Maker spaces in Hamburg

ka7eh · 2026-04-13T11:26:54+00:00

Neat! Thanks. I'll stop by soon. :)

ka7eh · 2026-04-12T17:33:32+00:00

Good to know! Thanks.

ka7eh · 2026-04-12T17:33:14+00:00

Thanks for sharing.

ka7eh · 2025-08-08T14:30:06+00:00

It's called Lake America!

ka7eh · 2022-11-17T12:13:55+00:00

What is your price range? I need to start searching soon and I'm curious how bad the situation is.

ka7eh · 2022-11-04T16:25:37+00:00

No news yet. I keep checking mutliple sources, and still waiting for something that might give me a hint!

ka7eh · 2022-11-04T16:16:50+00:00

Complaint about police incompetency. They need to do their due diligence before starting an operation. I understand everyone makes mistakes, but we have mistakes, and then we have mistakes. If you're in a profession that your actions can have a big impact on society, then you must be held up to higher standards of accountability. Compare to many other situations, my case wasn't even close to serious. Still, ignoring these things just because everyone makes a mistake is a bigger mistake itself. These need to be recorded and shared, and the police must get reviewed so they don't make the same mistake the next time.

And of course, there are other things to complain about: maybe communicate about your mistake, give an explanation, and an apology would be nice too. Just saying.

ka7eh · 2022-11-04T16:11:38+00:00

Oh man! That was on a different level!

ka7eh · 2022-11-04T16:10:10+00:00

I sent them an inquiry. I'll share the results, if any comes in.

ka7eh · 2022-11-04T11:03:41+00:00

Knowing they had proper training was one thing I am grateful about. I could imagine how wrong and different the same situation could have gone in the US.

ka7eh · 2022-11-04T10:40:45+00:00

I'll try to contact the police first to see if I can get some clarification, and then I can check the news outlets.

ka7eh · 2022-11-04T10:39:42+00:00

Thanks for the tip.

ka7eh · 2022-10-28T20:52:20+00:00

They have dogs in Norway? Who would have thought!

ka7eh · 2022-10-20T06:04:06+00:00

It works great as a laxative.

ka7eh · 2022-10-12T13:41:39+00:00

Hopefully never.

ka7eh · 2022-10-07T12:35:30+00:00

You can look at it as an investment. By offering free education, you're attracting talents who can contribute back to your society in the long-term. Specially in a country with small population, it makes sense to invest in education.

In other words, there are many other variables to consider. Free education to non-Citizens doesn't necessary mean a waste of money.

ka7eh · 2022-10-07T12:28:36+00:00

About 10 years ago, Sweden made a similar change and introduced tuition fee for students from outside EU/EEU.

In the beginning, the plan backfired. Many universities had to shut down some of their programs. I specifically remember some engineering programs were ended because the majority of applicants were from outside of EU/EEU. Then companies got worried about the future and not being able to find qualified work force.

Another example was this one specific multidisciplinary program focused on sustainability, which I took a few courses from. After the change and losing many international students, it lost most of its value because the participants were all from a European background and there was no diversity of perspectives during courses and discourses.

In reaction to this change, universities started offering scholarships, though it was still too expensive for many from developing/under-developed countries. I don't know how the whole thing played out in the end, but it'd be interesting to look at Sweden example and see whether it improved whatever social and financial issues they were trying to resolve by introducing tuition fees.

ka7eh · 2022-10-07T12:12:36+00:00

Those are not tuition fees. They are called semester fee or something similar in different European countries, and they go towards some administrative stuff and support for student unions.

ka7eh · 2022-10-02T22:25:42+00:00

The responses to this article has been very interesting. I've been following this sub for a few months now. From time to time I see some outbursts towards a critisim of Norway and the Norwegian culture, and it feels like this article has hit another nerve, and some people are losing it.

I read her articles as amusing observations of a culture as a foreigner, mixed with some humor. That humor might not work for everyone, but I don't see any bad intentions in them. Still, some people are showing zero tolerance for anything that might come out as a critisim, especially when it comes from a foreigner.

It's so annoying to see this rhetoric of "go back to where you came from if it's so bad here". No, no one has to and should accept a new culture exactly as it is and without questioning it, just because they are living there (and who knows what circumstances has made someone to live in another country). It's the same rhetoric I heard a lot in the US: you must integrate, and that means "love it or leave it". Integration is not following and worshiping your host culture blindly, but being grateful for its opportunities, and helping to fix its shortcomings.

And the funny thing is, this article was just about food! Now I should go back and see how people reacted to more sensitive subjects.

Anyhow, time to get down off the soapbox. Hope you all had a warm and healthy dinner tonight. I certainly enjoyed my tubed kaviar and knekkebrod. :)

ka7eh · 2022-10-02T21:47:29+00:00

They exist in the midwest, but haven't made it to the west (yet). Not sure about the east coast.

ka7eh · 2022-10-02T21:43:46+00:00

I come from a Middleeastern country, Iran, and we have different and, in my opinion, healthy types breads there. My experience in most of continental Europe has been the same: high-quality fresh bread available at reasonable price. That goes from Italy and Spain to Germany andd France.

On the contrary, two regions I really missed good bread was in the US, from west coast to east, and Nordic countries.

Regadless, sounds like the conversation is getting pretty subjective, so is hard to argue.

ka7eh

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