I only got robbed once in my life.

First day of vacation, the sun is shining and I’m walking down a street in Porto. Bakeries are advertising their freshly baked goods. Happily I enter one, see above sign, chuckle and proceed to buy one of these delicious looking pastries. I leave the bakery, in my hands is a pastel de nata. Tasty. With a big smile I continue my walk down the street. I turn my head and admire some flowers. Then it hits me. Quite literally. Something hit me in my face, and the bag of pastries is pulled out of my hands. I stand there, baffled. The people around me stare at me. I look at my hands, still trying to process what happened. The dude next to me stares at me, I look at him, looking for my pastry. He points at a seagull. There I see it: a freaking seagull flying away with my pastry. It dived down, mid flight and stole the bag I held in my hands. The hit in my face was its wing. I got robbed by a seagull.

Lufthansa is flagging you a no-show and cancels your return flight without warning or reimbursement. I didn’t like them before, but after doing that I will never set a foot in one of their planes.

I had a international flight with the last leg being a bus ride from Munich to Nuremberg after a 7 hour layover. I opted to take the train that got me there considerably quicker.

On the morning of my return flight when I was about to check in the lady at the counter told me my booking is non existing. That fun trick by Lufthansa cost me 600€ extra.

But I know that is just a little price compared to the emotional damage that poor little company was caused by me…

Yeah, the comments are bad, I clicked on the link out of curiosity. I think I got my weekly dose of online slurs for the week.

Also an interesting “safe space”. A “safe space” to be unhinged in which names you call others that don’t agree with you and been cheered on for doing so.

Ich nutze noch ein klassisches Forum um mich über Typ 1 Diabetes auszutauschen. Das Forum ist noch ziemlich aktiv und man findet eigentlich immer jemanden der hilft oder mit diskutiert. Ich finde die Atmosphäre dort einfach besser als in anderen Räumen zu dem Thema.

Ansonsten nutze ich kein Forum mehr aktiv, aber vermisse es doch hin und wieder. Ich fand es in Foren einfacher persönlichere Gespräche in Anonymität zu führen.

Dann würde ich vorschlagen *innen in dein Brusthaar zu rasieren.

Well in my countryside village they didn’t want me cause I was a girl. It’s 15 years ago now, and they struggled for a while to find new kids that want to join. So I’m not surprised that there are Freiwillige Feuerwehren that would reject others based on their prejudices.

Reisen im Süden Deutschlands kann man teilweise billiger über die ungarische Bahn buchen. Im Norden über eine schwedische billig Gesellschaft. Hab da mal n Ticket von Malmö nach München für 40€ gekauft. ICE ab Hamburg, ich musste nur von Hamburg nach München, der Start ab Malmö war aber halt billiger.

I work in university admissions and the programs require a motivation letter. While absolutely hating writing Cover letters or motivations myself, I do see the advantages for admission (although I absolutely hate the system).

Mainly it is a great way to give applicants with weaker grades a shot. And a good motivation letter where I get a feeling for who they are will put them almost always automatically higher in my recommendations. However, I am so sick of the same ChatGPT motivation. And it is always the same. Oh you honed your ability to do this? Your drawn because of that? I have read your letter 50 times before. And I don’t mean the contents. Let’s be real, most do not have an inspiring story about why they want to study, and that is okay, the program sounding good is a perfectly valid reason. But show me who you are (or what you want me to think who you are). I really developed an adverse reaction to these AI letters. I hate them because I know I’m reading a robots “thoughts”. By all means use the tools available to polish but don’t polish out your personality.

This will lead to motivation letters being abolished. And while for most people that’s great and a CV should speak for itself it will remove chances to get into a prestigious program for people who are not perfect or had the luck to grow up rich.

Ja genau das dachte ich mir. Es scheint mir so unsicher, ich mein im Vergleich zum z.B. Führungszeugnis, das man nur an die Meldeadresse schicken lassen kann und auch nur persönlich oder elektronischen Perso beantragen.

Dadurch dass man da nicht viel von missbrauch hört vermute ich mal, dass man da nochmal irgendwo kontrolliert. Aber seltsam finde ich es schon.

Not too good. Sitting at my desk at work with no daylight for the next 6 more hours, I’m exhausted from extremely high blood sugars from the last 18 hours.

Also today marks 4 years since the last time I spoke to my grandmother, whom I’m missing dearly. There’s so many things I’d like to talk with her about and I miss the family I lost with her death. I wish I could turn back time and keep my promise to call her back within 2 days. She got admitted to hospital very suddenly 5 days after her birthday and died a few days later. I guess I’ll see if I can sit down at the library and write her a letter later.

I think it’s great that you shared this, we all like to only post the negative and forget about sharing the positive. The people that work closer to the customers are in 95% extremely nice and helpful. I made a few last minute changes thanks to their support. Also I’m amazed how nice they stay even will all the BS they face.

Ich spiele auch gerade Zelda, allerdings Oracle of Times. Ich bin nach 5 Stunden weiter als ich es jemals als Kind auf meinem Gameboy war.

Ansonsten bin ich wahnsinnig müde, die letzte Woche musste ich mich geradezu richtig in die Sprachschule zwingen, das Niveau ist zu niedrig für mich und langsam ist es frustrierend (ich mach nen Kurs für Einwanderer in Schweden). Gestern hatte ich allerdings ein Vorstellungsgespräch und am Montag wird man mir Bescheid geben. Mal sehen, nach 5 Monaten suchen ist es etwas zermürbend…

Eben. Wenn jemand den Artikel interessant findet und eine Diskussion dazu starten will, dann gerne, Teil den link. Aber dieses Linkgeteile ohne irgendeinen Kommentar, oder Einladung zur Diskussion nervt einfach. Ich hab die BR24 App, ich muss die Schlagzeilen nicht nochmal über Lemmy lesen.

Ich finde Datenschutz richtig und wichtig, und mich ärgert es auch , dass Datenschutz so oft als falsche Begründung geliefert wird für Dinge die nicht funktionieren. Oder wie du sagst um manche Verbesserungen zu verhindern.

Das die Wahlunterlagen und das Wählerverzeichnis Datenschutz konform sind bezweifle ich nicht im geringsten.

This is the yarn I make my hat out of :)

It was in the breaking news section of SVT, the Swedish public broadcaster. But they love their monarchy news…

Noooooooooo, another thing on my to make list! Seriously thank you for the link, it looks so nice, and at least I might have the wool for it at home

Aber kurz vor Weihnachten Hatten wir richtige, nicht Alpenfest Deutschland Wochen 💪🏻

Der Link funktioniert leider nicht mehr.

Snälltåget Funktioniert nicht immer, aber einen Versuch ist es wert