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Merz backs plans to raise Germany’s retirement age to 70 in pension changes
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Merz backs plans to raise Germany’s retirement age to 70 in pension changes
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The only way to drive through Wales is blasting the LOTR & Skyim soundtrack.
Somehow I don't believe that to be exclusive to male hikers
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[OC] alley along the danube
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This is literally two rows of trees next to a river, you couldn't get further from a forest without removing the trees. I get not liking plantation forests, I don't either, but this is just not that. Its also right next to a fairly natural part of the Danube wich is quite beautiful in its own right.
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[OC] alley along the danube
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Yes, planted for aestetics, also the home of dozens of bird species, because its poplar trees that very much belong on the waters edge. As far into a millennia old city as this is you really aren't going to see many "natural" trees.
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[OC] alley along the danube
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Very much not a tree guy, but its literally called poplar alley and these tree guys seep to agree with the poplar diagnosis https://www.baumkunde.de/forum/viewtopic.php?t=31139 They also make the annoying ass fluff
Very much not a tree guy myself tho
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[OC] alley along the danube
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Sure, let's not keep this culturally protected 200m long stretch of trees. This image massively compresses the distance between these trees, surrounding this area are large parklands with much more nature-like planting, so no thank you this one place can stay.
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You can choose normal, fancy, or wildcard.
Let's be real here, we usually just stick all of them in a blender and pour ourselves one glass of perfectly mixed accent juice
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Bread hording
Because one of these has a clear answer
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Bacon tho
I mainly kill animals to enjoy the silence that comes after.
Damn mosquitoes sound annoying AF!
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wat
X/0.5 easy
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Author who recommended killing Palestinian journalists receives German ‘peace prize’
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So, average German here. Person I have never heard of gets an award I've never heard of. Doesn't seem very peaceful to me tho.
I'd say I'm interested in hearing the reasoning, but that would be a lie. It's been a while since I cared about any such awards.
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She wants us dead 🙃
I kind of hate to have to say this, but its ok to still like the stories. If you have to buy them, buy used, otherwise pirate. I can't possibly be the only one who was launched headfirst into allyship by the HP fandom and the more people that happens to the better. As always, JK can go fuck herself.
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Alaska Airlines flight forced to make emergency landing after window blows out in mid-air
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This probably has nothing to do with maintenance. The plane was only two months old. Enough for some inspections, but nobody would suspect or look for cracks in the fuselage at that point. So it's probably a manufacturing issue.
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On Venus.
I hate to be that guy, but the first space rocket was one of the V2 test vehicles in 1944. It made it to an altitude of 176km Wich is most definitely in space.
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poll rule
Hard shell, it soaks up the Coke much better, when you dip it in.
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True continent sizes
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Except, that your picture shows the continents in the usual Mercator projection distorted way. This type of projection makes countries nearer to the poles look way larger than they actually are.
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Top US ethics watchdog investigating Trump over dinner with oil bosses
I don't think they'll find any ethics there
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EU-Lieferkettengesetz droht an Deutschland zu scheitern
Ich werde die FDP nicht vermissen, wenn sie unter die 5 Prozent fällt...
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One of capitalisms biggest tragedies
Honestly, it's not just capitalism. Education is anywhere from free to really cheap in Germany, and we still don't get many people from poorer families into uni.
I see the main problem here as a sort of class divide between people with university degrees and people without. For example: if you work in a public library and don't have a uni degree you will never get more money than salary level 9 (4k/mo) just having a degree and not doing any more/different work more or less instantly puts you on 12 or higher (6k+)
This I think understandably makes people without uni degrees kind of resentful of those who do have them. And if you grow up resenting a certain group of people you are much less likely to join them.
So, no. "Just" getting rid of the cost won't magically get these people into higher education.
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When a non-binary person uses a computer
Any computer they use just turns into a quantum computer by sheer force of will