I may have been a child in 2007-2008 but I did felt the recession when our house had to be sold, and we could barely feed our family just because the Lehman Brothers fucked up.
I can't say much more other than what you've already said, but I have something to add for the last one.
Being Eastern European myself, not being brought to work in Germany, but for working for several German companies inside Eastern Europe, such as ThyssenKrupp and Bosch.
It's true they like their workers cheap, obedient, and educated.
I can count on one hand how many times they raised the pay from 2019-to 2022, and even then they argued within themselves so it's just the bare minimum wage provided.
I could scream into the void about how much more education I had, or what other skills I possessed, or how I did some of my superior's work even, no one cared enough to pay more for it, instead I got a slap in the face reminder with an upper leader's visit, saying how I should just shut up, and be grateful that I could work there, because I could be replaced by a machine anytime soon.
If people were sick too much, or they could not endure the constant rotating shifts and 12 hours of standing work, they laid them off instantly, and hired new people. Once the local populace was less and less likely to go there due to working conditions known as the 'meat grinder' and the 'lemon squeezer' then they started hiring foreigners with a temporary place to stay in, like you said often a shoebox with multiple people living inside, which were mostly just shipped containers, with terrible isolation, no heating, or running water.
With all of this being said, this is not just slander against Germans specifically, other countries do this too, other corporations do this too. As long as line go up, people are just a resource to be exploited, numbers on a screen for those juicy quarterly reports, so investors can feel good about themselves, and we can all have that nice extra 00.1% GDP growth that will ultimately do nothing for your average citizen.
Nuclear would have really worked though, but green advocates just HAD to ruin it. (I'm talking about majority)
Wind and solar will never truly take off or be mainstream because everyone rather do coal and gas, including the governments.
Congrats people we're fucked!
Pegasus is a cancer that keeps on giving, and now all countries own it in the world. My favorite is whenever any country states they bought it for 'security reasons' and they won't deploy it unless it's used against criminals. Do what you want with this information.
It's going to end up similar as when an AI was trained on 4chan. Mega racist and homophobic but also hyper sensitive because its Twitter (not gonna call it the new name)
Anyone still remembers when they said they would never use dog robots for weapon/war purposes? I do. Things always age like milk and it's unsurprising.
If there is anything new for Lemmy as far as I have joined, it's always the heckin' instance wars, just pick one and be happy with it
Also, there are a lot of instances that require written stuff for joining as an extra filter to avoid bots and trolls ¯(ツ)_/¯
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True and real, truly a core childhood memory for me ♥