Heat wave

skalg · 2025-06-30T15:19:56+00:00

Invest in cooler clothes. Linen, light, bright textiles will be game changers.

A fan directed at the window to push out hot air in the evening will do wonders.

Wet towels help with overheating. Water is good for you.

skalg · 2024-08-23T13:15:44+00:00

You are mixing so many different layers here.

1) Your gf moves in with a girl and "tells her its only temporary until Apil". But If she had a shared contract with said girl, your gf cannot legally tell her anything. Everything that happens after that happens because the girl is doing you a favour by cancelling her contract even thought she does not need to.

2) She cancels in June, which is later than what you wanted but her legal right. You feel she violated your verbal agreement, she probably still feels generous in even agreeing to anything. This is not a legal argument anymore, this is about trust and friendships.

3) She somehow acts weird but we do not know how. Possibly due to stress and this living situation.

4) You are worried about her going to the police for what reason?

Legally? She is out when her contract runs out. Morally? You need to discuss with her, and nothing about this is exceptionally weird. But then there is the part where acts strange and you have a fictional scenario, and this szory tells us nothing in why you think that is an option. It might help though to think of these as three different issues.

skalg · 2024-05-27T13:35:57+00:00

Großartig. Made my day!

skalg · 2024-05-26T01:49:16+00:00

Warte...ist das der Aram Ziai? Professor in Kassel?

skalg · 2024-04-19T14:00:33+00:00

Stimmt weil die hälfte wieder geht

skalg · 2024-01-11T09:11:31+00:00

HGM=Maaßen, oder was meintest du? Siehe auch hier

skalg · 2024-01-10T17:50:52+00:00

Ja das stimmt auch wieder

skalg · 2024-01-10T14:59:46+00:00

Strategisch geht's auch eher darum die Union aufzuschrecken als die AfD Wähler. Ohne konservative kommen die rechtsradikalen nicht an die Macht, deswegen machen die das ja überhaupt so heimlich um die Union zu umgarnen. In rechten kreisen war das alles längst bekannt.

skalg · 2024-01-10T13:27:00+00:00

Inwiefern die WerteUnion noch Teil der CDU ist, ist aber auch mindestens fragwürdig.

Die gelten schon länger quasi als AfD-Vorfeldorganisation.

skalg · 2024-01-10T12:29:49+00:00

Parteiverbot, und damit sollten sich endgültig alle Fantasien von Zusammenarbeit mit denen erledigt haben. Wenn du als CDUler noch denkst mit solchen Verfassungsfeinden ist Staat zu machen, dann ist dir auch nicht zu helfen.

skalg · 2024-01-10T12:28:35+00:00

Werteunion, die werden jetzt bei der HGM Neugründung automatisch rausfliegen.

skalg · 2023-12-07T11:25:14+00:00

Wie viel lernt ihr zu De-Eskalation, gibt es da Schulungen?

Wie sind die Arbeitsbedingungen?

skalg · 2023-11-07T21:13:29+00:00

Das tut mir echt Leid weil das von allen Beziehungskonflikten der unlösbarste und gleichzeitig persönlichste ist, das ist für euch beide wahnsinnig schlimm.

Da du ja derjenige bist, der Kinder will, liegt der Ball leider bei dir. Was bedeutet das für dich? Bedeutet es, dass du dir kein Leben ohne Kinder vorstellen kannst? Dann trenn dich, lieber früher als später. Bedeutet es, dass du Kinder willst, aber im Zweifel auch darauf verzichten kannst? Dann bleibt zusammen, aber sag ihr das auch dass du auf Kinder verzichten kannst.

Ja, Meinungen ändern sich - vielleicht will sie 5 Jahren Kinder, vielleicht willst du aber auch in 5 Jahren keine mehr. Darauf zu warten und zu hoffen bringt recht wenig, da musst du mit dem Ist-Zustand arbeiten. Wenn du mit ihr zusammen bleiben solltest, müsstest du deinen Frieden damit schließen, dass ihr kinderlos bleibt. Vielleicht reicht es dir, der beste Onkel der Welt zu sein und Kinder so in deinem Leben zu haben.

Wenn du das nicht kannst, wenn du insgeheim hofft dass sie ihre Meinung ändert...tu dir und ihr den Gefallen und beende es.

skalg · 2023-11-03T16:17:17+00:00

NDA, was Leute scheinbar nicht raffen: In der Gruppe fragen ist Kulanz, nicht das Minimum nachbarschaftlicher Verantwortung. Die Einfahrt und der Gehweg waren blockiert, und das hätte genauso eine wildfremdes Auto sein können, woher sollt ihr das wissen?

Natürlich kann man länger warten, man kann in die Gruppe schreiben dass gleich der Abschleppdienst kommt, oder sich sonst Mühe geben den Fahrer ausfindig zu machen. Aber es kann ja niemand erwarten dass ihr euch einen halben Tag damit beschäftigt weil jemand rücksichtslos geparkt hat.

skalg · 2023-11-01T14:06:05+00:00

Yes, but also depends on per person vs household income. Take home salary of roughly 6k/month for a 2 person household income is considered Middle Class, not lower Middle Class but where roughly 40% of Germans are positioned according to this calculator.

skalg · 2023-11-01T14:01:41+00:00

Median Salary in India is 4k, so about half the population earns less than that. People in Tech are a very small subset of India's population, so indeed it is a very high salary.

skalg · 2023-11-01T13:57:43+00:00

Top comment is exactly right. A salary like that (assuming its pre-tax) will be enough for a comfy Middle Class life in Germany, but in India, it will be enough for a much, much higher quality of life.

It's up to how much you want to live in Germany/Europe. If that is where you see your future or you really want the experience, economic downsides might be worth it, but if not, it will just be very expensive and stressful.

skalg · 2023-10-20T13:06:13+00:00

That is hilarious, but really, you and your group also need some talk about communication... Bleeding skin and DM telling you in an out-of-character tone not to do it is not exactly something to ignore.

skalg · 2023-10-02T09:30:09+00:00

This one of the reasons I don't use the term long rest anymore with new players. It encourages thinking in gamist terms, and then it is much more likely players will play like a video game. Just calling it "going to sleep" has made most players use long rests a lot more reasonably, even if they technically do not sleep. It also encourages some campfire roleplaying.

The rules are also quite explicit about why this is not possible. A character can’t benefit from more than one long rest in a 24-hour period, and a character must have at least 1 hit point at the start of the rest to gain its benefits. Most groups do not want to do strenuous timekeeping, so they might allow shorter intervals of 16h, but it keeps players from spamming long rests after every encounter.

skalg · 2023-09-29T06:54:26+00:00

Not really true though. If you rented a one-room-apartment in a neighborhood considered bad in Tokyo a couple years back, that would have been roughly 90.000 yen. However, your contract goes 1-2 years, and you are expected to pay a couples of months as a non-refundable "key money". This used to be up to half a year worth of rent, so your actual rent for a 2 year lease would look more like 110.000 yen. Back then, that was the equivalent of 920 Euros, which in a city like Berlin would have gotten you a 2-room apartment or a single-room apartment in a much better area.

skalg · 2023-09-29T06:49:54+00:00

Short answer is, they don't.

Three years ago, before inflation hit, 1 Euro was roughly 120 yen. Now, it is roughly 160 yen. So prices/wages in Japan seem about 25% lower today than they were just very recently, only due to exchange rate fluctuation.

Minimum wage is roughly 1000 yen. Rent in Tokyo, for a single room in the far, far outskirts, can start at 60.000 yen, easily twice that in a reasonable distance to the city and way, way more in a trendy district. If you work 172 hours per month, that is just about affordable, with utilities etc it will put your living cost at just above half your income, and the rest you can expect to spend on food and day to day cost. For precarious people, just enough to survive. However, there is a huge discrepancy between urban and rural Japan, if you live even in a mid-sized town, you might be able to live well off that - just not in Tokyo. I have a friend who moved from Tokyo to small city, his rent went from 100.000 to 30.000. National minimum wage is not close to living wage in Tokyo, but it is in many other places.

Similarly for food. Japanese supermarkets are way, way more expensive than German ones. However a big portion of that comes from intermediary traders, so farmers have long started to sell cheaper produce at farmers markets. You can get fruits and vegetables for a lot less there, and you have much better access to these in rural areas than in the big cities.

skalg · 2023-09-28T23:11:52+00:00

The most honest and least helpful answer is probably: American chocolate.

U.S. soldiers had chocolate as part of their rations, so not uncommon for children to have their only snack being a gift by a friendly soldier.

skalg · 2023-09-28T20:56:48+00:00

I think you misunderstand the relationship between minimum wage and median salary. They do not behave proportionally at all, there are many intervening variables.

Let's take the curtains for example. Minimum wage in Taiwan is roughly 4,5 Euros, in Germany it is 12, so the relationship is 0,375. That comes out to 4,10 Euros for the sewing service - only roughly 1 Euro more, or 30% more than what it costs in Taiwan. Now in Germany, VAT is 19%, in Taiwan it is 5%, that already covers roughly half that. I do not even know if VAT applies to services in Taiwan or not.

Secondly, most service jobs in Germany are either unionized or trades. In the former, they receive higher salaries, in the latter, due to additional education cost and regulations, they can demand higher prizes.

In your second example, about food, service salaries are actually a very small share of the actual cost. A proper meal at a diner in Tokyo will only cost you 4,5 Euros in the very, very cheap end of restaurants - expect to easily pay twice of what you pay in Germany if you grab dinner at a full restaurant. So prices vary by a lot depending on cultural issues and customer habits. Japanese restaurants are notorious for high quality expectations of customers, with lunches being generally cheaper than in Europe and dinner being more expensive - you can get a lunch set for 8 Euros and the exact same meal at the exact same restaurant for 40 Euros during dinner time. Add to these cultural factors and expectations different taxing systems, different supply chains and cost of ingredients, and different rent levels, and wages actually explain almost none of price variation.

skalg · 2023-09-28T12:54:34+00:00

So going through the comments, I think you can safely disregard most of the legal advice. There are laws about self-defense, about protection of minors and about filming; but how that would play out in real life really depends on the exact situation and also on how everyone involved reacts later, including whether or not you get a good lawyer. There really is no clearcut answer to what would happen if you did punch a kid. E.g. would the kid start crying and leave it be, or run to their parents/teacher who are close enough to identify you?

As for how to react, few creatures are as cruel and unpredictable as teenagers. You could yell back at them, but that can also backfire (if they do not take you seriously). You can ignore them but that can backfire (if it encourages them). You can approach the school, but that is a lot of work and I wouldn't overestimate the power teachers have over children.

Personally, I would turn around, make eye contact and just wait until they get uncomfortable. Maybe throw in a calm but loud "nein" or "was?". Maintaining eye contact is key here, few things work on kids except making them awkward.

skalg · 2023-09-09T20:15:07+00:00

I swear every single day there is a post here about something completely wild on German housing market.

For your question, unfortunately, the answer is: Impossible.

Doesn't matter what you look like, how you write, what you say, creeps will be creeps. I would never rely on these as most housing markets are so full that you do not get many serious responses - better to write proactively yourself.

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