covid de
https://www.risklayer-explorer.com/event/100/detail
Scroll down to 'Pandemic - Over Time - Total Summary' an look at the lower chart ('Increase per Day vs. Last Week [%]'). For this to hold steady at a value above zero is an exponential growth.
Which we've basically been in since school let out for the summer and all the kids stopped having swabs stuck up their noses twice a week and everyone took up traveling to see their grandpas. Brilliant.
Does #pixelfed support content warning? I want to sometimes post food photography.
Post covid culture
In-person does not exist. The assumption that mind and body are in the same place has become completely outmoded. Physical experience is trees; your body exists before me only as a risk model. If you fulfill low risk parameters, perhaps also as art. Conversation is packets and bit streams; voices are for music. Only beauty is worth the physical.
paperwork (no death), Germany+USA question
So wtf is a 'Judge of Record' and can I find one in my city and get them to not laugh in my face for such a ridiculous request long enough for me to get a stamp on something?!
paperwork (no death), Germany+USA question
"
Please be advised that acknowledgements executed by Notaries Public outside of the United States are not accepted. The Sworn Statement must be taken before an Embassador, Minister, Consul, Vice Consul, or Consular Agent of the United States, or before any Judge of a Court of record having a seal in such foreign country. (CA CCP 2014). "
And I'd bloody like not to jaunt all the way to Frankfurt over this, kid in tow, just to sign I'm me.
paperwork (no death), Germany+USA question
I had, and I need another anyway, for apostille, because Czech process. Anyhow. VitalChek are now backing out of their own word about whether they can do apostille in single step process. But that's not the problem.
No, the problem is they will not accept a foreign notary.
paperwork (no death), Germany+USA question
Ok. I'm dealing with VitalChek, and if you have never had to deal with them, lucky you; but if you have ever done expat documents from the USA I can fair guarantee you've run across them because they have swallowed the government records agencies whole.
But it's not their fault that the California legal code is completely awful to expats. No, that's California for you. So. I need to obtain 'originals' of kiddo's birth cert. The Standesamt lost the one
I have eventually found this at https://www.wie-entsorge-ich-was.de/muellarten/sperrmuell/glossar-sperrmuell/ under 'Schaumstoffmatratzen' and from this overview do not believe the size is its only reason to be there. Thus I save the pieces for the large item pickup. Grr. Argh.
germany specific, preparing for family death
💙 @pkra has showered me with links, and I'm feeling more grounded on this now. Any specific info or things that get left off the common pages, especially as we're foreigners, would still be very useful.
Heathen cyborg mathematician. No gluten.
Nothing is complicated; everything is detailed.