I always thought “uh, this thing with the pronouns in email signatures is just woke Nonsens, everyone knows what gender I am and want to be seen as” (and i still don’t really get neo-pronouns, to be frank), but I now work in a very international environment, and I am so glad if people give me their pronouns, because I can’t always tell which gender an Indian or Chinese name is. Honestly, it’s just smart to add them and they just save everyone a lot of time/confusion.
This is what I LOVE about German culture.
“How are you/Wie geht es dir” is a serious question. So you just ask that if you are genuinely ready for 2-3 minutes of information about the person’s situation.
I went to an English boarding school for half a year and once a teacher walked by and asked me “how are you”. Now I know she was just polite. But she looked so bewildered once I gave her an update on beeing so far from home for the first time and that the rooms are very very small etc. She was absolutely not ready for these 2-3 minutes, and I even think she was in a hurry.
Of course “I am suffering from serious depression and my life is in shambles” is also not a normal answer in Germany, but “puh, it’s been rough the past few weeks, but I guess better time will come” totally is. Then it’s the other person’s choice to dig deeper or just accept that answer.
What is a speed limit on highways?
Confused greetings from Germany.
Unpopular opinion: your opinion is not unpopular at all.
Don’t fucking tell me what I can and can not be!
With the power of friendship I will finally become a Glurak (also screw English Pokémon names)
Works perfectly fine for me. He even urges them to bring the factory to a halt etc.
I am completely unable to reproduce your outcome.
Ich brauche eine Erklärung.
Sind Drachen nicht ein biblisches Tier? Der heilige Georg hat doch einen erlegt und ist deswegen einer der Hauptheiligen der Feuerwehr
Alles klar, vielen Dank!
Also ja, aber ich nutze halt aktuell Boost und fänds halt spannend was konkret du genau für eine App nutzt. Einfach so aus Interesse.
Wieso so wenig konkretes sagen, wenn man auch einfach sowas schreiben kann wie:
Alternative XY finde ich übrigens besser, denn sie bietet Vorteil Yz!
Übrigens ist boost (bis auf sehr seltene Werbeeinblendungen) auch kostenfrei.
Personenwagen sind noch nicht so alt. Ich habe überlegt, ob das quasi wie ein Flipper oder so einfach im Kino steht, falls sich jemand fragt, wie schwer er ist.
Well, honestly: I have this kind of computational power at my university, and we are in dire need of a locally hosted LLM for a project, so at least for me as a researcher, its really really cool to have that.