I can tell you my sister always blamed my parents for mostly going on vacation to Poland, where they had a summer house and family (uncles, aunts, grandparents) instead - like the rich children from her class in Germany - to Spain or Italy.

Now she is asking if she could use that summer house to be able to go anywhere abroad because turns out it’s quite difficult to earn a lot of money to be able to take your child on expensive vacations. And she has only one instead of three children like our parents.

While I can’t tell you if she feels like you describe, but I think in this case she should :p

Yes, but compared to 30 years ago overall it seems way less. But yeah, I would need to go through the numbers to be able to point to real data points, you’re right.

Ah, I also didn’t see the “(US)” tag.

It really depends where. In the global south? Way better, in China, it’s debatable. In Poland, way better. In the US, way worse. In the UK, way worse.

It’s good to bring it into perspective with numbers like Hans Rossling used to do https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8t4k0Q8e8Y sadly he died and nobody took this over after him to visualize data in this way so publicly yet.

Same here

Ich hab ne idee für eine Kompromiss, er darf sie aufhängen aber sie müssen auf dem Kopf umgedreht sein. Als Satanist wäre ich damit einverstanden denn das geht nicht gehen meine Religion.

No, it does not mean you have the job, there are still many others in the race.

fax machines, both in Germany and Japan.

Thanks Obama!

The article doesn’t explain how way exit works

Just wanted to say that I talked to my grandma about it, she was working together with the Jews in Auschwitz (my family is from the neighbor village) in a company which made chemicals (IG Farben). When she walked home she could always smell the burned human bodies. She said everyone knew what was going on there.

The point is to pretend to the world that you are a democracy.

No, I don’t think so.

I remember going voting with my parents in the 80’s in communist Poland. Voting was mandatory, so you would get into trouble if you wouldn’t go. It also wasn’t private, so you basically had to show what you voted for before putting your ballot into the ballot box. On top of they there was only one party which you could vote for.

Have a bigger gun with you.

Yes, a non existent one.

My guess is that their revolt will be similar as the recent Chinese and Russian ones.

Arbeitsamt -> Arbeitsagentur
Arbeitsloser -> Kunde
Spielplatz -> Spielagentur?
Kinder -> Kunden?

I likes the first season, felt a bit like spinoff of The Good Place.

When me and my sister were 6 and 4 our dad came in to our room to tell us a bedtime story. He lied down with us on the bed and started telling the story.

It was just before Christmas and because our flat was small we had the Christmas tree with lights on in our room by the door, and we were on the other side of the room on the bed by the window, ca. 3 m away

Once he was done withe the story suddenly in the same moment the Christmas light turned off. That was in Poland in the 80’s so no home automation or anything.

He told us the Jesus baby turned it off because it was sleeping time. Even as a 6years old I was suspicious about that answer because it was a one time thing. But I never figured out how he did it.