While it’s might not be what you might be looking for,but I used to work in a forensic psychiatry (including high security ward) in a central European country.

What do you want to know?

Yeah. You are not a nurse.

Yeah? The Rhine allows 2500t load and up to 110m long ships, with special permits up to 5000t and 185m.

10% of all swiss trade and 40% of all hydrocarbons are brought through there…

So yeah, kind of ocean-going. There are numerous private ships there that are fully ocean going.

Simply choose a private DNS server like mullvad,quad,etc. and it should work…

Try the Black Forest. We have Lynx and wolves and even a mysterious elk this summer.

And tbh, V60 is a high average to fall from. Had one of these and while I didn’t loved it, I liked it. To quote a friend of mine who still owns one “brutally average and brutally versatile”.

Try a EV6 or 3,though. Good EVs are a huge difference when it comes to “fun in everyday driving” imho, due to their different engine characteristics.

Especially as a European the first two things can be changed to some degree. I live within sight(200m) of a proper nature park that basically is an extension of an national park. And I have four different options for fast train travel within an hour and a (most of the time) reasonably good regional connection and a almost perfect regional connection 25min away.

Tbh, we did specifically move here for these things.

In terms of driving I must disagree - I have driven various cars from the 60ies and while they are gorgeous from the outside, the inside was always very underwhelming and also simply exhausting to drive. But maybe I am also too different - I used to have big company cars (BMW 5, Audi A4/6/7, MB C/E) and did not really like them. Nowadays I drive a EV6 and it’s the most fun car I ever had,by a higr margin.

First time at 8…when my drunk ass neighbour jumped from his 10m high roof and landed on his patio.

Ended with a Helicopter and everything, he actually survived.

Second time was when I was already an EMT to call for backup.

Last time was on Monday to,well, call for backup as an paramedic as radio reception was shit.

Yeah. Worms are what I wanted to write as well…the Guinea worm (Dracunculus medinensis),sometimes also called medina worm, is one of these and was once really common. The Asclepius rod is possibly coming from it.

If your character has a backstory that brings him to southern Europe, Asia or Africa in these times it’s basically perfect.

Another disease to look up: Larva migrans cutanea

Absolutely the best.

Same

Absolutely. In central Europe, were homeschooling is often illegal, it’s also a way of making sure the kid stays off the radar of the school system, the CPS, is not part of any society - and therefore cannot leave your scene.

Which is a wet dream of the sovereign citizens.

Technisation and standardisation are good for the EMS sector.

The whole “it was better when we could do what we want and back then we had only real calls with sicker people and everything was good” is fucking aweful and hurting the profession.

Look, you fucking volunteer dick, I know you do this for 10 years longer than me (and I do it for 25 now),but unlike you I did it full-time and probably had more shifte in one year than you had in your life. Now my back is fucked because back then there was no “electrohydraulic stretcher”, no stair chair, the ventilator was twice as heavy (and could basically nothing), the defibrillator weighted so much we often had to switch carrying it after two floors up.

And we had just as many shit calls,but got actually attacked worse because the shit 2kg radios were shit and had next to zero coverage indoors, and so had cellphones which led to you being unable to even call for backup.

And of course we had longer shifts,needed to work more hours and the whole job market was even more fucked.

“But we didn’t need this and that,we looked at the patient”. Yeah,go fuck yourself. MUCH more people died or took damage from that. So many things were not seen. And it was all accepted as “yeah, that’s how life is”.

So fuck everyone in this field and their nostalgia.

Pihole has a few drawbacks when your systen grows - a lot of things then need to be done by hand that others do either automated or at least easier.

Personally I have become very fond of technitium - it does everything you will ever need and the main drawback is that it seems so fucking overwhelming initially. But: Once you figured out that you basically only need 10% of the fields it becomes easier. And it’s fucking solid and just works and works and works.

Not a fan of Pi-hole itself, but other than that,why not?

(Technitium DNS has some advantages down the road)

If you like your work? Keep working. The demographic bubble is gonna burst all over the world and that will indeed make pensions unstable.

Never. Not what you want to hear,but hear me out. Because if it safes your sanity it is worth it.

• I got my apprenticeship as a paramedic first and then went back to school to get my full A-Levels. Specialized school we have here,thankfully for these cases. The oldest one of my classmates was 52.

• I studied economics with someone who was 55 and basically had already done the job we all wanted when we graduate for 25 years. He did so so he finally would get a more comprehensive background and maybe get up the ladder once more. (Which according to linked in he did)

• I currently do another master (in a distant education setting,though) simply out of interest in the field and to broaden my CV. And you know what? I am 25 years in my field and still learned a fuckton of things, got a better network, love the research field AND got so much better at my job AND found a lot of opportunities.

• An former paramedic trainee of mine was almost 50 when he started paramedic training. He was a C level executive before and at one point had enough - he changed careers so he would not get even more depressed and is now very happy with it. And I had multiple people do that in my bubble.

Now,from my current perspective: Was it stressful? Fuck yeah. I literally cried sometimes. Was it a tough time financially? Fuck yeah. I am self employed/have a small company and I had month were making ends meet was really though due to the added expenses and the lost revenue. But it still was worth it. Because: For what it’s worth we all gonna need to work till 70+x anyway to afford retirement. And that’s a long time.

For Austria and Germany I would basically rule out working as a english teacher tbh - It’s next to impossible.

Basically everyone goes to a state operated or recognised school - and for a job at these you will need a local education degree, superb local language skills (like: Not only speaking on the level of a natural speaker but also dialect free) and for Germany, depending on the state/in the majority of states you will also need the right citizenship.

Private language schools exist,but they are not widely used (like really really rarely) and often are staffed by teachers having a locsl degree, local education students that need some extra money,etc. There are very very few spots where someone with an non-local degree might fit in (and most ads you see for that sadly are a pyramid-like scam).

So… Tbh, maybe consider another way of making money. (And note that self employment in Germany works totally different from the US, is highly regulated and has a LOT of hidden costs)

Wut? Have you read Spiegel, SZ or TAZ in the last years?

That is a bad setup then. Not an issue of the software or hardware.

If that was in eastern Germany 10 years ago…that was me and I had my reasons,see above.