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The government housing in communist countries didn't actually have tiny windows, compared to the housing stock available at the time.

You might want to look into opinion polling on Russia in the Baltics or Finland. The idea that only the right considers Russia a threat is ridiculous.

Try Biomin-F or Apagard. The latter is fluoride free. Both are among the best for sensitive teeth.

The real problem with the resources deal was the lack of security guarantees.

Why are you repeating Kremlin's talking points?

Using the exact same reasoning, Churchill would be a dictator, too.

Why can't you have trams travelling at 80km/h? That's around the max speed of some of the trams used in Europe.

German trains are unrealiable because they spend like 5-10 times less per km of railway than Austria or Switzerland.

The guy refers to himself in the third person? Lmao.

Does the word 'good' have a different meaning in the US? Your car manufacturers barely manage to compete in the segment protected by the chicken tax tariff... Some do a decent job in luxury EVs.

Shipping obviously broken stuff is a good way to discourage users from giving any feedback at all.

The banking situation is like an MVP of the real thing. You can't easily get a mortgage in another country, some of the banks can't even serve you in English, etc.

As for taxes, in theory, you could have a unified system that exposes a bunch of knobs for each country to turn as they wish. Some might even set some of them to 0. You can do much better than the current mess. I guess you can also do much worse, especially for the people who've already found their niche tax-wise.

Everything is an even bigger mess when you are a company (not even an employer). E.g. recycling mess mentioned here: https://www.pcengines.ch/recycle.htm

If you listen to someone like Stoltenberg speak, you will find that he is very clear about NATO's commitments. No "each country would decide how much help", that kind of thing comes mostly from the German speaking circles.

Contrary to what some Americans think, Europe is not culturally homogeneous. The countries themselves tend to be, with some exceptions, but they do differ from each other, sometimes in significant ways.

Want to have your mind blown? The systems Americans call single payer are not all the same. And it's not a silver bullet either. The rest of your talking points is a little out of date -- the country most openly diplaying its imperialist mindset and also the one currently engaged in an offensive war is Russia.

It sounds like you might want to look into changing the voting system. The problem with this is that people who have most experience with other systems (immigrants) usually can't vote and have fairly easy exit to another, saner, place. I think Alaska and a few other states have experimented with other voting systems recently. I'm not sure where I've read about it, but there seems to be a subreddit about this: https://old.reddit.com/r/EndFPTP/

Unlike other solutions, this one takes years or decades, but, on the other hand, it might actually work.

I don't get takes like this. What are you even suggesting? More friction on moving from one place to another?

Most rural US problems seem to come from unwillingness to build higher density. Europe has plenty of 5k-20k towns with relatively dense centers that have all the basic services. At the upper end of that range you can even get things like hospitals. And that's in a country with basically no property taxes.

What's more plausible, that the party that routinely blows up warehouses and murders people on NATO soil did it, or the party that has kept Germany safe for more than 70 years did it?

"The average intellectual of the Left believed, for instance, that the war was lost in 1940, that the Germans were bound to overrun Egypt in 1942, that the Japanese would never be driven out of the lands they had conquered, and that the Anglo-American bombing offensive was making no impression on Germany. He could believe these things because his hatred for the British ruling class forbade him to admit that British plans could succeed. There is no limit to the follies that can be swallowed if one is under the influence of feelings of this kind. I have heard it confidently stated, for instance, that the American troops had been brought to Europe not to fight the Germans but to crush an English revolution. One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool. "

-- George Orwell, Notes on Nationalism (1945)

https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwel...

1. Why are you taking Russian disinfo at face value?

2. Others were affected by the construction of the pipeline, yet their concerns were brushed aside with nothing better than hand waving and a load of Wandel durch Handel rubbish. To be honest, I'm not sure why anyone east of Germany should care one bit about what German anti-NATO boomers think. To make it crystal clear, national security of Eastern European allies is not something for Germany to trade away -- it never was. We will have our security, if it comes to that, at the cost of German jobs. Not that Germany needs much help with that, what with the genius level planning that went into the Energiewende and all that.

As far as I can tell this opinion is not uncommon, outside of the German speaking bubble.

Agreement among citizens is easy: just pick a country that doesn't use FPTP as the main voting system.

EU citizens mostly don't think in English at all... In most languages you would call someone who moves abroad an emigrant or something similar. From the point of view of the new country, they are obviously an immigrant. The word for people from poor countries is refugee or "economic migrant".

Keep in mind Germany had to deal with the Soviet threat at the same time. Sadly, the communist influence there will take a few more decades to stomp out.

Things seem to have worked out fine for Central and Eastern European post-communist countries. Also Portugal, Greece.

Paying for incoming texts and calls is not common outside the US. When you call or text someone, you pay the fee listed in your contract (not theirs). That is to say, the sane system exists and most countries use it.

Edit: Ironically, it seems that this can also be foot-gun: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34847873

Maybe the author just mangled the quote? It sounds like the context was preventing COVID transmission, it even mentions masks. One can reasonably say that the CO2 sensor doesn't distinguish air breathed out by others (dirty) from air breathed out by others and then cleaned by an air purifier (clean, but higher in CO2 than the outdoor baseline). So, if you are in an urban setting where the expected particulate levels are non-zero, you can tell whether the air around you was cleaned by a purifier using a particulate sensor. If it shows zero, it was probably cleaned to some extent.

Qingping Air Monitor Lite is decent and costs even less than the Awair. It doesn't measure VOCs though.

I'd guess the author has a window that doesn't open completely or doesn't have windows on opposite sides of the building. In my experience, it's much harder to get good airflow if the path looks like a U or an L, instead of a straight line.

You claim that the other side is biased and trying to stop people from seeing the footage, and yet it's your post that contains bullshit like "Pfizer planning to create COVID variants so they can later sell vaccines for them" -- a sentence intentionally crafted to imply Pfizer planning not just to create the variants, but also to spread them. What does "creating a variant" even mean? If you "create a variant" and then the same or similar variant ends up being dominant in the outside world, without the variant you created ever leaving the lab, that sounds like what you actually want the vaccine companies doing? If they can predict which variant vaccines will be needed and make them in advance, I don't really care how they did it, assuming reasonable risk management (no leaks and so on).

But no, you crafted your shitty statement so that the only reasonable reading is the technically incorrect one -- i.e. that Pfizer is planning to create AND SPREAD variants so they can later sell vaccines for them. Not exactly a shining beacon of integrity, are you?

AIOs are far from silent.

Does 5G at least help with the push notifications? I remember reading somewhere that one of the reasons why non-centralized push notifications suck was that the telco hardware kills the connection (presumably due to limited memory)?

The FTTH networks in Scandinavia are more than 20 years old now. The UK fiber plans were abandoned what, 30 years ago? Demand for bandwidth grows faster, yes, but it's not like you can't lay a larger pipe to begin with...

1. German coal usage went up since the war started. Their needs for transporting coal are up so much so that it's causing problems for passenger rail.

2. In 19 years, they could have moved most of their power generation to nuclear, like France did, *checks notes*, 40 years ago.