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Germany on track to partly legalise cannabis for personal use after heated debate in c/europe@feddit.de
[–] anmassen@feddit.de 27 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

However this plays out in Germany will probably be a major influence on the cannabis policy in other EU countries in a few years.

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Germany on track to partly legalise cannabis for personal use after heated debate (www.theguardian.com)
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More than 100,000 protest across Germany over far-right AfD’s mass deportation meetings in c/europe@feddit.de
[–] anmassen@feddit.de 57 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (24 children)

With all the current negative articles about the political and economic situation in Germany, I think it's also important to remember to share the positive ones. Although that's not to say there aren't worrisome things going on here.

There's another article from this morning here, it might give you a more complete picture of what's happening: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/21/germany-afd-party-deportation-masterplan-protests

There are more protests happening across the country today, the one in Berlin is at 4 pm at Brandenburger Tor. See you there.

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More than 100,000 protest across Germany over far-right AfD’s mass deportation meetings (www.theguardian.com)
 

Archived link: https://web.archive.org/web/20240121094336/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/21/more-than-100000-protest-across-germany-over-far-right-afds-mass-deportation-meetings

MediaMarkt-Saturn: Chef von Elektronik-Einzelhandelskette rüttelt an der Sonntagsruhe in c/dach@feddit.de
[–] anmassen@feddit.de 12 points 5 months ago

Ich kann eine aktuelle Folge des Podcasts The Happiness Lab empfehlen: https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/the-happiness-lab-with-dr-laurie-santos/when-stalin-killed-the-weekend-a-happiness-lab-cautionary-tales-crossover

Es darum geht, warum gemeinsame Ruhetage gut sind.

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Greenland losing 30m tonnes of ice an hour, study reveals (www.theguardian.com)
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Archived link: https://web.archive.org/web/20240117182920/https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/17/greenland-losing-30m-tonnes-of-ice-an-hour-study-reveals

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‘The mood is heating up’: Germany fears strikes will play into hands of far right (web.archive.org)
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Your next excuse is on platform 5 – German train travel has become an experience worthy of Kafka (www.theguardian.com)
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Erratic Deutsche Bahn services make our commutes a misery. Luckily, their meaningless announcements are an art form

My favourite excuse is an expression that might one day be emblematic of contemporary Germany. I hear Deutsche Bahn wants staff to stop using it, but it can’t banish it from our minds. Verzögerungen im Betriebsablauf – “operational delays” – is meaningful and meaningless in a way that only the German language allows. One day it might even become one of those golden words co-opted into the English language – like zeitgeist or schadenfreude. (Let’s retire Blitz, a word that is jaded and overused in sport, politics and beyond.)

Verzögerungen im Betriebsablauf is the magic phrase for not getting anywhere fast while also suggesting everything is full steam ahead. It is sinister in a beautiful way. It is a phrase Kafka might use if he were writing today, a perfect description of a situation where no one can do anything but everyone is busy.