Waldelfe

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[–] Waldelfe@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah, that's my main reason for not going to the cinema. I like the atmosphere and I can afford it, but why would I spend so much money just to have the experience spoiled by a bunch of brats jumping around and being annoying.

[–] Waldelfe@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago

As someone who loves colors I always find it so sad. I want to buy colorful options of products but often black, white and grey are the only ones available.

[–] Waldelfe@feddit.org 13 points 4 days ago

My guess is a bit of both. As a woman who's spent some time working in IT, there are still more than enough men who are pissed at having to include women and would jump at the opportunity to get them out of the door or degrade them as soon as possible. Give them an opportunity like "Oh no, now we have to take those women-related things down. Just in case, gotta keep our funding. Too bad, so sad." and they'll jump on it.

[–] Waldelfe@feddit.org 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Die Definitionen lassen sich aus der Bibel ableiten.

Also wenn wir z.B. Sprüche 31.10-31 nehmen, wird's doch super - die Mädchen werden alle erfolgreiche CEOs.

[–] Waldelfe@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago

While I generally agree, there aren't enough hotels who cater to special needs. For example I have two life threatening food allergies. Most hotels will tell me they can't cater to my needs because everything is prepared in the same pots, pans and cutting boards. I can't even have breakfast at most hotels.

The two times when I went to hotels that specifically advertised themselves as being allergy-friendly, I still ended up with 1) hazelnuts as decoration on my steak because it was Christmas and the cook had forgotten about my anaphylaxis to nuts and 2) being told on arrival that contrary to the information via email they only have a breakfast buffet where everything is prepared on the same cutting boards and it's all contaminated with nuts.

And I'm sure I'm not the only one. People with severe gluten intolerance or other food-related restrictions are having a hard time. Hotels just don't give a fuck for people with special needs. AirBnB or camping is currently the only way I can stay in a different city.

That doesn't mean I think what is happening with AirBnB and the cities is great, I just wish more hotels would be accommodating to special needs so they can be an option for everyone. For me it would already suffice if I could use the fridge and just prepare my own breakfast in my room, but most hotels allow fridge-usage only for medicine.

[–] Waldelfe@feddit.org 3 points 1 week ago

There was a student in my elementary school class in the early 90s, whose single mother worked as a cleaning lady at the school and supported both of them with that money. They had a small apartment, a car and while she was considered poor, she always had enough clothes, school supplies etc.

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[–] Waldelfe@feddit.org 4 points 2 weeks ago

"Just do it" is helpful in some cases, but mostly not. E.g. you think that a hobby is cool but you don't feel like you could start it? Just do it, take a course, try it out. It becomes unhelpful quickly when the realities of your life are just different. Telling in unemployed person with debt who is fascinated with flying to "just get a pilot license" ignores their reality. But telling a business analyst who's interested in manga but feels like this hobby would destroy his image, to "just do it and buy some mangas" is totally valid.

I have been struggling financially for most of my life and have received way too often the unhelpful advice to "just do it. Live a little." Just book that 100€ flight to Italy and see Rome. Just get a smartphone, everyone has one now! (That was when smartphoneplans were very expensive here and I couldn't justify such a high monthly cost. Yes I'm older.)

There is way too much "just do it" advise by people that live in their nice little bubble of a well-off, supportive family system and never realize that the only reason they can "just do it" is because they never had to eat rice with tomato sauce for 3 days in a row because there were only 10€ on the bank account by the 26th.

On a similar note, "just get a job, just learn something more profitable/in an industry with high wages" is also an often unhelpful advice. Not everyone can be good at everything. And not everyone can just uproot their lives and go back to school for a few years. Yes, some people can do amazing things like get a masters degree while working full-time and having kids. But this advise, too, ignores the reality of many people. If you have no support system or if you simply aren't cut out for the currently profitable jobs, you can't just magically switch careers. And even if you do: things change so quickly and there is no guarantee, that the currently well-paid job will still be like that in 5-10 years.

 

You know those euphemistic words like "muck up" for "fuck up", "shite" for "shit", or "unalive" for "suicide" that people use to circumvent the rules of major platforms like YouTube and Tiktok? I just thought about how people are starting to use them on other platforms and in real live out of habit. But they only make sense in this very specific context, that a majority of communication takes place on privately owned, strictly regulated internet platforms that ban certain words.

If for whatever reason the details of how the platforms worked get lost (and they might, because it's so centralised that all it takes is for a handful of major companies to go under and take all the content they host with them), it'll be difficult to retroactively figure out what the culture of the 2020s looked like and where all those weird words suddenly came from.

 

Mascha Kaléko was born in 1907 as the daughter of a Russian father and an Austrian mother. The family fled from the persecution of Jews in Galicia to Germany in 1918. Mascha spend her teenage years in Berlin. In 1928 she marries the philologist Saul Kaléko. In 1934 she meets and falls in love with the Jewish composer Chemjo Vinaver and starts a four year long affair until her divorce from Saul in 1938.

Chemjo and Mascha flee to New York where she continues to write poetry in German, her mother language. By the time she wrote this poem she already lived in New York, where she suffered from loneliness and the fact that she could not get her German poetry published.

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Ein Mensch wird "Pessimist" geschmäht,

Der düster in die Zukunft späht.

Doch scheint dies Urteil wohl zu hart:

Die Zukunft ist's, die düster starrt!

A man as "Pessimist" is flouted

Who sees the future gloom'ly clouded.

However this judgement too harsh appears:

It is the future that bleakly stares.

(I tried to translate it in a way that makes it rhyme in English. )