rumschlumpel
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- Comment on WOMEN. 1 day ago:
stupid war that serves no one.
It’s standard divide and conquer, definitely serves the people in power.
- Comment on WOMEN. 1 day ago:
In Germany, university is basically free and at least when I went, expensive textbooks weren’t a thing at all. But you still have to have a way to pay for your living expenses, good luck trying to finish a degree when you’re working 20h+ hours a week. Of course it can be done (depending on the workload in your specific course), but once any kind of issue arises (e.g. mental health issues, or even just breaking a leg) there’s a very high risk that you’re going to drop out.
- Comment on WOMEN. 1 day ago:
Feels like the places where academia doesn’t require lots of money are getting less and less. e.g. university is basically free in Germany, but if your parents don’t have enough money to pay for your living expenses you’re going to have a difficult time. When I went to university in Germany 20 years ago, government subsidies (that are paid out as a credit btw) were very adequate to pay for those living expensive, but apartment rents exploded since then.
- Comment on Anon awakens something 2 days ago:
See also: Introducing people to music, tv shows etc. who get way more into it than you ever did.
- Comment on Anon is unimpressed 5 days ago:
Pyramids are a dime a dozen, too. The Öresund bridge is Europe’s longest proper bridge (Wikipedia lists lots of longer “bridges” that are just raised overland roads - since when is that a “bridge”?).
- Comment on Anon is unimpressed 5 days ago:
Anon states that Denmark has no landmarks whatsoever. The Öresund bridge might not be quite as impressive as the Gizeh pyramids, but it is clearly a well-known landmark and a great feat of civil engineering.
- Comment on Anon is given an ultimatum 5 days ago:
Weird how that’s exactly what people are saying about the longterm unemployed where I live. For the majority of them it’s not true.
- Comment on Anon is unimpressed 5 days ago:
Öresund bridge (bridge between Denmark and Sweden) is pretty neat.
- Comment on Anon is given an ultimatum 5 days ago:
Students aren’t typically counted as “unemployed”, though that’s different from country to country.
- Comment on Anon is given an ultimatum 5 days ago:
Isn’t NEET just a fancy way of saying “unemployed”? Most unemployed are not supported by their parents.
- Comment on Anon is given an ultimatum 5 days ago:
These people aren’t disabled, they are entitled. NEET is a choice
Just because NEET anons often post stories about how they beat the system, doesn’t mean that’s actually the reason why they’re NEET. The label NEET is a choice, but being longterm unemployed typically isn’t. And you know the deal about anecdotal evidence.
- Comment on Anon is given an ultimatum 5 days ago:
Where? They completely neglect to mention their sleeping arrangements. Sleeping on the street doesn’t really fit in with the “I beat the system” story that anon is telling us. I do assume that’s part of the joke, though.
- Comment on Anon is given an ultimatum 6 days ago:
Good luck with those SF rent prices Ü
- Comment on In a state that offers legal aid is it worth it? Or is it pretty much the bottom of the barrel for defense and compensation? 6 days ago:
Worth what? You aren’t paying them anything (unless your state’s rules are really fucked up).
- Comment on Do people really give a shit on what a US President wear? I just see from time to time that they bring up the Tan Suit Incident with Obama. What is or was the big deal? I slept since then. 1 week ago:
I’d have opinions if he started turning up in a speedo and open shirt combo (baller). Or wears nazi stuff.
- Comment on Rare 1 week ago:
Need to add some sliced sugar beet, sugarcane or corn.
- Comment on On an open source platform, I'm supposed to be able to change my username/display name, right ? 1 week ago:
“open source” refers to whether you can read the software, not to whether it has some specific feature.
- Comment on Anon does some genealogy 1 week ago:
Wealth has a way of multiplying, though. Assuming the family is above a certain threshold of wealth, second sons still receive an education and typically get lucrative jobs, expensive gifts etc. that should set them up well.
- Comment on Anon does some genealogy 1 week ago:
According to the bible, Eva is the literal second human and first woman and IIRC lived for hundreds of years, so no, she’s not normal or real.
- Comment on Anon does some genealogy 1 week ago:
What non-Christian believes in hell?
- Comment on Anon does some genealogy 1 week ago:
It’s pretty fun to dissect the bogus, though.
- Comment on Anon does some genealogy 1 week ago:
If all of the cited passages are actually talking about servants, they’re treating their servants so badly that the difference is merely semantic. Note that the US chattle slavery is unusually depraved, in mediterranean antiquity slaves were generally treated better than that (or so the surviving accounts would have us believe).
- Comment on Anon does some genealogy 1 week ago:
For some biblical figures really far back, yes, but as a punishment for normal (real) people?
- Comment on Anon does some genealogy 1 week ago:
AFAIK, in 1860 about 20% of families in the slave states owned slaves. Lots of those were probably relatively poor farmers - slaves or no, small farmers in the 19th century weren’t that wealthy. Also, since when does the Christian god condemn entire family lines?
- Comment on In today's term what is the middle class in the US? If the government wanted to help the middle class and poor how would they go about it? Beside the toss money at the problem solution? 1 week ago:
Failed how? Everything I heard from various trials was massively positive, it’s just that people refuse to vote for parties that would implement UBI for real.
- Comment on In today's term what is the middle class in the US? If the government wanted to help the middle class and poor how would they go about it? Beside the toss money at the problem solution? 1 week ago:
Money can buy goods and services. One way or another, they’ll have to redirect money flows.
I suppose changing how the police and judicial system works might help while saving money. Having the world’s highest incarceration rate is actually pretty expensive.
- Comment on Anon gets scammed 1 week ago:
Taking general inflation into account, yeah pretty much.
- Comment on Anon plays Arkham City 1 week ago:
Death penalty for all crimes is a bit much, though. It’s the kind of law that turns a shoplifter into a political revolutionairy.
- Comment on Anon plays World of Warcraft 1 week ago:
That doesn’t diminish the sense of accomplishment.
- Comment on Anon plays World of Warcraft 2 weeks ago:
but real life achievements are much more real and often more lasting than in-game achievements