Do it! Canada and the EU already have a ton in common.

Percentage-wise of our wealth, the few dollars I can tip a driver is more than that greedy bastard gave.

Oh, he’s on my grandmother’s birth certificate. I’ve got a complete and solid chain of birth certificates, marriage certificates, death certificates, places and dates of births, the whole thing.

I even have his Canadian draft papers from WWI.

It’s basically as clean of a history as you can get when it’s back to the late 1800’s.

I thought NASA has mostly removed Microslop from places like the ISS after they had the microslop windows laptop infect those systems on the ISS? Why go back to this garbage on important facilities?

In my case we’ll be staying in Germany, but having an option to move to Canada with our multiple Phds instead of going back to the US (if forced out of Germany for some reason) would be preferable.

We also have some kids who are going to be looking at college in a few years. If they could have an option to to Canada cheap, that’d rock. Then you’d have some more educated Canadians hanging out and paying taxes.

I did make sure to teach the kids the rules of ice hockey. I know it’s on the driving test there, right?

We already had much of the family archives gathered for genealogical research done. There was a (mostly unknown) great grandfather that we didn’t track down. We just knew he was from canada, fathered one of the ancestors and bailed back to Saskatchewan.

Turns out he’s now findable online (new records were added) and he’s multi generational Canadian. The birth certificate has been ordered. The process might take a while, but we’re filing the day his records show up in our mailbox.

Now we just need Canada to join the EU somehow and all of the stars will align.

It only happened in the last year, or even the last six months to truly be in effect. It was a huge position shift for the German government as part of their effort to increase skilled worker immigration and retention.

This whole debacle was a rousing success. The question is for whom. It wasn’t a victory for the US citizens writ large. It wasn’t a win for any NATO allies. It wasn’t a win for the vast majority of the people in the world.

There’s a few people/groups we can assume did win:

• The wealthy: they were given insider trading info and made billions
• Iran’s leadership: they have come out regionally stronger
• Israel’s government: they got to genocide more Lebanese, Palestinians, Syrians, and Gazans under the cover of a regional war.
• The inside circle in the executive branch that weren’t outright fired

It’s mostly an insider trading game at the expense of lives, money, and the US’ sitting on the geopolitical stage. This is all part of the smash and grab stage of this presidency.

Is this the real life?

Even a toga is an option. It’s not “normal” most places, but if you wear reasonably covering clothing and get your work done anyone worth working for won’t really care.

We have a serious trip back in October. Who knows what awaits us by then.

The history of the Fehrensehturm is fascinating. The guy who got it built basically lied and embezzled government money to make it happen.

He also wanted to surround the Alexanderplatz park with Commie Block housing. They only got two of the buildings built (fortunately). His full plan included tearing down the Berlin Cathedral, Marienkirche Cathedral, and the Humboldt Forum. Those are all Berlin icons today.

One to change it and seven to file the paperwork.

This FIFA event might be the US version of the 1936 Olympics.

Strange that once you start having ways to make people identify themselves the government would expand it’s use! Who would have foreseen that?

I was doorbelling for a local mayoral race. One of the people who we met openly talked about how if we have him a squad of US Marines (he said he was one) and a wood chipper he would “solve the homelessness problem in no time”.

So… That’s the kind of interactions I have with conservatives. Please let me know what I should fill out on this survey based on that kind of data.

When we had flagpoles we had a pile of flags to fly. I’d get most of them on AliExpress for cheap.

Universities, states, cities, vikings, pirates, scifi, pride, peace, extinction rebellion, etc. I love flying something for larks more than anything else. Fly what you feel, it’s your flagpole.

It’s never really bugged them before.

Berlin would be 100% down if it wasn’t for the S-Bahns being DB unions.

Us too! High five! We’re still getting our sea legs, but it’s way nicer to live in a modern city instead of a US-designed one.