Weil er nicht der “Händler” ist, im Sinne von der Mensch, der dir die Schrottkarre schönredet, sondern der Chef von dem Mensch.

Das stimmt natürlich, aber unabhängig davon hat das Handelsblatt hier eine Überschriften-Gelegenheit erkannt, sie ergriffen und dem Postillon damit den Artikel-Aufmacher vor der Nase weggeschnappt. :-)

That’s… somewhat frightening?

I had a head trauma myself, half a year ago.
Did a head-first somersault onto the hard pavement while biking, luckily wearing a helmet.

Lost only about 2.5hrs of memory (mostly after the accident, but some of it before).
It really creeped me out, just not knowing what happened during that time (e.g. I talked to my wife on the phone while riding the ambulance - completely no recollection of it).

But this ongoing memory resetting you described is a much more terrifying idea.
How do you feel about it now?

Aaaaand also: Do you wish the movie had rather been Groundhog Day? ;-)

Ich bin verwirrt…
Wieso steht da “handelsblatt”, wo “postillon” stehen sollte?

I would have to say “Drei Haselnüsse für Aschenbrödel”, especially in the time around Christmas.
(“Three Wishes for Cinderella”, an iconic Czechoslovakian/East-German film which is pretty much total cult here in Germany.)

Apart from that (and perhaps better known internationally):
“Back to the Future” also is pretty near the top of my list.

wenn ihr aus dem Rheinland kommt, sind euch auch saure Schnibbelbohnen aka „Fitschbunne“ ein Begriff.

Wat?

I’m constantly astounded btw, how many crumpy old man seem to exist in the bike maintenance business… 😆

As someone whose employer blocks the installation of browser extensions, I am more than excited to hear that!

Using the web sucks since that policy has been implemented a year or so ago.
Integrated adblock engine would rectify that again.

Yes, it’s a meta-joke inspired by the funny unit of size used in that article and on the fact that it is even more opaque to Europeans, which have even less of a feeling what that actually means.

Also, the format is a pretty common standard template (“xxx or something - no idea I’m yyy”), which is very popular in Germany, but I am not quite sure it is also a thing internationally…

And yes, I am also now graving for one of those delicious Pickup choco biscuits! :-)

Actual should have been “or something”.

In the English language, “or so” is used only for numeric uncertainties (like “5 eggs or so” / “5 or so eggs”),but not for general uncertainties, like not knowing what specific type of thing an object is.

That’s different to my 1st language (German) and I didn’t know that before learning it from other comments in this thread.

You would also say it “five or so eggs”. The “or so” gets tied directly to the number, not the eggs.

Interestingly Gemini Pro that I asked to make sense of the topic told me all its examples in the other word order:

„I’ll be there in 10 minutes or so.“
„It costs 50 dollars or so.“
„There were 20 people or so at the party.“

So either there are additional circumstantial or regional differences, or the LLM was sycophantic again and fantasized a form more pleasing to a German chat partner.

This day’s TIL, thanks!

I knew that “or so” is also a common expression in the English language, so assumed it to be used in the same way as in German.

As I just learned, this is only the case when dealing with numeric values (e.g. “five eggs or so” and not with uncertainties regarding more general things or distinctions between things.

So “Looks like a bug or so” apparently would be wrong.
As I now understand it you would say “Looks like a bug or something” instead?

Das Problem dabei ist, dass die Mehrheit des “Proletariats” inzwischen hart rechts ist.
(Zumindest bei uns.)

Ganz im Ernst - da möchte ich nicht noch eine Vereinigung obendrauf…

Cochem mentioned! 😍

I thought it was one of those:

It’s Christmas

This information is… (Checks calendar)… very likely fake news.

Correct unit should also have been Tesla cars, this is totally unacceptable!

Is this maybe a “hen-egg-problem”, meaning that only few passengers use it because it is so hard, while the companies see no economic gain in investing to make it easier because so few passengers are using it?

Overall buyer fees are unfortunately quite high in Germany, can be up to ~10% of the property price. Add to that the fact that houses or flats are generally more expensive than in the States, you quickly have additional costs of 50000€ or more (would be roughly the same in $) even for a small estate, which you can not cover by the credit, but have to pay in liquid cash.
This is a major hurdle for many and a likely part of the reason why so many people live in rented apartments here instead of buying.

Coming from a country where even the streetview pictures have to be blurred if the people living there wish so, this uncompromising publication of people’s home information is totally fascinating!

And also I am wondering now, what a half and a 3/4 bath is… ;-)

BTW: While it is true, that the kitchen is not part of a German house or flat, it nonetheless typically is also firmly attached (big screws into our rather solid brick walls).

And contrary to exaggerating Youtube-clips, in most cases it stays and is privately and quietly sold by one tenant to the next, out of obvious practical considerations.

Also because of the “does not belong to the building” rule, when buying a home, it is a good idea to estimate the value of an existing kitchen at the upper end and reduce the official price for the rest of the home accordingly, thereby reducing the estate sales tax by a few bucks. (Sales tax is only for the building, and the kitchen does not belong to the building, so…)

Yes, I wouldn’t have realized it myself if I hadn’t owned a Pentium myself, which already came with a (still small) fan.
All the other 486 type machines I had seen before only had some kind of passive aluminium radiator.
But one of those didn’t suffice any more for the 100MHz beast I had acquired… :-)