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jajko
2y ago
You want to find ancient marvels? Start digging literally anywhere in or around Rome. Or half of amazon jungle. Or around London. And so on. You can get much more 'value' in form of artifacts and knowledge from there for given mon
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jajko
2y ago
Sorry don't remember exactly, it was for 17 rather large apartments/semi houses (120-190m2), IIRC to the tune of 200k. Heat pumps would also require additional space to be put in, something we didn't have easily (not without
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jajko
2y ago
Because managing all those dishes still takes a lot of time. Taking heap of dirty dishes, cutlery and whatnot, pre-clean if something nasty is already dried to them, arrange them efficiently, and then afterwards taking them all back to thei
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jajko
2y ago
Butlerian jihad all over again
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jajko
2y ago
Heat pumps come with a lot of restrictions. What about constant noise? Plus stating that they are cheap ain't correct. Our housing unit in Switzerland recently needed to replace older oil heater and one of the options was heat pump...
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jajko
2y ago
> God's Most Graciously Developed Country in the World Its funny how far from truth this is. Go and compare better parts of US with with Switzerland for example. Now compare worse parts of both. Literally any aspect - cleaniness, n
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2y ago
A permanent resident getting beaten is not a concern to you? Tourists have even less rights in US view than those, your arguments seems lacking any logic. I wanted to bring my family to US for few weeks vacation but fuck hell no, you don&#x
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jajko
2y ago
Everything you ever say online can and eventually will be used against you. No reason to tie your real identity into any online forum, including this one. Plenty of reasons against. With AI pairing even semi-anonymous accounts to real peopl
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2y ago
> It's insane to me, it can't make economical sense, it must be cheaper to just deny entry than arresting people. Not if you run a for-profit private prison and get paid for nr of inmates X time of stay, then you want them to
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2y ago
That 'wow factor' is a thing of the past, very firmly. When I put next to each other say Iphone 16 pro max and Samsung S25 ultra, none sticks out, none has anything 'wow' for regular users. Just different styles of worki
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jajko
2y ago
Half of those problems disappear in Europe, quality of life and happiness skyrocket. Sure, you won't have some carrot-on-the-stick IPO games but I don't need to, I am not on the verge of burning out, I have plenty of time for my f
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2y ago
Try drinking tap water in Africa, India, Bangladesh, most of South America and South Asia, in fact most of the 3rd world... good luck. Ie India had (maybe still has) high infant mortality due to water-transmitted diseases. Once you can'
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jajko
2y ago
Which in normal moral fair society doesn't change anything. But US treats other nationalities like subhumans, and thats not even the issue of current administration but a long term situation for at least 2 decades I keep following the
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jajko
2y ago
You simply don't understand economies of scale. If you produce 10,000kg of meat a month and decide to sell it off to private customers 0.5-3kg per sale on some farmer market, you need somebody spending whole day managing sales, deliver
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jajko
2y ago
Since we can't do photosynthesis or break down some rather toxic molecules like our more primitive siblings, we must eat organic matter that once was alive. No need to delve too much in some militant vegan fantasies and rationalization
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jajko
2y ago
What is organic? Everybody who can meddle meddles, ie russia in US elections.
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2y ago
Now count all the millions of civilian deaths from (often failed) US invasions during same period of time. Its fine you are a patriot and think about your country first and foremost, but so is rest of the world, meaning remaining 96% of hum
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2y ago
> Inevitabely, the best European technical minds either migrate to the US or become Sales Engineers or Solutions Architects for American vendors. There is always Switzerland for overall higher quality of life. Sums on paychecks themselve
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jajko
2y ago
Why not do both? Its not like those activities are mutually exclusive. Mega corps desperately avoiding taxes and pushing their own agendas definitely shouldn't get a free pass
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2y ago
> hat's how you get EU and USAID funding to standup to a president outside of the WEF overton window, certainly. Is this some US-based fiction among maga fanatics to pat on their wobbly backs? Those people protest for they want free
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2y ago
Smart immigrants shouldn't migrate to US anymore, period. Not if you have more than just very short-sighted dollar signs on your eyes. Its just plain out stupid thing to do, to be treated worse than garbage. This is how institutionaliz
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jajko
2y ago
What special feature does she use that is absolutely untransferable to FF? I have both browsers icons next to each other and sometimes I launch the other by mistake. For normal browsing I only spot the difference due to various pages having
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jajko
2y ago
Critical thinking ain't something that you get somehow magically taught on university. Life, its hardships and some sort of keen interest in understanding people and society around you may lead one to such wisdom. Undemocratic countrie
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jajko
2y ago
That ship has sailed long time ago, we had crusades, jihad or orthodox church representatives blessing weapons going straight for battles
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jajko
2y ago
Human nature goes deep and doesnt change much across generations
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jajko
2y ago
Capital city bubble is present in some form in every single country, not sure whats the argument with that. Thats basic open economy
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2y ago
Just like russia using ukraine neonazis as one of pretexts of the war, while sporting much larger (and government+orthodox church-controlled) population of such themselves. Using such arguments shows how critically thinking (and actually fr
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jajko
2y ago
Raw intelligence is just another tool in the toolbox. Sure, it gives advantage if used right, or massive disadvantage (often paired with ocd-ish behavior, general unhappiness since one sees more what a clown show real world often is and who
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2y ago
Any free country should be able to join, maybe one day US can too
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2y ago
It doesn't have to compete 1:1 when tariffs and regulations get applied, same principle as in all other industries ie cars. Its not the best approach but it can work, we have half a billion rich domestic market and some subsidies to ki
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