It even says that’s first class (called Senator at Lufthansa that time), so that flight might still cost 10 Grand today.

One really crazy thing I had I my life was being upgraded to first class in a Lufthansa flight to South America in the 90s. Afterwards I checked, the price would have been around 13k German Marks (adjusting 90s DM for inflation that’s about the same in Euro today)

The first thing after boarding was being handed a glass of good French champagne, and serving beer from a barrel shaped contraption wouldn’t have been “out there”.

Edit: Oh looking at the picture again, that’s really not a wooden beer barrel but some kind of barrel shaped container with a lid on top maybe containing a 5 liter pressurized can or so.

Edit2: Damn, I’m down a rabbit hole. Asking chatgpt it said small keg systems were in fact used in airplanes and trains in the 60s, closed system (not dependent on air pressure), driven by CO2 cartridges.

What did the inventor of the wheel say, after they turned it for the first time?

“Friends, that’s a revolution!”

Forgotten? Or was it just the shittiest shitpost?

But be careful, if the road ia slippery you might happen to fall onto the chain.

Ah, found the old one with Frodo

is this antique meme roadshow?

Spinatknödel! Leberknödelsuppe! Kaspressknödel!

Having gone through food poisoning a week ago I identify with the hourly hurl.

What chores? Everything that has to do with miniaturization. They’d have sub-millimeter fingers. Repairing that Iphone? The screw that I can’t even fucking see would be huge for them. Or as neurosurgeons, or or or

Biggest productivity win would be teams between humans, fairies and pixies. Each can do tasks according to his strength and size.

But wait. Maybe fairies are around, and they’re all locked up in sweat shops in Bangladesh or China producing new stuff to flood our markets…

I’d guess southern hemisphere.

https://www.heise.de/ct/Redaktion/cm/Thumpmobile_Zapper.html

Mmmh tasty Cesium 137.

Come on, if you were in Minneapolis, you’d be happy about that.

Ok, ok, I’ll let myself out.

That all nice and good, but where’s the rest of the World Fuck Book, eeerm the Epstein Files?

Btw what Russia is doing to Ukraine is my main argument nowadays for advancing the Energy systems. To be safe from attacks we need to turn out centralized systems into decentralized ones that allow for failures.

IMO batteries and solar play a huge role in that. (As might electric cars, when I can use them as battery).

I do think in a few years Ukraine will have one of the most resilient Energy grids in Europe, just by necessity.

What did the priest say to the - what is Ministrant in English - altar server boy?

“There is a good Christian inside you”.

(Was sagt der Pfarrer zum Ministranten? Es steckt ein guter Christ in Dir.)

https://archive.is/lTghJ

Ist ja alles schön und gut, aber ich hab da ein homöopathisches Mittel zur Verhütung entwickelt, das hilft nach einer möglichen Erstverschlimmerung garantiert 9 Monate.

Macht homöopathische Seife dreckig?

Yeah, but when you DO know the system is totally fucked.

Calling customer service that have no cmie what they’re taking about either, pushing you through a script. One fun time my internet connection was broken and I called the provider. They walked me through all the windows settings to check if I had set up things correctly. I did run Linux, but hat set up Windows for other people so frequently that I knew how each dialog looked and how it’d respond to the failure, so I just lied. FINALLY in the end of the call that guy scheduled a reboot of my port on the provider’s DSLAM which made things work again…

(And no, not all customer service is like this. I also got amazing support of people who know what they are talking about, but they cost more for the companies than just outsourcing to the cheapest generic call center.)