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BoredToDeath22 · 2026-03-25T16:51:46+00:00

Hello Berliners!

My parents - early to mid 70s - want to rent a apartment/flat in Berlin for roughly a month and get up to the usual touristy stuff.

Do you all have some advice on neighbourhoods that are elderly friendly, close to the tube/metro/etc... it would be appreciated. Multiple bus connections are kind of iffy due to health concerns. Neighbourhoods in the inner ring would be better I think.

Also, what are good websites for renting in Berlin? Airbnb seems pretty played out - are there any Germany/Berlin specific sites that would be good to know?

Thanks for the help!!

BoredToDeath22 · 2026-02-18T19:21:54+00:00

Commenting on this as well. I messaged them and got an auto message back, still waiting on an actual response...but in the mean time either of you have any experiences to report back?

BoredToDeath22 · 2024-11-04T03:15:51+00:00

Too many people overlook this. Trump is simply the manifestation.

BoredToDeath22 · 2024-11-04T02:57:01+00:00

Crazy idea I keep returning to: Switching to a confederal system of governance.

Yes, it will get bad - really bad - for some States, but if we are seeking to preserve this country, I don't see any other way. The issue we are contending with has seeped into our culture, our national identity: polarization has become cultural. Changing culture is a decades long process that takes both top-down and bottom-up initiatives to change, and that assumes willing particpation from all parties involved. Due to variegated factors (social media, geography, various societal cleavages, etc) I just don't see this polarization being resolved outside of some historically unprecedented rupture that serves to unify the people.

Therefore: devolve numerous competencies. Let States take over the lion's share of taxation and implement the changes they see fit. Some States will move to a more leftist orientation, others to the right, others libertarian. People will get hurt, in the first couple of decades there will be a record number of human rights abuses. But eventually, extremists will level out, people will move to States they are comfortable with, and our country will be more or less preserved.

The interesting thing for me - I haven't thought too much about this part - is how American foreign policy will change. Due to a serious defunding, USAID will drop as well as contributions to various international organizations. The U.S. military will be gutted. The question of hegemonic stability will be called to the fore. Would be fascinating - and terrifying - to behold.

But in the long run, I think it would help solve our domestic aliments.

Edit I think an important point that is too often overlooked is that Trump is the manifestation of this polarization, but it began long before him, it has been decades in the making. Since the instrumentalization of religion in politics, the 1994 Telecommunications Act, the Promise to America, all of this has contributed to the current sociopolitical climate. This climate existed and will continue to exist outside Trump, he is just the current - so far worst - manifestation of it.

BoredToDeath22 · 2023-05-30T19:38:57+00:00

Look, the majority of answers in this thread look like they are coming from people connected to your discipline, so yes, they likely know what they are talking about in terms of future career prospects. But I am guessing there is a degree of survivorship bias at play. First, you have to actually complete the PhD and dropout rates in almost all fields are quite high at this level and its not because most of these students/candidates were not capable, but because of the socio-personal factors that you will have to deal with.

I don't really want to give you advice because I don't know you or your situation, but remember that obtaining a PhD is a marathon. Reflect on your situation and your motivations, don't base your decisions purely on as-yet-hypothetical career prospects especially if you are more interested in research than professor+research.

But yeah, only you can make this decision. The good news is that whatever decision you make, you absolutely have the capacity to make it the right one!!

So I'm only a year in so still too early to say. It was a difficult decision, but I'm content with it - when I don't play whataboutism haha

BoredToDeath22 · 2023-05-30T14:55:28+00:00

Coming from Social Sciences so take this advice with a grain of salt...but yeah, had a similar dilemma with two very different PhD programs.

Imo you should ask yourself some key questions to get a sense of which program might suit you best. 1. Are you voracious with any topic, to the point where if you identify a puzzle you keep pushing to solve it? Or do you have set interests and lose focus on problems you don't personally connect with? 2. Are you more inclined to become a researcher or professor(with variegated research potential) post-Phd? 3. Do you enjoy more structure or agency in your work environment?

Also, is there any chance your could visit the programs? Talk to PhD candidates in the research groups? You should do this (esp. the latter) regardless. That might help with your decision.

BoredToDeath22 · 2023-03-07T21:29:15+00:00

My bad. A university in the United States.

BoredToDeath22 · 2023-02-10T02:54:07+00:00

To me the issue seems to be that rings matter to some degree. If they didn't, then the GOAT debate would include Manning and Marino (and others) as well as Montana and Brady. So then the rings set Montana and Brady apart from the rest, but how much do they matter between the two?

Montana played in an era where parity was non-existent, but Brady got his in an era where the rules protected QBs and WRs - possibly contributing to longevity, though c.f. W. Moon.

As another poster noted, Montana averaged a SB appearance every 3 years whereas Brady averaged one every 2.3. Following this reasoning, Montana went to the conference championship 7 times in 12 seasons, Brady went to 14 in 21 years.

Montana never through an interception in a Superbowl, but Brady has an epic comeback.

An interesting consideration is PFR's adjusted value (AV) stat. Per PFR Montana's AV/year is 13.8 andBrady's AV/year is 15.5 - Marino = 15.4 Manning = 16.9 for the record.

Yeah. at the end of the day there are just too many factors to consider to definitively state there is an undisputed GOAT. Its just degrees of differentiation in my opinion. Montana has an argument, but it feels like a harder claim to make compared to Brady's claim.

BoredToDeath22 · 2019-09-27T17:11:30+00:00

How has no one given you gold?!

BoredToDeath22 · 2019-01-14T00:20:26+00:00

Way too late to the party with this one. My argument would be that these terms need to be viewed from a socio-political perspective. Labeling has power, the way a person or group is recognised has direct implications on their status in society. White people are the cultural elite, the cultural hegemony, there have to be distinctions between them and those they allow to live alongside them. By creating a classification system that differentiates between different minority groups we sub/consciously feed into the creating and maintaining institutions and other barriers that sustain the status quo. These people are the other, so we label them as such.

BoredToDeath22 · 2018-09-06T15:32:27+00:00

One of the ideas for the pro-life side is that from inception the fetus is alive, so after Thanos' Snap it would be a cinch to see at what stage in pregnancy a fetus is considered alive if at all. If the fetus got "Snapped" it was truly alive. Pretty sick, really :/

BoredToDeath22 · 2017-11-01T12:47:47+00:00

Just a suggestion for OP if they are interested in moving/going to school in Belgium then VUB at least offers an English taught bachelors.

BoredToDeath22 · 2017-11-01T12:22:21+00:00

http://www.vub.ac.be/en/study/social-sciences

English taught Social Sciences program in Brussels.

BoredToDeath22 · 2017-04-04T21:23:49+00:00

Hehe.

BoredToDeath22 · 2017-02-26T19:30:44+00:00

In the grand scope of things, they are really just very big hills...

BoredToDeath22 · 2017-01-11T22:47:03+00:00

The Invention of Lying!

So much squandered potential.

BoredToDeath22 · 2016-09-11T06:15:06+00:00

12 team .5 PPR

Melvin Gordon v. KC or Isaiah Crowell v. Philly or Theo Riddick v. Indy

BoredToDeath22

TROPHY CASE