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On Deadlines and Cultural Signals

Based on a LinkedIn post originally published on 24 March 2026 Something that fascinates me about countries is how they communicate expectations. A deadline is never merely a date. It also communicates what an organisation or society believes about urgency, credibility, accountability and the acceptable pace of change. German railway punctuality provides an interesting example. Delays on long-distance trains had become familiar enough that passengers often opened the application expecting to discover that something had changed. What caught my attention was not only the operational problem, but the way the proposed improvement was communicated. The public plans I encountered described substantial infrastructure and punctuality improvements whose major horizons extended decades into the future—in one case, as far as 2070. Forty-five years is not an ordinary delivery schedule. It is a generational horizon. When an institution says “we will fix it,” the date attached to that promise reveal...
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TV Serie - Shetland [UK] (2013) - Season 10

  My views 100% written by, or for, women, with a woke view. The white men are all useless or plain criminals. The only men with a back bone, or even a family view, are non-white. The women are emotionally strong, strong-minded, professionals etc. All the victimhood behaviour is there, in every single event. Every single bad behaviour is justified becasue of "emotions", "Don't judge me" etc. A very nice show that i am following for a decade destroyed by this woke movement. Log Episode 01 [Wed, Nov 5, 2025] - 2026-Sep-13 Episode 02 [Wed, Nov 12, 2025] - 2026-Sep-13 Episode 03 [Wed, Nov 19, 2025] - 2026-Sep-14 Episode 04 [Wed, Nov 26, 2025] - 2026-Sep-14 Episode 05 [Wed, Dec 3, 2025] - 2026-Sep-14 Episode 06 [Wed, Dec 10, 2025] - 2026-Sep-015 Plot
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Chișinău Is Rebuilding the Pavement Under My Feet

I noticed something this morning while dropping Viorica off on her way to work. It was nothing spectacular: no new shopping centre, no enormous construction project and certainly nothing that would normally justify stopping to take photographs. The pavement around one of the bus stops had been renovated. More importantly, the bus-stop area itself had been included in the work, and when I looked further along the avenue I realised that this was not an isolated patch. A much longer section of the pedestrian infrastructure was being replaced. This is one of those small changes that I probably would not have noticed as a visitor. Now that I live here and repeatedly drive along the same streets, however, I see Chișinău changing in increments. A road is resurfaced. A kerb disappears and comes back new. An old stretch of asphalt pavement is removed. A bus stop is rebuilt. A few days later, what had looked tired and unmistakably inherited from another era suddenly looks considerably mo...
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From Hospital Visits to Continuous Care: Why Moldova Should Invest in Remote Heart-Failure Monitoring

Business concept: This article is associated with my business idea for Remote Heart-Failure Monitoring. Moldova is making significant investments in the modernisation of its healthcare system. Digitalisation, electronic health records, telemedicine and better access to healthcare outside the country's largest medical centres are increasingly part of the national discussion. There is, however, an important difference between digitising healthcare administration and changing how healthcare itself is delivered . Heart failure provides an excellent opportunity to make that transition. Instead of relying predominantly on periodic consultations and waiting until a patient's condition deteriorates enough to require emergency treatment or hospitalisation, Moldova could introduce a nationally supported remote heart-failure monitoring programme . The principle is straightforward: allow medical teams to observe important changes in a patient's condition while that patient is ...
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What Prolog Taught Me About Building an AI-Assisted Family Tree

My family-tree project has become considerably more complicated than entering names and dates into genealogy software. I am now dealing with civil records, parish registers, old photographs, certificates, correspondence, archives in several countries, translations, uncertain relationships, research hypotheses and a steadily growing collection of people who may or may not turn out to be relatives. As the project expanded, I realised that the difficult part was no longer simply finding information. I needed a system that could remember how I wanted the research to be conducted. For this I am using two large language models, ChatGPT and Grok. Both are connected, with the appropriate permissions, to parts of my Google environment, including services such as Google Drive, Gmail and Calendar. They can therefore do considerably more than answer an isolated question. Depending on the available tools and permissions, they can search material, examine documents and correspondence, help ...
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Too Much Furniture and Not Enough Decisions

Sunday is traditionally supposed to be a day of rest. Apparently nobody involved with our current life in Moldova has been informed of this. After yesterday's expedition around Chișinău, I could quite happily have spent today doing very little. The renovation, however, continues to generate decisions, shopping lists and things that need to be investigated, while family life produces another collection of tasks entirely. One practical difference I continue to appreciate in Moldova is that Sunday does not necessarily mean putting everything on hold. Shops, supermarkets, restaurants, shopping centres and many other businesses remain open, so if Saturday's list survives Saturday, there is still a reasonable chance of attacking it again the following morning. And our list definitely survived Saturday. Birthday season has arrived The first part of the morning was devoted to birthdays. Viorica's birthday is tomorrow, but by one of those interesting pieces o...
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