I'm quite interested to see how this improves the farebox for Fernverkehr. D-Ticket is so ridiculously good for last minute travel that I will change my destination based on where I can get to from my home, even with the time penalty being on a slower train (looking at you Teppich RE Berlin - Dresden). This might tempt me back to Fernverkehr for extra trips especially if it can match or even beat Flix prices.

As some of you may know, Germany has one of the shittiest “defamation” code that allows any business owner to simply delete the reviews they don’t like. For a long time this had made Google Maps ranking useless: a rating of 4.9 could mean the store is really good, or it’s deleting all the bad reviews.

Not anymore.

Now if you click through all the way to the Reviews tab, Maps will tell you how many reviews the business owner has deleted in the past year.

So when choosing where to have lunch, don’t forget to check this tab. Also check the places you usually go: restaurants, stores, car mechanics. Chances are if they’re doing this you should look somewhere else.

A new rule requiring men to get permission to travel abroad recently put Defense Minister Boris Pistorius under pressure. He says he has fixed the situation, but the criticism continues.

Is the lesson here about russia's threat really that just RAW numbers of more troops are needed? I think the Ukraine War has proven something very different...

The way you win against fascists is by fighting smarter, not by doubling down on replicating the failures of the enemy.

The defendants and their families are barred from mentioning the case. If they do, prison staff end the meeting immediately.

"We really don't know anything because we're not able to discuss, support or advise our family members," she said.

So far, my ire at the Merz cabinet has primarily been focused on Katherina Reiche. But then I discovered that Wolfram Weimer is truly horrible, too.

In German:

• Invidious
• Youtube

In English:

• Invidious
• Youtube

Roman aka Der8auer, owner/founder of Thermal Grizzly products, got scammed out of €40.000 by placing raw material orders in China and has made this video to alert people to be more aware that these kinds of situations can happen.

Then you might think, ok, what about legal action right?

You try to get your money back somehow in China, but the chances of success for this in China is super low.

Like for a German company doing something in China like this; it's almost impossible that you will succeed and it will cost you a lot more time and money.

I was applying for a senior backend engineer job in this european startup in the healthcare sector.

I passed through 4 rounds of 1 hour interviews. Everyone was telling me this company is remote first, nobody works at the office.

Contract type is as remote on linkedin.

The offer arrived, 80k euros. They are very reluctant in giving the contract to me so I can proceed with the bureaucracy regarding blue card and job change before 12 months.

The contract arrives and it's full of traps:

• They can require work on weekends and holidays with no notice
• There isn't a single mention to remote working on the contract
• They can relocate me to any place with a 2 months notice
• HR refused to add remote clause on the contract

To make it even worse, they were processing my emails through an undisclosed AI tool using chatgpt, in which I've sent my personal documents.

Avoid these traps like hellfire.

Company name is Recare.

It's a "nationwide" strike on local public transport across Germany on Friday and Saturday. Union "Verdi" put out a call to strike on all employees affected by the current negotiations for "öffentlicher Nahverkehr".

If you rely on local public transport to reach your destinations on Friday and Saturday you better check beforehand if your connection is affected.

Not every company that offers public transport falls under the current negotiations. Even if you're using a connection that is not affected but other local connections are or you're using another way of transport, please keep in mind that you might still experience inconveniences because people will have to switch to alternative transportation.

Services from Deutsche Bahn itself should not be affected. Lower Saxony is still under peace obligation and exempt.

Going by the info in the article the decision whether to join the strike is still pending for Hamburger Hochbahn, Verkehrsbetriebe Hamburg-Holstein, and Providers in Baden-Württemberg.