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Oh for a toddler that would have eaten a sandwich, like a real person

Same here (although we've now moved to Switzerland anyway). I've basically given up on my hope that Germany will do what is needed to allow mothers to fully participate economically in the society in the next decade, downgraded my hopes to staving off an AFD government.

Not saying my science world is small but just got named on a paper along with someone I still hold a grudge against because he dingied me for a job in 2004

Scary remnants of the DDR?

As a British in Germany there are a whole bunch of issues I would like to raise in the company of all the British and German people I know who all insist "well that's just the way you do it" while doing it two completely different ways

Oh, just realised - SSW is not BSW!

Oh my kids were doing this yesterday! I get Green then SSW - which I was surprised by because I put yes for support to Ukraine

Like mate, they learn to walk and eat by themselves. That's it. Pretty much everything else they do, there was a nice lady teaching them how to do it.

That bit about pencil baby bootcamps, as though learning to write with a pencil was something that just happened to kids naturally in the good old days, and wasn't a result of your mum and your teachers sitting with you doing drawing and colouring in

I saw that - then"25% of kids not toilet trained" was the only example I could see where they actually quantified the issue. The rest of it was all "x% of teachers observed this in at least 1 child" which feels a little bit misleading to me

Switzerland practising for the end of the world again

The basket will be full again the next time you look at it

Because Brexit made things even worse, so now people are even more likely to want to stick two fingers up at politicians. This is how populism works - each iteration makes populist-tending voters poorer & more cynical about politicians and therefore more likely to vote for the "fuck you" party

Ah good news! It's a very pretty trip back from Interlaken to Bern but I guess he would have done it in the dark sadly.

Germany, where the only bacon is crispy bacon

Tosay, instead of worrying about the impending end of the world I've been on the train down to Montreux and then on the Golden Pass train to Spiez, and very nice it was too! It would have been nice to have time to get out in the mountains but alas we must be back for school tomorrow

I think the train back to Bern from Interlaken is only about half an hour?

My train is about to arrive in Liestal! (Coming the other way) - we've not been delayed at all

Congratulations!

No adjoining rooms, or adjoining rooms but you can't book them in advance. Makes travelling with young kids a nightmare - you end up all sleeping in the one room but as they go to sleep at like 8pm you then spend the rest of the evening scrolling your phone in the dark in silence

Sausage roll, slice of Tottenham cake and then to be healthy make that a diet irn bru

On the other hand, I still remember the Sharpless oxidation conditions are butoo and tiyoprey thanks to my then boyfriend reading them over my shoulder when we were studying for finals 30 years ago

Slowly I am getting completely burned out, working full time all week and then doing 2 half days of tutoring on the weekends, it is very tough on all of us.

Mine are also in BW and also going through the G8 - they're only in 7kl and have half day school, this is our problem for now, time in the week they have, but teaching time (=money) is not available. We spent the last 3 weekends doing >10h on GFS, then mathe, then bio arbeit

See I was fine at 17, but I did chemistry, so no sort of emotional maturity needed for the subject - big undergraduate labs were hard tho. As a PhD student I supervised those labs in turn, and was struck by how much better the occasional (older) German student communicated and handled the pressure

Beats Starfield anyway. I wanted to like it. But ultimately I want to do a bit of mining in the limitless frontier, not drag 12 followers around on endless sniper missions/die horribly at the hands/mandibles of the local wildlife

It's funny with the AC because AFAIK it's not difficult to build from a planning point of view (we had it in our house) but just nobody gets it. Our house would go above 40 deg regularly before we got the AC, honestly, I'd rather live without heating than AC!

The most gen X complaint is a boring thread though because the most gen X complaint is always that everyone forgets about gen X

This is just blatant propaganda from Big Kabelsalat

Can I ask, does it have any influence then on what options they have at uni? In Scotland where I'm from, only medicine and maybe law will differentiate between qualifications achieved by 18 vs ones that took longer.