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kakacik
1mo ago
Most people I know, blue and white collar up to and including surgeons and IT folks, use it as better search. My wife is a GP, and all she would ever need is a reliable speech to voice recognition of medical jargon, in french. Not 98%, not
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2mo ago
Dude, Germany sets the tone for whole EU and then some more (aka Switzerland, they are extremely pushy also in matters which should be completely upon given country, like citizen gun laws). They are the biggest economic force bar none (
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2mo ago
Well, I also have an oak forest just in front of my balcony here in western Switzerland. Most of it is natural reserve, around half is literal scientific reserve. They don't harvest, let everything where it falls unless it completely b
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2mo ago
My friend that show is legendary. Not on the same watchers level as original Top Gear (who can surpass 300 million), but its extremely good and literally eye-opening to millions about woes and challenges of modern agriculture. I must admit
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2mo ago
You can easily get better kitchen for example here in Europe, but you have to pay >2x more. Their price/value ratio is stellar usually (but not always). Some designs are great, some are... obscure and I would not want it at home eve
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2mo ago
Extremely highly inprobable vs 100% there and directly impassable unless walking & doing some proper alpinism is hardly equivalent
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2mo ago
Also even though new such hardware is cheap for our western standards, its a mistake to think this is valid for entire world for various reasons
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2mo ago
Maybe step down from that ultra high horse a bit and smell the proverbial coffee - let say we do a public vote, I would trust say population of Switzerland 100000000x more than US one on any decent vote. Chinese will take over US in those a
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2mo ago
Yeah russia is very happy with global climate change for example. It doesn't change the underlying fact that long term it can be a brutal challenge for humanity and higher life on Earth. Maybe something good will come out of it, even d
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2mo ago
Not everybody has such... low effort palate so to say. Its not easy to have it once one tasted some properly well made food. Don't do to France or Italy is my recommendation in all honesty, ignorance is a bliss.
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2mo ago
There are cultures (basically whole South Europe for example) where relation with food and its preparation is something personal, to share with friends and family and preparation is highly social event... something not so common in US I thi
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2mo ago
... which boils down to 0 fees on any side for any transaction I've ever done, across quite a few countries in EU and to/from Switzerland. I don't think any sane retail bank dares to charge anything, people would migrate to c
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2mo ago
European here, can't agree at all. Never, ever had the confirmation SMS not arrive. Even when I have literally 0 bars signal and just wifi, it just works here. Those few buys per week I can enter CC numbers directly, I don't mind
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2mo ago
Yeah if new CEO gives the middle management mission in the lines of - we need high productivity, lets be nice and supportive to our teams to get the best out of them since we believe core of our employees are smart hard working folks, it tr
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2mo ago
Or... one can move to place which treats you with respect you deserve, and not like some unwanted garbage scum. Is this really how smart immigrants want to live their lives since this is not some temporary glitch? This is society you want t
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2mo ago
You would turn into plasma cloud long before getting there. How your specific atoms or parts of them, highly separated across long distances perceive that moment is practically irrelevant
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2mo ago
20,779 square kilometres you say? Thats trivial, its roughly strip of 20km that is 1000km long. Or 200x100km. If you can't imagine that, thats mostly problem of your practical imagination, I have the image of such area in my head immed
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2mo ago
Well, I wouldn't call it a genocide , its not a civil war neither, maybe sometimes violent separatist movement would be the best description? There are videos of attacks from both sides, also one can still see in 2026 tribal warfare w
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2mo ago
Rice is not a veggie ffs, its not very healthy even in its best forms. Just a lot of simpler sugars. You are not doing anything healthy by eating it, and that glucose spike is very much expected just like from other junk food.
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2mo ago
Have your ever seen the face of a baby when screen, any screen is visible? They lock their sight on it, anything else is irrelevant including mother. Its like watching a heroin junkie with full syringe dangling around. Maybe those kids with
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2mo ago
We prefer paying proper price for the meals with all costs included, to see those prices upfront, knowing that workers are paid fairly already and they just do the job expected from them. It means they can have decent lives regardless of th
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2mo ago
Most of the world doesn't tip or does it very casually. Keep this aspect of US culture to yourself please, we see it as crap to be polite and artifact of worker's abuse and exploitation thats typical for US compared to all other w
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2mo ago
Please stop spreading these... untrue statements, you clearly have very little experience with actual European restaurants. Any decent restaurant has salt&pepper available on all tables, if yours was cleaned and not put back just ask wa
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2mo ago
> I just can’t do abstract cubes anymore I never could, its boring low effort blah to me when standing next to Rembrandt (they never will but you get the idea). It just doesn't induce any strong emotions, and why the heck should I f
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Not its about using correct words with specific meanings instead of vague terms that at the end have incorrect claims, even you had to resort to that to get your point across. 'Humans are horrible', oh no I meant only that subset
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2mo ago
Nah problem doesn't go away if you hide it, it just festers in echo chambers and then bites back when you least expect it, with unexpected ferocity (cue last elections). This is open forum, let people voice their ideas even if you stro
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2mo ago
Dealers can deal with that easily, this is often how they operate now, they don't carry big bags of stuff in their pockets usually they have nothing if police will do quick search. With that approach you will mostly catch users. If I w
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2mo ago
Ah, the age old 'if we jail all the dealers drugs will go away' fantasy. If we ban all the alcohol all the issues stemming from it will go away. If... Fools that don't learn from their own mistakes are bound to never-ending c
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2mo ago
Dude, most of India are vegetarians. If you have seen the sanitary conditions for storing meat (or at least in 2008/2010 when I backpacked around the country), you would also become one. I certainly did. Curries with meat were more exp
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2mo ago
Big companies like apple or meta screw their home countries (and most other countries, apart from tax havens) dramatically. Basically no taxes paid which is core to how state and everything is financed, have often enough power and huge egos
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