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đŸ‡©đŸ‡Ș = the colors of German antifascism. Human rights are universal and indivisible. đŸ‡©đŸ‡Ș Germerican đŸ‡ș🇾 | đŸłïžâ€đŸŒˆ ally | he/him | đŸ’‰â¶ 🐘 @[email protected]
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What’s the endgame for those who approve? Trump mentioned “unconditional surrender”? What would that even mean? A U.S.-Israel-occupied Iran?
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But it’s a lot more accurate! 😜
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outside unless you’d pre-registered for SperrmĂŒlltag. And then people would be reluctant to take anything, because abandoned stuff technically belongs to the city or something.
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Is this a German thing or more of a life stage thing? Putting perfectly fine furniture out by the curb for your neighbors to rehome is very common in my current, leafy U.S. neighborhood. In my German neighborhood of mid-rise coop buildings, this wouldn’t even be legal (no leaving anything →
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»Neues, gesundes Essen → Mmmm, lecker!« funktioniert immer nur einmal, so will es das Gesetz. đŸ€·â€â™‚ïž
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Given WMF's reputation for making (relatively) affordable yet unbreakable products (mostly cutlery, corkscrew, and pepper mills), this seems like the most perfect branding ever. Let's hope the 96 beers were for a group of 50+ adults. I like beer in MAáșžEN (moderation), not in MASSEN (massively.)
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Sondern? Tadellose* Eltern mĂŒssen das wissen! * Ich wollte eigentlich "ratlose" schreiben, aber mein đŸ“± kennt mich offenbar besser; dann lasse ich das mal so stehen. đŸ€Ł
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There’s so much of Europe left to explore. Don't make problems for your HR person/department now!
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Gremans have a stronger emotional connection with than their freeways. Scroll down to see two live cams: www.magdeburg.de/index.php?Na... The »Zeitraffer« (time-lapse) function is sort of neat.
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If only your building were a freeway đŸ›Łïž! One in my hometown was just found out to be in such bad shape several of its overpasses have to be torn down—and there are crews working through the night (in a perpetually broke city!), and there is a live cam, too, of course (since there is nothing ↘
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> Der CDU-Politiker sei erheblich alkoholisiert gewesen. Sich im Dienst zu besaufen ist halt auch immer noch ein Kavaliersdelikt in Deutschland. Das wĂ€re auch so schlimm genug. Aber dann noch als ErklĂ€rung fĂŒr BelĂ€stigung?
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Yeah, personal experiences will do that.
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Them’s fightin’ words! Newark is my second favorite Tristate Area airport! (After Stewart.)
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The availability of air conditioning is what makes the difference during hot days. đŸ„” Still, we've often found ourselves unprepared for Germany's cold summer days, because I always forget to pack sweaters and heavier jackets.
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Give it time. đŸ„” By July and August you'll have experienced the joys of scorching weather in a country where air conditioning is largely unknown.
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especially coming from monotonous San Jose.
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Did it burn off later in the day? I once worked a contract in San Francisco where we could go up to a tower roof like that for smoke breaks (even if, like me, you didn’t smoke) and many of our mornings looked like that, but none of the afternoons. Those near-daily changes were so beautiful, →
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Still, since Trump is known to basically never follow through on his demands, this is all pretty meaningless. (He also promised to end Russia’s war in Ukraine and made certain demands of Putin, all to make several 180s since.)
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It’s also good ole’ Southern racism. The child’s father is Black; his mother is White. Both were hit with the maximum bond, $1.5 million.
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*takes notes from couch* Going to the gym doesn’t do anything for you.
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Musk’s subsequent naturalization is a direct result of that immigration fraud, so he’d be a perfect candidate for denaturalization and subsequent removal. #ItsTheLaw
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Has deportation actually been threatened? (I’ve been calling for it for months.) It’d be well justified. Elmo clearly committed immigration fraud when he started working at a company he started while in the country on a student visa for Stanford (which he never attended.) ↘
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Nich in Machteburch! WĂŒr hĂ„m jĂ„ schlĂŒĂŸlĂŒsch och Semf.
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And while I generally like skin-on fries, Five Guys’s have this overly dry, almost chalk-like mouthfeel, really unpleasant. A 12-year-old in our party, a big fries aficionado, wasn’t impressed, either. The only nice things are the peanuts, really. 🙁
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I don’t get the hype. We tried Five Guys again (in PA) after many years, and it was just as disappointing as before. The only thing remarkable about the bacon cheeseburger was the insane price. Other than that, just a sad, tasteless fast food burger on a bun that’s falling apart. ↘
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Oh no. Keeping a good thought that second time’s the charm! 🙏
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Just one wrinkle: The company wants a coffee lover to travel the world to talk about 
 *Starbucks*. 😭
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My wife and kids have three citizenships: U.S. (Trump), Germany (Merz, soon: AfD in a governor’s mansion), Hungary (Orbán) Other citizenships in my close family: UK (Farage government soon), Poland (just elected a Trumpian president) The more, the horrible-er 😭
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One brain fart away from “good people on both sides” 2.0
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At first I heard, “This is the bris certificate 
” đŸ€Ż We all know that Trump has Jewish grandkids, but this seemed pretty out of left field. đŸ€Ł
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Trump literally thinks Harvard and others could bring international students to the U.S. without any vetting by the U.S. government.
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Every airport closes runways from time to time. When a runway is closed, it’s closed. Same principle.
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with a $4 Rand McNally Road Atlas as our only guide. In hindsight, it turned out to be the right decision to forgo interstates, as this allowed us to experience some real Americana. Fun times. It was probably around the same time you drove to college.
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from N NJ to SE WI, and we used it to go from NYC to Chicago almost for free (all we had to pay for was gas.) We didn’t know that road tolls in the Midwest were pretty cheap, so we completely avoided the OH and IN Tpks and instead took U.S. 20 and other sleepy, long-forgotten highways  ↘
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Are you really trying to sell us on the crazy idea that you would have started college before GPS-based navigation? 😉 But this does remind me of my first-ever self-driven road trip. My friend since grade school and I had spent the summer in NYC before finding this “driveaway” deal ↘
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Calling things one doesn’t understand “stupid” 
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” has no place in safety-critical communications. Neither is “well, it should be safe to make an exception THIS time.” That’s the issue.
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that THEY’d get special consideration, the floodgates would open. Also, I’m sure that this would have been handled the same way at JFK or LAX.
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The issue here isn’t hard time limits, but the fact that pilots and ATC can’t and shouldn’t negotiate ad-hoc exceptions during approach. Directions from ATC must remain ironclad. Expecting “common-sense” exceptions would greatly weaken security in all sorts of ways. Once pilots got the idea ↘
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Es entbehrt aber nicht einer gewissen Ironie, dass diese (völlig berechtigte) Kritik jetzt ausgerechnet von den GrĂŒnen kommt. Ihr wart die letzten 2 Jahre doch ganz vorn mit dabei, die Wissenschaftsfreiheit genozidkritischer AkademikerĂŻnnen massiv anzugreifen. Habt ihr das schon aufgearbeitet?
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And it was on the cocky pilot, who thought he (we all know it was a “I can totally make it” guy), who could have easily asked for a grace period of 60 minutes instead of 30.
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unreasonable to make a fuss over THOSE few extra seconds, so let any plane land that comes in within an hour of curfew. Except when the next plane gets there within 61 minutes 

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Did you read the article? There was a 30 grace period already. And the flight missed THAT, too (by, allegedly — it’s impossible to verify — under one additional minute.) What should the cut-off be? 30 + 10 minutes? What if the next flight from Palma arrives 41 minutes late? It’d be SO ↘
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This wasn’t over 10 seconds, but over 1,810 seconds. Even the horrid BILD tabloid acknowledges this.
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Interesting. I’ve never experienced this is the U.S. cities I’ve lived and used public transit in. Sure, there’s the occasional unhoused person, but that’s different from dozens of people with BO all around you.
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möglich gemacht, dass sich der Rechtsextremismus im Osten verfestigen konnte. Mein Kommentar unter dem Artikel: bsky.app/profile/derd...
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Die leider auch ungehört verhallen werden. Merz wird sich »staatstragend« dagegen aussprechen, VerbotsbefĂŒrworterĂŻnnen der Unruhestiftung bezichtigen, implizit Problemlösung durch Aussitzen versprechen, und das war’s dann. Das kennen wir doch schon. Kohls Aussitzepolitik hatte es ĂŒberhaupt erst ↘
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Na denn man tau. Lieber heute als morgen! Die Diskussion erinnert an 1932: »Damit die Nazis nicht böse werden, lassen wir sie lieber regieren.« Wir WISSEN doch, wie das ausgeht. Wenn die AfD erst mal in einer Staatskanzlei sitzt (demnÀchst in meiner Heimatstadt Magdeburg), ist es zu spÀt.
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Das sind sie heute auch schon. Nach einem Verbot wĂ€ren sie allerdings um Hunderte Mandate und viele Millionen € Ă€rmer. Die Wahl zwischen ‱ stinksauer und einflussreich sowie ‱ stinksauer und politisch impotent ist einfach.
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Also sind dort weiterhin Schafe (oder andere Weidetiere), nur eben unbeaufsichtigt?
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Wozu wird da ein Zaun gebraucht?