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> Die Linke does not have an "outsized influence". It's also shrinking. Yes, it's shrinking because Sarah exited left, came back in on the right, and now has her own party with blackjack and racists. > It may seem to have "outsized influence" for someone from the US or the UK, with their different voting system, which practically creates a two-party system. In a proportional representation system smaller parties have…
> And historically, the FDP and CSU have a lot more influence that what would be proportional to their vote share compared to the bigger partners. I don't think the influence is "outsized". Any party with 5% shares AND being in a coalition has much more influence than a party with 5% AND not in a coalition. A party with 4.9% may have very little influence, when not in a coalition and not even represented in the Bunde…
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You went into women only spaces with the obvious intent to troll. Quote: „Deshalb ist der Chaos Computer Club nach seiner Satzung und nach dem Willen der Mitglieder eine galaktische Gemeinschaft für alle Lebensformen. Als solche wollen wir allen Teilnehmenden eine sichere und schöne Erfahrung auf unseren Veranstaltungen bieten, unabhängig von Alter, geschlechtlicher und sexueller Identität, körperlichen und geistigen…
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> Some thoughts are too complex for English. English just adopts all the good German words. Every time I, a native German speaker, have struggled to express something in English it was either because my personal vocabulary was lacking or because of societal differences, never because English is somehow inferior.
And German has adopted all the good English words. Like Handy (cell phone), Beamer (projector), and body bag (fanny bag). Oh wait....
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> And historically, the FDP and CSU have a lot more influence that what would be proportional to their vote share compared to the bigger partners. I don't think the influence is "outsized". Any party with 5% shares AND being in a coalition has much more influence than a party with 5% AND not in a coalition. A party with 4.9% may have very little influence, when not in a coalition and not even represented in the Bunde…
FDP didn't leave, they only planned to do so, but could not, because they have been kicked out of the coalition before.
Chancellor Scholz removed Christian Lindner from the position as Finance Minister.
The FDP then left the coalition. Die ZEIT writes:
"Die FDP zieht alle ihre Minister aus der Bundesregierung zurück. Sie wollten ihren Rücktritt geschlossen beim Bundespräsidenten einreichen, kündigte Fraktionschef Christian Dürr in Berlin an. Damit beendet die FDP das Dreierbündnis der Ampelkoalition."
One of the FDP ministers left the FDP and stayed in the Scholz government.
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It is a German conference. It was started by Germans. It is organized first and foremost by Germans. It happens in Germany. I find it arrogant to think that presenters should speak a language other than German.
Have you been to a German university? Plenty of technical subjects will be taught in English even if the speaker and audience are German. There surely us a kind of arrogance that demands Germans speak English, but I don't see anyone in this thread expressing that. (I won't even begin to talk about the variety of dialects and identities contained within the modern German state, except to say that there is plenty of ar…
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> I also noted how far-left and anti-capitalistic many talks/speaker are. Why is this suprising? The hacker culture is rooted in anti-establishment philosophy, spun off from the hippy movement of the 1960s. This is not a regional thing. It's more than a bit ironic that this site is called "hacker news", yet is hosted by a company that holds opposite ideals. :) The term "hacker" has largely lost its original meaning,…
It's "wow, what cool things I can do with this new tech" vs "wow, this new tech is pretty dangerous, let me show you" -- it's a very different mindset. In the end, you can be anti-establishment all you want, it's very hard to let go of your culture.
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You went into women only spaces with the obvious intent to troll. Quote: „Deshalb ist der Chaos Computer Club nach seiner Satzung und nach dem Willen der Mitglieder eine galaktische Gemeinschaft für alle Lebensformen. Als solche wollen wir allen Teilnehmenden eine sichere und schöne Erfahrung auf unseren Veranstaltungen bieten, unabhängig von Alter, geschlechtlicher und sexueller Identität, körperlichen und geistigen…
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Have you been to a German university? Plenty of technical subjects will be taught in English even if the speaker and audience are German. There surely us a kind of arrogance that demands Germans speak English, but I don't see anyone in this thread expressing that. (I won't even begin to talk about the variety of dialects and identities contained within the modern German state, except to say that there is plenty of ar…
Yeah, but they do it to attract foreign students. Otherwise everything would be in German with english technical terms, where appropriate.
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Live life, give it a go.
I've done that in the past (I lived in youth hostels for years in fact) but I can't now. Especially because I sleep with a CPAP machine as well.