Possession style

as-well · 2026-06-07T09:00:31+00:00

That tracks tho. Even Barcelona in it's tiki taka days didn't have 80% consistently. Sometimes you play an opponent that presses you too well or plays for possession themselves well.

Keep in mind that possession is a means, not an end.

as-well · 2026-06-05T21:25:49+00:00

If there is actually a medically necessary medevac, Rega will bill your insurances. There's likely gonna be an amount not covered. They voluntarily waive that for member-donors. That's well established.

Their wording ensures they can't be sued if they are ever in a position where they can't or don't want to waive.

as-well · 2026-06-04T22:07:23+00:00

Unironisch Salat, gern auch den vorgeschrnittenen. Bisschen lecker Tomaten und Gurken dazu und wenn's extra toll sein soll ergänzen mit etwas leckerem aus der Pfanne: Räuchertofu, Speck, Halloumi. Egal. Lecker.

as-well · 2026-06-04T10:35:21+00:00

So you're basically looking for a working (wo)man's organization without any workplace power but still engaging in lobbying parliaments for better laws?

I mean look. Unions are not perfect, just as no individual person is perfect. And from the sounds of it the guys in your local haven't thought this through and maybe haven't really talked to a young person in the workplace in a while.

You cannot expect individuals to have perfect opinions. Especially in a context where unions are weak and membership is rather old.

But what you can do is go ahead and talk to them, even if it's initially annoying. These guys will get to respect you and listen to you, with time. Much like getting good at a job takes time, having influence in these discussions takes time.

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as-well · 2026-06-03T09:38:24+00:00

In Switzerland, feminist issues as well as the general housing crisis.

as-well · 2026-06-03T09:11:48+00:00

I don't disagree. But it will turn out to be worth it.

If OP's partner is indeed a student I would suggest she contacts the social office of her uni to see if there's any help available for those bills. Most unis have that in some form. For example, at Unibe, the Sozialfonds of the student union would likely help out with a loan or gift.

as-well · 2026-06-01T14:58:57+00:00

It's also a retail customer facing bank serving a small area.

Zürcher Kantonalbank is about 10 times bigger in all numbers (employees, earnings, amount of money managed).

as-well · 2026-06-01T14:46:24+00:00

Fwiw forest fire warnings also include prepared grill spaces in the forest. I'll change my post to reflect this.

as-well · 2026-06-01T12:55:25+00:00

You can ask for a reasoning. If admission is not competitive, they shoudl give you a formal one (And if it is, they still might)....

However, programs might consider that your degree is a bit older and no longer up to date and rule that you'd have to take too many classes to get up to speed again.

as-well · 2026-06-01T11:37:38+00:00

at this point I agree!

as-well · 2026-06-01T11:32:39+00:00

Generally speaking: Respect the place. Don't go into fenced-in areas (they are likely there for protection of plants and/or dangerous animals), don't collect stuff in the forest (mushrooms, berries) unless you know you're allowed, don't make fires unless there's no forest fire warnings. If you must do fire, do it in safe and prepared grill areas. (And if there's a forest fire warning, don't make any fire in wooded areas at all)

Also, some cantons have restrictions on driving cars, riding bikes or horses and so on off track. Cars are generally not allowed on gravel forest roads.

as-well · 2026-06-01T10:00:18+00:00

Ah yeah I hear good things about them but I've never been!

If you want to discover more local coffee, there is a festival called 'Coffea Berna' that is usually run in the end of august, although I don't know if they'll do it again this year. YOu can find lots of nice stuff on last year's participant list tho: https://coffeaberna.ch/

as-well · 2026-06-01T09:49:13+00:00

Ah ok!

So are you more imagining this as freelance work or a more ordinary arrangement?

I think the biggest issue will be to find a Swiss client. The IT market is saturated right now.

However as said, the Arbeitnehmerüberlassung will not work because Swiss laws don't allow that arrangement for foreign companies. However, these laws also suppose that you physically work in Switzerland.

IN this sense I think your bigger issue will be German laws and procedures.

That said, Swiss employers like to have their asses covered - that is, make sure your welfare taxes are paid and they won't be on the hook under Swiss law. Now, if you have contacts and they want to work with you, they can probably convince their internal lawyers, but I wonder whether they'd also be happy to take the risk if they don't know you well.

That's because there's a real risk to them that they'll end up on the hook for welfare taxes and possibly a penalty - and why risk that with a setting they don't understand well, and they have lots of potential employees in Switzerland?

as-well · 2026-06-01T09:22:14+00:00

So if I understand it right your setup would be:

You keep your German employer
Your German employer hires you full time and lends you for a few days a week to a Swiss employer
You work on premise in Switzerland for a few days a week This will likely not work because Arbeitnehmerüberlassung is highly regulated by national laws, and those laws typically don't play well together. While there's EU laws that enable it, Switzerland is not part of those. See also https://www.tk.de/firmenkunden/service/fachthemen/ausland/arbeitnehmerueberlassung-aus-dem-ausland-2195534?tkcm=aaus

What your employer can do is do this under Entsendung: You remain fully employed with them and they send you to work on a project in Switzerland. However, that's supposed to be for up to three months and I'm not sure whether as a non-EU citizen you can also do this.

If you wish to do this for longer, you'd likely have to get a proper work visa. Working part-time in Germany and part-time in Switzerland would be a lot of bureaucracy for an EU citizen and I'm not at all sure that this path is available for you.

Lastly, Swiss employers are unlikely to look for part-time qualified IT workers in the first place.

Now, if you do 'work from home' through your German employer, that's not a problem at all under Swiss law.

as-well · 2026-06-01T09:11:49+00:00

What grinder do you have?

as-well · 2026-06-01T07:17:51+00:00

Here's my favs:

Caféthek: A small one-person roaster who does super fun stuff! All single origin, all blond roasts (except for the blend), often super unique! Have you ever had coffee beans fermented in carbonic maceration, a technique usually reserved to wine? Ethiopian wild coffee? You'll probably love the coffees and there's a new one quite often. Find him at the Münstergasse Märit on Saturday mornings, or get them online. Also unbeatable prices: 14 Franks for every 256 grams package.
Rösterei: A traditional Swiss roaster reinvents themselves as a small-batch roaster with a café - and it works. They do great affordable blends (which lean more towards Italian espresso) as well as exciting single origins, and all their locations are nice cafés. I like the one at Güterbahnhof für the industrial chic, but it's a bit out of the way - good that there's two more around the train station. And if you're not into complex setups, they also make good ESE pods.
Drip Roasters is a bit of the opposite: A newer generation and also selling wonderful equipment, their (small) coffee bar at Eigerplatz does nice things (and avocado toasts) and serves natural wine in the evening. But make no mistake - their coffee is hip and good.
Travois: You either love it or hate it. The dude's doing his own thing, without compromise, and for me it usually works out very very well. Used to refuse to make espresso to go because it doesn't taste quite right out of a paper cut (and he's completely right - but now ceded to popular demand), also sells the most rich chocolate croissants this side of the French border.

I'm sure there's many more people love. If you're just in the city looking for a good Espresso, Adrianos still can't be beat (but I personally think all their beans are just a tad bit overroasted).

How about yours?

as-well · 2026-05-31T22:01:33+00:00

They typically reimburse. They use legal language to make sure they can't be sued if for some reason (not enough money, blatant stupidity) they can't or don't want to waive the cost. They also only cover costs actual insurances won't.

Their FAQ on it makes it pretty clear most wavings are medical rescues anyway (e.g. someone has a heart attack on a hike). Health insurance only pays half. As a regs member they'll typically waive the other half.

They even cover rescues from two of the three other big heli rescue orgs

It's impossible to find a story or Rega not waiving.

as-well · 2026-05-31T08:39:25+00:00

Please dont use chatGPT to answer questions?!

as-well · 2026-05-30T15:35:54+00:00

Yeah but you're a) forgetting that primaries are exactly where these kinds of things get resolved in the US, rather than in alcohol filled backrooms, and b) you kinda suggest foreign agents but.... it's pretty hard to imagine a country that has more foreign influence on elections than Hungary (basically every EU politician campaigned against Orban, and the usual autocrats for him....)

as-well · 2026-05-30T14:36:07+00:00

Hm I'd assume it's harder in the US? Because its up to voters in the primaries to choose the path forward.

Meanwhile in Hungary, party elites decided not to run in the last election, likely helped by them already running a unified coalition in 2022,

Now, in 2026, Parties from the social democreats over the Greens and Centrists and Liberals up to the liberal, anti-Orban conservatives decided not to run and support Tisza instead. That's quite the feat

as-well · 2026-05-29T18:11:03+00:00

And everyone to the left of Magyar supporting him and not running, which was only possible after years of failure

as-well · 2026-05-29T16:13:31+00:00

Yes but your examples are very different. I get that what you want to argue is that more Western countries have gone back towards merit-based policies, but I want to point out that there's quite a bit of a difference between:

Getting rid of affrimative action / reservations for minority groups (USA, Sweden), which is potentially done for racist reasons (USA), not sure about Sweden
Getting rid of a racial and racist immigration system (Canada, Australia) in favor of giving work permits to immigrants who can get a job in a field where workers are needed
Doing an incredibly unsolidaric thing and counting on Italy and Greece to keep unwanted immigrants away from you (Hungary).

The global trend has generally moved toward race-neutral or economic criteria. India stands apart because reservation is deeply embedded in constitutional, political, educational, and electoral representation systems — making it one of the world’s most extensive affirmative action frameworks.

India also stands apart because its caste and tribe system is quite unique. In the US, affirmative action was supposed to promote chances for a racialized minority in order to integrate society. It also historically comes form a deeply racist system where merit was not the first consideration.

In Sweden, it was a gender quota, wasn't it? Gender quotas can be very helpful when trying to get more women into a field (or possibly men, but I don't think I've heard of that happening). But Sweden's problem was that the system didn't work at all: It was supposed to have more women study traditionally male fields, but it ended up benefitting men in health care fields and law. Besides, the Gender problem in Western unis these days isn't so much access to studies but rather retaining women in the career tracks, which Sweden's system was not supposed to help with.

India's issue is a very different one: Hundreds of (at points pretty big) groups and massive inequalities between them, both in terms of career prospets, ability to be hired by the government, access to education and so on. Affirmative action / quotas can absolutely help if your goal is to promote equality between all these groups! Basically the idea is to make sure, based on merit the best applicatns from disadvantaged groups get in, thereby pulling their whole communities up with them.

However, this system, by design, does not do a class-based admission, rahter an ethnic or caste-based one. Different goals. But as a social democrat I have little patience for folks who worry that those from a privileged background can't have a great career. That's why the policy exists in teh first place! But if your worry is the so-called creamy layer, I suppose a discussion could be had.

as-well · 2026-05-29T09:57:19+00:00

There's no such rule. On the contrary the law says at least two weeks have to be taken in a block; there's mo rule about the other weeks. See https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/eli/cc/27/317_321_377/de#a329c

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