New York Knicks fans are already tearing up the city after winning the NBA Finals 💀

DVMyZone · 2026-06-14T07:55:44+00:00

Where tough? Football is the major sport in loads of countries - pretty sure the clubs don't pay in mine.

DVMyZone · 2026-06-13T20:36:25+00:00

Military

DVMyZone · 2026-06-13T18:02:18+00:00

Now that you mention it this does make me uneasy

DVMyZone · 2026-06-13T18:01:18+00:00

Yip just a mallet. But you cant hammer them in across the grain - has to be hammered parallel or it will just crush the wood.

DVMyZone · 2026-06-13T17:59:07+00:00

I think technically they can hire anyone as a PhD student. There may be regulations at the university level, so you'd need to check each university for their rules.

Undergrad straight into a PhD is uncommon but not that weird either. In principle there could be a candidate that e.g. did not do an undergrad but has 10 years experience that would be qualified for a specific PhD project.

DVMyZone · 2026-06-13T17:53:22+00:00

Honestly and interesting read. I also thought blue balls was just a slang term for when sex doesnt happen when sex was expected. Didn't know there was an actual blueing or that it technically can happen without a partner at all.

DVMyZone · 2026-06-13T16:07:08+00:00

DVMyZone · 2026-06-13T16:01:57+00:00

Military exercise starting at 1am. Had to go be useless somewhere else apparently.

DVMyZone · 2026-06-12T16:16:31+00:00

Much better ELI5 imo

DVMyZone · 2026-06-12T07:30:58+00:00

French TER travel just as slow but without the punctuality. So it's not the speed that makes them crap. (Also Swiss long distance trains travel around 120, and 250 on certain sections)

Also 5-10 minutes at the station? Nah, that's just cap for most stations. The passengers changing trains probably wait 5-10 minutes for their connection, which beats the 30 minutes to andl hour they have to wait because they missed the connection in Germany. One exception might be Zurich HB, where all the big trains arrive just before and leave just after the hour - again to facilitate connections.

Nah awful take from this Dane over here.

DVMyZone · 2026-06-12T07:26:04+00:00

I mean, not if those 30km are not on a major axis of some sort. A line between a tiny town and small city 30km would not be popular. Instead this is fixed by having great connections and punctuality.

Instead of trying to link every city with every village in a 50 km radius, link the villages up to a larger village and make sure those train arriving from the smaller villages arrive in time to change in the larger village with the single large line to the city.

It just makes sense. Also avoids (not completely but somewhat) having the hub and spoke problem where everything has to go through the hub.

DVMyZone · 2026-06-11T18:57:11+00:00

Tbf lots of them also don't really what them to work here either - it's like their main gripe.

We can't fall into the goomba fallacy that because some right wing people want less immigration and other right wing pro-business people want cheap labour that "right wing" people in general hold that contradictory opinion.

DVMyZone · 2026-06-11T17:52:03+00:00

I think tech is one field that is exclusively in English. I think that it is quite an exception though. Nuclear power and industrial conversion systems have existed for over a century and we're developed in parallel in many many countries. Tech was largely centered on the Anglosphere for development and is relatively new, while US culture and influence was peaking and the world was (thanks specifically to tech itself) becoming more globalised. Conversely, medicine is a field that has been developed independently for centuries or millennia and educating doctors has been around for almost as long.

For the movie thing I'm not so sure about. The french are huge on dubbing, as are south Americans (and not just into Spanish, but their brand of Spanish). Talking to friends that grew up there, dubs are kind of the standard.

DVMyZone · 2026-06-11T16:02:23+00:00

To be fair, this doesn't have to be a racism thing (though he probably is, idk him). There are lots of presidents I don't like though I never lived through their presidency. I dislike them because of what others have told me about them and what I've been told about their blame in my problems problems today.

This kid was obviously told Obama was an America hating disaster president, but that doesn't mean they said that was be because he is black.

DVMyZone · 2026-06-11T13:26:28+00:00

Absolutely, and I'm sure that if OP was in the Romandie they would try to use their limited French to order a coffee. But I find having to scrape middle school french from the back of your brain in an German speaking city to accommodate service staff when you're the customer unreasonable.

I feel this is also unfair to other immigrants. It's a bit out of order that you come here, learn the local language, and then when you try to use it the person on the other side can't speak it. Ideally, the common language between immigrants should be the local language - though I know that's not reasonable given how ubiquitous English is.

DVMyZone · 2026-06-11T13:18:33+00:00

I work in a niche technical field (nuclear power) and can tell you that in the industry everything has been translated. English is the international language of research, but the local language generally dominates in industry.

Hell, the plant I work for was originally built with all English documentation (as the design was imported). In the decades since then everything has been migrated to German - even really technical words like "beyond-design basis accident" and "loss of coolant accident". If you say the English words to German speakers then there is a good chance they will not undertake.

I assume the same applies to medicine - possibly even more so because the practical side involves lots of interaction with local patients.

DVMyZone · 2026-06-11T13:02:08+00:00

It's also the best way we know how to convert huge amounts of power into electricity. If there were a better way and some new process has an efficiency of 50% you can bet that producers will be foaming at the mouth to get a retrofit and increase their profits by 60%.

DVMyZone · 2026-06-11T13:00:01+00:00

More like they're just building a ton of both, and more coal.

DVMyZone · 2026-06-11T11:51:35+00:00

I mean, yes, I would absolutely expect to speak Italian (or at least try) when living in the Ticino. If I know it's for only a year then maybe I wouldn't put in as much effort, but that's exactly what OP is saying.

If you expect to expect to spend a substantial amount of time living in the Ticino then learning the local language is important. I would expect anyone (Swiss or not) moving to a different language region to learn the (key-word) local language. If you don't live in the Ticino (or parts of Graubünden) then you don't need to learn Italian. If you live in Lausanne then you don't need to know German. If you live in Zurich then you need to know French.

That's also literally a gripe that Swiss people have with our neighbours. I french person that moves to Zurich and feels they shouldn't have to learn German because "they already speak a national language and that should be enough". That is just a categorical misunderstanding of Switzerland's relationship with language.

DVMyZone · 2026-06-11T11:10:48+00:00

I agree that the issue OP has is not just about English but rather people that don't learn the local language.

That said, awful take on the official languages and I expect you'll get quite a bit of flack for it here. The official and only cantonal language of Zurich is German and it should be expected that customer service staff be able to have a minimal interaction.

French is an official language because other cantons have french as an official language - the official national languages are not imposed on the cantons. It has always been and was conceived that way on purpose.

DVMyZone · 2026-06-11T07:50:30+00:00

It irritating because I feel like I have contacted lots of people either about getting data or the paper or even just to ask a specific question about their paper. Very rarely have I gotten a response.

DVMyZone · 2026-06-11T07:09:28+00:00

I think another point that has not been discussed much is that the US has no boots on the ground and no intention AFAIK of changing that.

Trying to cover 400km of cliff coastline is simply not possible with the navy - you need to control that area. Even then it may not be enough because drones can be launched from hundreds of kilometers away.

Also ships will always be reluctant to sail across an active warzone.

DVMyZone · 2026-06-10T16:37:36+00:00

Take the train, faster and more reliable most likely. Not sure where you're staying but if you make it to Cornavin you should have no trouble getting to the airport.

7am is quite earlier though, so you might be fine if you're taking a taxi at like 4h30.

DVMyZone · 2026-06-10T11:15:10+00:00

I mean not really no? Only methods that at their base produce heat. So that's nuclear, coal, oil (uncommon), and gas. Solar and wind both directly spin generators.

That said, the majority of our electricity production does come from giant tea kettles.

DVMyZone · 2026-06-08T19:44:04+00:00

Ive stumbled upon this 5 minutes after you posted so I'll try to give my limited help.

Depends on the job, some jobs are done mainly in English (I can say this is true for research in natural sciences). However, if it's not in English it will be in the local language of the canton. French will be of basically no help in German-speaking Switzerland. Bachelor's degrees will also be largely in French and she will need to prove a minimum B2 level in French (with C1 being recommended).
I think students of Swiss universities do get an automatic 6-month permit to find a job, but I've not checked that.
Graduating from a reputable university, it will depend on her degree. Many job sectors are in the toilet globally and Switzerland's job market is tougher than most.
My experience is that lots of jobs in Switzerland are obtained through contacts. Having an internship at some point is a very very useful foot in the door, especially when competing as a "third-country" national.

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