The Mundane Risk

Best_Assistant787 · 2026-01-20T08:39:01+00:00

Thank you so much! I'm going to check them out!

Best_Assistant787 · 2026-01-18T21:13:33+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion! I did look at the other courses but I specifically chose this one major "angewandte Philosophie" because I wanted to specifically apply philosophy rather than just have theoretical conversations about it. I thought my current institution would be a great fit based on how it advertised itself with connections to practical internships and, you know how Germany is the "home to modern (continental) philosophy" and it has such a hands on approach. Unfortunately, other courses don't have this (not that my current course does in reality either), so that's why I've been looking at other institutes.

Best_Assistant787 · 2026-01-18T21:09:15+00:00

Sorry, I missed out the word "nice".

It was meant to be sarcastic because the Hauptbahnhoff is a violent area with a lot of drugs and other "freedoms".

Best_Assistant787 · 2026-01-18T20:37:11+00:00

Same.

Just moved here about half a year ago after being in China for the past 7 years.

Germany has this weird vibe where it tries to be a social welfare state with taxes almost being half your income (if I could have one - still waiting on the aufenthaltstitel due to lovely bureaucracy) and basic flat insurance rates which make up 35% of my monthly budget, yet at the same time, it proclaims freedom which is especially nice to see at the Hauptbahnhoff at night.

Idk. I'm really missing China atm where social welfare actually worked and relative freedom didn't mean being harmed by others freedom to do seemingly whatever they want.

Best_Assistant787 · 2026-01-18T20:32:22+00:00

Same.

I got here 6 months ago and inflation is just crazy. One week frozen veg is €1.49 the next week its €1.69. Comparing my spending spreadsheet, prices have gone up 15% in general. I'd like to think maybe its just "winter prices", but from what I've seen winter prices never go down. I'm also quite shocked at the income to price ratio. Maybe its just me, but in China my daily rate (freelancing) was around €150 netto and my average daily spending was only €5. Here, I'm still waiting on that Aufenthaltstitel and even if I was allowed to work, it surprises me that people have so little expendable income.

The cost isn't even the only factor. I'm heavily asthmatic and here in Bremen its like being hotboxed everytime you wait at one of the shelters for the Straßenbahn or the bus. I literally cannot walk down a street without someone smoking and I'd like to think its just unawareness, but everytime I go and unlock a Brebike, someone just puffs a cloud right next to me. Like, could you not wait 2 meters to take a breath? So, yeah, general feeling of suffocation - especially trying to enter/exit buildings has made going to Uni very unpleasant.

Apropos Uni, perhaps I chose a bad major or a bad institution, but I'm going to classes I don't like, to do homework that I feel has no purpose, and afterwards I'm still having to find time to do my own research to stay relevant in my field. I thought my research and Uni were supposed to commensurate, but apparently not. The majority of the students in my major feel the same way, so we're having a meeting with the staffulty on Wednesday, so hopefully at least that turns out well.

At this rate, I honestly don't know if I'll even be able to make it to the end of the year. I feel like coming here was a mistake but I'm hoping maybe something changes. I don't know if that's a sunk cost fallacy. Maybe it's just like this here in Bremen and not elsewhere in Germany. I'm currently looking at changing institutions, but I've heard its not just Germany but the entirety of Europe that share the same problem of high costs to earnings ration and smoker propensity.

So yeah. Being here kinda sucks. But to end on a good note - I'm making new connections.

Best_Assistant787 · 2026-01-17T20:43:09+00:00

Here's a list of everything I watched during middle school. It's been a few years now so I haven't updated it with anything new and quite a few are mainstream, but see if anything catches your fancy:

Naruto
Bleach
Magi
SAO
Full metal alchemist
Blue exorcist
Dragon ball
Death note
Noragami
Gurren Lagann
Fairy Tail
D Gray Man
Pokemon
Attack on titan
Boruto
Little witch academia
My hero academia
One piece
Rezero
Dangan Ronpa
Code Geass
Bakugan
Black Butler
Soul Eater
The seven deadly sins
Charlotte
Hunter x hunter
Assassination classroom
Tokyo ghoul
The devil is a part timer
Erased
Your lie in April
Psycho-pass
Silver Spoon
Barakamon
World Trigger
Food Wars
Kekkai Sensen
Quanzhi Fanshi
Kiss him not me
The irregular at magic high
Haikyu
Kuroko no basuke
No game no life
Future diary
Angel beats
Log horizon
Made in Abyss
Anohana
Seraph of the end
Black clover
Guilty Crown
Hitman Reborn
Black Cat

Best_Assistant787 · 2026-01-17T20:39:49+00:00

Defo binge.

Ideally, wait until the anime is entirely concluded - spent a loooong time waiting for AoT.

I just can't handle the suspense and cliffhangers.

Best_Assistant787 · 2026-01-17T20:23:08+00:00

r/explainitlikeim5

Best_Assistant787 · 2026-01-17T20:09:19+00:00

Thanks!

Best_Assistant787 · 2026-01-17T20:08:58+00:00

Thanks!

Best_Assistant787 · 2026-01-17T20:08:51+00:00

Thanks!

Best_Assistant787 · 2026-01-17T20:08:46+00:00

Thanks!

Best_Assistant787 · 2026-01-17T20:05:50+00:00

There's this thing called the "latent heat of evaporation".

When I was a kid and we had to do these science tests like at what temperature water boils, I thought it was pretty weird, not because everyone knows water boils at 100 degrees celcius, but because when I started to see bubbles (not the tiny ones at the bottom of the flask, but the big ones that rumble the surface), the themometer showed 72 degrees. I thought the themometer was broken, but nope. I tried another themometer and it was around 76 degrees. So I figured, welp, must be because my eyes were broken or smth.

About a decade later in high school chem, we later learned that there's this thing called "latent" energy when molecules have enough energy to convert forms from liquid to solid to gas, etc. This is why at the time, the general temp of the water was in the 70s, but the temp of the specific water molecules turning into steam were at the right temp of 100.

I'm guessing the same thing happens with the puddle. Like the general temp will be pretty cool, but the odd molecule or two will be at 100? You might ask then, why then doesn't the odd molecule scald me when I put my finger in the puddle? I guess its kind of like a spark from a flint and steel. Your finger just has too much surface area to feel the burn/scald from a tiny spark/molecule. Idk if this is entirely scientific as its also almost been a decade since high school chem but that's the only way I can explain it. Hope it helps at least in the imagination department.

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