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- Comment on Servers go Brrrrrr 2 weeks ago:
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 $) 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. - Comment on Servers go Brrrrrr 2 weeks ago:
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 firm 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 price 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…)
- Comment on Servers go Brrrrrr 2 weeks ago:
Soooo… there are openly available public databases containing information on how fancy a kitchen you own…?
On one hand that’s completely hilarious.
On the other hand that’s frighteningly dystopian.To say it with the latest officially elected German youth word: “Das crazy.”
- Comment on Servers go Brrrrrr 2 weeks ago:
While it is pretty common for heating (as it is mostly centralized either in the building complex or even city district and you stuck with it), it is very uncommon for electricity.
There is something called the “Grundtarif” of the local electricity provider that it just defaults to, but you are not forced to keep it.
This might very likely be it.You could just try to look up your meter ID and try to switch to a different provider (can really easily be done online).
If you are actually in the Grundtarif, I would really recommend that, as the Grundtarif usually is the most expensive option you can get, so you could save a lot of money. - Comment on Servers go Brrrrrr 2 weeks ago:
Typically you have a contract with the electricity company yourself, not via the landlord.
He typically doesn’t know and doesn’t care from whom (or if at all) you get your electricity.Yours might be a special arrangement because of being a student apartment.
- Comment on Servers go Brrrrrr 2 weeks ago:
Lighting load on new construction homes is calculated based on square footage.
That doesn’t even make sense as it treads someone just putting up a single 5W bulb the same as someone having an indoor hemp plantation or heavy machine shop in their basement.
- Comment on Servers go Brrrrrr 2 weeks ago:
Are you perhaps confusing that with the heating meter checkers in appartment buildings? They actually need the living area for the billing and have a contract to do so with your
landslumlord, and thereby you.Regarding the slumlord: The magic word is generally “Mietminderung”, I think.
- Comment on Servers go Brrrrrr 2 weeks ago:
they need to know what a facility is capable of to manage and plan power delivery.
But that’s a single value measured in Ampere.
The size in square feet is something completely irrelevant to know.
And even the Ampere value is only relevant for the local provider that connects to your house, not for the company selling you the actual electric energy.
The company selling me electricity knows nothing about me but my electric meter ID.
- Comment on Servers go Brrrrrr 2 weeks ago:
Wow. That idea is definitely 2American4me…
(I also just posted it in the respective community, as it fits perfectly there…) - Comment on Servers go Brrrrrr 2 weeks ago:
Why does the electricity company know your flat size and your heating source?
- Comment on Not to get into a debate. If God is so omnipotent and above humans why does he or she have emotions? Like smiting or being upset or wrath? 3 weeks ago:
But it is a possible solution to the postulated contradiction and thereby a valid answer.
- Comment on Not to get into a debate. If God is so omnipotent and above humans why does he or she have emotions? Like smiting or being upset or wrath? 3 weeks ago:
Starts with:
“Not to get into a debate.”Continues with:
" If God is so omnipotent"…🤪
- Comment on The person who mounted a spice rack into the fucking studs so a fridge won't fit there 3 weeks ago:
Just move the spice bound to a different place?
- Comment on Apparantly there are some rural places in China that have never seen a white person... So... are there like places in the US I can go where they never seen an Asian person before? 3 weeks ago:
l guess it is a lot harder in the US, as it was formed by people immigrating from all over the world.
Might be easier in more homogenous populations, e.g. some parts of Europe.
Eg. I live in Germany and was 14 years old when seeing the first black person in real life, a girl from Eritrea whose family had moved to my school district.
Only dark skinned person in a school with 400+ pupils.Asian people are more common in my region, but there are probably many rural areas you would be stared at a lot
- Comment on America 4 weeks ago:
l like the idea, but I suspect it often might have the opposite effect as intended.
Imagine e.g. taking a quick glance at the watch to determine if you will still catch the bus - this would most likely result in you sprinting to the bus stop just to be on the safe side…
- Comment on America 4 weeks ago:
Are you talking about a watch with 24 different numbers on it?
Yes, arranged in a circle, 24 at the top, 12 at the bottom, lower part is day, upper part is night.
App also had a daylight indication shading depending on local sunrise/sunset.
Loved it! - Comment on America 4 weeks ago:
24hr analog watches are the real shit, though!
Had a good emulated one on my phone homescreen for a long time, but unfortunately app is not supported by newer versions of Android any more… :-(
- Comment on The forbidden fourth leche 4 weeks ago:
Depends.
This here being the shitpost community, my skill certainly greatly exceeds yours in this case…
- Comment on The forbidden fourth leche 4 weeks ago:
My lactose intolerant guts are already about to explode just by looking at it…
- Comment on cool cool cool 4 weeks ago:
Instant surprise switch to nonexistence after my kids and grown up and have their own lifes would be totally fine.
Preferrably in synchronization with the life partner.
It’s not the being dead that’s the problem, it’s all the nasty stuff connected with the transition process.
- Comment on [Question] Metal Sign on Railroad Says "790Hz" 4 weeks ago:
Definitely not an RF frequency, much, much too low.
Might be some wire based signalling for a railway switch or semaphore or so.
Perhaps ask in a train community? - Comment on Manned spaceflight is back baybee. 4 weeks ago:
Yes! :-)
Couldn’t remember the name, but now found the video watched (recommended btw): - Comment on Manned spaceflight is back baybee. 4 weeks ago:
While it is a good idea to stress that this is a largely US undertaking to show that this country is not all just shit in a barrel yet, the bland nationalism in your comment unfortunately somewhat negates that impression again.
- Comment on Manned spaceflight is back baybee. 4 weeks ago:
That’s maybe way less impressive as it sounds but just how new tech establishes itself in a burst of progress over the first couple of decades.
E.g. we are currently just 68 years after the invention of the first integrated circuit and 55 years after the first microprocessor… - Comment on Manned spaceflight is back baybee. 4 weeks ago:
To quote some youtuber I recently watched:
“We aren’t late now, we were just really early back then.”
That they had been able to successfully pull of a moon landing with 60s technology just a couple of years after the first person in space is pretty insane!
- Comment on It hurts. 5 weeks ago:
Speaking as someone who has been living in towns with rivers for most of my life:
This is the way.
My experience clearly says that you will loose orientation and get confused the moment you go to a district that is not alligned with the riverbank.
- Comment on the more you know 5 weeks ago:
I’m not entirely sure l want to know the story behind this… ;-)
- Comment on the more you know 5 weeks ago:
Personally, I prefer sauerkraut.
Complete culinary taste fireworks! - Comment on the more you know 5 weeks ago:
Really?
l always assumed it was for deposing of the dark cream holders after you had liked it of. - Comment on It works better if you put it in your mouth first. 1 month ago:
“Kilowat”
Might have questioned the reliability of that source even back then already…