German of the day: Patient*in

March 20, 2024 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Hideology, Higher Education Tags: Gender, German, Language Leave a comment

Just kidding. That was the German of yesterday. No more “gender star” for you!

It’s Patientin. As in female patient. Maybe it’s even the patient, female or otherwise, who thought up the gender star and all this other nonsense too.

Germany’s Bavaria cracks down on gender-sensitive language – More and more German texts use asterisks, colons and other symbols to make language more inclusive. The conservative government in the southern German state of Bavaria, however, says this trend is driven by ideology.

Nobody else’s pension system works

March 16, 2024 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Helections, Hideology, Home Cooking Tags: Demographics, Economy, Pensions, Retirees, Retirement, Social Security Leave a comment

Why should Germany’s?

They are all brilliant systems and they all work the same way: You pay into it your entire working life while your government pumps in ever more money to prop it up and thus burden future generations with massive growing debt (interest rates rock). This Ponzi scheme only works if parents have way more children (at least three on average). It stopped working a long, long time ago, in other words.

Germany struggles to fix its pension system – German society is aging fast and the working-age population is shrinking. There are new plans to make the pension system fit for the future, but critics have said they won’t work.

Intangible

March 14, 2024 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Home Cooking Tags: Berlin, Culture, Techno, UNESCO Leave a comment

Intangible sense. Or the intangible lack of sense, I should say.

Let’s approach this differently: What isn’t on the UNESCO cultural heritage list? It would certainly make for a shorter list that would be much easier to handle.

Berlin techno added to UNESCO cultural heritage list – UNESCO has just added six new entries to the list of intangible cultural heritage in Germany, including Berlin’s techno scene. The intangible cultural heritage designation is meant to preserve cultural traditions.

Half of Germans support reintroducing military service

March 13, 2024 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, Home Cooking, Hurt Feelings Tags: Army, Bundeswehr, Draft, Germans, Germany, Military, NATO, Russia, Service, Ukraine Leave a comment

For the other half.

And for some odd reason the younger Germans are much less enthusiastic about the idea than older Germans.

Around half of German citizens are in favour of reintroducing compulsory military service, according to a survey by opinion research institute Forsa.

In the poll commissioned by German news magazine Stern, 52% of respondents were in favour of compulsory military service, the magazine said on Tuesday.

Some 43% were against it and 5% expressed no opinion. According to the data, the strongest supporters of compulsory military service were found in the over-60 age group, with 59% in favour. In contrast, 59% of 18 to 29-year-olds were against compulsory military service.

“Life in prison”

March 11, 2024 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Hideology, Home Cooking Tags: Courts, Crime, Germany, Judges, Murder, Prisons, Punishment, Sentances Leave a comment

Is what this guy deserves. But “life in prison” doesn’t mean “life in prison” in Germany.

It means fifteen (15) years.

A US man is sentenced to life in prison for murder and rape in attack on 2 American women in Germany – An American man was convicted of murder and other charges on Monday for brutally attacking two American women near Germany’s famed Neuschwanstein castle last summer and pushing them into a ravine, fatally injuring one of them. He was sentenced to life in prison…

Presiding judge Christoph Schwiebacher determined that the defendant bears particularly severe guilt, meaning that he LIKELY won’t be eligible for release after 15 years as is usually the case in Germany… “a release after 15 years would not be justifiable” but he’ll get released anyway.

No eye for you!

March 10, 2024 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Helplessness Tags: Espionage, Germany, Infiltration, Russia, Secrets, Security, Spies, Taurus Leave a comment

Infiltration nation.

Germans “can’t be trusted” with intelligence secrets – Germany has been asking for access to Five Eyes intelligence to more than 20 years. But the extent of infiltration by Russia means that it cannot be trusted.

Germany cannot be trusted to share the UK’s share of Five Eyes intelligence secrets “as long as it remains infiltrated by Russia”, experts warned last night.

Germans say allies ‘not angry or upset’

March 6, 2024 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Helplessness, Home Cooking, Hurt Feelings Tags: Allies, Germany, Leaks, Russia, Taurus, UK, Ukraine, USA Leave a comment

About the German allies who are angry and upset with Germany.

Russia-Ukraine war live: Drones cut power to Crimea as Germany says allies ‘not angry or upset’ over leaks – Germany says leaked intercepted call explained as ‘individual mistake’ to Washington and London.

… Meanwhile, the German defence minister has said the country’s allies are “not angry or upset” after details of high-level military discussions were leaked to Russian media.

Boris Pistorius described the incident, which included German military officers saying British forces were “on the ground” in Ukraine helping launch missiles at Russia, as an “individual mistake”.

“They are not angry or upset with Germany because they know that we have rules and that things like this can happen,” the German defence minister said.

German of the day: Brandanschlag

March 5, 2024 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, Hurt Feelings Tags: Arson, Berlin, Electricity, German, Germany, Language, Protests, Tesla Leave a comment

That means aerson attack.

The Tree People did it (they’re kind of like the Sand People in Star Wars, only with trees)!

Tesla without electricity is like a… Well, this is what it’s like:

Tesla factory near Berlin evacuated! No power for hours after arson attack. Production at a standstill ++ Bomb searchers move in…

Peaceful protest turns into naked violence! Eco-criminals paralyzed Tesla’s car factory in Grünheide (12,500 employees) with an arson attack on Tuesday morning. The entire factory, the town of Erkner and parts of Berlin are without electricity. Bomb searchers are now moving in. The car factory has been evacuated!

German of the day: Geleakt

March 2, 2024 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Helplessness, Home Cooking Tags: Espionage, Germany, Rockets, Russia, Taurus, Ukraine Leave a comment

That means leaked. Like in secrets.

Russia publishes German army meeting on Ukraine – Germany is investigating the apparent interception by Russia of army officers discussing supplying Ukraine with long-range missiles – and possible targets.

Audio of the video-conference meeting was posted to social media by the head of Russia’s state-run RT channel.

The officers discuss how the missiles could hit the Kerch Bridge, which links Russia to the illegally annexed Crimea.

Russian politicians said the audio proved that its “sworn enemy” was planning attacks.

Who says the German navy isn’t ready for war?

February 29, 2024 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Helplessness, Home Cooking Tags: Drones, Germany, Navy, Red Sea Leave a comment

But, like, with US-Amerika? Again? Sheesh.

German navy almost shot down US drone over Red Sea – A German warship in the Red Sea almost shot down a US drone in a narrowly averted case of friendly fire, according to reports.

Observing Hermann

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