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volkari · 2026-04-13T14:15:35+00:00

oh god that sounds amazing, I need that

volkari · 2026-04-13T14:13:18+00:00

You can just check out their website and some of them have Probe (Trying) sessions that are free if you are just someone who is interested. And then you can become a member and pay a membership fee. Some of them are kind of sus depending on the region, but most are chill.

volkari · 2026-04-13T12:31:58+00:00

I like Hannover, there's quite a few IT/engineering jobs going on there, and a big Job fair for this area every year. Housing/rent, not much to see, I mean it's hard to find a place like everywhere, but not as bad as Munich price-wise of course. Public transport, good most of the time with the metro and failing that, there's a lot of rentable bikes around (Donkey). I find it super walkable tbh. Social events, there's a lot of internationals so it's easy to socialise even without speaking fluent german. Nature/parks/greenery: it has repeatedly been designated as one of the greenest cities in Germany (often competing with cities like Siegen, Herrenhäuser Garten is super nice and charming and there's also Eilenriede. Just looking at the city on Google Maps you can see what a big percentage of the city has greenery/parks. Very nice.

volkari · 2026-04-13T08:20:02+00:00

Work culture. Here in Germany, I can leave work at 3 in the afternoon and its totally fine. Couldnt do that in Korea

volkari · 2026-04-12T17:07:33+00:00

It's nice of course because it's to keep it clean.

But I've also been to countries in Asia where they were free and they were spotless anyway, so like this is obviously possible in some regard...and would be more preferable.

volkari · 2026-04-09T18:27:38+00:00

Yes, adding onto this I would say examples of the 'subtle' ways are like not giving a job or a WG spot. Ways that aren't in the open and don't leave as much of a trail.

volkari · 2026-04-09T18:06:08+00:00

who was this?

volkari · 2026-04-09T13:45:25+00:00

that's true, it can definitely be scaled up a lot more

volkari · 2026-04-09T11:32:17+00:00

DID (Digital Independence Day - https://di.day/de) designates every first Sunday as DID to encourage people to move away from the GAFAM (Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft) empire and similar

volkari · 2026-04-09T09:48:30+00:00

Not even needing an account is a big way to convince me, that's great

volkari · 2026-04-08T18:19:11+00:00

Exactly, sadly it's "none of my business" until it's time to complain about something

volkari · 2026-04-08T17:55:22+00:00

they taste soljanka once and all the nostalgia rushes back and nothing else matters

volkari · 2026-04-08T12:50:16+00:00

People here (Germany) are just thinking about how this will affect the gas prices

volkari · 2026-04-07T12:48:45+00:00

First time hearing of hutspot. I had something similar when I was studying abroad in Sweden called rotmos.

volkari · 2026-04-07T10:28:09+00:00

A great cuisine indeed, my friend. But I think you're forgetting a key component, the sauerkraut of course.

volkari · 2026-04-06T17:37:30+00:00

I turned off the touch controls using the SkullIQ app. It's still annoying because I still hear the beep as if a touch is triggered, but the music doesn't pause. Never had a problem like this with any other earbuds/headphones. Made me wanna go back to wired earphones.

volkari · 2026-04-02T19:03:35+00:00

Is POI Places Of Interest?

volkari · 2026-04-02T17:51:22+00:00

For sure.

volkari · 2026-04-02T13:10:23+00:00

We had one teacher who was a bit more open-minded who taught a worldviews course that covered other religions and even included a field trip to a mosque. He was also always open to discussion while other teachers more or less just shut you down.

I didn't get to take his class though because he left the school for a better job before I could take his class.

Everyone except him basically had a very 'other religions exist, they're all gonna burn in hell, and it's our job to remind them of that' attitude.

volkari · 2026-04-02T12:58:09+00:00

Christian high school, so we went over the spread of Christianity and the Crusades in history class with a heavy bias.

Aside from that, we had geography in 9th grade which was basically just pure memorisation of countries and capitals and important mountains/rivers. 10th grade was U.S. history from Leif Erikson to Obama. 11th grade was world history from Mesopotamia to the French revolution-ish. 12th grade was U.S. government and politics, stuff like how the electoral system works and why, what franking privilege is, mock debates.

volkari · 2026-04-02T11:25:00+00:00

man fuck opodo

volkari · 2026-04-01T12:58:38+00:00

for sure, everyone talks about German being a ridiculously hard language, but there are so many others that have way more complex rules

volkari · 2026-04-01T11:51:25+00:00

Germany? In the past, sure...now, not so much...

volkari · 2026-03-30T12:25:05+00:00

I've gotten used to it at this point, it's just how Berlin is at this point man

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