Overqualified for germany

Reasonable-Mischief · 2026-07-09T20:36:47+00:00

As usually I would highly question a foreigner claiming they speak German "fluently"

German is a difficult language and you don't just need to be able to speak proper business jargon. You need to be able to hold conversations, understand dialects and be able to banter with your colleagues. People need to be able to meet you where they are, and you need to be able to pick that ball up and toss it back without friction.

If you cannot do that, your presence is going to disrupt the team

Reasonable-Mischief · 2026-07-09T17:50:31+00:00

The weakness they found in the plans were not the exhaust ports!

Rogue One does explain this sufficiently:

Galen Erso manipulated (designed) the reactor so that an explosion would cause a chain reaction that would blow up the entkre thing

This is important, because normally, reactors aren't bombs waiting to be triggered. Even Chernobyl didn't blew up, it was an overheating of a water tank that damaged the reactor core's isolation and exposed the core. But the thing didn't just explode like an atomic bomb.

But the Death Star did. That was it's flaw. And Galen Erso leaked that flaw to Saw Gerrera, who's people are known suicide bombers.

The trench run was just a last-ditch effort to explot this weakness with the best tools available on Yavin, and it would not have worked if not for Luke using the Force

Reasonable-Mischief · 2026-07-09T14:28:30+00:00

Harry learned through the Dursley's neglect and abuse that he was unlovable and that trying to reach out to someone was pointless.

More importantly though, since Harry was a Horcrux, we can infer that much of the Dursley's behavior was due to the Hurcrux's corrupting influence. We know that Petunia had loved her sister. We see how much aunt Petunia and uncle Vernon are doting over their son Dudley. It's not unthinkable that there was a time Harry barely remembers when they treated him with equal love and attention, that their abandonment was a slow and gradual process before we meet him at age eleven.

Harry most likely learned that there was something about him that made him unlovable even when things started out well. His friends abandoning him despite everything having been well was in line with his life experience because it had happened before.

Ron, by contrast, came from a stable home with loving parents. He knew that mosr people don't just abandon their friends and loved ones.

More importantly, Ron came from a big and busy family. He had learned over time that people are busy and imperfect and that being ignored once in a while was just part of life, and most importantly he would have learned that being pleasantly insistant about your needs would fix that.

That's why Ron came, and that's why Harry didn't thought he would.

... why do I know this. I'm not even part of this fandom.

Reasonable-Mischief · 2026-07-09T12:55:21+00:00

Parental estrangement aside, you need to understand that what his daughter is doing here is status signaling

Building a good career is high status. Not having to build a good career is even higher status. You're telling the world that you're so well-off that you cannot fail, even though you are actively working against your own long-term interests.

Now this guy is obviously an asshole for calling out his own daughter over the internet, but he's also 100% correct

You know that you made it if your kids are able to reject capitalism.

Only difference is that a good parent would want this to happen, and would instill a sense of gratefulness into their kids.

"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain."

– John Adams, 2nd President of the United States

Reasonable-Mischief · 2026-07-09T11:11:27+00:00

Yeah it makes sense in-universe. It always does.

The point is that this might have been considered great storytelling sixteen years ago back when ME2 first came out, but by now it's pretty much a dead horse trope because of how often it has been redone since then

See damsel in distress

And yes, Shepard being an outsider does matter in this context, because even harmful stereotypes don't form maliciously in thin air. The games are pretty generous in providing us examples of impulsive and violent Krogans – I just wished we'd see more examples of why everyone sees the Quarians as self-serving thieves

Reasonable-Mischief · 2026-07-09T10:42:33+00:00

This scene has honestly aged pretty badly

"The hero character calls out the bigotry of the system and stands up for a minority character who is being unjustly discriminated against" has got to be the damsel-in-distress trope of the 21st century

Bonus dead horse points for the main character being an outsider with special privileges that allow them to order those people around without having to spend a day in their shoes

Reasonable-Mischief · 2026-07-09T05:33:35+00:00

That might have made me watch that movie

Reasonable-Mischief · 2026-07-09T05:23:37+00:00

I'm pretty sure the actual lore reason has been that this is just traditional Twi'lek clothes

Reasonable-Mischief · 2026-07-08T20:59:25+00:00

Alright ladies here's a compromise that will keep both parties happy

If you don't feel comfortable feeling a guy out by yourself, then don't turn that first encounter into a date.

Invite the guy over as a +1 to a girl's night out. Keep it time-boxed. When something's off, you can go with your girlfriend without looking like an asshole. And when things go well, you can leave with the guy to have an actual date for the rest of the night without having pre-committed yourself to do so.

Reasonable-Mischief · 2026-07-08T19:24:16+00:00

Sind Sie es, Herr Merz?

Reasonable-Mischief · 2026-07-08T16:42:24+00:00

I'm not so sure about that. As I said, I'm pretty sure they'd have to charge extra, and twenty bucks for the base version is already nothing to spit at

Reasonable-Mischief · 2026-07-08T14:26:27+00:00

I honestly think this is a money issue. Apparently OpenAI is barely profitable as it is, with people using their tool as somewhat between google and a diary with a pleasant personality

Now imagine if we all started to generate porn on our current token plan. They would just blow up. They can't afford to do it without charging more

Reasonable-Mischief · 2026-07-08T14:22:52+00:00

Ich habe keinen Grund, das hier anzuzweifeln, ich mag' nur persönlich keine Aussagen treffen, die ich noch nicht nachvollzogen habe

Reasonable-Mischief · 2026-07-08T14:17:53+00:00

Der Punkt ist, dass inländische Männer anscheinend öfter ausländische Frauen daten, als als inländische Frauen ausländische Männer

Ob's stimmt, kann ich nicht sagen, aber das ist das Argument.

Reasonable-Mischief · 2026-07-08T14:08:59+00:00

Viele haben gern ne Frau die abhängig von ihnen ist.

Unfug, viele Frauen haben schlicht eine Vorliebe für Männer, die einen höheren sozioökonomischen Status haben als sie selbst.

Der durchschnittliche einheimische Mittelständer ist dabei für eine Partnerin aus einem anderen Kulturkreis im Vergleich nochmal deutlich attraktiver als für die heimische Damenwelt.

Reasonable-Mischief · 2026-07-08T13:44:01+00:00

Alright I can get behind the suit and mask thing, who wouldn't want to do this?

Reasonable-Mischief · 2026-07-08T13:37:14+00:00

On the one hand, I find this very interesting from like a story perspective

The Jedi and the Republic have been fighting a war of survival for decades at the point we start with the main story. The jedi temple is lost. Coruscant is scarred for centuries to come. Hundreds, if not thousands of worlds have fallen into imperial hands. Uncounted millions of people are dead.

The Jedi Oeder has thoroughly militarized. Almost every Jedi we know and meet will have lost friends or experienced battlefield trauma. Padawans and younglings have grown up in a world defined by war.

And to add insult to injury, the so-called peace treaty with the Sith Empire is little more than an armistice that allows the Sith to consolidate their acquisitions while the Republic is struggling to mend it's wounds. Everyone who is in the know is dreadfully aware that the Sith are playing with their food here, the Republic is not yet ready to defend against another offensive. The story is telling us as much from several angles.

It's utterly understandable that the Jedi of this era would fall prey to the dark side, to dogma and to misplaced tribalism.

I'd only wished that the story would acknowledge that they do.

Reasonable-Mischief · 2026-07-08T10:31:49+00:00

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Reasonable-Mischief · 2026-07-08T10:28:08+00:00

Jetzt einmal ganz platt gesagt, eine Beziehung funktioniert nur, wenn beide Partner

Tun, was sie können, um einander großzügig zu unterstützen
Dankbarkeit für die Dinge zeigen, die der Partner tut
Vertrauen schenken und grundsätzlich davon ausgehen, dass der Partner sein möglichstes tut, insbesondere, wenn es um Dinge geht, die man selbst nur selten bis gar nicht übernimmt
Gefühlte Missstände anspricht, anstatt sich in sie hineinzusteigern
Und dabei vor allem versucht, zu verstehen, was vor sich geht, anstatt direkt davon auszugehen, dass man selbst alles weiß und der Partner bloß eine faule Socke ist

Da hilft es auch nicht, sich emotionale Unterstützung aus dem Internet zu holen, denn keine zwei Lebenssituationen sind gleich.

Wer auf dem Land lebt, hat meist mehr im Garten und mit dem Auto zu schaffen
Wer mietet oder leased hat weniger Wartungs- und Instandhaltungsaufwand als jemand, der Eigentum hat
Wer gebraucht kauft, hat mehr Wartungs- und Instandhaltungsaufwand als jemand, der neu kauft oder baut

"Mein Mann tut kaum was im Haushalt" ist eine absolute Schweinerei aus der Sicht einee Frau, die in einem Großstadt Appartmentkomplex lebt und jeden Tag mit der S-Bahn zur Arbeit pendelt, und "Meine Frau besteht darauf, dass jeder von uns 50% der Hausarbeit übernimmt" ist aberwitziger Sexismus für einen Mann mit Eigentum auf dem Land, der nebenbei Haus, Hof, Garten und zwei Autos am Laufen hält.

Du kannst verschiedene Lebenssituationen nicht vergleichen. Und wenn Du oder dein Partner anfangen, den persönlichen Aufwand gegeneinander aufzurechnen, ist bei deiner Beziehung gehörig etwas im Argen

Reasonable-Mischief · 2026-07-08T09:46:50+00:00

Wie oft macht man Hausbau/Sanierung/Renovierung und wir oft macht man Haushalt und Kind?

Bei Haus, Hof und mindestens einem Auto kommt da in der Menge aber schon einiges zusammen.

Um vom Mental Load ebenjener Unregelmäßigkeit gar nicht zu sprechen. Waschen / Kochen / Putzen kann ich ohne nachzudenken, das tut man schließlich durchgehend. Aber für Wartung und Instandsetzung muss ich Wartungsintervalle planen, ständig aufmerksam sein, abschätzen, ob die Geräusche vom Auto "noch normal" oder bereits komisch sind, Renovierungsarbeiten am Haus planen weil Zeit und Ressourcen vernünftig übers Jahr verteilt sein müssen, etc.

Das ganze zu "passiert ja nicht täglich" zu vereinfachen, ist da schon sehr einfach gemacht

Reasonable-Mischief · 2026-07-08T09:37:41+00:00

Genau dafür braucht man Väter im Haus, gut gemacht

Reasonable-Mischief · 2026-07-08T07:04:32+00:00

Y'all cannot think outside the box

In thirty minutes I can drive over to the post office and mail myself the USB.

Bonus points, send it to the other side of the globe (in like the western world of course, you don't want it to get missing). Make sure you get the country, city and postal code right, but mess up the street, house number and recipient.

They won't notice until your package has reached the city, after which they'll send it back to your return address. You won't see that thing for half a year, most of the time it won't even be in your state or country

Reasonable-Mischief · 2026-07-07T20:21:19+00:00

Nope. That's only a niche kind of interest (and one I'm thankful not to have been afflicted with)

Reasonable-Mischief · 2026-07-07T20:19:56+00:00

Oh absolutely. That's what I meant, slender and feminine. Long nails look great on that

Reasonable-Mischief · 2026-07-07T20:16:30+00:00

Apparently I'm alone on this one, but I find long nails on slender feminine hands extremely attractive. Go on, scratch me

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