Notices by Marc Etienne (fnordius@muenchen.social)

@isaackuo @cstross @Infoseepage @nyrath it may be me, spoiled by living in Germany, but most hospitals have a helipad and there's a nationwide network of helicopters assigned to regions. It's partially tax supported, but belongs to the ADAC motor club.

I guess the UK lacked that sort of engagement. Or it was blocked by infighting.

@cstross @isaackuo @Infoseepage @nyrath this is why I'm mildly irritated, because I would suspect the Alpine nations would have more of an issue with remote rescue operations.

In the end, I suspect the argument *really* is an attempt to find a problem where portable jet packs are the solution. And this, well, it ain't it. It smells like a scam.

@krystman you can tell that it's Japan and not the USA because then the AR would be overloaded with ads.

You can also tell that it's not Germany because there are no football hooligan stickers everywhere.

But all in all, I agree, public transportation is cool as hell. It's why I emigrated from the USA to Germany.

@alcinnz I do something similar, relying solely on custom events to broadcast changes that other components might need to sync to. Each event has three bits in its payload:
* the new value
* the Group ID of the elements that the event is intended for
* the ID of the broadcaster, so it can ignore what it itself said

I find it works like a charm, as I use web components sparingly in HTML templates.

@chantal @cstross it's all nice and friendly until you mention the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, or the Uighur, or Tibet…

…but hey, it was the same on TikTok as well, so no biggie, am I right?

@alcinnz I think the “hocus pocus" metaphor is better, as it indicates reciting misheard bits and pieces of liturgical Latin as if it were a magic spell, and expecting something to happen. And that's what the users of the cargo cult metaphor want to convey.

@georgetakei skirting the issue, I see.

@BernardSheppard @mike @NanoRaptor Frank Herbert was quite blunt about Dune being a commentary about how we are already all addicted to oil. After reading some of Kurt Vonnegut's essays, I think a lot of writers shared that opinion.

@Computer please note, due to shortages confetti cannons have been loaded with glass shards and reactor tailings. The clowns have also been equipped with milspec lasers as requested on Form Z4P(w00p33) to beef up their light shows.

QA says nothing can go wrong.

@Ten now that's what I call a positive attitude!

@ZachWeinersmith in the last 100 years there have been very few poets for kids, even fewer who write with sly, subversive humor. Uncle Shelby was the master.

Go check out his stuff for grownups. Actual maturity not recommended.