oh sorry -- well cheaper than german houses that's for sure.
Along the Rhine valley, they have a double whammy of Swiss being unable to buy houses in Switzerland, so they go buy them in Germany as buy-to-let, pricing out the Germans who can't compete with Swiss salaries, and so the Germans go buy French houses which drives up their prices for the French.
old and "full of character" (read: uneven floors, crumbling paper-thin walls) due to lack of regulation.
compare that with Germany where a landlord has to replace the floors/kitchen/damn roof every 6/7 years, under the pretext of forced maintenance which they then use to jack up the rent based on the mandatory improvements.
A space ship descends and lands outside my door, and and a benevolent Alien pops out and hands me a 512 MB USB stick.
"I crafted this for your species, and made sure it's compatible with your hardware standards. It contains the sum total knowledge of all life in the universe and can be used to accelerate your species to the next plane of existence."
I thank him tearfully and he departs with a warm smile, ascending back up into the soon-to-be-knowable cosmos from when he came.
I plug the stick into my machine, and check out the directory. Inside are two files:
105 MB knowledge.tar.piidx
328 KB README.txt
I open up the readme file to learn more about the PIIDX file format so that I can uncompress the sum total knowledge of all existence. General gist:
Uses a compression algorithm with an infinite dictionary based on prime numbers
Uses a storage/retrieval algorithm based on the digits of Pi
Realise quickly that the file will never be opened in my lifetime
Goddamn this case is messy. There is a few pieces of damning evidence and clues against her (her not intervening when a baby was struggling to breathe, deaths on the ward only when she was around), but I can definitely understand the nurses who are already pushed to the extremes of their working lives feeling terrified that all deaths can be pinned on them, and not the higher ups who should be ultimately taking the responsibility
Think about how much empathy your parents generation has for yours. They kind of sympathize, wish things were easier, but ultimately do not understand the wealth gap or your day-to-day.
Think about how much empathy you have for a 3rd world exploited labourer. You kind of sympathize, definitely wish things were easier, but ultimately do not understand on how they live on less than a dollar a day.
Billionaires aren't just one or two levels removed from understanding your situation. They are whole planets apart. They cannot comprehend our daily struggles. They do not see it except through summarized news reports that pander and reframe it to their lifestyle.
Billionaires are the most removed species on this planet
tetris11 @ tetris11 @feddit.uk Posts 1Comments 302Joined 5 mo. ago
could be.... could be....