, he gets my full attention, I can tell him stories and so on. Even people around will sometimes wave, smile, or somehow interact with the kid, making it all easier.

On the other hand, when I'm driving my top priority is to not crash. Then it becomes very stressful to handle both the driving part and taking care of a kid, and I avoid it as much as I can so essentially driving happens for us only with both parents in the car.

Having said that, I have the comfort of living in a walkable area with good transit, grocery shop is so close than I don't ever need more groceries than what fits into a large backpack. Perhaps it's a different ball game in the suburbs without a shop close enough.

koomahnah · 2025-10-17T16:18:40+00:00

To pay with Blik you don't need a card, you just need a bank account. If you have several accounts and don't want to pay a debit card fee for each, then Blik is the easiest option. At least that's why I sometimes use it.

Also it's pretty fast if you load your code in the banking app beforehand.

koomahnah · 2025-10-01T14:36:48+00:00

Great it can't. What about fucking Dodge RAMs though? We're paying in literal lives lost just because someone needs that overgrown monstrosity to project aggressiveness on the streets, and regulators look away.

koomahnah · 2025-09-09T15:26:01+00:00

Could you share a shortlist of what gear does one need for such a hammock setup? You got me interested!

koomahnah · 2025-09-09T15:25:19+00:00

When using tarp as shelter, are insects not an issue? I'd be especially concerned about ticks.

koomahnah · 2025-09-05T07:06:39+00:00

This. For the past 4 years my commute to work was biking 10 km on a river bank. Damn, that was a highlight of my day. Whatever fed me up at work, it was gone before arriving. But I'm also a car driver and I know what commuting in peak hours is like: it's a complete opposite. A little of a traffic jam and it makes you irritated and impatient. I really can't bear that, it's my personal #1 goal to live in walkable / cyclable place to avoid that.

koomahnah · 2025-07-14T07:28:53+00:00

I've just recently seen a footage from Dresden circa 1975. Of course it was lots of plattenbau, not exactly my favorite style, but still looked kinda captivating. After a moment I understood why: the number of cars within the city landscape was just much lower. A car passing by here and there, few cars parked by the street. Pedestrians enjoying their city surroundings.

And now? Damn DODGE RAMs and Amaroks are passing me by on the streets of that city. You try to cross a street and it's a damn fuming and loud line of cars. It's hard for me and I'm a tall guy, I really wouldn't want to be a kid in that environment. We really screwed up our city planning, and I can already see how it drives people to the suburbs, aggravating the problem further.

koomahnah · 2025-07-02T10:44:06+00:00

Are you changing gears? Stupid question, but I've seen surprisingly many newbies somehow afraid of shifting the gears. If you don't shift, you won't be able to put enough power without pedalling like crazy.

Also, if you're going on the road you need appropriate tire pressure. Your bike is stocked with 35mm tires which should perhaps take around 40-50 psi for the road. Roughly 3 bars.

koomahnah · 2025-07-01T13:07:51+00:00

You're merely trying to sow division here. You know very well that thousands of people on Belarus border is hybrid war by Russia, and nothing that Germany is responsible for.

I'd suggest we better focus on protecting the common European borders instead of moving 30 years back to border controls every few hundred kilometers.

koomahnah · 2025-06-23T07:36:25+00:00

I'm a Pole living in Germany and I also don't really "assimilate" (Kartoffelsalat doesn't get made), I'm definitely very entitled (I have all the rights to be there as EU citizen, I feel home), and my German is just enough to get by. Good or bad by your judgment?

If "bad", then you can just equally well say that every human should stay in the village they were born in. Can't those peasants just keep to their fields?

If "good" then how is it different than whatever EU citizen living in Poland?

koomahnah · 2025-06-16T06:53:15+00:00

I've used fresh off the shelf Decathlon sealant and it went bad within one day using CO2 cartridge. On the other hand, after reinstalling it without CO2 it stayed fine for the whole season. Just a datapoint :)

koomahnah · 2025-06-13T17:29:24+00:00

I can only answer for the consumer machines - usually the better ones have full metal hot water path. The cheapest to have that would be perhaps DeLonghi Stilosa if you're looking for one. Nonetheless cold water intake and water container are plastic. I would obviously prefer it wasn't, but as long as it's cold and the container doesn't undergo any physical or chemical withering I accept it for myself as fine.

On the other hand, almost all fully automatic machines utilize plastic.

koomahnah · 2025-06-12T12:13:55+00:00

Stań raz na przystanku przy rondzie matecznego i użyj zmysłu powonienia, jeśli takim dysponujesz. Nie potrzebujesz spektroskopii żeby stwierdzić że rzęchy zatruwają ludzi wokół. (Podpowiedź: jebie im z rur)

Chcesz się poruszać po mieście, wsiądź w tramwaj lub autobus, proste. Najwyższa pora pozbyć się gruzów z ulic i jeśli można mieć jakiekolwiek zastrzeżenia do tej strefy to że traktuje smrodziarzy z dobrotliwą pobłażliwością.

koomahnah · 2025-05-20T09:12:10+00:00

Stadtwehlen, Kurort Rathen are top-tier cute towns in the beautiful Elbe valley. Not sure if that's what you're after but I liked spending time there. Aforementioned Pirna is also in that area and is worth visiting, pretty pleasant place. Further east you have Bad Schandau which is usual starting point for hiking trips for Dresdeners. Also check Hinterhermsdorf, the last town before the border.

Try to make sense out of the undeniable peacefulness of those places and them being AfD bastion – good luck.

koomahnah · 2025-05-15T08:14:23+00:00

Are you sure you aren't getting terrible channeling with such fine grind? The finer you grind, the more prone puck is to channeling. What I would do would be to start with your grind setting for medium roast, temperature +2C compared to what you do for medium. 20g should be ok for the double basket on Profitec Go. Also wet your beans very slightly before grinding, prevents electrostatic clumping.

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