strato-cumulus

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by strato-cumulus 3y ago
As an L2 German speaker living in Germany, I have witnessed how slight vowel length differences matter. In my native Polish, vowel length is not phonemic - unlike in German. I've recently had a situation when I pronounced the word Krok
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by strato-cumulus 3y ago
I sometimes meet foreigners who have been to Poland and learned a few phrases from the locals. Usually "How are you" is among them only because they have specifically requested this to be translated, but I've never heard this
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by strato-cumulus 3y ago
Read the twitter bio of that movement's page and tell me your definition of "everyone" here. If you don't support Stolzmonat's agenda, then you are probably not welcome - pretty much the same as with Pride. What&#x2
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by strato-cumulus 3y ago
I'd be all up for an initiative that attempts to burst the liberal bubble which seems to reject the possibility that people have other things to do than follow the latest inclusivity trends online, but come on. You know well what this
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by strato-cumulus 3y ago
The legal minimum is 20 working days, though. The people in tech I've met in Berlin are getting anything between 26 and 30. My contract starts with 27 days and this number will be raised every year I'm working there till it reache
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by strato-cumulus 4y ago
I'd agree that this mentality of "we don't need a trade union as IT workers" is pretty widespread, and it's not only a Polish thing - I've moved to Germany a long time ago and witnessed a works council being fo
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by strato-cumulus 4y ago
It's true that Berlin public transit has no physical fare enforcement (e.g. there are no ticket gates at subway stations), but the state operator of public transit is anything but lax on fare dodgers: the tickets are being checked rand
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by strato-cumulus 5y ago
That's not really a question in a legal system in which judges are removable by a ministerial decree. The judiciary that has ruled this has been installed illegally and is literally pressed into making judgments made by the party elite
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by strato-cumulus 5y ago
Exactly my reasoning for moving out of Poland. It's fun to watch and cheer if you are a normative citizen who will never be affected by this, but for everyone else it turns into hell sooner or later. There are multitudes of people I kn