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3 votes
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Germany's first hobby horse championship gallops through Frankfurt
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Danish firm DSV secures deal to buy Schenker, the logistics arm of German state railway Deutsche Bahn – will become world's largest logistics company
5 votes -
Germany’s expansion of border controls is testing European unity
12 votes -
Helldivers 2 support studio Toadman Interactive to shut offices in Sweden and Norway – some positions at developer's Berlin office also at risk
14 votes -
Finland is building the world's largest heat pump – will provide enough heat for 30,000 homes, saving roughly 26,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions each year
21 votes -
Fehmarn Belt tunnel being built with innovative engineering is final step of project to connect Denmark – and the Nordics as a whole – to the rest of Europe
13 votes -
What if Germany had invested in nuclear power? A comparison between the German energy policy the last twenty years and an alternative policy of investing in nuclear power.
9 votes -
Digital Euro has Germans fretting their money won’t be secure
16 votes -
RB Leipzig have signed Antonio Nusa from Club Bruges – Norwegian has signed a five-year contract and will wear the No 7 shirt
3 votes -
Heilung | LIFA Iotungard (Live at Red Rocks Amphitheater, 2021)
14 votes -
Smashing idea: how East Germany invented ‘unbreakable’ drinking glasses
16 votes -
German court due to rule on ‘from the river to the sea’ case in test of free speech
18 votes -
Inside the secret negotiations to free Evan Gershkovich
9 votes -
Türkiye and Germany in spicy feud over doner kebab
23 votes -
Facebook and Instagram's algorithmic favoritism towards extremist parties revealed in new study of political ads in Germany
27 votes -
Germany's Kai Havertz and Jamal Musiala shrug off storm delay to sink furious Denmark and head through to the UEFA Euro 2024 quarter-finals
10 votes -
Why didn't Chris and Dan get into Berghain? - Search Engine with PJ Vogt
7 votes -
Volkswagen to invest up to $5 billion in EV maker Rivian as part of tech joint venture
20 votes -
Danish King Frederik X inaugurated the first element of a future eighteen-kilometre tunnel under the Baltic Sea – Fehmarn Belt fixed link will slash travel times between Scandinavia and Central Europe
16 votes -
Divers find remains of Finnish WWII plane that was shot down by Moscow with a US diplomat aboard
18 votes -
Patrick Breyer's successor fails to be elected to EU parliament
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Wirecard and me: Dan McCrum on exposing a criminal enterprise
17 votes -
Ten days in December- Germany with kids: Itinerary feasibility
Hi all- throwing myself on the goodwill of the community. I'm currently planning an approximately 10 day trip to Germany this December with my wife and our two boys (6 and 10). I am constrained by...
Hi all- throwing myself on the goodwill of the community.
I'm currently planning an approximately 10 day trip to Germany this December with my wife and our two boys (6 and 10).
I am constrained by the will of the people as follows:
My Wife: Wants to see the Christmas markets in Cologne and wherever else they may be in the cities we go through. Cologne is a must, though.
My elder son: Is obsessed with tanks and really wants to see the German Tank Museum in Munster (Lower Saxony not Munster in Westphalia). Honestly, so would I.
He had also really wanted to see the u-boat preserved at the German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven so Bremen seemed like a good midpoint. It turns out the ship exhibitions are closed during winter alas. In any case I'm not closely wedded to Bremen specifically but I will need to take a day trip to the Tank Museum from a nearby city. Staying specifically in Munster seems counterproductive as it appears to be a rather small town (I'm willing to do so if anyone has good things to say about it).I'm stuck with these dates too, as I have to be elsewhere by the 21st for Christmas celebrations.
Currently the broad strokes are as follows:
10 Dec (Tues)
AM: Land in Frankfurt 0610. Connect to Cologne via train
PM: Check in to hotel. Cologne Christmas markets11 Dec (Weds)
AM & PM: Tourist stuff in Cologne12 Dec (Thurs)
AM: Connect to Bremen via train
PM: Wander Bremen old town13 Dec (Fri)
AM: Rent car, drive to German Tank Museum in Munster
PM: Back to Bremen, check out Christmas markets14 Dec (Sat)
AM: Connect to Berlin via train
PM: Check into hotel, get orientated15- 18 Dec (Sun- Weds)
See Things In Berlin (would be glad for suggestions here)19 Dec (Thurs)
AM Connect to Frankfurt via train
PM Last minute sightseeing Frankfurt20 Dec (Fri)
AM Fly off from Frankfurt AirportWould be grateful for any feedback and/or suggestions.
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Alexander Zverev powers past out-of-sorts Casper Ruud to set up Carlos Alcaraz showdown in French Open final
6 votes -
FUTURE PALACE - The Echoes of Disparity (2024)
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Alexander Zverev came through a five-setter against Holger Rune to book his spot in the quarter-finals of the French Open for the fourth year in a row
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Nürburgring 24 Hours (May 30th - June 2nd)
Friday Qualifying 3: 13:30 - 14:45 CEST Top Qualifying: 17:30 - 19:15 CEST Saturday: Green Flag: 17:30 CEST, 11:30 EST, 15:30 GMT, 01:30 (Saturday) AEST Track Information: 25.378 km (15.770 miles)...
Friday
Qualifying 3: 13:30 - 14:45 CEST
Top Qualifying: 17:30 - 19:15 CESTSaturday:
Green Flag: 17:30 CEST, 11:30 EST, 15:30 GMT, 01:30 (Saturday) AEST
Track Information: 25.378 km (15.770 miles) located in Nürburg, Germany
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Streaming/TV/Radio
ADAC TotalEnergies 24hNürburgring (YT Channel) - Official race streams and many on-board streams available.
Radio LeMans Commentary (English)
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Live Timing
Official 24h Rennen Live Timing
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Social Media
Use the hashtags #24hNurburgring and #adacn242024 to get involved!
/r/WEC for official race discussion threads
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Return to Senua: Hellblade's Melina Juergens on reprising a role she never thought she'd play
20 votes -
Inside the peculiar world of Farming Simulator eSports
27 votes -
Rams (2018) - A Dieter Rams documentary - Free today
4 votes -
German court says far-right AfD is suspected of extremism
23 votes -
Eastern Front of WW1 animated: 1914
4 votes -
Germany’s robotic stores must rest on Sundays, too
22 votes -
In Berlin, I experience icks I never thought possible
15 votes -
German parliament votes to make it easier for transgender people to change their name and gender
39 votes -
How the Berlin Wall worked
13 votes -
German state ditches Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice
56 votes -
Botswana threatens to send 20,000 elephants to Germany
37 votes -
New analysis of wooden finds at Schöningen show wood was crucial raw material 300,000 years ago
7 votes -
Britain’s vast network of abandoned nuclear bunkers | Cold War UK
8 votes -
Analysis of Ludwig van Beethoven’s DNA revealed that he had a low genetic predisposition for musical ability
10 votes -
Cowboy launches all-road electric bike to attract riders beyond European city centers
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Germany legalizes recreational cannabis use
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Germany’s solar panel industry, once a leader, is getting squeezed
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Relative financial burden imposed on university students by housing cost in Germany steadily increasing. About a third of all students close to poverty line. How does this compare to your region?
The latest iteration of a study regarding the cost of student housing in Germany found, that rent prices for students have risen to a germany-wide average of 479€. Three years ago the average was...
The latest iteration of a study regarding the cost of student housing in Germany found, that rent prices for students have risen to a germany-wide average of 479€. Three years ago the average was just 391€. In Munich the average cost for student housing has risen to no less than 760€. This is more than double than the housing-cost covered by BAföG, a public program providing financial support to students from low-income families. [1]
Statistically, more than a third of students in Germany are at risk of poverty at the moment, meaning they have less than 60% of the country's mean income available. [2] [3]
Also with regards to Munich specifically, the number of designated student housing facilities has not grown significantly or even dropped over the past few years, while the number of students has been steadily increasing. This means that more and more students have to look for rooms in shared apartments on the city's highly competitive housing market. Statistically, these students are those that live close to the poverty line particularly often.
I realize that the cost of high-quality higher education in Germany is not as majorly fucked as for example in the USA, but still the financial burden on students is steadily increasing due to housing cost. How does this compare to where you're from? How is student housing organized in your city, how much does it cost relative to the mean income, and do you experience similar trends in your region?
Sources (german), besides in-person conversations and experiences:
[1] https://cms.moses-mendelssohn-institut.de/uploads/24_03_19_Wohnkosten_Studierende_804a7b53ef.pdf
[2] https://www.spiegel.de/start/statistisches-bundesamt-mehr-als-ein-drittel-der-studierenden-lebt-unter-der-armutsgrenze-a-460cb19f-8a62-43ab-8b52-652814234250
[3] https://youtu.be/UVaY8SCtjwg28 votes -
German man deliberately receives 217 Covid vaccinations over twenty-nine months, with no adverse events or strong effect on immune system
45 votes -
BMW is a surprise winner in electric vehicles
20 votes -
What’s ‘wrong’ with east Germany? Look to its long neglect by the wealthy west.
9 votes -
Salvage of the century: The lost WWII gold of HMS Edinburgh
10 votes