It's a bit like us going: "i love how people in the US live close to a central park, above a coffee shop, in a big appartment, with a bunch of friends, on a bartenders wage".
The romanticized vision of EU comes from disneyland-esque tourist destinations (which are lovely!), and romcoms, I think. You're dreaming about a good holiday :). Day-to-day life, ofcourse, differs. (1)
US is a very big place with different cultures. I've only visited Boston, but have heard it's not the same as Florida.
I always have this inner conflict of not knowing where I truly belong and what's better for me/where I will be truly happy and feel more "home".
I think you've spend a lot of time thinking about this, which I do too, sometimes too much :) Perhaps it's possible to visit the US for a holiday, and find out if your expectations match experience?
Isn't shorting entirely speculative and based on whether anyone is actually watching the stock closely?
What's correct about that sentence is that shorting is speculative. It's a type of contract a person can use, to their financial benefit, if they believe strongly that the market price of a stock or product will decrease.
Where they get that believe from, is irrelevant. I didn't follow the gamestop meme closely, so can't speculate on their believe.
In uni we always had a verbal defense for our papers. That had 2 benefits: (1) verify that the student actually wrote the paper (plagiarism and ghost writers were a thing before LLMs too), and (2) the prof could test the boundaries of the student's understanding with additional questioning.
The obvious caveat being the amount of time it takes for the teacher to have a 1-on-1 with each student.
I have 5 copies of all my files on 5 devices, synced using syncthing with staggered file versioning. 2 of those are with friends and family who let me put a thin client at their place.
To protect against me misconfiguring syncthing, or some bug deleting all copies, every 3 months I manually make a copy and put it on a hard drive into a fire resistant safe.
The government is the alliance that together gets >50% of the votes. That alliance falling through is the same as government (legislative and executive) disbanding.
Usually this means (1) hand over to a care taker government to have status quo continue (2) no more changes to law.
Then a few rounds of trying to find a new >50% alliance. After that, if necessary, new elections.
The reason it works differently in the US is because first-past-the-post voting always results in a 2 party dominance system. US alliances benefit from being formed before election, join blue team or red team. Here it's after elections, with a lot of different combinations possible.
Oh no ... 🦶🤢