I find it wild that jobs out there require a C2 level knowledge of a language, when most native speakers couldn't pass their own country's C2 level exams. Someone posted 10 words from the Polish C2 exam and my wife - a master of linguistics from Uni of Warsaw - didn't know 3 of them.

Saw a #BVG bus today with ads for a housing cooperative (WGLi) on it. In Berlin's current housing crisis, what cooperative needs to advertise anywhere? Who is this informing and about what?

Just watched a Polish travel youtuber walking around Berlin constantly talking about how scared he is, absolutely hilarious.

In looking for a job, a car or a place to live, we make the assumption that the side with the power is lying to us. How messed up is that?

I wish my audiobook apps did a wrapped, I'm just curious how many hundreds of hours I listened to.

One of the jokes we regularly see in Germany are about how obsessed Germans are with carbonated water. It's not a joke, the Berlin waterworks bottle filling station at my daughter's elementary school has 3 taps for still, medium and sparkling.

Couldn't put my bank account into the arbeitslosengeld system because I didn't have a high enough security level, even though I'd logged in with my BundID. Went to the AfA and changed it. The guy didn't even look at my ID, just asked me for my DoB and address.

Anybody else feel the need to be seen, but when people notice you, you want to hide? Or just me.

The dream of every Muslim is simply to be treated the same as any other New Yorker. And yet, for too long, we have been told to ask for less than that, and endure hatred and bigotry in the shadows. No more.

Friends from the US are posting how much their health insurance is going to be in the next year, seeing numbers like $4000/month for a family of 4. Our family of 3 pays 416€/month, and if I made less, it'd be less.

One of the greatest cultural phenomena to come out of the UK in the past decade have been the Great British $HOBBY$ shows. I'm currently binging the The Sewing Bee and it's honey for my blackened soul.

One of the funnier things I experience as a Varsovian is having Berliners tell me how bad the winter is in Berlin. Guys, your air doesn't even smell like burning plastic, what are you talking about?

Do sewing machine manufacturers have some sort of under-the-table dear with the Great British Sewing Bee? Cause I own a machine and even so I want to upgrade it.

I am weirdly excited to take an international bus on Friday. I booked two seats (extra 9€) and plan on just vibing.

Colin Hanks' documentary about John Candy, titled "I Like Me", sure does get you in the gut. What an amazing man.

Warning labels on the gochujang cookies for my daughter's bake sale.

I've just spent 20 minutes trying to log in back into my instagram account and Meta is worth 1.8 trillion dollars.

It's weird having a smart kid. I don't want to be one of those, "oh, my kid is a genius" parents but also she has a 1.0 average in German public school, which she started basically unable to hold a conversation in German.

Never change, BVG.

EU English has a growing number of its own native speakers by now too, kids of international EU couples where English is the main household language but is not the native language of either parent. It’s not a huge population but growing especially in major EU capitals. My own nephew is one.

The fascists are winning because there’s no vision of post fascism. The things you claim to want are not enunciated or illuminated as materially different from the fascists You still want to be able to drain a subcategory of human dry with NO responsibility And they KNOW this about you

Can't wait to get to heaven and be greeted by Gums McGee.

Are they goth? Or is it just Korean sunscreen?

I understand the why, but the fact that a Berlin-Munich-Beijing flight is 100€ cheaper than a Munich-Beijing flight is stupid.

Poaching chicken breast in aromatics is up there with sous vide for tender, delicious meat, but so much faster and easier

A good way to get excellent child raising pointers is to ask the shittiest parents you know for advice and then doing the opposite.

Weird question: if a photo of a piece of my art was used in an exhibition, can I say I was a part of the exhibition? Hallenkunst at the Markthalle in Chemnitz.

Americans get mad when Europeans make fun of American culture, but they're literally having a country wide discussion about a fast casual dining chain's new logo.

I'd love to do this. Let's go

The reason the right talks so much about pedophiles and sexual assault of kids is because they know what they're talking about from experience.

Dear Deutschsprechers, is funemployment “Arbeitslosspaß”?

You'd think that the same train connections would cost the same, no matter what european train app you buy them on. Wrong. I've saved 60€ this year buying tickets on different apps.

Going to Scotland next month and filling for a UK ETA, I'm realizing that I never visited during the 20+ time when both the UK and Poland were in the EU.

There's always these "post your most unhinged meme" threads on here and I never had anything to post, until today.

Watching and listening to Germans wait for they food and complain, instead of just going to sit down for a moment and come back when it's ready.

The Tesla diner menu lists its bacon as “Epic bacon,” in case you got confused about whether these guys were giant losers

German schools: children must come to class, there is absolutely no chance of having them end the school year earlier. Attendance is extremely important and mandator. Also german schools:

I need to know: is this castle a real place in Scotland.

DNFed one book because of horrible writing, considering stopping another because of the editing. "Tall, handsome, medium height, blue eyes" shouldn't be a valid description

Another day where I'm outraged that Polish people, who've fetishized the Warsaw Uprising for the past 40 years, don't see parallels with what's happening in Gaza.

What Reagan realized is America is, at its core, a corrupt, racist and massively insecure country. He just leveraged the shit out of it.

People who are against 15 minute cities are the direct spiritual descendents of anti-union folks in the late 1800s.

If you ever see me writing about being "on my grind" and I'm not talking about coffee or flour, please put me out of my misery

I just referred the money I spent on my AC unit 8 years ago "capex". I need to get out of corporate jobs.

These American midwest potluck videos on the internet are doing me in. In most of Europe, if you get invited to a potluck, you will probably get to taste some of the best cooking you'll ever tasted. In the US, you'll get a casserole with marshmallows.

I can't wait for the US GOP to criticize the Democrats for provisions in the BBB.

FINAL RESULT of the New York City election: Mamdani: 56.0%. 545,334 votes (+99069 over first-round). Cuomo: 44.0%, 428,530 votes (+53493 over first-round). Mamdani wins by 12 percentage points.

The current AI tulip mania is -- again -- a problem of too much capital being in the hands of the too few. There is so much money that doesn't DO anything useful, but the hunger for more and more wealth refuses to go away.

There are millions of people in the world who do weed, but have never done an illegal drug, and that's just weird to me.