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Cake day: June 29th, 2025

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  • How do you know so much about waste water treatment and why are you so optimistic about what could be done?

    I’ve got a relevant university degree, and I’m way less optimistic about most of these topics.

    For example:

    Muds can be harvested for digestion, in order to produce methane for generating electricity. Depending on the scale, it can be used to power the plant alone or to inject into the wide power grid.

    This is usually not a net gain. Wastewater treatment plans consume more energy than can be harvested from the wastewater. The only WWTP I know that claims to produce more than they require for operation can only do so, because they accept additional organic material from a nearby slaughterhouse into their sludge fermentation stage, which is a bit of a cheat.

    The same plant is btw also burning their treated sludge because it contains too many pollutants to be used in agriculture.



  • Dann war das vermutlich ein Service deiner Arztpraxis. Ich hatte (ebenfalls vor der elektronischen Meldung) ne längere Krankheitsphase inkl. Krankengeld und musste deswegen immer nachweisen, dass ich immer noch krank bin. Bei dem einen Arzt haben die das selber an die Kasse geschickt, aber als ich die Praxis gewechselt hab, musste ich das dann selber machen.

    War immer ne Rennerei. Diese elektronische Meldung ist ein Segen.

    In der Regel ist das für den ansonsten gesunden Arbeitnehmer, der mal ne Woche wegen Schnupfen krankgeschrieben ist und dann wieder zur Arbeit geht auch egal, ob die Kasse das jetzt erfasst hat oder nicht. Aber wenn dann - wie bei mir - was längerfristiges draus wird und es um die Lohnfortzahlung und Krankengeld geht, oder am Ende gar die Berufsunfähigkeitsversicherung einspringen muss, dann hat das Auswirkungen, dass das von Anfang an lückenlos dokumentiert sein muss.



  • ‘Mustermann’ is more like an artificial placeholder name, that gets used on facsimilies of passports and drivers licenses used as example illustrations.

    “Muster” in that context also means something that is only for demonstration purposes, not the real deal. That word is also printed across prints of Euro-bills when they are depicted somewhere in order to avoid charges for producing counterfeit money.

    Afaik there are actual people with that last name, but that’s pretty rare.

    I was thinking Mustermann is more like John Doe in that regard, but John Doe is also used for a hypothetical regular, average person and we have “Otto Normalverbraucher” for that use-case. (“Normalverbraucher” literally means ‘normal consumer’, no real person has a name like that)

    OP’s question is aimed more at a last name, that is very common and stereotypical, almost boring. While the close translation of Smith Schmitt/Schmidt/Schmid also fulfills that criteria the even more regular one would be Müller and Mayer (or one of its spelling varieties)

    Those three names are so common that “Müller-Mayer-Schmidt” has become another phrase used to refer to the average citizen archetype.





  • That’s a pretty screwed up way to view society. ‘Debutante balls’, at the least the ones I know, are usual events where teenagers dance with partners of the SAME age.

    This is more an elitist networking event with the chance to get your offspring to hook up with someone of ‘suitable’ social status.

    Historically speaking, the age gaps might have been a lot bigger, but I guess societal norms and laws were also different then.

    Of you course you can’t avoid older people on the sidelines ogling, but presenting that as the main purpose of the event is a pretty big stretch imho.

    And regarding grooming: that’s not the typical definition, either. Usually grooming is a tactic to make the abuse victim accepting of their abuse. Waiting for them to reach legal age before ‘cashing in’ on that effort is not a usual part of it.

    I agree it might be a hypothetical scenario though, that could be played out to do some really fucked up manipulation long game, while staying within a legal framework. But then again, that doesn’t strictly require the predator and victim to be related and if you want to have a way to abolish that, it shouldn’t need to rely on that either.