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There is no "decision" being made if your flowchart always says "only stop at designed bus stops". "Judging" something presupposes the ability to override established rules and eve…

> Ah, so basically you want more rules. Cathy Newman, is that you?

Because I have not been able to convince my wife to move to Greece. Also, the fact that I am not integrated does not mean that I am unhappy here.

Oh, it's not a "culture shock" kind of thing. I actually had no issue whatsoever going to a Sauna or even going swimming on the FKK hours. Like I said, I studied in a German school…

It's not a matter of not knowing the language. I grew up in Brazil but studied in a German school from grades 6-12. I used to watch Deutsche Welle more than I'd watch canned US sit…

Nah, there is a very strong reason to support the "Berlin ist eine Insel" saying. Are you forgetting the fact that Berlin was literally isolated from the rest of Western Germany an…

Your view of current immigrants is not that different from the Germans in the 70s who thought that the Turks and Vietnamese looking for jobs in Germany would go back to their homes…

If we split between second-generation (i.e, both parents born in Germany) as "native" and everyone else (i.e, anyone with at least one parent not born in Germany) as "immigrants", …

I'm not claiming that I know all of Germany or all Germans, I am just refuting GP's guesses. Also, she wasn't the only German that I've met and it wasn't the case that I only met n…

Maybe, but a quick AI-assisted research says that Bremen has an even higher rate of births from non-German mothers than Berlin, and the data does not make the distinction between c…

You take that back, right now!

That's a pithy description of it all. If I hadn't met my (Greek) wife in 2015, I've probably would have left long ago. And to come of think of it, I think there is another aspect t…

1) I am certified C1 German - studied in high school for 6 years. Granted, I don't like speaking German and will use English when possible, but it's not a matter of not being able …

I was going to respond with "Protestantism", but then I realized that I also lived in the US for ~5 years and I had no problem to adapt there. Mind you, I wouldn't go back to live …

I'm living in Berlin for 13/45 of my life, but I don't think I will ever feel integrated. As much as I tried to get around and adapt to the local culture, I quickly found myself on…

> Rules are made so not everybody needs to judge every situation correctly themselves. Rules are not the problem. Trying to apply one set of rules to every context is. > People mig…

Oh, I understand it alright. But understanding it doesn't mean I like it. After 13 years living in Berlin, I've come to terms with the fact that most aspects of German culture are …

> it would set an example No, it wouldn't. This type of logic only holds if we consider that drivers are automatons who can not analyze risks by themselves. Give the drivers autono…

But it just goes to show how idiotic this culture of strict adherence to rules can be. I've been more than once been forced to sit on a bus for 10+ minutes, with the bus literally …

How?! Hover is just a proxy between the customer and the real TLD owner. It could very well be that the TLD system saw that the domain was about to expire and decided to jack up th…

I don't know if there is a specific number. But I noticed that after I flagged that article it was removed from the front page.

Doesn't seem to be an issue with Hover, here.

There is an article sitting at 60+ points now at the homepage which is clearly written by an AI and most comments saying something along the lines "this article is clearly AI slop"…

I am pretty sure this was the standard style for sport journalists writing on the Brazilian news portals until Twitter was popularized.