mantas

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721.
by mantas 4y ago
If you MUST lease a brand new car and replace it every few years - probably. But driving a slightly older car is perfectly fine. There're a lot of other variables. Family/life situation, hobbies, health situation, visual (fuck vid
722.
by mantas 4y ago
„Take a cab“ is always an option. But at some point, if using it frequently enough, it becomes cheaper and more convenient to just own the damn thing.
723.
by mantas 4y ago
CARGO BIKE /s
724.
by mantas 4y ago
Cashier's machine is one-off purchase. You can get a really cheap 2nd hand. Meanwhile card processing embraced subscriptions all the way. > I think that for food businesses in brick and mortar shops in France Even tiny food business
725.
by mantas 4y ago
It’s not an issue. You just assume that this is government voice. It’s good to have direct propaganda channel to learn what your government is up to. But it shall not be confused with journalism.
726.
by mantas 4y ago
Modern cashier's machines do accounting pretty well. But looking at businesses I visit - old good pen&paper seem to work great as well.
727.
by mantas 4y ago
Many small businesses are +/- one-man-operations. Robberies are not a problem in many parts of a world (last local robbing I hard about was 25-ish years ago). Customer retention is not a problem if people are used to cash. Transporting
728.
by mantas 4y ago
It's still an expense to avoid for small businesses. Especially those who do relatively few transactions.
729.
by mantas 4y ago
Then banks just charge stupidly high card-reader and merchant account fees. It still sucks for small businesses in EU.
730.
by mantas 4y ago
And Bugatti would make Bentley a not-so-nice car. But once you go off tarmac for your forest cabin, both cars will suck. You may enjoy your 2nd hand toyota, especially if it’s rav4, much more… All in all the only way to win this game is to
731.
by mantas 4y ago
What's the problem? Tell the truth that it is indeed a nice car. If you have sanity issues because you ain't driving the nicest car in town... Maybe that's the core issue? Why do you place so much importance on having the nic
732.
by mantas 4y ago
Frequently the thing is a proxy to experiences. E.g. a bicycle, kitchen utensils, a plot of land to grow a garden in, music instruments... You get the idea. Meanwhile many „experiences“ is just staring at others or consuming prepared produc
733.
by mantas 4y ago
You can always choose to improve it.
734.
by mantas 4y ago
You're just pushing goal posts. And „basic stability“ in many parts of the world is much simpler than westerners look for. Savings to keep roof over your head and food on the table for next few months in many cases is success. There&#x
735.
by mantas 4y ago
A lot of counter-cultures attack their owns once it becomes mainstream. Edit: downvoters should ask a punk or metalhead what he thinks about certain bands that went mainstream.
736.
by mantas 4y ago
When this (as well as other similar laws) are pushed other and other again... I remember that saying by Juncker... We'll try again, and again, and again till it passes one time :) I'm not blaming every single bureaucrat. But direc
737.
by mantas 4y ago
My example was more about EU bureaucrats looking for something else than rule-of-law and democracy and whatnot :) As for exactly self-governance, IMO earmarked funding is the worst example. There're lots and lots of dumb investments th
738.
by mantas 4y ago
Hello from your northern neighbour, Lithuania.
739.
by mantas 4y ago
EU is neither free nor open. I'm saying this as a citizen of EU member. It's getting more and more pro-big-business and pro-big-government day by day. While citizen self-governance is crushed over and over. Good example is Poland
740.
by mantas 4y ago
Both pro-privacy and anti-privacy have one common theme - more power to the state. And that's the point of EU bureaucrats. To gather as much power in their fight against both outside forces (e.g. US-based multinationals) and inside for
741.
by mantas 4y ago
Only few big players will obey this law. Maybe that's the point EU lawmakers were going for...
742.
by mantas 4y ago
> barring cultural differences, neurodiverse conditions, the occasional misreading of social cues All of those is a thing and it does happen. Especially is we include sub-cultural differences into „cultural differences“ bits. > yeah i
743.
by mantas 4y ago
Who else would? If something makes you uncomfortable and you don't try to correct that... It will keep going. Of course, sometimes that's not possible (threat of physical violence and whatnot), but in many cases it is perfectly fi
744.
by mantas 4y ago
I still hope for the day when somebody will decide we need 50% teachers and nurses to be men.
745.
by mantas 4y ago
Socially accepted in some circles „positive“ discrimination.
746.
by mantas 4y ago
Running that on end-user phones sounds wrong on so many levels.
747.
by mantas 4y ago
Technically Kosovo was part of Serbia back then. And it was a wee worse than „invading“.
748.
by mantas 4y ago
Is pijamas in public OK or is it OK to wear what is not considered OK? Maybe someone’s aesthetics say it’s ok to live in a neglected building close to falling apart or drive a beaten up car. I’d say it’s much more pleasant to be in a commun
749.
by mantas 4y ago
I'd rather say that there's a need to make people think they shouldn't even look for possible dangers. Everything is nice, period. Only thing to be afraid of is anyone telling you that something is wrong or dangerous.
750.
by mantas 4y ago
I'd say #1 manipulation tool in the West is to pretend that Fukyama's End-of-History is truth. And then pretend that everything is nice and fluffy. While brushing all the issues under the carpet.

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