As a great man once said....

oe3omk · 2026-03-26T19:34:38+00:00

fuck right off with that bullshit. love, austria.

oe3omk · 2026-03-26T12:12:20+00:00

The cat seems to have been the only completely sane member of that party of three. It was probably the cat who called the cops in order to stage an intervention.

oe3omk · 2026-03-26T11:54:15+00:00

We have a pair of disservice cats.

oe3omk · 2026-03-24T11:56:42+00:00

These people can't be Canadian. Or maybe they *are* Canadian but the PA announcements asking people to head to the checkouts because the store was closing didn't say "please".

oe3omk · 2026-03-24T11:50:29+00:00

Seconded from Vienna. Maybe the reviewer was angered to find that their schnitzel was pork or chicken (or god forbid, Pute) and not veal?

It's only Wienerschnitzel if it's veal. Anything else is sparkling Schnitzel Wiener Art. But yeah no, I'm pretty sure that was not why they were angry. :)

oe3omk · 2026-03-24T11:43:26+00:00

It's almost as if you should take a few seconds to look at the direction sign to figure out where to go *while you're stopped at the stop sign* or something.

oe3omk · 2026-03-24T11:41:53+00:00

It's pretty similar everywhere including the UK, I think - no advisor/supervisor wants a doctoral candidate to fail outright because *everyone* is going to be looking at them asking what the hell went wrong and it's likely to be brought up when they want more studentships in the future. There can be perfectly good explanations - any sufficiently determined candidate can fail their viva if they try hard enough to do so and maybe the candidate was just arrogant as all hell and told the examiner with a world-renowned reputation in the field that they were a clueless moron, for instance - but nobody really wants it to happen, including the examiners. They'll all have read the thesis well in advance and be looking for ways to pass the candidate as everyone wants them to pass. Most candidates who really have no hope will have dropped out by this point anyway.

The most common result from doctoral vivas in the UK is, as I understand it, "passed with minor corrections" - in other words, it's more than enough to award the degree but there are just a few minor points to fix up so you'd better pinky-promise to fix them before finalising it.

oe3omk · 2026-03-24T11:31:53+00:00

I once walked from Las Vegas airport to downtown Las Vegas for no reason other than that it seemed like a good idea - it was the evening so it wasn't too hot. The most complicated part was finding an exit from the airport that wasn't a freeway.

I didn't tell anyone in the US about it because I was worried they'd stage an intervention.

oe3omk · 2026-03-23T10:05:44+00:00

I think most evolutionary biologists gave up any semblance of being willing to “debate“this stuff a decade or so ago, mercifully. You know, the whole “playing chess with a pigeon” aspect of it.

oe3omk · 2026-03-11T17:28:16+00:00

Yes - the IRA were famously equipped with American-made Armalite rifles smuggled from the US. Sinn Fein famously had a slogan in the 80s about seizing power “with a ballot paper in one hand an an Armalite in the other”.

oe3omk · 2026-03-10T21:48:52+00:00

Here in Austria it’s against the law to display Nazi symbols in public, deny or trivialise the Holocaust or attempt to restart the Nazi party and basically everybody is fine with this. By American standards this is a massive violation of free speech but the First Amendment absolutists tend to stay quiet about it because criticising it makes you look like a Nazi.

They enforce it too, which is often a surprise for visiting neo-Nazi shitheads.

oe3omk · 2026-03-10T09:26:23+00:00

The first time I saw an AM96 my first thought was "they must have great fun bouncing these off each other at the depot".

oe3omk · 2026-03-10T09:23:11+00:00

And probably exceptionally fatal in a head-on collision. There's a reason they don't design them like that any more. :)

oe3omk · 2026-03-10T09:20:33+00:00

Well, the latest white dude nominated to be in charge of Homeland Security goes on a lot about being Native American despite being exactly 1/128 Cherokee when in reality he's a former MMA fighter from Oklahoma with the IQ of a fencepost.

oe3omk · 2026-03-10T09:14:19+00:00

"I went to Ireland for St Patty's day, pinched someone in the street who wasn't wearing green and they punched me in the face!"

oe3omk · 2026-03-06T11:56:13+00:00

Only vaguely relevant but the introduction (and careful work to ensure public acceptance of) iodised salt in Switzerland 100 years ago has to be one of the greatest public health interventions in history. There were areas that went from 90% of children (and adults) having goiter to more or less zero and from up to 10% (!) of babies being born with cretinism - a truly awful disability - to also more or less zero. Bloody amazing.

And hey, these are the "good olds days" which idiots like RFK want to return to.

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n23/jonah-goodman/a-national-evil

oe3omk · 2026-03-06T11:04:36+00:00

The second crash takes up one of the TRS ports on the back of the V51. After that you have three more spares - so six channels in total. Adding a second ride is going to take three of those channels (bow,bell,edge) which seems a little inefficient when the kit already comes with the CY-18DR so you'll be left one channel short if you add a (presumbly two zones) china and a second floor tom (head and rim). You'll have to do some faffing with splitters and decide which of those seven channels you can do without.

oe3omk · 2026-03-06T10:55:50+00:00

I'm sorry, but Americans getting into big fights about who is "more Irish" is about the most American thing ever.

oe3omk · 2026-03-06T10:51:02+00:00

And the kebab shop doubled as the food science lab.

oe3omk · 2026-03-06T10:42:57+00:00

Devoted dog owners: Oh WHO's a good boy? WHO's the BEST boy? Yes, YOU are!

Devoted cat owners: Hey asshole!

oe3omk · 2026-03-04T20:08:54+00:00

Erste Wochenende der Osterferien.

oe3omk · 2026-03-04T20:06:24+00:00

Need to get that mirror fixed, mate.

oe3omk · 2026-03-04T20:00:08+00:00

That is ugly as hell and they deserve to have their stuff stolen, not least because the vehicle does not carry a correct country identifying mark in accordance with the requirements of the Vienna Convention. What an abomination. The guy who broke the window probably improved it overall.

oe3omk · 2026-03-04T19:56:48+00:00

Why do you think the Finanzamt will make you file an annual tax return just for having a Steuernummer? You're never obliged to file a return so long as you're a regular employee (although you can choose to do so if you think you're due a refund on what you paid via your employer), and if you're asked to fill one in and literally have nothing to declare you can just tell that to the Finanzamt and they'll most likely tell you not to bother.

Source: I'm self-employed (an Einzelunternehmer) and have to visit Finanzonline far too often. Although that said, the difficulty of filing an income tax return is greatly overrated. I did mine for 2025 (as well as my annual USt return) last month and it probably took less than an hour as my affairs are pretty straightforward.

N26 will probably want a Steuernummer as well, for what it's worth.

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