Teresia Olsson

My approach to coding on my Linux computer is "Well. The internet says to do it so I do it." And every time I feel like a big adventurer embarking on a high risk journey 😄

Yes, definitely. They already have employees who are US citizens.

I would say most countries in Europe don't discriminate like that. But a job is required. In case you are interested in a job as an operator and would consider going to Sweden I have seen both MAX IV and ESS frequently advertise for operators.

But then you can do the trick that you say that the contribution from your organisation isn't money but people. So you take some existing people, use their time as leverage to get funding to hire some more people. And suddenly people is a currency.

And also this concept that your organisation must provide the same amount of funding as the amount you are applying for. What is that? You can only get money if you already have money? That makes no sense. How do you get the initial money then? Steal it from somewhere?

Maybe in the end when you sum everything together you have lost money... And especially if you don't get any funding. Then it was all wasted time that you could have spent to do the work.

And then say you get funding for three years to cover the salary for one person. Then you first need to recruite someone and train them before they can do the work. So that takes like two years + supervision time.

I'm not sure I entirely understand research funding. Sometimes it feels like the amount of work you need to do to write a funding application would be better spent just doing the work instead.

I think that's it. It's like enrichment food bowls for cats. German people maybe need complicated life admin or they get bored and depressed.

Maybe that is the explanation 🤔 Time-consuming, complicated and messy administration is a German thing. And if they didn't like it, why would they still have it? Perhaps it's like an everyday challenge for enjoyment and enriching your life?

It seems like most common option for German people is to donate things online. But then you need to arrange a meeting time, talk to some unknown person and things become time-consuming, complicated and messy.

And then you go to Denmark and every single tiny village might have more than one secondhand store. Amazing how two countries next to each other can be so different.

It makes me annoyed. Things are not supposed to work like that. There should be a system which makes it easy to reuse things. I never realised before how important secondhand stores are for that and how the system fails if they don't exist.

I don't understand why there are no secondhand stores except for clothes in Berlin. What do people do with things that they don't need anymore but can be used by someone else? Just throw it in the garbage?

Och ibland blir jag så trött på Tyskland... T.ex. när de inför "fancy" ny funktion så man kan ansöka om ett folkbokföringsbevis online och så visar det sig att man bara kan göra det om man först ansöker om ett speciellt ID-kort. Och tider för det finns såklart bara 1 timme bort om typ 3 månader.

Ibland älskar jag Sverige. Speciellt när jag kämpat med tyska myndigheter som helt saknar hjälp på engelska och mailar skatteverket och får svar på både svenska och engelska automatiskt.

Wrote them an angry email after their last butchered attempt to deliver a package. Asked ChatGPT to translate into German and it added "Vielen Dank für Ihre Hilfe" by itself at the end. ChatGPT is way too polite. Maybe it has never tried to get a package delivered by UPS.

I don't understand the business model of UPS. They are a company which delivers packages but they don't seem to know how to actually deliver a package? So do they just send packages around in an infinite loop?

I got so excited about an email with some research results that I went home from work without my bag. Only realised when I suddenly started to feel strangely naked on the tram because something was missing. And I had no book to read...

Okay, that was a lie. Berlin is most often strange to me... Like why is there no upraising against shops being closed on Sundays!? Awful thing. Hate it. Saturdays are so stressful because of it.

Berlin is sometimes strange to me because there are so many areas with abandoned buildings next to a river. In Sweden that would have been prime land with very fancy houses a long time ago. But at least now they have started to rebuild this area. It will be 900 new apartments.

Happy birthday! 😀

I don't like Christmas but I do like this part.

So far there has been way too little cheddar on this workshop.

Really missed British bookstores.

Sometimes I think of things that really makes me miss the UK. So much that it hurts in my heart. But it's the same when I think of things in Sweden.

Maybe that's the thing about having lived in different countries? They feel like home but still not?

I'm visiting the UK next week. First time back since I moved from there. It will be a bit weird. Like coming home but still not since I have no place to live there anymore.

Good start to the day 😻

They even give you a 20 minute window for your slot but the brain says "Oh, no. Cannot miss. I have to be there half an hour before to be sure".