1. My wife (German in nature) went out this past week....to buy a new bottle of honey. So this AM....I'm out of my honey, and reach into the 'stock' to get this new bottle.
Well....they went to some new 'tech'....having a button on the side that says 'push' (in English, but it's a German company). I waste about 30 seconds pushing and attempting to open the top. Total failure.
I end up approaching the wife, and she pulls out a knife....cracking the push-button and cutting it off....saying in blunt English...'there'. I'm a bit astonished....asking what the hell was the push-button for, and she responded 'for security'.
I'm just wondering....do we really need push-buttons for honey, or anything else?
2. There was a talk between Chancellor Merz and Governor Newsom in Munich. Seemed awful friendly....like they knew each other.
3. Best quote of the week, from the Munich Security Conference: Belgian PM Bart De Wever: “Europe must never become an industrial museum.”
Somewhere around 1990 to 2000....the museum was opened for business. The museum seems to get bigger each year.
4. My state public TV network....HR....has started up something called "One Hour of Conversation."
Basically, you sign up to participate.....rules? Well...no prior knowledge, no pressure, no judgment. You have to be respectful interaction and expect good conversation at the end.
Basically a tool to train you how to converse.
Trying to introduce this into the US? Well....you'd have to have tables with like-minded people. Maybe in Germany....fifty-percent of people could still gather and train themselves to converse in a friendly way. But I'm suspicious here....you probably won't mix a table with 20-year-olds with 60-year-olds.
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