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by mantas 8mo ago
Those can go and do normal jobs like grocery clerks. While doing their art in free time. Like many famous artists were doing.
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by mantas 9mo ago
Yeah, right. We currently see how that worked out with Russia. It turns out EU had little influence, but influence the other way was much stronger.
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by mantas 9mo ago
The prices partially were affected by green deal stuff and other home-grown regulations. Maybe regulations should be lowered instead of letting in cheaper produce from locations where such regulations don’t apply?
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by mantas 9mo ago
Shipping food across the globe works great along with green deal. Such food quality is also questionable in many ways because transportability must be #1 priority. As another commenter pointed out, beef is especially interesting. On one han
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by mantas 9mo ago
I’m pretty sure EU members do the same. The only problem is that such extra-legally acquired evidence can’t be used in court.
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by mantas 9mo ago
I’m for EU sovereignty. This deal seems to go against it. I don’t like double standards when local business gets green deal shenanigans, but at the same time doors are opened for countries where thigh much more questionable practices.
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by mantas 9mo ago
Favorable in what sense beyond sticking it to US? I’m against similar trade deal with US too. Or pretty much any other country. At best some shitty lobbyists used it as a scapegoat to push through a bad deal.
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by mantas 9mo ago
Coming from ex-USSR… I’m used to unused fields. Nowadays situation is better. Where soil is best, all (most?) fields are used. But in other parts of the country unused fields are not uncommon. It doesn’t help that we are getting only a frac
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by mantas 9mo ago
It works when eating at home and making from scratch. How about eating out? Good luck pushing cheaper part of the sector to buy local. And not just pay lip service. And reality is many many people will just buy cheaper option and won’t thin
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by mantas 9mo ago
Maybe lift all the green deal stuff on our own farmers while at it? Let’s make it a fair competition. What’s next, let in shitty US food? I don’t see general public welcoming it. Most people don’t seem to even know about it. Out of those wh
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by mantas 9mo ago
I don’t think so. This is not first time euro bureaucrats pull off shit like this. Apply cutthroat regulations locally and push through cheap imports. Then cry about local industries struggling. Rinse and repeat.
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by mantas 9mo ago
Eh. As a citizen of EU member, I’m not happy about Mercosur deal at all. Hopefully fellow euro electorate is paying attention too. But giving how EU bureaucracy is shielded from the feedback loop, I doubt any outcome in national and EP elec
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by mantas 9mo ago
It depends on location. In my whereabouts banking and e-signing requires one of two 2FA solutions both are mobile-only. Theoretically there is a third option with USB ID card reader to use certificate stored in ID card. But I never saw one
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by mantas 10mo ago
Personally && in the new line seems to be much better readability. Can’t wait to use some smart cop to convert all existing multiline ifs in my codebase.
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by mantas 10mo ago
Maybe just not legalize THC if there is no easy way to test if THC users are intoxicated. And punish illegal users regardless of intoxication level. Medical users should just abstain from driving while in it.
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by mantas 10mo ago
It should be the other way around. If there’s no good way to test, then no driving with any THC in blood.
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by mantas 10mo ago
It's likely that you'd have issues in pretty much any country in the world with your conditions. For example many european single-payer systems have tons of exceptions. Covering only basic tests/procedures/drugs (premium
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by mantas 11mo ago
At the same time many families got a single room with shared anemities. Even people in skilled positions. Just because they got assigned to some factory which management didnt have as good connections. Or preferred to pocket more than take
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by mantas 11mo ago
If safety net was the key ingredient, European startups should killing it. And yet US without a safety net is doing so much better.
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by mantas 11mo ago
And, compared to USSR, Yugos production was much higher quality and shortages were much smaller. EU could become fully independent by simply taxing imports. Designated collaboration between countries would just lead to inefficient central p
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by mantas 11mo ago
Coming from ex-USSR, I can assure you that shortages and shitty quality was not because of closed garden. But because of politics (and corruption) first. And lack of meritocratic natural selection. Many factories were building crap or wrong
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by mantas 11mo ago
Wait before author finds out there're languages with more forms than singular and plural...
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by mantas 1y ago
The problem is that EU laws is above national laws. Thus legally any law can be pushed at EU level, even if it breaks national laws. If such law passes, then it’s on member states to adjust their laws.
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by mantas 1y ago
Some people have friends/family/etc in Russia too yet it does not make it less of a shitty country. Here in Lithuania we there’s at least one or two sob stories every year about somebody visiting relatives in (bela)rus and ending
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by mantas 1y ago
I was saying that the language didn’t change the outlooks of the other side. The only impact was the other side making fun of them. People have invested time in all sorts of useless ideas. And social sciences have a pretty bad track record
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by mantas 1y ago
That’s not what I said. I see people in various camps trying to use double speak as a weapon. And I don’t see people changing camps because of wording. And all camps are making fun of wording of the other side on any topic. I’m not on US so
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by mantas 1y ago
Kas I said, I don’t see people switching camps. What I see is people making fun of this doublespeak.
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by mantas 1y ago
I’m yet to see someone who switched camps because of pro life or undocumented wording. On the other hand, all sides seem to make lots of fun of the other side wording and make jokes out of that. Or use exact wording as pejorative. Wording m
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by mantas 1y ago
That may be true for people seeing the censored for the first time. But then it just becomes a double speak theater. Sort of like illegal vs undocumented migrants. First time you hear, it may pass in different ways. But once you realize wha
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by mantas 1y ago
It’s more like putting a lipstick on a pig. You know some people will get triggered. But you say it anyway. And then pretend it’s not so bad because you put asterisk in there, so it’s totally not the same thing. Yet you’re talking about the

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