Based on your previous reply, I could make some educated guesses at what you were trying to convey, based on context.

I did not know we were in a flame war. Have I attacked you somehow? Or do you always see it as a personal attack when someone has to explain why you’re wrong?

I dunno… I feel like I’ve dealt with enough German machinery and bureaucracy for 3 lifetimes.

Their “obsession” for standards is only for the standard of making everything 10 times more complicated than it needs to be.

And before you ask, of course there’s an easy system for various sizes that all relate to each other.

What did you think? That we hadn’t thought this through?

Interesting, and also hopeful if that’s the case. That’s much a much better situation than if we couldn’t get them out of our body at all.

What is it you think you’re correcting? This is how it works. It’s happening right now. And has been happening for decades.

goods ordered from Europe, to Canada, that only transits the US, is not affected by US tariffs. Because it’s not being imported to the US.

Items can still arrive in a US port, be taken inland for further processing and distribution. And then whatever is supposed to go up to Canada goes up to Canada.

the only time Foreign goods to Canada is subjected to US tariffs, is if a US company has taken ownership, and sell the product to Canada, rather than selling the transportation service

youre channelling through a large country who are shackled to their own country’s stuff. it isnt going to get the acknowledgement you think it will get there.

I have genuinly no idea what you’re trying to say.

Canadian companies are more than welcome to set up their own distribution channels and not route it through the US. Nothing is stopping them.

Buddy. I don’t need you to try and guess how my items arrive. I already know this. It’s literally printed on the package.

It may be more effective to store it in a warehouse somewhere in cologne and use a vendor that sources it from there.

But from what I’ve seen, it’s cheaper to buy it from China directly, and have it “shipped” (flown) over. Which is why I do it.

Takes a few days extra. But you’ll pay less.

There’s something to be said, about people that only come up with problems. Instead of presenting solutions. (Im talking about them, not you)

I’m not going to say i can relate too much. I was very much the opposite of you as a child. But I was also supposed to be perfect, Most things came easy to me. I was smart, I got top grades, I was active in acrobatics, but sometimes when I didn’t know things. Instead of politely explaining it to me. I was often met by “WHAT!? You don’t know this?? They don’t teach you this? We were taught this at a much younger age than you”. Ok. Cool.

Which obviously made me feel stupid. No matter how good I was. It was never enough. No matter how well i built something, it was never good enough. And no matter how far i could run. It wasn’t far, or fast enough.

If I couldn’t do to it on my own, no one was going to help me either. I was praised for being independant. But the reason I were, was because I learned early on, very early on. That no one is ever going to help me. I need to be able to do everything on my own. Otherwise nothing will get done. And that came back to bite me in the ass many years later.

So my advice to you. Try to see of you can seek professional help, ask your school if they know of any resources for mental health. Because trust me on this one. It would be so much better if you could get help now. Rather than 15-25 years later.

They can’t fix the problems with your family. But they can help you find tools to deal with it. And it also feel pretty nice to talk to someone that can listen and understand.

It’s also about just being familiar with the controllers in general.

Are you sure. I’ve read they keep collecting in various organs, including our brains

It depends on what it is you’re buying and how it’s getting there. If I’m ordering something from China. I’m not gonna get it shipped. Because that will take ages. It’ll go on a transport plane. And every single time I’ve ordered things, they’ve been flown to Germany first.

Items being shipped between Europe and NA is not going on a detour to land in the US. Especially not if it’s imported by a vendor. The vendor will pick the cheapest option. And trucking through Canadian wilderness isn’t it.

It’s really not weird at all. It’s the same in EU. If I order something from another continent. Chances are pretty high it’s going to go through Germany before making its way up here to Sweden.

Canada is 40 million to the US 350. So it makes more sense to have things go through the country where your biggest market is, and have it distributed out from there.

Ofc I’m just speaking very broadly. There’s a difference if you import directly yourself, or if they’re going through a Canadian vendor

I know this is a tough pill for americans to swallow. But lots of countries does not allow trans-athletes to compete in the women’s class.

The international organisation for track and field, and also the IOK have already said that transathletes are not allowed to compete with women (for now).

Though I absolutely agree that US politicians are experts at exaggerating and trying to blow the smallest issue out of proportion for headlines.

And it’s sad the American people are too uneducated to see through the charade.

I would laugh at the US, if it wasnt for the fact that people’s lives are ruined forever on a daily basis.

It’s really easy to not care when it doesn’t involve you in any way shape or form. So, what is it you’re trying to say?

That you dont want to watch football with the rock vs school girls? Ok, good for you i guess?

Maybe he thinks roommates is what poor people call their maids?

Though I’d happily make my potential roommates bed every morning instead of paying rent.

Imagine thinking you were just doing a harmful prank, only to later learn that guy was admitted to a psychiatric hospital being convinced he was hearing voices when others said they heard nothing. Now that’s side-character plot twist for a movie.

At least now they have reintroduced “tjänstemannaansvar” (public servant accountability). And when I say now I actually mean, pretty much now. It went into effect 1 august of this year.

It was not. It’s actually pretty recent.

https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/ost/16-aring-atalas-i-norrkoping-kastade-banan-pa-talmannen-andreas-norlen

The only major accident I’ve had is when I was 17 and worked over the summer for a major auto manufacturer. I was tasked with writing a piece of software to make inputs easier to a bash script some nerd made on his own free time that they now pretty much relied upon since it saved them several hours each time they run the script.

To try and make a long story short(er). I had access to a server, that I was told was a temporary server, and there was nothing important on it, I had access to create and run files. I did not have access to monitor, kill, or terminate any processes. I made a silly mistake and created an infinite loop, but it wasn’t your average infinite loop. It was the worst kind of infinite loop imaginable. Took a few executions to diagnose where exactly I had fucked up. I fixed the problem, no more infinite loop. And it actually worked. But these processes still sat there in the background. And they grew, and grew, and then another server started helping out to try and save his server friend. And when that wasn’t enough, a third server tried to help, and so on.

I noticed that things were starting to run a bit slowly when browsing the server for files, others complained as well that the servers were slow today. And then I get a phone call from the head of IT, asking me if I need all of these thousands of processes running to which I shamefully replied “no…”. But it was too late, and so much had stopped responding that they could not kill it. They pretty much emergency shut down two thirds of all their servers in house in order to save the rest. I had pretty much created rabies but for servers. Anyone infected had a death sentence. It was only a matter of time. Pretty much anything, anyone had worked on that day was gone.

I had a coffee with the head of IT later, He didn’t blame me and was really nice about it. The data on the server I was given access to was not important, that’s why they let me use it. But they had not considered that the server load when above the threshold is then shared to other servers, and that they should have isolated the load from that server as well so it doesn’t spill over to another. It was a genuine lesson learned for everyone.

Another program that replaces a full stop keypress with a comma 10% of the time. Really funny for assignments and typing URLs

Holy shit. Calm the fuck down Satan. We got enough problems as it is.