CoralMarks

Not really news but still pretty funny and I just heard about it for the first time.
A different kind of blowback:

Dust from the Sahara is being blown over to France, bringing with it radiation left over from French nuclear weapons tests from the 1960s.

Afghanistan: Taliban negotiate with USA

The Taliban, who rule Afghanistan, have negotiated with the USA about a prisoner exchange, as Taliban spokesman Sabihullah Mujahid told journalists in Kabul on Wednesday. Two US citizens are in custody in the country. They are to be exchanged for Afghans who are interned in the US prison camp at Guantanamo in Cuba. The talks took place on the sidelines of a recent summit with UN representatives and Afghanistan envoys from various countries in Qatar. Nothing is known about the results so far.

Balloons from North Korea disrupt air traffic

The balloons full of garbage that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has been sending to South Korea for weeks are having an impact on air traffic. More than 110 flights have been disrupted by the balloon launches that have been going on since the end of March, said South Korean MP Jeong Jun Ho on Wednesday, citing the Ministry of Transport. More than 10,000 passengers were affected. The DPRK is using the balloons to respond to previous actions from South Korea in which propaganda material was also sent north in balloons.

Johnathan Shite

Here you go

While looking for some numbers on this I came up on a news article about people arrested at Palestine protests and it had this line from the pigs union which I thought sums up pretty well the cops attitude to all of this:

The police union (GdP) condemned the attacks on the police. “We are experiencing the effects of a religious war on the streets of the capital, in which our emergency services are becoming the targets of religious fanaticism.”

Couldn't find much on how many Jews where arrested at Palestine protests. Some tidbits on the situation in general I picked up though:

In an especially absurd case, a Jewish Israeli woman was detained for standing alone in a public square while holding a sign denouncing the ongoing war waged by her own country.

Shortly after the start of the war, the Berlin police banned demonstrations organized by Jews such as “Jewish Berliners against Violence in the Middle East” on the grounds that anti-Semitic messages could be spread there. This development is extremely dangerous. Jews who speak critically about Israel are silenced or accused of self-hatred.

Props to the sqirrel antifa division keeping the porkies on edge
Hope nobody got hurt though

I think they just see at as a holiday and promo tour.
They probably get some wellness sessions, have some very expensive dinners and pretend to have a meeting in between.
At the end they go back home and tell everyone how hard they fought and how much closer to victory Ukraine now is because of their valiant efforts.
Everyone is happy. The End.

No worries, I just love harping on about how shit the SPD is. Sorry lol

I'm in the same boat, fortunately not Covid though, but still laboring on a cough that seems to want to stay rather than go.
Anyways speedy recovery to you

Interesting train of thought, although I have to disagree. I mean of course it could be worse, but it could've also been so much better.

The reason for my thinking is I sometimes have to think about what could've been if only the reformist ideas of people like Bernstein and Kautsky don't become dominant in the SPD preceding WW1 and they follow the line Luxemburg and Liebknecht followed, history could've turned out completely different.

The possibilities, revolution in Germany(Europe generally), no WW1 and WW2 possibly, USSR and Germany allies not enemies, no purges like they happened, no forced resettlements, no 1930s famine maybe, endless positive potentials not realized because of goddamn sucdems, truly maddening...

So because of all that I have to disagree.

That is still true, you either go to a Hauptschule, Realschule or Gymnasium(lowest to highest "degree" you can get) which basically determines what you are able to do after secondary school.
I have no clue, but I would imagine the statistics to be a kind of sliding scale with the most dropouts in the Hauptschule and less the further up the ladder you go.