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I had a phone without before, that one came with a simple cheap passive adapter for USB-C to 3.5mm headset. You lose out on using headphones while charging, but other than that I was never really inconvenienced...

Can't blame them honestly.

I live comfortably here, but that's because my income is rather good. Is nice here if you make little or a lot. Anyone else is under huge pressure from taxes and other financial obligations like health insurance, retirement insurance and unemployment insurance. Around 60k - 65k gross income per year is where it hurts the most, where parts of your income are in the 40% tax bracket but you're still in public health insurance. As a single, you'll get a little less than 40k net out of that (2022 numbers, now probably worse because health insurance got more expensive). Rent close to the big cities is often over 1000 per month, buying at the moment out of the question.

All of this gets you... Germany, which isn't bad but also not Spain for example (where I live / spent time both in bigger cities as well as in a village). Hell, even the Dutch at least have bikable cities. So... it's not terrible, but it also doesn't really excel...

It's obvious in English, but the conversation was in German (we're both German) and the literal translation is barely used (Petrolat or Petrolatum). My point wasn't that Vaseline is also made from petrol, but that a lot of stuff is, and Vaseline was barely the topic where the fact was dropped.

We have a former chemist working in our department and I talked to him about skin care etc and I mentioned Vaseline and said that it's made from or is a byproduct of refining oil. He said something along the lines of "yeah, basically everything is".

His view was probably warped, but still an interesting point

Passengers brought this upon themselves as well to be fair. Everybody loved it when they offered cheap rides. Omg upsetting an old encrusted business, just like streaming! Just worse because here, workers were also exploited, and it was obvious that at one point, people would get squeezed.

Btw here in Germany, it never really took off because of the strong laws regarding transportation that were not changed for Uber IIRC. I remember people complaining.

Yeah this is the thing. Trump isn't where things went south, but he sure accelerated it. In a working democracy, he would have been laughed out of the room. But decades of neocon politics have deteriorated the American society so much in so many aspects that he got elected

Couch Withdrawal Symptoms

They are part of a working strategy, which also includes stuff like

• advertising bans
• sales only in dedicated stores off-limits to anyone under age
• taxes

I guess it really depends on what you bomb. Military bases, government buildings etc – there is a chance. Civilian infrastructure, hospitals etc – no.

It should be noted though that for example during WWII, the allied bombing of German cities really lowered morale, despite what propaganda tried to portray; but the situation is obviously different because Germany was actively at war with boots on the ground and everyone including its citizens knew they were an open aggressor.

Edit: of course it wasn't open revolt, but it sped up regime change.

Also please don't read this as pro bombing. I think this is worst solution to the issue that was caused by Western countries that never stepped up

The fact that there will be pushback shows that they do work

Ha yeah for his peace efforts in the Middle East (or Near East for us Europeans) just to fuck up Trump more.

God he's so cringe "they only give them to liberals 😭" no they are

granted in accordance with the principle of "for the greatest benefit to humankind"

at which conservatives fail because they ultimately only benefit themselves.

Also I agree Obama didn't deserve them but at least he also gives at this fact himself and didn't wear it when he ordered drone strikes on wedding ceremonies while you can bet Trump would wear it on the toilet even

And thus, masturbation prayer was born

I think the Spanish just need to get more creative with their spending or rather the accounting of their spending.

Edit: I'm more forgiving towards Spain for not meeting their goals than other nations because they seem to actually be improving the lives of their citizens, not just austerity bullshit.

Good, I wish NATO would disintegrate and European defence return to the competences of the European Union.

"Return"? It was never really there.

I don’t want my taxes to benefit the United States neither economically nor strategically.

The 5% are not a membership fee that goes to the US. What the US most often got out of NATO was that they defined the standards and requirements, which at some point required American IP and American products to fulfill those. But in the end, the leverage they had was their huge investment in NATO that also benefited other nations; once the American investments end, other nations will fill that void (hopefully).

Restricting such an alliance to the EU would rule out members like Canada, for example

Maybe they do behave like real Christians in that regard, but not in others, which for a religion is enough to not be in line with it, it's not a choose your own adventure

It's fifty-fifty, either it will be or it won't

I don't think this thread is about whether the Bible is a valid moral/ ethical guideline nowadays, but rather if the actions of those who pretend to follow it match it. Which it doesn't.

Don't worry, someone is profiting off this

Okay.

Funny because the German word "Kamin" means fireplace and chimney