I saw it yesterday and there was not a single child in the theater. Granted, this was the English version in a German theater but it’s a city with people from all over the world, I would have expected at least a few. Would be interesting to see what the audience in the German and Ukrainian¹ language versions looks like but I’m not willing to buy two more tickets just to check.

¹ Yes, some German theaters started offering Ukrainian showings of some movies back in 2022 and at least the ones around here still have that for children’s movies.

I predict that after an ad pops up, the next thing the user clicks is usually whatever closes the ad.

Jokes aside, some virtual keyboards (definitely in iOS, probably some Android ones too) give keys that are more likely to come next a slightly larger hitbox so they are easier to tap.

Nice day for fishin‘, ain‘t it?

Or you accidentally took one from a colleague. Easy mistake when IT gives the same model to everyone.

Gregory Maguire’s “The Wicked Years” currently consists of like… eight or nine books I think? But seriously, if they try to turn each of them into a movie or worse, multiple movies, I really don’t know how to deal with that.

Well, the whole plot twist of Wicked is that

Not saying they should make more movies but at least the plot would make more sense than the Palpatine shitshow.

Auch da: wenn jemand die wirklich unbedingt haben will (nein, ich weiß auch nicht, warum), dann zieht man halt Windows auf die Kiste, dann laufen die auch.

As someone living outside the US, your whole comment and the surrounding ones are absolutely wild.

Here in Germany, work without a contract is absolutely unthinkable. If anyone offered me a job without a contract, I would have to immediately report them to the authorities on the suspicion of tax fraud.

Also, even without a single word about it in my contract, they would have needed to notify me way in advance if they wanted to let me go. The exact duration varies by how long you’ve been there but the minimum is four weeks. For me it would have been four months because I had been there for over ten years. Also, the requirement for an employee to quit can never be stricter than for them to be fired. If you’re interested in the details, I recommend you find a translation of § 622 BGB.

And yes, these rules do get enforced reliably. The mere mention of the word “lawyer” usually gets even the most stubborn boss to comply in these cases because they know that every judge would rule against them within minutes.

Doch, natürlich kannst du das. Das ist ja das Schöne an Proton. Und wenn du irgendwas brauchst, was nur über die Läden von Winzigweich ode ElektronikKunst zu beziehen ist, dann kannst du dir immer noch Fenster auf die Dampfmaschine ziehen, weil sie eben einfach nur ein ganz normaler Rechner ist und keine Konsole, die dich nur das machen lässt, was der Hersteller will.

I once did an even more extreme version of this. I showed up with a contract for a new job that would give me a 30% raise and an opportunity to work from home as much as I want. I told my boss to match that offer or I would sign it.

He took a few days to decide and made me an offer that was significantly worse, so now I have a new job, more money and haven’t seen the inside of a corporate office in months. My old team has been completely dissolved because the old crew left faster than they could train replacements.

Deutschland, wenn wir uns einigen, ob wir es Dürüm, Yufka oder ganz anders nennen.

A lot more specific though. I don’t know (or remember) one of the kanji but it seems to be along the lines of “Thanks for using the toilet cleanly”

My webserver had some spare capacity so I started my own instance.

Gibt es auch nicht. Im “Jeder gegen Jeden” Modus hat das Spiel wohl gar keine Narren. Und nachdem ich den gespielt hab, hatte ich irgendwie wenig Motivation, die anderen auszuprobieren.

Gab es zumindest in dem Modus, den wir gespielt haben, nicht

Yes, it’s a Who Wants To Be A Millionaire game. Way worse than the old ones…

Weiß man ja

General rule of thumb that aligns well with what you do in English: “Sie” goes with last names, “du” goes with first names.

There are very rare exceptions, for example sports reporters tend to address some athletes with “Sie” and first name for reasons that nobody can explain. Those are not very relevant in everyday conversation, especially not if German is not your first language.

Is it a big deal to start using the informal?

It used to be a cliché that you would call coworkers by their last name and “Sie” until that one fateful office Christmas party where your boss gets drunk and asks you to call him Fritz and “du”.

These days, things are a lot more relaxed. Many companies are adopting a rule that all employees should address each other as “du”, including upper management.

Also: you chose the way it’s presented. I’ve always been into history (mainly ancient Egypt and medieval Europe) since I was old enough to hold a picture book but I absolutely hated most history classes in school because the presentation wasn’t right for me. They made us memorize dates, names and what specific event caused a certain war but in the end, those don’t really matter that much.

The important thing to take away from history is the big picture and ironically, the best way for me to get that is by listening to a bunch of individual, personal stories and figure out how they fit together. These days, I listen to a weekly history podcast (shout out to “Geschichten aus der Geschichte” for those who speak German). For most episodes, I still won’t remember individual names or dates but pretty much every episode there are a few moments where I go “oh yeah, they mentioned that aspect in an earlier episode” even if they don’t point it out explicitly. I’ll never remember what year the second defenestration of Prague was or which Emperor it was directed against but after listening to a couple of episodes that roughly relate to that, I will forever remember the broad strokes about what caused the Thirty Years’ War in the 17th century which superficially was about conflicts between Catholics and Protestants but on a deeper level centered around the question who would rule Bohemia and the Empire as a whole.

I went to college, I’m way over 30. Buying a house is a vague dream.