12.11.02024

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Now, February 23, 2025 has been agreed for the new date for the federal election, which was supposed to take place on September 28, 2025. Apart from the fact that we will now have a new government a little earlier, if the election results even allow the formation of one, not much will change. Only new politicians will continue to be provided and new perspectives will be given to the politicians who have been voted out; this will mean that there will still be no time for substantive government work. In any case, the new election date is a compromise between the CDU and SPD, because the CDU will have to come out in Saxony by February 3, 2025 and the statute of limitations for CumEx will not take effect until the end of February.

According to the Federal Returning Officer, the election is in danger due to a lack of paper; surprisingly, it is not her job! But the administrations are already complaining too — the German army will probably have to at least prepare for the federal election over the holidays.

The New mosque construction on Weinsberger Straße has taken a step forward, with some local councillors overcoming their own fears and announcing that they too are not interested in their own chatter from yesterday. Whether the forced reduction in the size of the building makes sense is another matter. In any case, the local council's intervention in the Park Hotel has only done our town harm.

And also in the so-called Anti-Discrimination Agency and a "kebab upper limit“ there was only hot air. So it is quite fitting that the Nazi portrait continues to openly display it in the town hall — let no one say that our local councillors are not willing to compromise!

Also worth mentioning is today’s coffee with Detlef Stern and dancing in the evening with my better half. I had barely returned from dancing and found the history of programming languages ​​[https://iiics.org/h/20241112203600] in my filing cabinet; the information that the notes will soon have to make do with four instead of fourteen characters was already sent to me with a corresponding blog post gently transmitted.

Another interesting question from a student was why I use two filing cabinets. He correctly recognized that my blog can definitely be seen as a public filing cabinet. Since I advised the student to work with a single filing cabinet, I am not a good "role model" in this regard. To my "excuse," the idea of ​​merging my two filing cabinets has been around for a few years now, and my filing cabinet has also been given a "public" part on an experimental basis. How this will all develop is still up in the air.

waterheads

The city center has a full-blown problem. It's home-grown and has been known for years. Now the local council and city administration have reached an agreement: even more waterheads, even more drinking and even more eating. I've been saying for a long time that the real problem is the local council and the city leadership!

It is fitting that we recently learned that the district is now spending over 100 million euros annually on its own bureaucracy. I would not be surprised if we have already been paying over 100 million euros annually for the city's bureaucracy - but in any case, with the latest useless staff increases, we are well on the way there. With all this handout for party members and their cousins, one core city is bound to fall by the wayside, but probably not just this one.

It is also fitting that more and more failed local politicians are appearing in the management levels of our municipal companies, savings banks and businesses - a party membership card or a corresponding cousin are completely sufficient qualifications for managing large companies. So it should not be surprising if we soon run out of electricity, gas and money - because all of this is in the best hands with us.

One should send these ladies and gentlemen into the desert, there would soon be no sand left — blooming landscapes, so to speak.

spirit level

It is encouraging that students are slowly starting to find problems. As I said, there are plenty of them. It is less encouraging when they cannot access academic sources in the library for technical or financial reasons. I have nothing against a library that praises itself for hardly having to have any books, as long as it still allows people to access academic literature and papers from it.

I have been working in the new university complex at Europaplatz for about two years now. From the very beginning, I have been accompanied by craftsmen from a wide range of trades and I am a little surprised at how long the finishing work on this new campus is taking. I like to explain to the students that quality is planned in and not checked. But the educational campus was probably cobbled together in an "agile" way and, as we all know, it is important that everyone involved, apart from the actual users, feels comfortable.

So I was able to watch how a professor had to force his door open and shut again - even though we haven't had an earthquake recently. Meanwhile, helpful university employees print my exams, because I don't want to ruin my health any further; the university operators clearly don't care about their health (which fits in well with yesterday's topic of "personnel management") and the relevant authorities in Heilbronn are known to be happy to turn a blind eye if it serves the interests of a few gentlemen (keyword: "stakeholder management").

When looking at a new building currently being built on campus, I would like to use a spirit level, at least as far as the top floor is concerned - out of pure curiosity. It could be that the entire area from the train station via Europaplatz to Industrieplatz has unfavourable soil conditions, which could also explain the subsidence of the Blitz Bridge and could be related to the recent war. And here too I have some advice for the students: a good foundation is worth its weight in gold.

“The power of one requires the stupidity of another.”

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, On Stupidity (2022: 15)

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