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I built a new PC recently. All I needed to see were the benchmarks over the last 5 years. There’s currently no contest.

My dentist does it. I think it is fairly common to be done by a dentist in Germany.

The lemmings scrolled too greedily and too deep.

And regarding experiences, most towns are older than America. Where I live they recently celebrated 800 years of age. There’s a lot of history to explore.

It would probably be better to get experience ideas from your daughter, since the area will be oozing with history and things to see.

I live in Germany, if you have a specific question I can try to answer.

In general there are a lot of stereotypes about Germans, but most of them aren’t correct.

1. Germans are efficient. Nope.
2. Germans have no humour. Nope.
3. Germans are unfriendly. Nope.
4. Trains are on time. Nope.

Some are slow to warm up to strangers.

Many places only take cash still, though that is slowly getting better.

People do stare, not sure if that is specifically a German thing.

One thing that might be useful for you to know, coming from America. Many Germans get irritated by stereotypical American over sharing.

Be prepared to have your opinions on Trump probed.

When I was a child I was very moved by the sequence in Homeworld where they returned to Kharak. Everything was burning and Adagio for Strings playing.

They exist in trials. The human danger is too great though I think. If the laser thinks your eye is a fly for a split second, game over for vision.

Sounds like someone is due a raise 😅

Sounds about right. I was a die hard fan of Intel for years. I upgraded my PC this year and I picked AMD for the first time in my life. Looking at the scathing reviews and performance tables, it is an insane choice to pick Intel.

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Usually when you hear the typical ice cream truck songs in Germany, it’s a dude rolling around looking for old metal.

We do also get money taken directly out of our pay check for health insurance. So it isn’t just the 5 euro fee. But I think it manages to be considerably less, since everyone is required to have insurance. I think that brings down the cost for everyone.

Also Germany: I live rural. Most times I’ve gone I see the doctor itv takes than 30 minutes, but it depends on who else is there obviously. First come first served.

Interesting that they ask you to call in advance. I’ve never had that. We can, if we want an after midday appointment for something specific.

Yes, the awkward “Moin”. Definitely!

There used to be a 15 euro per quarter charge when using the local doctor. They scrapped that a few years ago.

All the blood work I’ve had has been free. But I’m not sure what you meant by extensive. I take a lot of anti biotics, so they check my liver numbers occasionally.

But yeah, generally a similar experience to you.

A person with one watch always knows what time it is; a person with two watches never does.