Worked shortly as a bike delivery guy for a small independent German bookstore. They did deliveries in the small town and you could order books by phone or email. The atmosphere in the shop was chill. The owner was an old really well-read hippie, who was really friendly.The pay was rather shit but I'd say it was overall a good job.

Under the GDPR, employers in the EU can only monitor employees' work emails if it is necessary, proportionate, and serves a legitimate purpose, such as ensuring compliance or security. Employees must be informed about the monitoring in advance, and clear policies should be in place to respect transparency and consent requirements. Any monitoring must also balance the employer's business interests with the employees' right to privacy, ensuring minimal intrusion. Some countries like Germany have really strict interpretations of how to apply the GDPR here.

35-year old Heidegger slid into the DMs of 18-year old Ahrendt as her professor. This was way before you were cancelled for 'sleeping with students' or for 'being a fascist' was a thing.

I usually eat a simple Porridge, but if I want to make something fancy on a weekend I make pancakes for my family.

Yeah but people are highly aware of it and there is even a disclaimer in Email Signatures that everything is tracked. If you are dealing with government ministries in European countries some of the (unofficial) information exchange is done without written record, either at in-person conferences or even through non-work phones.

Highly illegal in the EU. Also highly stupid everywhere else. The big question is "How secure is your user espionage system and can an outsider get acces?". The data from something like this is a social engineering goldmine.

IBM built the punch card machines that were used to organise the Holocaust and they were a good American company.

So this school was built on an ancient Pleistocene burial ground. I know that trope well enough to know what happened next

The one recommended by the health insurance companies kills you early and fast after your pay-in period without causing large healthcare costs.

Twister his arms wide open

Haha, but my only intrusive thought is that the wizard cat is a cute chonker

It's Twilight Zone, but only the twists

This contest is over. Give this man his 10,000. Dollars.

You're taking a vacation from normalcy. The setting, a weird motel where the bed is stained with mystery, and there's also some mystery floating in the pool. Your key card may not open the exercise room because someone smeared mystery on the lock, but it will open... The Scary Door.

Eine Gewindeschneidmaschine (weil ich in deine Mutter eindringe)

Smoking was discovered independently in many cultures with different substances used by different cultures. In the Americas, it was tobacco, while the Scythians of Central Asia used cannabis in ritualistic hotboxes, as evidenced by archaeological finds of smoking tools in kurgans. Other regions, like India and Southeast Asia, saw the smoking of opium and herbs.

In this scenario Lenin does not manage to take over Russia and the warning to the world by the real life examples of Germany and Italy about the dangers of fashism does not happen either. Authoritarianism raises its ugly head later in a world with better weapons and more destructive potential for humanity.

Klar, man muss den Tab rektal einführen

We knew well enough that a pandemic was a realistic risk and had SARS-1 and MERS as warning shots but we're still not very well prepared at the outset of COVID.

It is one of this places that were built by anarchists without any license and look, smell and feel quite funky. The audience though is really nerdy. So the closest that comes to mind is a Hacker space in a large European city.

cat -A bum_sentence.txt

Die armen Menschen bei SAP in Walldorf mit ihren 5000€ Fahrrädern

For me it almost sounded like a premise for a modern romcom.

You can even say "Sometimes it feels like you do not even know me at all!" In the sessions

Well it is an expensive date/hobby

Well, here we go again! The internet was supposed to be freedom, but now it's just a playground for Big Brother and corporate greed. Y'all see this Y2K “bug”? IT’S NOT A BUG, it’s a SCAM to reset everything and put us under CONTROL! Bill Gates, Al Gore, ALL of ‘em are in on it. Soon, you won’t be able to load a page without the Feds watching you.

Wake UP, people! You think AOL and Micro$oft care about "innovation"? LOL. It’s all about taking over! AOL’s already bought up Netscape! What’s next, paying to send an email? Think your ICQ is private? LOL, it’s government spyware!

And don’t get me started on the mods here. I see you silencing REAL posts about how the UN is behind all this. Keep banning me, I’ll be back! They wanna control speech before the big RESET. Mark my words, the internet will be a corporate mall by 2005, and y’all will pay just to read THIS.

P.S. If this post vanishes, you know why. I SEE YOU, MODS!

22/F/Catfish Island

To be very German, here is my favourite Max Planck quote: Scientific Progress marches on one funeral at a time.

Perhaps it was meant like that. And the old guard that disliked his papers is now dead and progress has been made.

Scheint der Bahnhofservice wieder ihre Inkompetenz zur Schau zu stellen. In einer Millionenstadt sollte eigentlich auch jemand ausrücken können, wenn Gepäck in einem Schließfach verschwindet oder ein Schließfach nicht aufgeht. Das da jemand vom Service erreichbar ist, ist das Mindeste. Erst Recht bei einem Kind im Schließfach.

Typical BMW driver: Forget flashing their headlights to move people out of the way on the highway—now they’ve got a 122mm rocket launcher for that

Least impractical tuned BMW

So what. I'm also fascinated when I see Humans without a gag reflex.

Same, probably also got me a good early dose of radiation in Romania

I really appreciate that people in my city place their old books in small boxes with a "zu verschenken" (free to take) sign when they want to give them away. I've found many great books this way, along with a few quirky and unusual ones too.

Weird little drinking related story about finding my glasses from my college times: Got accepted for a PhD and wanted to party. Met a good friend and went to a Balkans party with loads of cheap booze. Wake up at 6am in a night bus out of town and can't find my wallet on me. Run like crazy to the club/bar where the party was. Last people there let me search for my wallet. Only find my glasses in the bar toilet that I didn't notice I had also lost. Lock credit card and go home happy that I at least found my glasses.

Why isn't Nordic metal about well functioning hyper-rich welfare states:

growl* We howl to the void, to eternal flame, Yet the sick are healed without any shame. In this Nordic night of financial might, Functioning healthcare is a right. *Growl

Now I want to see a 44-year old McCauley Culkin doing a new home alone, where his kids forget him at home.

Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?

Our group of teenagers should definitely split up to search for the monster and/or serial killer!

I Romania you have to go pretty far north to find it and it's tiny.