TheNut

@Oksii33 We're working on it

An honest question to Western Europe: how can you live without these? Why don’t you have them😭

@stoizid @HurraNao Welcher Dönerladen hat den Halal Fleisch? Das ist viel zu teuer

Suche zur Zeit Wohnungen die zum Verkauf stehen. Eins der Qualitätsmerkmale für die Wohnung: Es gibt höchstens einen Dönerladen im Umkreis von 5km, sonst kein Halalfleisch verfügbar Zur Zeit gehört mir eine Wohnung in einem dichten Halal-Gebiet (in den letzten Jahrzehnten langsam transformiert). Das ist mir zu nahöstlich. Ich will wieder in Deutschland leben

Der lokale Lidl stellt das Sortiment schrittweise um auf die "die Gegend wird langsam zum Shithole"-Variante

@txgermanbre Well, they aren't autonomous, customers have to scan their groceries manually at a self checkout.

Germany though figured it out oddly

@Shakarez I've been carrying the same 10€ since January. Guess my part of Germany is just too close to Poland 😂

Poland Diary, day 46. I still haven't seen what this "Złoty" currency looks like. Digitalized payments are everywhere, everyone pays with their bank card, their phone or "Blik", a stark change from Germany where the population uses physical bank notes and coins. I hope that one day I will get to see what złoty and grosz looks like.

@cljack We tried, it's unpleasant.

Do Europeans know you can just buy a big mattress instead of smushing two small ones together

@Ace_Builder_ @levelsio This applies to most European countries

@levelsio yeah, but in Switzerland this comes with the benefit that by law, its not illegal to download movies etc. for personal use because artists/companies get compensated by this "mini tax"

/r/mildlyinteresting In Portugal you pay up to €7.50 when you buy a laptop called a "copyright levy" You pay €4/TB of storage in the computer, so for a MacBook Neo 13" with 512GB that's €2.05 It's regulation made in 1998 to compensate artists for you illegally sharing MP3 files which nowadays of course doesn't make sense anymore since we have Spotify and YouTube Much of the money doesn't even arrive with artists btw, 30% is taken by the organization collecting the tax and lot of it remains unclaimed and some of that goes again to the organization collecting the tax as "operational costs" 🤡

@awlnx @vodafone_de @DECIX It got so bad during peak hours

3209 (@vodafone_de) left @DECIX today. It's a bit sad.

@JohnDoe75692933 @osint_69 Nope, not available in Germany (and I guess whole EU?)

@osint_69 App is on play store, anyone could download and dissect. The app is probably mostly a wrapper for server side stuff though.

The MAX app that russia is forcing upon its citizens is hilarious 1. No encryption whatsoever. 2. The name itself is illegal in russia as it uses an English word with the Latin alphabet. 3. It (properly) understands Crimea as being Ukraine which is a BIG no-no in russia.

@GregNotSure @eastdakota Your math isn't mathing

@TheNut @eastdakota This is not cheap at all. If your apartment was 1k EUR cheaper and every person who moves in has to spend 1k with that kind of service, you've wasted a bunch of money and have an inferior construction.

Fact the U.S. doesn’t allow direct drive elevators (where they’re powered by two motors connected to the cab, as opposed to a cable or hydraulic system) is completely stupid. They’re faster, as safe, take less space, and a lot cheaper. Allowed everywhere else in the world.

@Althaus_Sven @marioellerbrock @movexxl Zur Not absatteln. Oder halt gescheit parken.

@TheNut @marioellerbrock @movexxl Das kann aber nicht Sinn der Übung sein Sann steht der LKW quer auf 8 PKW Ladeplätzen!?

Man kann über die Kraftstoffpreise klagen – oder man kann die Ursache angehen. Unsere Erfahrung zeigt: Die Umstellung auf E-Lkw funktioniert. Wir sind heute weitgehend unabhängig von den Preissprüngen an den Zapfsäulen und den Konflikten im Nahost. Wer heute noch zögert, sich mit der Technik von morgen zu befassen, darf sich nicht wundern, wenn er übermorgen vom Markt verschwindet. Handeln statt Abwarten! #Transport #Innovation #LKW #Elektromobilität #Logistik #ELKW #ZeroEmission #CleanLogistics #dieselpreis

@GregNotSure @eastdakota Europeans have a cheap solution

@eastdakota Complaining that US elevators have larger cab is a bad take, though. Are building developers really complaining about additional 30 sq ft? In Europe the cabs are tiny and you can't move certain types of furniture. This is artificial poverty.

@Althaus_Sven @marioellerbrock @movexxl Da LKW an jeder CCS Säule (wie Autos) laden können: schon lange

@marioellerbrock @movexxl Gibt es in der Strecke mittlerweile genug Ladesäulen für LKW?

@levelsio You could just pay 🤷

I was never able to do blood tests when I asked for it in Netherlands Doctor asked "why? you're not sick?" Then I tried in Portugal (at Germano de Sousa) but they never picked up the phone or when they did were so slow and unhelpful I gave up, they also require a doctor prescription btw The first place I could get my blood tested was Thailand in 2018, I just walked into Bumrungrad and asked for it, amazing experience Last few years we just fly to Brazil and do it here, the nurse comes to your home/hotel at 8am and takes your blood, same or next day results online I find it funny I keep having to fly out of Western Europe to do blood tests, they make it impossibly hard to do them Which is retarded

@mhdksafa §38 ZKG

Nearly 2 years since they closed my bank accounts for speaking out against Israeli war crimes at the United Nations. Last month, with the help of some friends and lawyers, I managed to open a new account after two years of ongoing financial penalties. Today, Sparkasse Bank closed my new bank account… This time, the financial penalties targeted me and my family! They closed also my wife’s bank account. They also informed me that I cannot open a new bank account now or in the future and even in all their partner banks. All this for my voice! For saying stop violating international law and killing children! Even as an accredited representative at the United Nations Human Rights Council!

@Porkchop_EXP Meanwhile in reality: online registration in Frankfurt frankfurt.de/service-und-ra…

Efficiency only possible in the Netherlands (sci-fi for Germany): Registering a car on my name, apart from the fact that the sales guy can do it all online in one minute, at some point he did have to call the motor vehicle authority - someone immediately picks up and already can see which car he’s filing for online. Issue resolved in 1 minute.

@DRSmercheant @Porkchop_EXP Same in Germany, takes only a few minutes. Even for new cars

@Porkchop_EXP We all can do it on de RDW website. ⬇️ rdw.nl/kopen-of-verko…

@Porkchop_EXP @DrainTheComex It works for the whole country, but not all municipalities use it. Here's the link for Frankfurt frankfurt.de/service-und-ra…

@TheNut @DrainTheComex This might be a local government thing, but for Frankfurt the current archaic system is indefensible

Small things make life in the Netherlands so much less stressful than elsewhere: municipality bureaucrats replying to your “please hurry up” email within an hour, or healthcare admin people calling you twice if you miss their call (as opposed to not being able to reach them by phone at all in Germany), being patient instead of barking at you. All of this adds up immensely day after day. Dutch people love to complain about everything, but they don’t know how good they have it.

@Porkchop_EXP @DrainTheComex dresden.de/de/rathaus/die…

@TheNut @DrainTheComex There is even a myriad of companies taking advantage of desperate people - offering pre-booked appointments via them at cost. 3rd world.

@Porkchop_EXP @DrainTheComex It's called ikfz and works well. My little brother did this last may. Went to the dealer, paid, got the registration, purchased insurance from HUK24 online, registered it at the city of Dresden and went off. Paperwork was sent via letter few days later.

@TheNut @DrainTheComex NOT TRUE I had to go to Zulassungstelle in person every time for everything and they don’t even have appointments (the only thing you can arrange online) for weeks

@Porkchop_EXP @DrainTheComex All online in Germany, takes ~15 min (but requires a German ID), car can be driven immediately

What is it that they “know” as compared to Dutch admin? It’s admin and bureaucracy, and in NL it’s simplified to the max. Do I need to wait for 3-4 weeks for an appointment to register a car in my name in NL? Do I need to drag myself physically to the FAHRZEUGZULASSUNGSTELLE and wait in line simply to register a car I bought? 😭😭😭