Call for expressions of interest – Global perspectives on Christianity, music, ecology, and climate (edited collection)
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Mark Porter
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@giulio_mattioli at least they're not announcing a shift to weapons production?
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Alex@alex_avoigt
Porsche Plans to Shrink by Nearly 50% According to a report by *Handelsblatt* , Porsche is facing a comprehensive restructuring of its leadership and corporate organization. CEO Michael Leiters intends to intensify his turnaround strategy. To this end, Leiters is reportedly considering a reduction in the size of the Executive Board; the consolidation of specific portfolios is also a possibility. The authors cite information obtained from management circles within Porsche. (...) Volkswagen Group CEO—and former Porsche Executive Board member—Blume had previously steered Porsche toward significantly higher production volumes and rapid growth. These plans projected an annual output of between 350,000 and 400,000 vehicles. In 2025, however, Porsche sold only around 280,000 vehicles—30,000 fewer than in 2024. Leiters now intends to pivot away from Blume’s expansionist course: the corporate structure is to be reorganized to ensure that Porsche can generate healthy profits even with a significantly lower production volume. *Handelsblatt* estimates this volume could be as low as 200,000 cars. More details in my newsletter: patreon.com/posts/newslett…
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@readfulthings_ weirdly hyphenated words are usually because the hyphenation dictionary is set for a different language.
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Ich lese gerade und da steht tatsächlich das Wort so da:
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Es hat kurz gedauert ... ^^ wieso wird das so seltsam (und vor allem falsch) getrennt?
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@geynosha workarounds include using a friend's number, setting up a virtual number on an online service, or just not using the service. It's frustrating.
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@geynosha I have the same problem in Germany – parcel deliveries that require a German number, postal (DHL) apps that require a German app store account, customer service numbers that you can't call from an international phone
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@derJamesJackson is this a student initiative? is it binding for the university administration?
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Leipzig University, formerly a stronghold of the “antideutsch” votes to boycott cooperation with Israeli universities
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@ChimeWhistle Depends on the passengers surely? As a foreign tourist, I’d probably appreciate being reassured that I’m going to London
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Staff (who aren't over impressed with the abbreviation) tell me "it's the latest software update from Alstom".
RegalEagle@RegalEagle12
Just me? Why do the destination displays on Arterios display ‘London W’loo’ and not simply Waterloo, which given the lack of abbreviation would surely be more immediately readable and informative for passengers. Any thoughts @SW_Help ? 701051 approaching C’ham J’n. 1 May 2026.
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@derJamesJackson I wish the moderator would acknowledge the mood in the room and direct it to Merz as a challenge rather than just telling everyone to sit down and behave
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That Merz gets booed at a trade union conference isn’t a big deal.
That he gets booed at a Catholic conference could be fatal
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@TheMekon_Venus maybe he sleeps on the little pull-out bed that he convalesces on in planet of the daleks
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It’s rare we get to see anything of the TARDIS past the control room.
But it’s cool when we do. Albeit a bit of a galafrey liminal space.
I always wonder does the doctor ever sleep in any of these rooms?
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@TheMekon_Venus I bet he sleeps levitating or something like that.
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Germany in a nutshell.
j.m. kettle@jmkettle
Giving a restaurant a three star review is illegal in Germany.
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@baryontensor Yes, our tutorials always had about that number in them. It's one of the things Oxford tries to distinguish itself through offering. I found them a lot more useful than lectures, which I tended to find pretty pointless in comparison.
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I'm reading about the history of the Oxbridge tutorial system and apparently they're meant to be as small as 1-3 students per tutor? I'm currently running something ostensibly called "tutorials" with 50 students per section.
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@seatsixtyone any form of storage that involves me being separated from something I own without it being physically secured in some way triggers my mistrust of the general public
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Things are grim for academics in UK universities, but it's not all gloom
Top administrators have done extremely well for themselves
Number & pay of such lucrative positions has rocketed
Here's pay of Vice Chancellor of Cambridge University as multiple of average staff pay
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@giulio_mattioli reminds me of the time I asked at a café were the toilet is, and before answering the question they insisted on correcting the grammatical gender I'd used first
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Next time I "f*** up Der/Die/Das" I will have to think about what existential drama I am causing in my interlocutor 😱 hadn't realised people were suffering so much! 😬
eugyppius@eugyppius1
Just some basic statistics to explain how retarded and overblown is this post: At least 85% of people living in Germany today are native German speakers. In total more than 90 million people around the world speak German natively – more than at any other point in history. This Löber idiot and others in comments are telling me that German is being destroyed by anglicisation. Through lexicography we have one way to measure this; right now German has ca. 3,000 English loan words – most of them recent, many confined to specific domains (technology and sciences) and only a portion of which will stay raound. For comparison the Greco-Latin tradition lent us nearly 7,000 vocabulary items, many of them so deeply embedded in the language we no longer recognise them as non-German. The biggest, most cataclysmic change visited upon Germanosphere was not Ango cultural influence leading to the adoption of many dumb American vocabulary items, and it is not brainrot youth internet culture or imported hip hop affectations or anything like that. Rather, it was promotion of High German as the standard alongside the rise of mass education in the 19th century. This huge change had the effect of sidelining many local and regional dialects, vastly changing what we perceive "German" even to be. Imported Berlin baristas speaking bad German today is a nothing event by comparison.
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"That I wasn't told that Peter Mandelson had failed security vetting when he was appointed is staggering," UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer says
Follow live: bbc.in/4esAIHE
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European Research Council (ERC)@ERC_Research
The number of grant applications is rising sharply. Our capacity for their evaluation isn’t. ERC President Maria Leptin explains why stricter resubmission limits are being introduced for 2027 calls and what this mean for applicants. link.europa.eu/xF7kjc
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@giulio_mattioli and in a way that makes a tangible difference to the cities. As a pedestrian you're constantly confronted with junctions where it's less safe to cross because cars block visibility by parking on the corner
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Opponents of the decriminalisation argue that removing the threat of prison charges would result in a lack of incentives for people to abide by the law and in a breakdown of social order.
But isn't that precisely what happens for car parking in cities then?
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Interesting example of motonormative double standards from Germany .
At present, fare evasion on public transport is a *crime* that can land you in prison, not just get you fines.
For illegal parking, however, that is not the case.
zeit.de/politik/deutsc…
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@giulio_mattioli I got a letter from the police because there is apparently a kind of ticket that you have to stamp not just once but twice in their machines, and the lack of a second stamp was enough to be a suspected criminal with the threat of prison
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@21percentgroup This seems to be a common thing in Germany, it seems to give people here some kind of leverage, I think maybe because there's a bit of legal weight to these kind of job offers and the process as a whole
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OMG ... a public cv with a section 'Jobs that I declined'
Not a record of achievement, more a curated shrine to one’s own desirability!
It doesn’t tell you what they did, just where they want you to imagine that they're irresistible
evolutionsbiologie-uni-konstanz.com/prof-dr-axel-m…
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