mantas

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by mantas 3y ago
Leave in dust in what sense? Italy and Spain are heavily based on tourism and snobbery (e.g. high fashion). They ain't competing against US/China/India. And that's OK. But they need different economical policies than, fo
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by mantas 3y ago
Ditto. In my whereabouts regime changed 5-10 times since 1900 depending on how you count. With several fight-for-freedom with different vectors. 1800s was more stable, but dotted with uprisings. No stone was left unturned. Multiple times. T
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by mantas 3y ago
Or at least several different eurozones. Germany and Italy or Spain are rather different economies to say the least.
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by mantas 3y ago
And lots of money poured into various „EU-funded“ (= money pulled out of thin air) programmes. All sorts Bs training that creates no wealth. Sure, topics may read nice on paper. But does it create any value? All while basic economy is going
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by mantas 3y ago
Was it really a benefit? The only benefit is belief that Germany won't let euro fail and will bailout anybody no matter how shitty situation is. On the other side, this prevents fixing root causes. Why fix anything and make people angr
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by mantas 3y ago
Coming from, let's say, 2nd-world-country that receives it's fair share of outsourcing... There's absolutely a big push to keep employment laws as well as other laws „flexible“. And keep salaries as low as realistically possi
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by mantas 3y ago
Public transit costs money too. Also, if you drive with your family or friends, public transit gets more expensive. But it uses +/- same amount of gas. Of course there's maintenance and insurance. But, for example, my yearly insur
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by mantas 3y ago
Only if you insist on buying new and fancy. Here in backwaters of eastern europe, cars are freedom for everybody. If you're poor and live in backcountry... Get a car for €500 and go wherever you want. If you're poor in the city, y
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by mantas 3y ago
Of course cleanliness and safety is important. It sucks to ride in a stinking bus next to a passing out hobo. Wether it's 20 minutes or 40 minutes. Same applies if you have to carefully watch your backpack to not have it's bottom
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by mantas 3y ago
I get your point. But, to be honest, what portion of the crowd take it in this way? Instead if taking a selfie and moving on to the next hotspot? Somehow from this crowd I usually hear reviews of restaurants and hotels rather than out-of-bo
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by mantas 3y ago
You can easily manipulate results in a lab test too by messing with the environment and cherry picking results. And focusing on different outcomes. I'm pretty sure same religious conservatives will claim that issues they saw did come u
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by mantas 3y ago
And neither should focus on just „build more houses“ or „grow more tons of food“. Both must be high quality in terms of (mental) health as well as environment.
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by mantas 3y ago
This fucks over both tourists and locals. The legit stuff is being killed and people come to see outer shell at best. And be ripped off. What's the point of traveling when all you see around is other tourists and it's just a colle
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by mantas 3y ago
Fuck airbnb and all those „startups“ where main goal is to break the law and shrug it off because somethingtech.
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by mantas 3y ago
It's easy to find issues in laws with some brainstorming over a pizza. The problem is people pushing certain laws frequently don't give a damn about side effects. Why would they care about results coming out from a simulation?
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by mantas 3y ago
Engineers and doctors and nurses... Eh... Maybe not so fast...
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by mantas 3y ago
We should get rid of „hate speech“ and clamp down on violence inducing speech. With a massive caveat for people participating in ongoing war. Fuck FB for banning people over using slurs or even legit historic terms towards muscovite soldier
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by mantas 3y ago
„European“ policy has caveats too. What you call „european“ policy is mostly West europe. That had pretty good cultural hold on crimes. for a while. This method does work for it. But when here in eastern europe got same policies forced down
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by mantas 3y ago
Fair enough. But flying still is an expensive hassle. And it will probably just get more expensive and more crappy experience in the future.
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by mantas 3y ago
I pass a sightseeing spot on my usual run. It's on a hill, overseeing a lake bellow as well as forest surrounding the lake. I take the same picture whenever I got phone on me. Looking back at the pictures, there're no 2 identical
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by mantas 3y ago
You can go wide and shallow or narrow and deep. There's no enough time in the world to go wide and deep on all topics. To each it's own, but personally I prefer to go explore fewer topics, but in great depth. I travel very rarely,
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by mantas 3y ago
It's an infinite loop. Build more housing to suck in more jobs and people. Then you need even more housing since people from now-depleted surroundings come in. Rinse and repeat. It's not capitalism or statism. It's lack of sa
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by mantas 3y ago
More like we need to decentralize jobs. Otherwise real estate pricing is an neverending uphill battle.
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by mantas 3y ago
Yet another „fact-checking“ that can be easily fact-checked to be a lie.
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by mantas 3y ago
> And from what I understand, most European Union countries get unlimited sick leave, and 4-6 weeks of vacation both. Just a side note, but in most countries sick leave requires a doctor-signed papers. Even for a day. Although sometimes
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by mantas 3y ago
There was no distinction between time-off and vacation in USSR either.
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by mantas 3y ago
You don't want to spend vacations vacations with your family? This soviet system in it's heyday was damn close to that. Especially when, for a short time, „7 workdays week“ was implemented where people worked 6 days, but the day o
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by mantas 3y ago
Well, to be honest, people were allowed to pick a profession. And you had some wiggle room to pick your placement and change works later on. And you were allowed to drink in your kitchen with whoever you want. Although if KGB noticed you we
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by mantas 3y ago
Pretty different tbh...
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by mantas 3y ago
It was not exactly appealing if husband and wife keeps getting different vacation for years and can't go on vacation together. Bribes would fix that though.

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