NO, they stockpiled all these freaking arms for Soviet aggression or fascist threats, and now its at their doorstep.

Unfortunately, in Eastern Germany e.g. a large part of the population welcomes the Russians and are totally fine with their aggression, at least according to their election choices.

They don’t, of course. Their best selling cars in Germany are the Focus, the Kuga and the Puma, none of which exceeds 4.45m of length.

EDIT: Just noticed - they don’t even sell any of those in the US, probably all too small.

People won’t even rise up for their own sake. gestures in every general direction

I’ve mapped a quick access button on my steering wheel to “toggle navigation mute/unmute”. Best experience so far. Thanks to the engineer that decided to put that button there instead of a blank (when ordered without heated steering wheel).

Nah, I’m living outside the US, my home is made from proper bricks and concrete. A bit slower to build but rather good when it comes to sound insulation. I could imagine with those strand board walls that might be a problem though.

Ah, the sound of turning on the SCSI storage tower.

KA-TSCHONK. WeeeeeeeeEEEEEIIIIIII… skrrrt, skrrrt, clack.

Either that or KA-TSCHONK, silence, if there were already too many boxes on that circuit at a lan party 😁

I’ve found that the only thing you can hear through a closed basement door are noisy high speed fans, e.g. from used 19" servers, disks produce much less noise.

So, wait, your only network connected computing device is a mobile phone running iOS?

THERE IS NO GODDAMN PETROL ENGINE BAN.

There is a ban on engines though that can’t run without creating additional CO2 emissions from 2035 though. Tough luck for fossil engines in their current configurations, but not unsolvable for the very special applications where they’ll still be needed.