22.2.02024

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miscellany

The forum in the blog is babbling along and so I'm always happy to see articles that are worth reading, such as the most recent one from John Marsia, who campaigns tirelessly for a European federal state.

At the end of a pleasant day, although there were unfortunately a lot of, in my opinion, completely unnecessary discussions, my better half and I were able to dance. It's very gratifying that for the first time I think I've somewhat understood a dance figure from Tango Argentino.

What is less pleasing is that the Heilbronn milk factory will ultimately be closed after all the ups and downs of the past decades. A good 400 people from Heilbronn will soon become unemployed. But the misery began in 1993, namely when the boss of the dairy company Südmilch, Wolfgang Weber, dropped off in Paraguay. And since those days, Heilbronn has probably only managed with its finger in its mouth, which has now led to the lack of investment in the location being the decisive factor in its demise.

Sometimes I would be happy to be dealing with professionals again.

work clean

It's pleasing that the CDU is now another one of my favorite topics has accepted. It is just unfortunate that the CDU, as the largest faction in the Heilbronn municipal council and a reliable “OB electoral club”, bears the main responsibility for Heilbronn’s misery. Unfortunately, we are now selling this as a successful policy, namely first throwing the child into the well, then complaining and complaining, but not contributing anything to the solution. This is also the case with the lack of peace and order in the city.

But at least the CDU is currently not letting itself be put in charge of turning the city administration into a car sharing provider. Their local councilors probably remember the mayor's most recent foray into the world of fiber optic providers - no Heilbronner is surprised that this also went wrong.

90 percent

In its yesterday's retrospective mentioned Detlef Sternthat 90 percent of “his” students passed the last exam — what an announcement! — and he also pointed out that I would be studying the same topic alone in the coming semester. In contrast to him, I will read aloud more classically, i.e. I will be less agile, which means, among other things, that there will be no additional points.

Since we have already taught twice in parallel and got to 80 percent each time, the 90 percent makes me sit up and take notice. “Perhaps it was also because significantly more additional points were acquired this semester than before,” said Detlef in his blog post.

In any case, I'm already looking forward to the upcoming lectures and am very excited to see how many students will hear from me, how many will stick with it until the end and whether I - to put it more precisely, the students - can do the same 80 percent mark to break. Detlef and I would definitely enjoy it!