After the workers are finished, Mandy from Saxony comes home to see the result of the house renovation.
The entire floor is covered in white bread.
She shouts “What’s this? I wanted parquet flooring, not baguette flooring!”
(Parquet and Baguette are pronounced exactly the same in Saxonian dialect)
And in true German fashion, they privatized it only half-way, combining the disadvantages of a privately run enterprise with the drawbacks of a state-owned company.
EU allows automakers to “pool” their fleets with others for CO2 measurements, so if one of them is below the threshold and the other above, they can meet it with the average of their combined fleets and avoid the fines.
The automakers dragging the CO2 average down (by selling EVs) are paid by those who wouldn’t meet the limit for this “service”.
There’s nothing inherently wrong with this. It is an incentive for automakers to do even better than the limit, since they can earn money with it.
No one stops you from getting up 1h earlier in the morning.
Permanent summer time would force everyone to do it.
What’s the “logical” time zone?
The one closer to Spanish solar time, or the one shared by most EU countries, which facilitates trade and cross-border cooperation?
As a systems administrator, I’ll not worry about users taking over my job as long as Citrix exists.
Sounds like a pretty good opportunity to train under more realistic conditions.
The bootloader instructions are ass. But the final boss is full disk encryption.
Whenever I want that, I just use Archinstall.
Which is exactly my point. Summer time forces me to get up 1h earlier than normal because I can’t choose to come to work an hour late.
But with normal time, you can always choose to live on “summer time” for yourself by getting up an hour early.