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@ dfyx @lemmy.helios42.de

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  • What's the worst travel delay you've experienced?

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  • I have two. Both not the worst in terms of total delay but memorable for being horribly annoying.

    1. ICE train from Dortmund to Karlsruhe (Germany) in December 2017. We'd had a couple of centimeters of snow the night before but nothing too drastic... until right after Frankfurt am Main. A railroad switch near Frankfurt am Main Stadion was frozen and could not be operated so we had to stop for over an hour at that tiny station. In the meantime, the beer in the onboard restaurant had run out and some already drunk passengers stole the conductor's phone to blast the anime music over the train's speakers and argued who would leave the train to buy more booze. Eventually we had to return to the previous station where dozens of additional passengers boarded. We were confused but got told that ours was the only train that would even attempt the rest of the trip. In the end, we arrived about three hours late.
    2. A trip by regional train from Kassel to somewhere near Duisburg (Germany) in September 2021. Should have taken about four hours but due to an unexpected storm and a tree that damaged the overhead lines, the train had to stop in the middle of nowhere. It took 90 minutes just to figure out which taxi company would take us to the next station and a total of eight hours to get to our destination because it was so late at night that at some point no connecting trains were available.
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  • Correction: a TV show of which you've seen most episodes at least 15 times. There's always that one season that you skip because you didn't like it the first time.

  • How long would you survive with no DNA?

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  • Not the point of the video.

  • Germany's Merz: Europe must not rush to write off transatlantic ties

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  • I think it's more of a general sentiment against Merz. He pushes for longer work days, fewer public holidays, later retirement, "incentives" for people to still work part-time during retirement, fewer protections for workers overall and worse social security. The guy is massively unpopular so nobody trusts that these statements come from any sensible reasoning.

  • Germany's Merz: Europe must not rush to write off transatlantic ties

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  • Nobody cares what Friedrich "we need to treat workers like slaves" Merz thinks.

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    I always feel that this handwriting looks strange (I wrote it myself)

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  • I think OP is not a native speaker. The (implicit) question is probably "Do you agree?"

  • Greenland PM Tells People to Prepare for Possible Invasion

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  • And now you understand what we Germans feel when Americans ask what our ancestors did during the 1930s and 40s.

  • ich🚫🚗iel

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  • Glaub mir, wenn wir die Chance hätten, würden wir sofort wieder zurück in die Heimat gehen, aber manche von uns sind leider gezwungen, im badischen Exil zu leben, weil wir uns da, wo Leute tatsächlich leben wollen, die Mieten nicht leisten können.

    (Ja, ich weiß, dass die Mieten in Karlsruhe und Heidelberg auch hoch sind, aber irgendwie muss man ja über eine gewisse Stadt herziehen, ohne gleich jedem zu verraten, wo man wohnt)

  • ich🚫🚗iel

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  • https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calw#W%C3%BCrttembergische_Zeit

    1345 kam die Stadt zur Grafschaft Württemberg und wurde bald Sitz eines Amtes.

    Aber ja, es ist knapp. Soweit ich das sehe, haben die umliegenden Orte durchaus auch mal zwischendurch den Besitzer zwischen Baden und Württemberg gewechselt und spätestens mit Pforzheim im Norden und dem Landkreis Rastatt im Westen ist man dann wirklich in dauerhaft badischem Gebiet.

  • ich🚫🚗iel

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  • Volle Zustimmung. Meinetwegen können wir diese Schilder einfach überall aufhängen, aber ich fürchte, die Preußen werden's nicht verstehen.

  • ich🚫🚗iel

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  • Schwäbisch.

  • ich🚫🚗iel

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  • Schwäbisch. Fotografiert am Wochenende in Calw.

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  • I finished high school in spring which was a true blessing. I had always been a good student (4th best in my year) but got bullied for being a nerd.

    Over the summer, I worked as a programmer for a small game studio, making a Nintendo DS game that got cancelled by the publisher on the day we sent in the last release candidate because they finally noticed that their idea was crap and they should have accepted the changes we had proposed. Didn't matter, I had already been paid and got a lot of experience out of it.

    In October, I started university which was a great chance to make new friends. By now I've lost contact with most of them but some are still around and I appreciate them a lot. I was lucky enough to already live close to the university so I could stay at my parents' house.

    Through all of this, I was in the middle of my first serious relationship. My partner moved from across the country to a town just an hour away from me. Being able to see each other more often was amazing but at the same time it made things more complicated. We were constantly struggling with aligning our schedules, couldn't agree at whose place we should meet and got annoyed when one wanted to meet friends on a day the other would be free. We broke up in 2009 but we're still good friends.

    It was pretty much the peak of a community that I'm still part of today. Apart from long online discussions, we met twice a year for community events with about 60-80 guests who decided that it's our turn to define what being a grown-up means. These events still exist (the last one was just a few weeks ago) but they've gotten smaller and some of that chaotic creativity has been lost forever.

    Overall, 2008 may have been the start of one of the best sections of my life. I've never had more active friendships at the same time, before or after. I had many of the perks of being an adult without most of the drawbacks. I earned a bit of money and could keep most of it because university is cheap in my country and I didn't have to pay rent. If I had the chance (and could take a few people that I met later with me), I would probably go back.

  • Trump v. Greenland

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  • Oh, definitely. Just wanted to stress that it would be even worse without one of the richest and most productive states.

  • Trump v. Greenland

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  • Well...

    California contributes more than 10% of the USA's GDP, so while it might be tempting to gain power, it would probably demolish the economy.

  • Me either

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  • It's the "It's photoshopped, I can tell by the pixels" all over again but even more obnoxious this time. Sometimes I feel like people falsely accusing artists of using AI has done more damage to some than AI copying their work.

  • Trump v. Greenland

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  • Mo Validation Mo Problems

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  • The worst sites are the ones that let you sign up with an unusual address but not log in. The worst I‘ve seen was some ticket system that rejected dfyx+theirdomain@mydomain after I clicked the link in their confirmation email.

  • Trump in letter to Norwegian PM: "Feels no obligation to think purely of peace" due to Peace Prize rejection

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  • He stopped them so early you haven't even heard of them! /s

  • oof.

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  • Looks like Voyager