Truly an xkcd #1172 situation.

Es liegt an einer Mischung aus wenigen Kassensitzen sowie hohen Aufnahmehürden.

Ich helfe grade einem Freund mit dem ganzen Prozess - hier ist meine bestmögliche Strategie.

Und da es kein englisches Wort für verschlimmbesserung gibt

https://www.linguee.de/englisch-deutsch/uebersetzung/disimprovement.html

We are back, baby.

I’d say for me it would depend what the monument stands for.

The problem with this is that there’s often multiple interpretations. Is it a monument to the celebrate the defeat of Nazism, or to glorify the paternalist role of the Soviet Union over the Warsaw Pact countries? You can’t really say it’s only one or the other - you can only decide which one matters more to the society at a given point in time.

I think that when there’s no consensus about an interpretation in a society, a good place to start is with contextualisation. A high-profile but contentious monument should come with a small open-air museum that provides the context of what the monument was intended to stand for, what where the motivations of those who built it, and how it came to be seen as the time passed.

Then, time will tell if the society decides to interpret it one way or the other. At some point it will be clear if it should stay or go.

One can hope that the store operators will also be heavily fined for their apparent failure to protect their customers’ information from infosec threats. Show them teeth, GDPR.

Germany: shock

Cyprus: anger

None had any discourse around what the PISA scores measure and if there’s any problematisation warranted around the methodology etc. So, in the end, it just serves as a regular outrage topic for the news cycle, but because no-one understands what the scores mean, no-one can do anything about them.

Extensive summary also here

Yes, but in the absence of other factors, “cold tolerance” is something that can change by habituation.

I’m not sure how a personal budget app can help you keep track of a Heizkostenverteiler/heating cost allocator. There’s many unknowns during the operation time and even the landlord is given a year to crunch the numbers before they bill the tenants.

What is progress is that people on district heating now get their kWh consumption readings every few months.

Okay, that explains the crowds.

It honestly feels like a very high price to pay for the sake of rapid expansion. It doesn’t feel appropriate to remove the unanimity rule before the EU becomes a true union of federated states. The usual Polish existential populist rhetoric notwithstanding, it is the wrong approach to European integration (broken clocks occasionally being right, etc). At this point, for me it’s enough to reject this report.

For fairness: It is positive that the report suggests giving the right of initiative to the Parliament. The plan for the Commission is also an improvement although it sounds a bit confused.

Hurra für Gadgetbahn!

Der entschied für die gesamte EU

Sehr gut zu wissen. Nächstes Jahr hole ich meine Patientenakte von meinem Herkunftsland ab. Für eine Kopie wollen sie 22 Euro.

Given that the article is not about the UK, I don’t see a good reason to reach for a UK-specific definition.

It’s one of the most blatant self-made problems around migration that populists very disingenuously employ to paint their favourite picture of the “welfare queen” which has been a bold, racist lie since it was first used.

But I’m also a bit sceptical of how you can do this in a country without mandatory collective agreements in all sectors. Germany at least has a minimum wage, but that just means wage dumping can only go as low as 12 Euro per hour. Back in Cyprus, where the same question is constantly in the news, the most notorious anti-worker industry, the tourism sector, is begging for asylum seekers to be allowed in the jobs that they have most trouble filling with citizens, EU-residents, and work-permit holders. But they want to do so outside a collective agreement (one used to exist, but for various reasons is now dead-letter) and essentially without even the protection of a minimum wage (which Cyprus didn’t have until this year, and now it has an idiotic version of it which defines a monthly minimum wage without a limit to hours worked).

I think that the introduction of asylum seekers in the workforce should happen, but it should happen in tandem with a massive pro-union legislation change that will make collective agreements mandatory across the board (similar to the Swedish and Finnish models, as far as I understand those). That might require re-aligning the way unionism is understood in Germany from per-workplace to be per-industry.

Oh, lucky. Meine Probe BahnCard läuft diesen Monat ab. Guter Deal, danke OP!

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It’s the best FOSS calendar I have used, even if it has its rough edges.

That’s likely.

Perhaps intermittently so? I have obviously booked tickets in the last year with direct debit. hence why I expected it to work this time too.