🔏 Matthias Wiesmann

@thias
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Generic IT geek with too many interests: languages, aikidō, trains, DIY, fixing stuff and bikes. Based in Zürich. Parle français. Kann deutsch sprechen.
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Who are you?
Now let me go back to my nap.

#fox

Après avoir été kidnappé et torturés par la police fasciste israélienne, ces 6 militants basques de la Sumud flotilla ne s'attendaient sûrement pas à être à nouveau passés à tabac par la police basque à leur retour chez eux.

Nota, ces pourritures qui visiblement prennent leur pied à rouer de coups 6 personnes déjà physiquement et moralement humiliées ont été formé.e.s et armées par...la police israélienne.

La boucle est bouclée.

#ViolencesPolicieres #PaysBasque #SumudFlotilla #ACAB

https://ahmedeldin.substack.com/p/spanish-police-beat-global-sumud

Basque Police Beat Global Sumud Flotilla Torture Survivors In Spain

The brutal Bilbao beating exposes €1.6M Israeli training program for Basque police.

Out Loud with Ahmed

If you thought that converting an integer into a string was simple. #assembly #optimization #itoa

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spe.70079

Replacing the charging plug on my Ego movement great Gatsby, the battery is inside the bench which is convenient, except when the charging cable plug is dead. #bike #cargobike #repair #egomovement

The Cannæ Problem: How Success Becomes the Seed of Destruction

https://youtu.be/BOepYPGJDfE?si=sz2oD6cu717jrcHJ

How Ancient Rome Explains Why Tech Giants Fall

YouTube

A lifetime of car ownership costs you.

How much? According to one study:

If you're a small-car owner, $695,000 US, of which society pays $285,000. Over $1M for luxury cars (society pays $400,000+)

When I was in my 20s, I decided I'd never be a car-owner...

🧵

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800921003943?via%3Dihub

Ramenvertrag

Der finnische Reisepass hat seit 2012 ein eingebautes Daumenkino: blättert man schnell durch die Seiten, sieht man einen laufenden Elch 🇫🇮🫎. Dies erhöht einerseits die Fälschungssicherheit und verkürzt den Finnen evtl die Wartezeit bei der Einreise 😉

https://www.derstandard.at/story/1363706413684/bewegung-im-finnischen-reisepass

Nearly a furlong, which - of course - is 110 fathoms. #imperialunits #xkcd

https://xkcd.com/3248/

182.8 Meters

xkcd
TIL: Flirt comes from (conter) fleurette. The word ended up being reimported in French. #englishlanguage #frenchlanguage #éthymologie