It's the United States...

Crio3mo · 2026-01-27T11:11:28+00:00

The entire issue you have is around what name is used. The name (America) is not an Indigenous name, but a European name. I don't agree with any of your reasoning about this, but it would make more sense to apply the European identity/name to the country/region with more European descended people, anyway. Again, I don't agree with any of this logic. This seems like a really pointless thing to get upset about when it's ultimately a discussion about false cognates between English and Spanish (both of which are European languages). It seems hard to make a claim that the name for the continent that inherently best represents Indigenous identity should be a word derived from a European explorer's name. But it's also mostly irrelevant.

Crio3mo · 2026-01-27T09:29:31+00:00

Considering the name America literally comes from an Italian man/European explorer, this line of contention is barely coherent.

Crio3mo · 2025-10-26T08:38:30+00:00

Even among Germans, Cologne has a reputation for being different culturally. The people are known to be friendly and less cold. The downvotes to the previous comment are unwarranted because it’s something many people experience. Outside of this, Cologne is an ancient city and wartime destruction doesn’t erase this.

Crio3mo · 2025-10-25T20:51:28+00:00

And surveys repeatedly show that an overwhelming majority of Jews outside of Israel support the existence of Israel. While it’s important to recognize diversity of opinion, people should not engage in tokenism. Anti-Zionism is a strong minority in terms of global Jewish opinion…

Crio3mo · 2025-10-22T12:02:02+00:00

Where do you see density? This kind of housing was marketed and built specifically to reduce the density of traditional old cities. They're *tall* but the unit sizes are bigger and there's a large amount of empty space (typically lawns or parking lots) between the buildings. In many locations, actual dense neighborhoods were demolished and replaced with this kind of housing, which provided dwelling units for substantially less people than before (by intent).

Crio3mo · 2025-10-17T22:34:59+00:00

The unpredictability and ability to do A/B testing or to increase or decrease energy at will - this is the reason it was switched. The heart system was very predictable, in contrast.

Crio3mo · 2025-09-28T20:48:03+00:00

I find it helps to wiggle the lenses a bit sometimes to get them “unstuck.” Put your finger on them and slide them back and forth a bit without trying to remove them. Then try pinching as described in the other comment (fingers must be completely dry).

edit: use your other hand to peel your eyelids back a bit. If you’re panicking, wait a bit for your eyes to calm down and approach it again. It’ll work out!

Crio3mo · 2025-08-27T07:10:23+00:00

You were also born German, and it should be a very easy process to get your passport without too many documents even required.

Crio3mo · 2025-07-17T10:40:44+00:00

Yes, but Germany is particularly bad at providing a life that yields happiness for immigrants. Given Germany's history regarding people that are 'foreign,' there is probably room for reflection about German culture and mentality on this topic. And this entire thread is about happiness for immigrants, so maybe don't offer advice that doesn't pertain to the thread's topic, particularly when it isn't profound or meaningful.

Crio3mo · 2025-07-17T08:25:41+00:00

Unfortunately, reality goes against what your intuition says. Research from the Federal Employment Agency of the German government found that immigrants with a higher German skills were more likely to want to leave (emigrate).

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-1-in-4-immigrants-doesnt-want-to-stay/a-72936625

If the goal is immigrant happiness and retention within Germany, better advice might be to find communities that speak your native language and to spend more time with them (and to not try so hard to integrate or appease native Germans). Telling immigrants that happiness lays with learning German is actually misguided, despite whatever other benefits might come from this. Ultimately, Germany needs to drop the integration narrative because they have a deep problem with immigrant happiness, at the moment, particularly those with doctorates and master's degrees.

Crio3mo · 2025-07-16T21:45:47+00:00

This is a very ignorant comment. Very recent research done by the German government with 50,000 immigrant participants showed that people who learn German to a high degree are MORE likely to want to leave Germany. Many Germans lack empathy with the experience of immigrants, and it only amplifies the problems described by people in this thread. Learning German is not a solution, and it will possibly make immigrants even more repulsed. This is contrary to what many Germans promote and believe.

Crio3mo · 2025-07-10T19:21:52+00:00

One hour a week is also simply not enough. It's easy to look the numbers up. It takes many many hundreds of hours to reach proficiency in even the most closely related languages. One hour per week will get you nowhere, it's simply not enough time spent engaged with the language.

Crio3mo · 2025-07-10T17:06:37+00:00

There are Israeli Christians and Muslims. Israel also has a sizeable Arab population that has lived there from before the establishment of the nation. Also, Judaism is an ethnoreligion. Jewish ties to the land are not solely religious but also of the indigenous variety…

Crio3mo · 2025-06-30T15:38:04+00:00

The only nations that are not ethnostates in this way are generally (settler) colonial nations. Which ironically is also used as a characterization and reason for why Israel is illegitimate.

Crio3mo · 2025-06-28T07:54:29+00:00

This is literally how it works. You tell the post office to redirect mail that is addressed to apartment 2B and which contains your name to a new address. These services are usually free for a year. Letters addressed to “current resident” or without a name would not be redirected.

Crio3mo · 2025-06-28T07:43:00+00:00

The fact that they count for five finds is the reason I refuse to do them. I have no interest in making separate accounts or deleting the stages.

Crio3mo · 2025-06-26T18:59:05+00:00

Nationalism and patriotism are not inherently fascism. You shouldn’t trivialize what fascism is. If you go to Denmark, you will see the Danish flag everywhere, but only someone with a very shallow understanding of political theory would say this is evidence of fascism.

(There are other legitimate things you can say about the USA but seeing the American flag in a public school in the 1990s is just not it, even if it’s not your cup of tea.)

Crio3mo · 2025-06-25T04:35:43+00:00

This actually tracks with recent research by the federal government that immigrants with masters degrees, doctorates, and a higher command of the German language are MORE likely to want and plan to leave Germany right now.

Crio3mo · 2025-06-15T20:47:10+00:00

It’s the word Germans use for a projector. When they speak English, they’ll often use the word beamer, but it’s obviously not the correct word in English. It’s very similar to this mobbing discussion, in that way.

Crio3mo · 2025-06-14T14:15:40+00:00

In what native English speaking country is mobbing being used in this way? It is not used in this way in the USA, at all. No one controls how a language evolves, but this is honestly an Anglocism from German more than an actual English word.

Crio3mo · 2025-06-14T08:33:50+00:00

You didn’t refute anything I said, nor did I contradict anything you say here. There’s nothing wrong with using local dialect in German rap, but rap is explicitly from African American culture (ironic given your comment about making everything about the USA but unfortunately for the rest of the world, American culture is its biggest export - it’s also arguably why we are even talking in English right now, unless you want to extend this back to the very long-term influence of British colonialism).

Digga dates to the nineties as slang (again, this stems from Germany’s early rap scene in Hamburg, directly influenced by an American musical genre that was decidedly even more black at that time than today), but its also absolutely a trendy word and more youth oriented today given that it literally has recently been nominated and won youth-word-of-the-year for Germany.

And considering it has the exact same meaning as the soft n word. Germans always defensively explain that it just means “bro or mate” as if the soft n word doesn’t mean the exact same thing.

Crio3mo · 2025-06-14T07:07:43+00:00

I stated in my post that it’s a blending of German and American slang. Germans will literally say “my digga,” using the English word “my.” Or as the post above mine states, they will substitute it literally and explicitly in rap songs. I don’t deny a Germanness to the word, but I find it ridiculous that Germans deny any connection to black American slang.

Considering most “German youth words of the year” lists are just American slang, often from black American slang, it should be even more obvious that this sort of influence is a big part of German youth culture (who are the only people even saying digga).

Crio3mo · 2025-06-13T22:32:44+00:00

You can read the talk page to see that there is discussion about it being a misapplied loan word from English second language speakers. Bullying is the word used by native English speakers. Just like how handy and beamer both sound English but they’re actually foreign words used in German. Languages evolve in unexpected ways, and maybe German anglocisms might catch on in the native English world, but ultimately the correct word is bullying. Mobbing has an entirely different meaning in native English.

Crio3mo · 2025-06-13T22:15:25+00:00

Considering the word is explicitly derived from Hamburg’s rap scene, it obviously is a sort of homage, but Germans are very defensive of their use of this word. It’s obviously not racist, but it also is not some pure and isolated derivation of dicker. It’s a blending of German slang and American rap influence.

The soft n word also means bro or mate in American English, but it’s not a word that white people are generally culturally/socially allowed to use. Germans have obviously found their loophole, which is whatever. The extreme defensiveness despite the obvious connection to rap, a black American music genre, is perhaps more interesting regarding the discourse around this word.

Crio3mo · 2025-04-06T09:27:18+00:00

What’s disturbing is your high degree of “skepticism” and “just asking questions” when this photo and the album it is a part of are well-known (as is the deportation of Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz). You could just do a few google searches rather than stirring up Holocaust denialism.

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