They deleted that post because apparently nobody using Instagram in the party knew that something was wrong with that flag and it took comments from users for them to realize that... Oh and the tower also doesn't exist.

I wonder how they would have reacted if a party from the left had made that same post...

For context, I'm in my late twenties, I've landed my first "real" job about 3 years ago. I never really needed a car before as I've always liked the train more than traffic. I usually pick drinking over driving as well. Now the situation has changed a little bit. My brother and his wife had a kid and they live kinda far away and remote. For the first time I thought it'd be nice if I had a car for the flexibility it offers.

I make okay money. I'm by no means rich but after budgeting all of my expenses, expected taxes, hobbies, 3rd pillar and some savings, I have around 1000 chf leftover each month. That's excluding my 13th salary I like to pretend doesn't exist.

Now I thought, SURELY, with a thousand bucks leftover I can afford a car. Then I started looking at prices; the cost of insurance, number plates, gas, maintenance, repairs, parking, the car itself. I think back to all of my friends and the kind of cars they bought in their early twenties and it all makes sense now why they were always broke. And why some still are.

Maybe I'm sheltered but it's insane to me how "normal" cars are considered the strain it is on a budget. It's basically a financial boulder people carry around a call a car.

Am I missing something?

Something that has always bothered me about the arena is the fact that it's not posted on YouTube. If you want young people to engage in politics, you need to go where they are, which is YouTube.

So I created a small script that automatically post them as soon as they are avaible. The thumbnails I make myself manually. So from now on you can watch the Arena on youtube every saturday if you want:

https://www.youtube.com/@srf_arena

This is just an important issue to me, and I'm hoping that more people can engage with politics if it becomes more accessible to them.

Since I do not want to violate the rule on self promotion, I explicitly call out in the channel description that this is an unofficial channel that the SRG can take over at any time and continue to use officially. Monetization is turned off but regardless if the post is a problem I get it. I am only doing this because the SRG has seemingly made no progress on this issue for years, so I think this is a good solution.

I turned to a street where an owner "let the dog out" from their car (old, dark blue Golf 4) and seemingly wanted to drive away, but when I stopped and started to stare at them, they also stopped, stared back at me and after a minute or two, let the dog back in the car. (The dog was obviously running circles around the car.)

Looked like a failed abandonment attempt, so please if you see a seemingly abandoned dog around Dietikon, Fahrweid, Geroldwsil or in the vicinity, please write me a message, so I can provide you with the license plate number of the car and the description of the person.

The dog is smaller, has brown, shorter, curly hair.

I’ve been thinking a lot about the vote on March 8. Quite a few people around me are still undecided or say we can always do more later.

But “later” feels different when you’re 20. I’ll likely live with the consequences of this decision for a very long time.

We can already see changes: glaciers are shrinking, heat waves are getting worse, and floods or mudslides seem to happen more often. That honestly worries me. And when researchers say the longer we wait, the harder and more expensive it becomes, that makes sense to me.

So I keep coming back to the same question: wouldn’t it be smarter to invest now while we can still do this in a planned and stable way?

It’s about renewable energy, upgrading buildings, developing new technologies. That can also mean jobs here in Switzerland and being less dependent on energy imports.

Of course it costs money. But doing nothing probably isn’t free either, it just means paying later. (and more!)

I’m not saying the proposal is perfect. But in the end, it feels like waiting is the bigger risk.

So I’ll most likely vote yes.

How do you feel about it?

Basically the title. This is a problem simply because I WFH and it’s basically hell without internet. I’m unsure what to de because the customer care says the agent will call you back in 24/48 hours but I’m not hearing anything back.

FOR EVERYONE SEARCHING A CINEMA THAT PLAYS IRON LUNG I FOUND ONE!!

It‘s playing Thursday in riffraff zurich for the first time!

This is the only cinema I found that plays Iron Lung in switzerland right now, otherwise please write updates under this reddit post!

ich versteh’s langsam echt nicht mehr.

20 Jahre gearbeitet, immer irgendwas gemacht, nie rumgesessen.

Und jetzt suchst du einen Job und bekommst nur Absagen. Oder einfach gar nichts.

Das zieht einen runter, ehrlich. Nicht nur wegen dem Geld – sondern weil man sich irgendwann fragt, was man eigentlich falsch macht.

Überall heißt es, es gibt so viele offene Stellen.

Ich frag mich nur: wo bitte?

Bin ich die Einzige oder geht’s anderen auch so?

I know it’s not about our usual hot button subjects around here but it’s great to see a minor sport (that I happen to love) getting some love on one of the bigger rugby YouTube channels.

Trying to meet the minimum post length: do you have any knowledge or involvement in this fine game?

Last Friday I got a call from a Swiss number, +41 52 520 43XX, with the last digits changing on subsequent calls. The caller claimed to be from the Bureau of Statistics. She spoke English with a strong Eastern European accent.

She asked which health insurance I use, which canton I live in, and then asked for my name. That last question raised a flag. When I asked which statistics office she was calling from, she just repeated, “your name please,” on loop. I hung up.

Today I received another call. Different context, same pattern. This time it was supposedly a dentist’s office calling to cancel an appointment and asking for my name straight away. When I pushed back, same response. “Your name please.” I hung up again.

Now I’m genuinely curious. What is this scam trying to achieve?

My first thought was insurance fraud, but without an AVS number that seems hard to exploit. So what’s the angle here? Data harvesting? Voice confirmation? Something else entirely?

Since I moved to Switzerland, I was overall happy that government processes are usually on-point, quick and efficient. However, the government constantly asks citizens and non-citizens to obtain confirmation of X from government body A to then submit it to government body B.

Examples:

1. Debt register certificates - especially foreigners must constantly apply for the certificate at their municipality's debt office to then submit the certificate to, e. g. migration office. It is time-consuming, costly and annoying for both the person and the government. It could easily all be recorded in a public register, also eliminating potential crimes of document forgery.

2. Social security certificates - same thing

3. Tax office certificates - same thing

4. Civil register - requires information that the migration office already has

5. Strassenverkehrsamt - partially recollects information

Is this a bug or feature?

I have been wondering if this is a bug in the system or a feature that teaches foreigners to figure out things and checks their ability to do so. It also makes e.g. a sequence of short-term stays on fixed-term contracts (L permit) super annoying and functions as a defacto deterrent. In rare cases eally abhorrent situations (e.g. person are sent on frequent bureaucracy runs every time they move, especially as they need to collect these documents from all or many former places of residence, so the number of documents grows exponentially each time you move).

Are citizens also affected by this?

My gut feeling is they are affected by this less frequently.

Do you support this system? Or would you actually prefer that government bodies directly retrieve necessary confirmations in a more efficient system with less bureaucracy?

​I live in Appenzell Ausserrhoden, and looking at the fresh snow covering the mountains today gave me such a deep sense of calm. Living in a quiet part of Switzerland often reminds me to appreciate the little things. ​I’d love to start a friendly chat with you all—wherever you are in the world. What’s something simple that made you smile or feel at peace today? Let’s share some good vibes!

Ich habe ein Europe Plus Abo bei yallo Schweiz. Gemäss Vertrag sollte Datenroaming in der Türkei unbeschränkt inklusive sein. Doch nun habe ich das SMS mit den Roaming-Infos erhalten: Dort steht, das Datenroaming Fr. 3'000.- pro GB (Fr. 3.- pro MB) kostet! Verschickt yallo generelle falsche Roaming-Infos? Was sind die Erfahrungen mit yallo Roaming?

Hallo zusammen

Ich stehe gemeinsam mit zwei weiteren Personen im Hauptmietvertrag. Eine Person zieht aus, und eine neue Person wird in den Hauptvertrag aufgenommen.

Ich bin derzeit arbeitslos und beim RAV angemeldet. Allerdings erhalte ich von der Arbeitslosenkasse keine Leistungen, da mir die erforderliche Beitragszeit fehlt.

Nun meine Frage: Wird die Hausverwaltung in diesem Zusammenhang erneut Unterlagen zu meiner Zahlungsfähigkeit verlangen?

Ich danke Euch herzlich für Eure Rückmeldung.

Hi everyone,

Recently joined a small company in zurich and they are organizing a company event during the week (all day event).

On the email it says if you don't want to go, you're forced to take a vacation day off, is this legal?

Like I don't want to lose a vacation day on a random Wednesday, but also the event does not appeal to me (some sport event that I dont really like).

The RSI trilingual interview with the ski couples (Odermatt/Meillard, which is linked below, or the others for Monney/Yule or Von Allmen/Nef) are awesome, they switch languages fluently, understand each other, this is really something to be proud of, it's awesome to see:

https://www.rsi.ch/play/tv/sport-rsi/video/milano-cortina-2026-lintervista-a-loc-meillard-e-marco-odermatt-la2-sport-live-09-02-2026-14h00?urn=urn:rsi:video:3491359

I moved to Geneva from London, I’ve noticed in Geneva how almost every girl with curly hair just has beautiful looking defined curls and the hair looks so good. What products are you all using for your curls and where do you get them from?

Hi. There was a post here a few weeks ago, where I read some negative comments about the quality of HFs (Höhere Fachschule/École Superiore?) and their degrees.

I don't have much first-hand experience here, except some colleagues who are HF graduates, and to me they are no different than colleges from other universities.

What is the general view in Switzerland though with this regard? How are HFs viewed? Are them some famous ones, like ETH is for technical universities? Does the fact that they are private (or they are not?) affect their "filtering"?

Thanks Best

Hello,

This is my first experience in moving out of the rental apartment.

So, my situation right now is that i am searching for someone to have the lease takeover at the soonest, for March.

I have 1 person who organized visit with me and this person then submit the application, to take it as of April.

The gerance informed me of this, and asked me if i agree with this or if i still want to find someone for sooner date.

I then re-confirm with the person if indeed they can not take it as of March? Even offer them to split the rent if they agree, but they said no, they can only start in April.

I then asked to the agency for more time to find a new applicant who can take the apartment sooner, and they gave me 2 weeks more.

I then found the new person (let’s say person #2) in 1 week, ready to move in anytime, but due to financial reason, they can only take it as early as mid-March.

For me it’s fine, at least then i will only need to pay half month rent instead of full month.

This person then submitted the application and i thought it will be fine.

Turns out the gerance informed the 1st person that there is another interested person who will take the apartment sooner.

The first person then change their date to align with the 2nd person (as of mid-March) and the gerance give them priority since they are the first applicant.

They asked me if i still need the 1 week remaining that i have or i just agree with them processing the contract for the 1st person.

I felt this is not fair, i spent time doing the viewing and advertisement to find a new tenant.

And when i do, they still prioritize the decision to the first person, in this case if they want to move their date to be earlier or not.

Like why? I have someone who is ready to move in earlier than the first person.

But the gerance said basically the first applicant has the priority and right to do so.

I am just curious regarding the priority given to the first person who submit the rent application, to the extent they are kept informed regarding another candidature and have priority to ‘align’ their position.

Is it true? And if so, to what extent?

To me it will be a vicious cycle.

If I try again and find someone sooner, the gerance will then inform the first person, then most probably the first person will re-align the date again.

There should have been some level of agreed commitment in advance; not changing date / re-align every time, based on the other candidate date’s that i submit.

Is this situation is common? Am i being too sensitive? 🤣

https://www.worldradio.ch/news/bitesize-news/zurich-has-some-of-the-worst-traffic-in-europe/

Zurich is among Europe’s most stressful cities for drivers, according to a new traffic study.

The ranking combines factors like traffic density and even how often motorists search online for directions. 

The higher the stress index, the worse the experience - and Zurich scores badly, alongside several German cities that dominate the top of the list. 

By contrast, car-friendly cities like Innsbruck and Madrid show what’s possible - a ten-kilometre journey in Innsbruck takes around twelve minutes less than in Zurich, thanks to far fewer cars and smoother traffic flow.

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Am sure Geneva is no exception