1. I sat and watched ARD (public TV) news. So they came to this report....the German police have released new numbers on violence and robbery in train stations and trains in Germany.
They say there were more physical assaults in 2024 than in the previous year.
Chief target? Hand luggage/baggage.
Numbers? 10,600 from January to the end of October.
I'll just say if you travel/walk through metro train stations (Frankfurt, Dresden, Hamburg, Bremen, Munich as examples)....there always junkies hanging around and looking for a quick robbery. Lesser stations....like Mainz or Wiesbaden....still exist but it's a less threat.
As for traveling on a train....alone? I probably wouldn't leave my seat with my bag there....to use the toilet on the train, unless it's just a local train.
2. Two weeks after the Magdeburg terror attack....police have revised the wounded/injured number (originally at 200....now listed as 299). Some did not seek help that night....going to their doctor/clinic the next couple of days.
3. German federal folks say 'no' to the idea of a fireworks ban. If you did a poll....I'd say near 25-percent of the public want the ban to occur....mostly from urbanized regions.
4. Curious piece out of Bild am Sonntag from the CSU regional group in the Bundestag....they want a "job check" each time you bring up a climate protection measure.
What it means....you have to state industry/job gains/losses, and if the measure destroys competition/work in Germany....there has to be some details explained.
I suspect both the CDU-CSU and SPD parties would agree to this idea....the Green Party? NO.
5. German unemployment level? 6-percent.
6. RBB says if you are a German living outside of the country....your ballot situation for the fed-election gives you a window of 13 days (max).....from the day of receiving it....marking it.....and mailing it back.
7. Over the weekend, the CSU Party (the Bavarian folks) came out and said they want two laws revoked: (1) they want the sale of Cannabis dumped, and (2) they want heating law (put into place by the Green Party) dumped/eliminated.
You might find a majority of Germans over 40 who dislike the sale of Cannabis. I'm not that sure about the under-30 crowd.
8. Greenpeace came out in Germany with the idea....if you are buying a gas/diesel car (new), then you should pay a special 'extra' tax, which would be used to pay E-car buyers 'credit'.
I don't think the CDU-CSU or SPD will touch this topic.
9. The snowstorm over the weekend in my region? Total of 5 cm....max, and it was the wet clumpy stuff....half-melting 12 hours later. Only snowfall so this winter.
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We should totally have a job check for anything introduced for climate protection, but more importantly for AI, automation, and technology innovations designed to replace humans.
That would at least be fair.
Maybe, but for code-writers, the insurance industry, airline travel industry....you've got about 10 years left before AI takes your job. Even for public TV news....AI likely consumes all of their nightly news people by 2035.
I doubt it's going to be that quick... purely because the chipsets that are required aren't really going to enter mass production until 2027, and that's in Taiwan. There's a whole lot of other factors (supply chains of up to 100 vendors that make singular components) that require regional stability to function, so if China starts acting up it's going to delay things substantially.
Wasn't there some German 'plant' deal going on....where they would make some chip sets here?
Yes, but that's only for 28nm chipsets. Those are mostly commonly used in the automotive industry and other industrial applications. For the LLM stuff you need the graphic card capabilities to have around the 3-8nm chip range. There's no way Taiwan will export that technology, as being the only place that can make these chips helps protect them against any Chinese invasion.
Actually, they'll manufacture also 16/12 chips in Dresden as part of that project as well. Still not anything that's going to define the next level of processing power.
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