Lil plea that we as a community continue to fight for rights of everyone, where Merz’s words of Germany being a freedom loving nation ring hollow in face of most pro Palestine protests very often co-organised by the queer communities being brutally quashed by the police here
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When I was a designer at Abercrombie & Fitch, we had this file called "VECTOR STUFF . AI"
It was a massive collection of vintage t-shirt graphics, crests, mascots, lettering, etc all vectorized and passed around to all the designers.
Probably 60% of the graphics you saw for A&F or Hollister back then had something from this file in it, and I learned a TON about the nuances of vintage from studying it.
The interesting part is that this was never formally talked about or documented in any way, but we followed it religiously as a "design system."
Somehow everybody just organically knew how to use it and what "good" looked like (all the designers there were VERY VERY VERY good... I was among the worst).
If he really cared about German competitive prowess - he would have empowered entrepreneurship from every level and maybe not make the corporate workers have to deal with corporate redundancies every fucking year.
Merz is giving someone who has not worked hard once in their life (and in fact as a chancellor, continues to put in zero actual effort) - so this myopic take on logistics of being sick (and exp of it under German HC sys) tracks.
Germany's Chancellor Merz:
We can no longer accept the extraordinarily high levels of sick leave in our companies.
We are abolishing sick leave by telephone and introducing the requirement to submit a medical certificate from the very first day of illness.
We know this is a tough decision. But we can no longer afford this competitive disadvantage caused by prolonged absences from work.