Just want to clarify that healthcare is not free; there are insurance companies and coverage is paid for.

The difference is they are more regulated and everyone must have insurance coverage

It seems like there’s more animosity towards immigrants, but I honestly think it reached a peak a while ago. The Syrian refugee diaspora was ten years ago. Any increase in right-wing extremism is from a general, global fad. They seem to feed off each other. These are just feelings. I don’t have any data

I considered myself white, but a big 9 on blue eyes; nix on blond hair. I do trace my ancestry back to Italy (doubled: both grandpas), but I don’t get malevolent racism; maybe some benign. People think I’m Spanish, or are surprised about my job, but it’s not so bad

Yeah, I saw where this was going. You have a thing against studying.

I don’t know what you mean with the second paragraph. I already don’t believe in that sort of voodoo. Keep in mind, Germany invented much of that bullshit. They still hawk homeopathic mumbo jumbo at pharmacies

I know. I understand German higher education. I work there. I also have most of my family (back in the US) in medicine at various levels.

The US registered nurse degree is usually a four-year degree that involves practical experience, but has a level of biology, physiology, anatomy, and biochemistry that the German regiment has no time for. It’s one of the reasons that nurses in the US can do things German nurses can’t, like give shots.

We could go further and talk about physician education, where someone can be a GP with only a bachelor’s in Germany, but maybe a later time…

My point was: OP’s wife might only need to take the certification test. I’m sure she’s over overqualified too be a basic nurse here. Degrees are generally recognized ever since Germany switched to the international bachelor/ Master/PhD system about 15 years ago

I’m not 100% sure, but might just need to take the Staatsexam. It’s a funny situation because registered nurses in the US go through a four- year bachelor’s, which doesn’t exist in Germany: just a trade school

a little less democracy creates a buffer against populism. Half of the legislature is chosen by the parties off a list (after winning support; sort of like voting straight-ticket). The parties make the lists, so they aren’t as likely to pick crazies as rogue voters. Then, a party has to get 5% of the votes to get a place in the assembly. Yes, the AFD has been meeting that occasionally, but, for the first reason, the real nutjobs find themselves in the lesser parties. On top of all this, the prime Minister isn’t directly elected, so a Trump (who most of his own party despises) is less likely. Germany is having problems lately; mostly with infighting and inter- party cooperation, but it’s harder for the populace to elect surprise officials

All the paintings look like someone just cranked up random photoshop filters

Who knows what the target was. A poster above said there was no detonator. He may have been transporting ir somewhere else to use

My only question is, How often do these trucks overturn?

Unfortunately, it probably would go like that. The snippet above just said “in public” so I assumed that would include just down the street

I can imagine some situations. I was at a party when we were cooking and the knives were shit. Went home and brought back over an 8 inch chef’s knife.

I did not have the original packaging to carry it. My cardboard and tape sheath would not have met the letter of this law

The Upper Peninsula of Michigan and up by Buffalo, NY get some serious snow

Then you should have contacted the authorities

I’ll let someone with more skin in the game take care of it. If people notice, they’ll go somewhere else, if they don’t, then I guess that shop gets away with it.

I thought the sizes were pretty big. It’d end up looking like a steak burrito

It may have been some sort of “style” but it was what they were putting on the spit to cut from and being sold as “döner” on the menu.

Actually the pizza definitions do specify the thickness of the crust

It didn’t have percentages, just a list of ingredients and, from what I know, they are listed in order of amount

I meant the info as support for the comment that it was just congealed meat. There were a lot of starches and binders as well

I’ve seen the ingredients on commercial döner meat in a German Döner shop. It’s mostly chicken skin

Edit: “meat”, and downvote all you like, it doesn’t make it untrue

I get all cooking, history, and movie reviews: Max Miller, Red Letter Media, Behind the Bastards, and four-hour history/archaeology documentaries

I feel like “angst” has a competition of uncomfortableness. It’s maybe more specific than anxiety and not as oppressive. Like teenage angst, it’s temporary

The word “angst” was taken over as a part of the language. It’s a specific type of fear, sort of mixed with anxiety. Fear and angst aren’t interchangable