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by kazen44 5y ago
dutch farming (especially kasbouw/greenhouses) are absolutely crazy. in 2019, they exported roughly 95 billion euro's. And they are the second exporter globally. Mind you the country is absolutely tiny in comparison to the number
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by kazen44 5y ago
Also, social control is quite a bit stricter in a lot of (especially northern) european countries compared to the US. Showing one's wealth is in bad taste, and bragging about status is considering being an outlier. This is slowly chang
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by kazen44 5y ago
this is a major factor to consider. Also, the 20th century saw massive changes in where people lived compared to "their country". prior to world war 1, this was a far more mixed affair (see, the austrian-hungarian empire and the g
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large tech. Mind you, this entire arms race exists because every single bit of data is being used for data mining.
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this, if half of Europe could solve their housing crisis after ww2 thanks to plattenbau, so should the us.
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by kazen44 5y ago
i wonder how long until social unrest truely takes hold, especially among young adults. standards of living have been going down in the past decade, while the government seems to think young people have nothing to moan about. not to mention
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by kazen44 5y ago
at $job (inside a NOC), we used to joke that linkedin was the worst professional network,and the local network operator group IRC channel was the best channel. It makes a ton of sense if you think about it, the people you want to connect wi
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by kazen44 5y ago
network hardware has come down a lot in price too. small to medium core routers are quite cheap these days, even from the big expensive brands like juniper/cisco et al.
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using midwives is quite common in most European countries. in some countries people usually bear there children at home instead of in the hospital as well.
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> I don't think there are a lot of jobs if any, where you enjoy it 100% of the time. even in life, enjoying it 100% of the time is an unrealistic expectation, in any aspect. school, relationships, work etc. people should be realisti
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another piece of advice i would like to advise is that you should figure at what kind of work you are good at, regardless of the career. Are you someone who gets energy from working with other people? Helping other people and solving social
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> Yeah that’s for sure. All these stories about people who were cashiers or factory workers and who bought their houses… Not happening anymore. i also don't think that situation was a realistic mean to begin with. The one time in hi
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mind you that there are far more radical options aswell, like major restructuring of the economic system thanks to climate change. it seems the current economical system is having more frequent and intense crises which the market cannot sol
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> In reality, young people must always take care of the elderly. this in and of itself is not a problem in my opinion. The problem is the financial and economic allocation is not going to those in need in society, but those who have amas
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mind you the soviet tried something like this in the early 1980's. Using computers and mathematical models to see where changes where required in the command economy. This did not work, obviously.
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the UK is considering one of the most liberal economies in europe with very little if no state involvement of the economy. Most of this happened after thatcherism ofcourse.
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> At the risk of sounding butthurt, it's kind of strange and unfair to claim that "boomers are the entitled generation." They merely happen to have been born at a time when the social and economic situation for future gene
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people who are poor are usually not stupid. being poor is also a direct result of onces environment and the social and economic status of their parents. should we just accept that capitalism punishes the poor for something they have no con
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social security goes far beyond just a pension system. things like housing, healthcare and social support for the less fortunate in society all fall under social security. the current pension system in most of the world is just not scalable
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- The camera: that one's more difficult, but optics or chemistry aren't that new. You may need specialised equipment to manufacture this, but it's still possible. creating a functioning camera requires quite advanced machinin
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> we'd change Roman Catholic Churches just curious what do you mean by changing Roman Catholic churches? As far as i know there is only one roman catholic church, but with different dogma's depending on region.
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by kazen44 5y ago
i once tried installing and running an openbsd system with 64mb of ram. It "worked" in the sense that the installation was able to finish, and i was able to run a static webpage on openbsd httpd. system load was through the roof,
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by kazen44 5y ago
lets see: - intra eu Banking which is decades ahead of the US[1] - having universal driving licenses and ID cards valid throughout a continent and beyond[2] 3: High standards of food safety [3] i could name a couple more, but i get you get
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by kazen44 5y ago
> It’s the nature of governments and bureaucracies to try and control as much as they can. The kinds of people who draft these regulations aren’t interested in limited legislation there is not really any other way to play the geopolitica
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Also, it makes sense in the broader EU strategy of becoming less reliant on the US. The EU has a good amount of soft power, this is just testing testing it's waters in directing policy more directly. (other examples are the Iran deal a
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this "one way street" is one of the major talking points of many EU politicians in creating a more self sufficient union in terms of military power. It is still a long way to go though.
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mind you, this was not the case in Europe for a better part of it's history.[0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conflicts_in_Europe [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pax_Europaea
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Also, if i remember correctly, they share common services too. (things like garbage, police, fire brigade etc).
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Also, digging up world war 1 and 2 bombs and artillery shell from our literal front and backyards serves as a reminder aswell.
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some borders are also based on really, really old treaties in europe. A lot of borders in regards to provinces are based on old counties and baronies for example. Baarle-hertog/baarle-nassau being a famous example of the inconvenice it

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