No, they didn't. It was a toss up in all polls right till the end with a slight tendency towards Trump. The polls were pretty much on the nose

Dann würd's uns noch viel härter treffen

Americans eating like they have free healthcare

Now, that's important information!

I didn't downvote you and also wouldn't, but I get where the down vote is coming from, as your comment adds nothing to the discussion. Which was the original reason for having down votes in the first place, wasn't it? It's like... who gives a shit? I also wouldn't know whether the abomination pictured is newer than 2010 but then again, who cares? Whether Stellantis brands this outhouse on wheels RAM or Dodge RAM or Penisenlarger 3000 doesn't really matter.

A VW transporter can carry 800kg, a Mercedes Sprinter up to 1.5t and their lengths are not absolutely absurd:

(Pictured is the VW but Mercedes is roughly the same length)

The only thing left then is the towing weight, that's limited to 2 tons for the Volkswagen, same for the Mercedes Sprinter. But I'd assume that usually people towing more than that in Europe would go for a semi truck anyway.

What are people in the US towing that weighs that much regularly?

Ah, there it is: the one joke Americans are able to make when talking about Germany.

Thanks for fulfilling the quota, I was worried Nazis won't be mentioned once. Thank you for your service 🫡

If you use LinkedIn to apply, simple tip: don't. The filter is usually "remove anyone applying through LinkedIn"

I don't think the cover letter is always useless. It often shows, whether the applicant understood the role correctly and how their skills fit into the requirements. The motivational blabla of course is just annoying for everyone involved.

If the company is that incompetent, I'd only wanted to work there if I'm really desperate. I'd hope it never comes to this.

Might be different where you live or in your sector, but no competent company in Germany would go with AI summaries. The chance that the AI misses a statement that the applicant might be disabled and could sue for discrimination is too high.

Also, we have to open CVs in the browser within the hiring application, download is not allowed for data security reasons. The renderer for Word files is definitely not good enough to guarantee that the files render correctly.

Personally, we're looking for highly skilled people in a specialized field, I'd never trust an AI summary, but we're also not being swarmed by applicants. If the company looks for a barista, your approach might be better. But proofing computer literacy is not really necessary then anyway.

I would question the applicant's computer literacy if they send me their CV as anything other than pdf. Basically never seen that though

I will miss Robert Habeck 💔 Whoever will follow him in this position will be so much worse...

What's the significance of 230?

There's never such a thing as "enough" as long as Trump is still president but it's impressive and a good start. And it gives hope especially to those protesting that they are not alone and resistance is not futile.

Now, Europeans, what was you saying?

I know that's a somewhat rhetorical question, but that's how Der Spiegel reports on it (Google Translated):

Mass protests against the US government

They are now in resistance against Trump II.

Donald Trump is massively pushing ahead with the restructuring of US democracy. Resistance has been limited so far. Now people are taking to the streets nationwide, in Washington, New York, Chicago. They are warning the Republican: "Hands off!"

"We shall overcome," the protest brass band sings upstairs at the Parkman Bandstand, and demonstrators below sing along in chorus. Thousands of people gathered at 11 a.m. this Saturday morning in Boston Common Park, around the venerable bandstand. To protest the Trump administration. And to have fun. Even though it's five degrees cold and rain is forecast.

Over a thousand registered demonstrations

When the brass band plays "O when the saints," some of the demonstrators even dance along. Almost everyone here has brought a homemade sign. "Hands off our democracy," it reads, "President not King," or "There isn't a big enough sign to list all the reasons I'm here."

"Hands off" is the motto of this rally and the approximately 1,200 other protest events that have been registered for this Saturday: in every US state, from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast. Organizers had previously estimated that there could be more than 250,000 participants nationwide. Initially, given the large number of events, there was no reliable information on the total number of participants.

• In the US capital, Washington, thousands of demonstrators gathered at the Washington Monument near the White House.

• In New York, too, despite the drizzle, thousands demonstrated against Trump and his close advisor Elon Musk, the multi-billionaire head of the electric car company Tesla. In Bryant Park, they held up signs with slogans like "Pull the plug on Elon" or "I can only write this because there was a Department of Education."

• There were also larger protests in other cities – such as Atlanta, Miami, and Chicago.

And in Boston, too. "Hands Off" is intended to be the first nationwide mass protest against Trump II. Many participants believe it is high time. Because so far, public resistance in the USA has been limited

First they come for the scientists

Here in Boston, where the American Revolution began a good 250 years ago, frustration is great, especially because the Trump administration is targeting science. Boston, with its world-famous elite universities like MIT and Harvard and its biotechnology companies, is the knowledge mecca of the USA. And the new administration has not only cut research funding for various scientists. It is also putting pressure on Harvard and other universities to allow interference with their independence.

Pamela, 61, who does not want her last name published, wrote "First they come for the scientists" on her sign – in reference to the quote by Martin Niemöller: "When the Nazis took the communists, I kept silent, I wasn't a communist."

She says she is not a scientist herself, but Trump, Musk, and Robert Kennedy Jr. are on the verge of undermining the USA's exceptional position in research. "We have made such great strides and breakthroughs in recent years," says Pamela, but now politics is putting everything at risk: "our economy, scientific progress, our health."

Gravestones for Democracy

Although it has started to rain, the crowd is growing. Thousands are moving toward City Hall. "No, No, No. Donald Trump has got to go," the people chant, and the trumpeters and trombonists of the brass band play along to the beat. The demonstration passes the Granary Burning Ground, the historic cemetery where heroes of the American Revolution such as Samuel Adams and Paul Revere are buried

A dozen gray gravestones made of construction foam hang on the cemetery fence today. They bear inscriptions such as "Here lies Free Speech," "In Memory of International Alliances," "Here lies Education for All," and "In Memory of Climate Science."

Caitlin de Angelis, 41, and her family designed them. They worked on the gravestones for a week, says the historian, who has researched this cemetery herself. "Donald Trump is attacking our civil rights, our economy, our foreign neighbors," says de Angelis. "It's important to show the whole world that so many people here are against it—in our entire country." Her parents are currently at a demonstration in Maine.

Whether in Providence, Rhode Island, or Portsmouth, New Hampshire: in several other cities here in New England in the northeastern United States, "Hands Off" protests with several thousand participants are taking place almost simultaneously, despite the weather.

"Hands Off" chants the crowd in Boston as Democratic Mayor Michelle Wu appears in the rain. "This is our city," Wu shouts, "and you will never get us down." When she finishes, the people sing "We shall not be ruled." Shortly afterwards, the demonstration is over, and the demonstrators crowd into the subway. Soaked, but inspired.

With material from the agencies

I was against shutting down already written off power plants early while coal power plants were still running. I was in favor of shutting down coal first, yes.

Geothermal energy is possible anywhere but not economical everywhere. Building wind and PV and building infrastructure to save the energy is more economical in many cases.

it's okay in some amounts since you're getting radiation doses every day even not living near anything nuclear).

And people get cancer every day. I don't share their argument that NPPs in normal operation are a risk, but OP is somewhat right, there's no safe radiation dose, just one we deem safe enough mainly because it doesn't significantly raise our risk of cancer compared to the natural exposure. And NPPs in normal operation emit less radiation than for example coal fire plants.

FFS, people are stupid.

There was a huge hysteria about nuclear when Fukushima happened. A clear majority was for immediate action. Merkel's coalition government would have ended if she hadn't done a 180 on nuclear and decided to shut down nuclear as soon as possible, which was 2023. I was against shutting it down back then but I thought you can't go against the whole population, so I get why they did it. People didn't change their mind until 2022. Nobody talked about reversing that decision in all these years when there was actually time to reverse the decision.

Now, that the last reactor is shut down, the same people that were up in arms in 2011 are now up in arms that we don't have nuclear. Building new plants will cost billions and take decades and nuclear doesn't work well with renewables because of its inflexibility. It makes no sense at all. It was a long-term decision we can't just back away from. What's done is done.