[-] agrammatic@feddit.de 26 points 10 months ago

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.

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Where scrappy Berlin shines as the A+ example

[-] agrammatic@feddit.de 29 points 11 months ago

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.

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[-] agrammatic@feddit.de 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Why was there this law in the first place?

In Europe at least, it was often explained as "same-sex marriage and parenthood are not allowed, and a legal gender change cannot be a loophole to that". But it appears to be a post-hoc rationalisation since the forced sterilisation programmes have many more targets in the past until it was progressively abandoned for more and more groups. It was also becoming untenable since more and more countries were legalising same-sex parenthood.

So, if we are being more honest, it's eugenics.

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Some interesting points:

That may mean that Amsterdam residents will have to “wait a little longer” during rush hour, motorists may spend longer at red lights, and locals may have to accept that same-day delivery is a thing of the past.

Cyclists will also have to adapt. Next year, the city will introduce streets where faster cyclists, often on e-bikes and fatbikes, can choose between the motorway or the bike path. Those who choose the bike path must adhere to a speed limit of 20 kilometers per hour.

For a city moving in the opposite direction: Change to the mobility law - Berlin CDU wants to abolish priority for cyclists

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More of a classification question, but I'm really curious about what the metric would look like if we try to be systematic about it.

For context, there's several countries that are more or less famous for being geographically discontinuous. Top of the mind nowadays is Azerbaijan, whose sizeable territory of Nakhchivan has no land connections with the rest of the country. There's also Equatorial Guinea, whose capital city is on island which is smaller than the continental territory. That's the same for Denmark, although we seem to think of it less, because of the much smaller distances and significantly more connectivity. Then you have Indonesia which I currently think might be the most discontinuous country, with territory spanning across at least 4 major landmasses but which are shared with other countries.

But then you have countries such as Greece, Japan, or even Sweden, which are more or less archipelagic countries but do not stand out in the way Indonesia or Azerbaijan does.

How can we define a measure of geographic discontinuity that gives us a reasonable ranking? I would imagine we start with some measure that looks how much of the whole territory is in one contagious unit (less prominent main landmass = more discontinuity) but perhaps we also introduce average distance between units.

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I got hit with it just now and I was wondering what's going on. Here's the FAQ page: https://www.bahn.de/faq/6-warum-kann-ich-sparpreis-tickets-nicht-mit-lastschrift-bezahlen

Machine Translation:

Why can't I pay for saver fare tickets and a BahnCard 100 by direct debit?

There is currently an increase in fraudulent activity based on so-called phishing emails. As a precautionary measure for your protection, you cannot pay for Sparpreis tickets and a BahnCard 100 on this website and in the app using direct debit until further notice.

One now has to use PayPal or a MasterCard/VISA/etc-branded bank card.

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The cabinet approved the proposal for the creation of a digital platform, known as the e-kalathi (e-basket), that would list prices of 300 consumer goods in different supermarkets in April. The idea was to inform people during this period of high prices what was being charged for similar products in different shops, with the main emphasis being on food, baby items and household products.This would enable people to buy the most competitively priced goods.

[-] agrammatic@feddit.de 43 points 1 year ago

„Mir steht es als Politikerin nicht zu, zu urteilen: Diese Autos stehen hier zu viel im Straßenraum herum“

Trotzdem bist du die Verkehrssenatorin. Wer keine Lust auf den Job hat, kann kündigen.

[-] agrammatic@feddit.de 45 points 1 year ago

Something that I mentioned to a Ukrainian colleague who asked for my take as someone who is coming from Cyprus is also the effect of time on a conflict.

A politician can make passionate speeches about how faits accomplis will never be accepted and that justice cannot be anything other but the return to the previous condition and so on, but at the end of the day most Greek Cypriots understand that almost a century later, you cannot start kicking people out of the houses they lived for three generations without becoming the bad guy, even if the grandfather stole that house in the aftermath of an illegal war. You can't punish the grandchild for the sins of the grandfather, you need to find a way to work with them.

So, for Ukraine, the moral of the story is that if it becomes a frozen conflict, every next attempt to settle it will require more compromises on humanitarian grounds. And so far, I think they get it, since they do not consider a ceasefire. But if they end up having to agree to a ceasefire, they should be very suspicious of politicians who tell them at there's no need to rush to pursue a settlement because "in the future we can negotiate something better". With every passing decade, fewer and fewer aspects will be up for negotiation at all.

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It's no exaggeration that as someone raised on the island of Cyprus, I was astonished by how green the cities looked from above when I first travelled to Europe.

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Seit Anfang des Jahres habe ich eine Beförderung beantragt, die meinen erweiterten Verantwortlichkeiten entspricht. Meine Abteilung unterstützt mich, der Personalchef hat sie abgelehnt ("Priorität der Firma sind neue Mitarbeiter").

Das ist natürlich Bullshit. Ich bin nun auf der Suche nach einem neuen Job.

Ich bin mir über zwei Punkte nicht ganz sicher:

  1. Bald bekomme ich eine unbefristet Arbeitsvertrag. Soll ich sie annehmen? Das verlängert meine Kündigungsfrist, ist allerdings nicht unbedingt, dass ich eine neue Stelle finde, bevor der befristete Vertrag ausläuft. Ich benötige keine Arbeitserlaubnis für Deutschland, aber ich hätte während der Suche gerne einen bezahlten Job. Die Arbeitsagentur ist bei der Arbeitssuche in meiner Branche nicht sehr hilfreich. Ich würde lieber auf ALG I verzichten, als mich auf irrelevante Stellen zu bewerben.
  2. Sollte ich beantragen, dass meine Stellenbeschreibung aktualisiert wird, auch wenn es keine Beförderung/Gehaltserhöhung gibt? Das könnte mir bei der Arbeitssuche helfen. Könnte das die Möglichkeit ausschließen, später aus diesen Gründen befördert zu werden, falls ich in dem Unternehmen bleibe?
[-] agrammatic@feddit.de 44 points 1 year ago

How is it breaking new legal ground, if toll roads already exist and are legal and overnight stay tax (aka tourist tax) is too?

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My first idea was to use the Gitea instance of the Free Software Foundation Europe, but T&Cs strongly encourage only projects with direct relation to the FSFE activities, so personal projects don't seem welcome.

The first-party Gitea platform seems to be in risk of becoming for-profit.

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The 13th is exclusive to members of works councils. The 14th is the public portion of the conference.

[-] agrammatic@feddit.de 26 points 1 year ago

18 is good. In my previous neighbourhood I lived next to a school. A bunch of 14 year olds with smoke under the supervision of their teachers just outside the gates during recess.

There's no culture of smoking suppression in Germany. You'll see behaviours treated as normal that would trigger an emergency meeting elsewhere.

[-] agrammatic@feddit.de 28 points 1 year ago

It's an exceptionally bad idea to get the state involved in picking which interpretations of a religion are going to be defended.

Cyprus pretty much has this kind of law, and the Chruch loves tormenting even dissenting Christian theologians or prominent people of faith who disagree with the Church with it, let alone critics who aren't part of the religion at all.

[-] agrammatic@feddit.de 23 points 1 year ago

Gut. Je schneller die Partei spaltet, desto besser. Derzeit Die Linke ist nicht in der Lage, eine effektive Opposition zu sein, wenn sie innerlich so tief uneins ist.

[-] agrammatic@feddit.de 61 points 1 year ago

To the best of my knowledge, the convention is based on history. In previous decades, neo-pronouns like xe were proposed to serve as gender-neutral alternatives to he and she, and since they were new coinages, they didn't have commonly known objective and possessive forms, so all three forms where listed.

The pattern was so established that it carried over to he, she and they even though their declined forms are commonly known.

[-] agrammatic@feddit.de 29 points 1 year ago

I don't find automatic reposts ideal when I subscribe to communities, especially since there's an RSS feed so people can rely on that to receive updates.

I find it more worthwhile if another user shares a post intentionally, because they believe that particular post is relevant.

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