ClassifiedPancake

People are easily manipulated. There needs to be some guardrails.

I once locked myself out of my apartment. It was not locked-locked, just the key was inside. In full panic mode (because my dog was inside and it was late at night) I googled for a locksmith. You can already see the mistakes I made here. I called them, a guy came over with a lot of tools. He showed me the upcoming cost, I had to agree with it on the spot, but it was what he said on the phone. Then he started his work and, unable to open the bolt with sandpaper (why sandpaper I don’t know), began loudly rattling on the door to loosen it somehow. My neighbors were probably really annoyed by this and my dog scared. This went on for 15-20 minutes and it finally worked (don’t remember if it was only from the rattling or something else). It turns out this was unnecessary, more on that later.

We sat down to do the payment and this is the scam part: it suddenly cost 4-5 times the amount he told me on the phone! I was confused but made my next mistake: I paid it because I suddenly had the feeling this is a criminal organization and I would be in trouble with them.

Next day I checked valid prices and it was way overpaid. I tried to ask my bank to get my money back but it was a kind of payment that wouldn’t allow this. I even called the guy back and asked for my money, he laughed at me. I went to the local consumer protection agency, they could not help me. The „invoice“ he gave me was not valid, it had no real company, no sales tax ID. Nothing I could do here. He did actually help me get inside my apartment but it was way too expensive and the guy was not even good at what he was doing.

Multiple mistakes:

• I panicked
• I did not check if I might be able to do it on my own
• I googled
• I did not check if the invoice is valid (I’m no lawyer but it looked sketchy)

Later I learned how to easily break into my apartment in a similar situation using a simple wire. I don’t know why this asshole made it so complicated and loud.

I have since been very paranoid about forgetting my keys.

Pro tip: When you move into a new place, take some time to check for locksmiths and other services in your local area that are legit and save those in your phone book. If something happens you know where to go and don’t have to ask Google.

Not just with women. I usually drag my feet to make some noise when coming from behind. Most times I’m walking faster than other people so I constantly have to overtake them but don’t want to surprise anyone.

Women specifically I try to avoid passing directly, if it’s not too inconvenient or I will look in another direction, on my phone or whatever to make it clear I’m not interested in them.

But if a creep approaches her, I do make sure to stand nearby and be openly aware.

I hate that women need to be so afraid.

Ich bin auch dafür dies abzuschaffen, mir egal welche von beiden. Einfach weil ich es für unnötig halte.

Was ich mich frage ist warum die Zeitumstellung jedes Jahr so eine krasse Auswirkung auf viele Menschen hat und auf mich überhaupt nicht. Es ist halt ein um eine Stunde längerer oder kürzerer Tag. Eine Stunde ist nicht viel. Übers ganze Jahr hinweg schlafe ich mal gut und mal schlecht, mal kürzer mal länger. Es fühlt sich beim Aufwachen vielleicht temporär etwas doof an, aber über den Tag hinweg ändert es eigentlich nichts für mich. Warum nimmt das andere so viel stärker mit?

How this man hasn’t crumbled by the all the responsibility and pressure is beyond me.

Verdiene ähnlich viel und hab keine Ahnung wie ich mir jemals eine schöne Eigentumswohnung, geschweige denn Haus leisten soll, ohne auf alle Rücklagen zu verzichten und nur noch bei Netto einzukaufen. Zugegeben hab ich leider zu spät gelernt mit Geld umzugehen und daher kaum Kapital. Ich gönne mir auch ein kleines E-Auto und möchte im Supermarkt nicht so gerne auf die Preise schauen, aber sonst würde ich nicht sagen dass mein Leben unverhältnismäßig teuer wäre.

God

Strawberry season

You are right, the off-budget fund (Sondervermögen) for infrastructure also needed a 2/3 vote. I was under the impression that the 500 billion credit and how it will be spend was just part of the negotiations for the dept brake reform. My bad.

Yes but the next budget can then be done by a simple 51% majority which is the regular coalition. This dept brake change needed a 2/3 vote and lays the foundation for easier budgets in the future.

Why would this only last 4 years? It’s a constitution change. It does not magically undo itself after a certain time.

• having hundreds, even thousands of unread emails in their inbox and constantly complain they did not see the email I sent them. Fucking unsubscribe from all the newsletters you don’t read and disable that Jira ticket update spam you don’t need to respond to. Suddenly it’s all manageable because you don’t actually get many important emails!
• in general (not just computer related) not learning how to use the tools available to you to solve problems you obviously have