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by mantas 1y ago
EU will probably tax some theoretical outside lights sustainability tax which will be way higher than what US does with metals. At best, EU would be sustainable center of sustainability trade. I can’t wait to see what will happen when Germa
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by mantas 1y ago
Applied modern democracy and theoretical democracy are two different things. But yes, we should strive to get to a better version of democracy. Instead of just saying democracy BAD.
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by mantas 1y ago
The problem is once trust gets too high, government powers get abused and then we get shit like chat control. Which is not democratical. Over time, less trust should bring government back under control and the cycle repeats. Hopefully. If d
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by mantas 1y ago
Then don’t do any changes. Such BS changes are counter-productive and just a waste of resources.
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by mantas 1y ago
People don’t want change, yet politicians are pushing sleazy changes left and right. Change like straws ban and attached caps? Such change, wow.
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by mantas 1y ago
Yeah, right. I wonder if revokers would have same privacy as those who try to pass it…
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by mantas 1y ago
Zone zero is nice and has its place. But there’s no way around the fact that getting sweaty once in a while is a must to maintain healthy state of the body. And in various ways. Some cardio at z2-3 is a must. Some weightlifting is a must if
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by mantas 1y ago
The problem is people behind the curtains will just pick another figure head. And we can’t even get the names who want to get rid of privacy. Since names of people pushing it were redacted for their privacy :D
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by mantas 1y ago
As Juncker, ex president of European Commision said, you keep trying till it passes at some point. Good luck revoking it later…
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by mantas 1y ago
3k out-of-pocket for a random mishap could easily get many people bankrupt. I did scratch an eyeball recently. The cost turned out to be €50 for drops which ain’t covered by single-payer insurance. 3k out of pocket would be pretty bad even
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by mantas 1y ago
More news at 11
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by mantas 1y ago
Here paved part, besides the major isolated streets, is already quite as narrow as standard buses and lorries allow. Also, where streets were seen as too wide, when rebuilding, sometimes sidewalks got even narrower. The used space was eithe
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by mantas 1y ago
Why more distance? Streets wouldn’t get wider. Rather if you try to dense-up the city, streets will go narrower. Besides complete hellholes like 80s US from the famous parking lot pictures, when trying to dense up the city, wide major stree
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by mantas 1y ago
Looks like you guys have bigger issues than socializing and expensive coffee. Here it’s not uncommon to meet some rowdy people out and about. Not necessarily homeless. But it’s not hard to find some silent corner to enjoy some coffee from a
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by mantas 1y ago
The problem is that people immediately think that socializing is consuming. It’s always an option to chat with people sitting on a park bench. Or at one’s home in a kitchen. Coffee can be home-made in both cases.
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by mantas 1y ago
You’d still have massive metal boxes passing you. On top of that, that’d likely mean highways torn up and replaced by narrow streets. Which would mean more traffic closer to people on sidewalks. The reverse of this happened here in backwate
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by mantas 1y ago
And then you get business parks on the outskirts of the city. Because otherwise both employees and visitors complain about parking. Which makes cheaper suburbs more compelling. And some people living downtown driving to workplaces in outski
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by mantas 1y ago
Oh it is. You get traffic jams and that’s not exactly car-friendly. But still people drive. On top of that, walking on a sidewalk when a bus pass close by is much more interesting than a car passing. And then there’s all the commercial traf
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by mantas 1y ago
Such is life in dense cities where workplaces are concentrated. And pace of life requires humans to take shorter path which is safe enough. At least it’s much safer than in the era of the horses. And sanitary conditions are much better.
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by mantas 1y ago
A lot of website-in-spa break basic web stuff that simply works in old school HTML. It’s possible to do all that stuff correctly in react, but vast majority of people working on those simple websites seem to not give a damn. Vast majority o
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by mantas 1y ago
Nah. Here in my corner of eastern europe public transit gets a fuckton more funding compared to wild 90s. Yet it’s getting worse and worse.
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by mantas 1y ago
With a wealth tax, if you got no fresh incomes, you can sell some of your stuff to cover your taxes and restart. Of course, same applies to welfare - you can only sell part of your stuff. But the caveat is you won't have access to welf
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by mantas 1y ago
It's not related to financing sources of UBI. If UBI provides „basic“ incomes and you pay „basic“ salary on top, society is now paying 2x „basic“ units. No matter how you finance it, you can find other (better or worse) means to spend
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by mantas 1y ago
Then society still ends up paying 2x basic amount - both in UBI and salary. So price is much bigger. Now make it that much bigger across many jobs….
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by mantas 1y ago
Even wealth taxes don’t force you to sell. But welfare with wealth threshold does.
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by mantas 1y ago
The sell-possessions-before-welfare is very very different from taxing. With taxes, even crazy high, you can still accumulate wealth. Taxes slow you down, but it’s still possible. With net-worth-ceiling to receive welfare, you’re forced you
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by mantas 1y ago
A lot of jobs pay only „basic“ money. How do you make somebody do those jobs with UBI?
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by mantas 1y ago
Hey, borders with Poland and Czechia are clearly visible too!
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by mantas 1y ago
I’m talking pre industrial society. You’d have your neighbors singing at funeral or weddings. Unless you’re nobility of course. But that’s a tiny portion of society.
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by mantas 1y ago
And Scandinavian or German systems are in pretty bad shape. Both hard to finance (see Denmark raising pension age to 70) and lots of people getting thrown out of the system for minuscule reasons (German pensioners collecting deposit bottles

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