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by worklaptopacct 3y ago
Biking smarts in Berlin is a combo of having a grungy-looking bike and simply not going by bike to certain places such as busy squares and main stations.
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by worklaptopacct 3y ago
Yes, that's what I meant. You can be either green or neo-Nazi, no middle ground. People have different problems and priorities than you, and if you decide to annoy them on top of the hardships they've already been burdened with, t
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by worklaptopacct 3y ago
And the same people who celebrated shutting down nuclear now put the blame on cars and block streets preventing working class people from getting to work. And as such, the far-right party polls at a record high right now.
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by worklaptopacct 3y ago
Looked it up in Google Images and it's funny how they made the label in German to mimic the feel of a luxury product. I guess German things must have been status symbols at the time.
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by worklaptopacct 3y ago
Are debit cards really not accepted online? I thought that save for some very specific applications, all Visa or MasterCard branded cards should work online. Never got a Visa refused, and it's a Visa Debit. I know that some places like
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by worklaptopacct 3y ago
Sad to see that the people have failed Bitcoin again. I really hope that this perfect technology will give them an another chance.
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by worklaptopacct 3y ago
I have an old email with my (common) first name and a low number. Every now and then I get registration emails from various children's online games.
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by worklaptopacct 3y ago
City planners in Warsaw, Poland have apparently noticed that underground passages are actually an inconvenience to pedestrians and now I'm seeing a trend where such crossings are starting to get surface-level crosswalks as well, such a
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by worklaptopacct 3y ago
The recurring accusation is that paper and fax is king. And as a Polish immigrant, I find this true. I can do most of the bureaucracy online for the Polish state and it's not the case in Germany. In turn, the lengthy path has its end;
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by worklaptopacct 3y ago
And the source that debunks the transgender suicide claim is literally named "The Transgender Trend". But I guess that a person who takes the NPC meme seriously deserves an another bullet point in author's bullet list - they
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by worklaptopacct 3y ago
I was looking through dozens of websites explaining this and it seems I might have fallen victim to SEO optimization. Thanks. On the other side, while the compliance burden and tax regimen are huge, it is at least possible to _be_ compliant
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by worklaptopacct 3y ago
Germany's employment laws are made for jobs in manufacturing. Germans love to boast their worker-centric legislation, but what's the use of it if most hard labor is just being outsourced to less worker-friendly countries? I'm
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by worklaptopacct 3y ago
Common translation tools would benefit from the ability to input some domain information. Typing in an entire sentence is a sensible start, but oftentimes a lone sentence does not carry enough context. Example: in my language, the term &quo
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by worklaptopacct 3y ago
Depends on the country. In Poland, most banks use a standardized interbank instant cheque system which is integrated with your phone number, and everyone would use that for settling small sums between each other. Sweden has a similar system
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by worklaptopacct 3y ago
I can assure you that a great majority of practicing Catholics do not treat confessions seriously. Coming from a traditionally Catholic society, we don't have any better coping techniques than "simply man up". I'm fascin
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by worklaptopacct 3y ago
As a Pole, I don't think I've heard the term "hypermarket" in like 10 years. There was a boom for all that exaggerated Western-style consumerism, but this kinda died down as medium-sized discount stores took over the maj
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by worklaptopacct 3y ago
It's lore like any other, and it's fun to research, discuss and share with others. No need to go nuclear over people playing silly, harmless games with each other.
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by worklaptopacct 3y ago
I understand, but the example was more about the way of getting your point across. These are two examples of radical stances where adherents are absolutist and tolerate no dissent. The only acceptable outcome of a conversation with an &quot
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by worklaptopacct 3y ago
I come from a country infested by anti-choice/pro-life extremism and I like to reuse what I've seen and heard from them against radical vegans to give them a taste of their own medicine (regardless of my stance on any of those iss
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by worklaptopacct 3y ago
It amazes me how people are incapable of multi-dimensional thinking: you can pick a side without claiming that one of them is pure good and the other is pure evil. But we are also probably talking about the kind of people whose only cultura
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by worklaptopacct 3y ago
Another thing is the legal requirement to put your full name and home address on any website you own privately. Everyone I ask about this contradiction is like "Well it is like it is, so it probably has to be like that"
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by worklaptopacct 3y ago
I think it's a uniquely German problem, because nowhere else in the EU did Google have to blur buildings. Having immigrated to Germany I can tell that Germans are pretty much privacy-obsessed, with strict regulations on CCTV (you will
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by worklaptopacct 3y ago
> I'll have you know that brazilians who speak english fluently are the elite 100% this. I've visited Brazil as a tourist and if I did not go with a Portuguese speaking friend, I would have been lost on day one. English is pret
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by worklaptopacct 3y ago
Hard for potatoes to be ingrained in our vocabulary if they have only been widely known and used as food since the 18th century. And the association of vodka with potatoes is primarily a Western thing. If you don't specify further, vod
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by worklaptopacct 3y ago
Huh, TIL. Looked it up and they loosened up the regulations last year to permit growing poppies for personal use. It's bizzare given that poppy seeds are a very common ingredient in our cakes and pastries.
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by worklaptopacct 3y ago
It's not too surprising in America, but I know a person who would refer to any Black person as African American in Europe . In most cases, neither party would have had set their foot in America in their lives.
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by worklaptopacct 3y ago
Poland is unique here in the matter that it has banned Sunday shopping only recently to pander to the religious voter base. Germany has modified their labor laws to give the states freedom to regulate opening hours on 6 days of the week, bu
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by worklaptopacct 3y ago
Looks like that ETF is just noise[0]. I've never followed Cramer, but this pretty much fits the narrative that he's just saying random things. If he's throwing around random opinions about given stock, then it's not diff
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by worklaptopacct 3y ago
Also in heavily NIMBY countries like Germany, where it's difficult to place new transmitters and the existing ones are rarely upgraded. We have poor mobile service and higher prices compared to most of Europe here, but it's still
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by worklaptopacct 3y ago
An airport being outside of city limits has its historical reason (the Allies have agreed that the entire area of Berlin could only be served by airlines operated by one of the four occupational forces, so East Germany simply built an airpo

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