Overall, there are many indications that government measures such as reducing bureaucracy, simplifying the recognition of qualifications, increasing digitalization, and providing tax breaks could reduce the tendency to emigrate, especially among professionally successful immigrants, say the IAB researchers. However, they add that “broad and honest” social acceptance is also needed.

Meanwhile, the CDU is now calling for foreign medical students not to be allowed to leave so easily after graduating. Anyone who studies in Germany should follow their studies by working as a doctor for at least five years — preferably in rural areas of Germany, where there is a growing shortage of medical professionals. “Those who do not want to do so must repay the costs of this first-class education,” said Sepp Müller, deputy chairman of the CDU group in parliament. The Health Ministry, also run by the CDU, has welcomed the proposal. “We must attract young doctors to work in Germany instead of watching them leave,” explained Tino Sorge, state secretary in the ministry.

Haha, good luck with that.

I yearn for the days when we just have functional apps and no fragmented drama or centralised corporate shit.

My guess would be: from top to bottom, rear reflector, light, and saddle height adjustment?

Toy Stories for Millennials

I always find the privacy-sensitive Germans coexisting with Schufa for so many years bemusing.

I really had to think hard and I guess I seldom use it. I touch-type but somehow my body has learnt to use only the left hand for almost all the modifier keys no matter how many keys I have to press there. It’s actually a good idea that I only realise now that I should map that right shift for something else.

All the lingo and acronyms.

I tried their email out for some time and was contemplating fully switching over. But somewhat in their email has always felt broken to me. Some days it was the text editor. Other days it was the reader and account thumbnails. Their support was responsive but their engineering really gave the feeling that they didn’t care in the past few months.

I guess that’s why. I just wish something in tech isn’t just working towards an MVP and then once it is out or sold, goodbye.

Alternative to Google, they said. It didn’t seem so alternative by its way of hitting the graveyard.

I actually prefer it that way. With tabbed Ribbons (Is it how they’re called?), I constantly have to look over and over again which tab the thing I need is located, ending up in question why X is put here but not there.

The tool is for budgeting so I would say use what is readable for you. Using IBAN for payee sounds like an overkill. You can still manage your payees and merge them later differently.

I despise the fact that most Android phones start with a 6-inch screen. I was resolute to switch to an iPhone mini next time when I’ll change phones but then they also killed that product line. 🫠

I really miss the time I can do everything with one hand using only one thumb.

I don’t think I have that Find in Page function. I have an arrow icon for the button at the bottom right for navigating between threads. Then when I trigger it and further press on the three-dot button in the middle, I only get the options in the screenshot shared above.

How do you call this out? I don’t seem to have it. Using version 1.23.0.

There were subjects which I hated, either because I found them boring, the teachers were not inviting, or I just needed sleep. For instance, chemistry and national history are examples of them.

Many years later, I found myself in situations where I started to develop curiosity around those subjects, where I would wish to have properly learnt or attended those topics again.

And he said

I disagree with the idea of unions. I just don’t like anything which creates a lords-and-peasants kind of thing.

By not having unions, he exactly creates the lords-and-peasants kind of thing.

I read somewhere that they prioritised cargo trains over passenger trains anyway when it comes to delays and service reliability.

Besides, what else? There is only one railway network and you gotta use it anyway no matter how trashy it gets.

They don’t even need to compete for passengers.

Germany is prone to dogmatism. There is a culture of putting things in boxes of right or wrong and then signaling it. Besides, skipping to judgement is easier than trying to unravel complications and risking being questioned in a hot seat. Spirit of being risk-averse.

If you are searched on a private property, at least (and in theory) the law enforcement unit needs to get some sort of warrant before they could search you.

I don’t see why we are opening access to our private digital sphere to them to do whatever and whenever they like, and most likely without us knowing what is going on.

Universal basic income, I guess.

Where are you from?

Then being fixated to all the stereotypes or news stories the person may have in their head while they barely know who I am.