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Cake day: July 14th, 2024

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  • They increased the target from only 50 to 60 percent in-office. And don’t even have space for their people, lol.

    We’re supposed to be inside 60 percent of the time, but there are only seats for 50 percent of the staff, so you have to puzzle. In some places there is a lot of space left, in others not. Yesterday, for example, two of my colleagues sat in the toilet and took meetings because there was no room. Others go out and get in the car,” she says.

    What does “space for 50 percent of the staff” even mean? With the 60 % target being over the year, you’ll still have phases and instances where a lot more than 50 % of people come into the office. Maybe not 90 %, but I would expect at least space for 70-80 %.







  • The town of Stadtallendorf had proudly unveiled the new structure less than a year ago

    oh boy, structure not even a year old, and 10 fire trucks burned down

    at least the fire protection wall worked as intended, guarding against further fire spreading

    The closing paragraph is kinda absurd.

    Schäfer said for reasons of safety as well as for local morale, the building had to be reconstructed as swiftly as possible. Whether a future structure would be fitted with a fire alarm system would be a matter for discussion, officials said.



  • Steak?? Really??

    I can understand burger, fillet, sausage as the/fundamentally-based-on the process of preparation/construction. But not for steak. Subjectively anyway.

    Looking at steak on Wikipedia:

    A steak is a thick cut of meat generally sliced across the muscle fibers, sometimes including a bone. It is normally grilled or fried. Steak can be diced, cooked in sauce, such as in steak and kidney pie, or minced and formed into patties, such as hamburgers.

    Grilled portobello mushroom may be called mushroom steak, and similarly for other vegetarian dishes. Imitation steak is a food product that is formed into a steak shape from various pieces of meat. Grilled fruits such as watermelon have been used as vegetarian steak alternatives.

    Exceptions, in which the meat is sliced parallel to the fibers, include the skirt steak cut from the plate, the flank steak cut from the abdominal muscles, and the silverfinger steak cut from the loin and including three rib bones. In a larger sense, fish steaks, ground meat steaks, pork steak, and many more varieties of steak are known.

    I guess I’m just not enough into steaks. I guess it can be a label for the process before a meat steak.


  • From the court press release:

    Access by the police, in the context of a criminal investigation, to the personal data stored on a mobile telephone may constitute a serious, or even particularly serious, interference with the fundamental rights of the data subject. However, it is not necessarily limited to the fight against serious crime. The national legislature must define the factors to be taken into account for such access, such as the nature or categories of the offences concerned. In order to ensure compliance with the principle of proportionality in each specific case, the examination of which involves weighing all the relevant factors of the individual case, that access must, moreover, be subject to prior authorisation by a court or an independent authority, save in duly substantiated cases of urgency. The data subject must be informed of the grounds for the authorisation as soon as the provision of this information is no longer likely to jeopardise the investigations.

    • National law needs to define when police may access
    • A court must approve - weighing proportionality
    • Only in duly substantiated cases of urgency court approval may be skipped
    • The subject must be informed once that act no longer jeopardizes the investigation








  • “We are not considering an EU-wide youth mobility scheme and there will be no return to freedom of movement.”

    I find the separatism baffling and sad.

    Thinking back to feudal systems and border fees on city and governance borders, the move to bigger national states with unified law and freedom of movement brought huge gains and evaporated barriers.

    Multi-national agreements and especially the EU with its Schengen Raum did the same on a much bigger scale.

    Geographically, the UK borders the EU, and sea all around. As a country, I don’t see another country or union I’d like to border to more than the EU.

    It’s just really sad to see borders for goods and especially people and youth be put up again.