Gulp. Pretty much everyone needs to see this. Whether your German or not. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-gYFcVx-8Y We all need to understand the implications, and make it impossible for politicians to farm our unfocused anger/frustration and turn it into support for right wing identity politics.…
Deutsche Industrie unter Druck https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10393
How Germany May Have Misjudged Trump's Anger on Iran (Jim Tankersley/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/02/world/europe/germany-trump-merz-troops-withdrawal.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260502/p46#a260502p46
I have some vague recollection of an anecdote from the 20th century where some American dude told a French one the « If it weren’t for us you’d be speaking German » cliché, to which the French answered « Well, if it weren’t for us you’d be speaking English ». I can’t remember who was involved. A quick search only brings up the orange moron paraphrasing the former sentence one year ago. He really ruins everything doesn’t he
Five years ago, the West risked a
full-blown diplomatic crisis with NATO ally Turkey
when 10 ambassadors called for the release of a man they saw as a political prisoner,
prompting an angry President Tayyip Erdogan to order their expulsion.
After two frantic days in 2021,
the sides stepped back from the brink with the U.S., French, German, Canadian and other envoys issuing conciliatory statements
and Erdogan saying they would be more careful in the future…
New international PhD student (starting tomorrow!) stopped by to sign their contract. I gave some intro into matters of bureaucracy (I always warn international people that we do love our forms here in Germany!). Stressed the importance of taking the official vacation days. Answer, without hesitation "oh yes, I'll be definitely taking those!" #academicChatter #theKidsAreAlright
A German court rules that Google is directly liable for what AI Overviews say after AI Overviews falsely tied two publishers to shady business practices (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)
https://the-decoder.com/landmark-germa
A German court rules that Google is directly liable for what AI Overviews say after AI Overviews falsely tied two publishers to shady business practices (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)
https://the-decoder.com/landmark-germa
"I took the German or Autistic diagnostic. Results: probably autistic. Wittgenstein would have gotten the same result."
Also I'm fucking angry that the test said it would take 2 minutes, when it took me 12!
https://german.millermanschool.com/