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is their business showing porn to minors? that's their market?

Microsoft Office suite

people can talk to chatGPT

I think the Youtube comparison is a good one up to a point. It's a niche product. Everyone wants to be part of it, competing for a very very limited resource which is our attention…

Most of our ancestors actually had less stressful jobs and worked less than we do today. The average agricultural worker 100 years ago was not even doing a part-time in terms of ti…

is not accounting differences at all: - Europeans (and I am one) live in tiny housing even compared to people in NYC. - we have less cars (you can claim it's due to public transpor…

really? where were you during covid?

last time I checked countries like Romania (E Europe) had the smallest pay gap in Europe. the issue is usually in countries like Germany, Switzerland or Netherlands.

then take care of your diet, do some sports, make sure you have a strong immune system. the vaccine is just a weak patch to a bad health.

not if you're below 30

depending on your age

why pay more taxes when there's no accountability and responsibility regarding spending? spending needs to get under control before raising taxes is even a thing.

Not really. Even an unorganized small group of armed people can create enough damage to the Police/Government forces that it's not worth the fight.

where are the profits going? if a German company opens a factory in Hungary where it produces let's sau Automotive parts of course Hungary develops a trade surplus. they sell autom…

Of course. Check the largest exporters... yea... mainly German companies. That surplus ain't staying in Hungary

>Western companies come to Hungary because its cheap force, despite being generally lower quality than west I doubt the average Hungarian is of "lower quality" than the average Bel…

Those 3b are such a simplistic narrative. How much money do Western companies make in Hungary due to EU? The reality is that EU is mostly a neo-colonial project where the East Euro…

Between the power/control being taken over by someone elected and supported by most of his country or being taken over by some bigger organization like EU with very twisted interes…

I agree the burden of switching countries is too big. But as a share of that burden the beaurocracy of getting a new residence would be somewhere at the bottom. The biggest burden …

do people want that? whenever there was a referendum on an EU constitution or anything of that sort, it got rejected.

It will be super easy to fake regardless. Based on how I've seen their system just a scan from the screen of another friend will do the job. There is no biometric crosscheck and I …

only 17/448 (~4%) million EU citizens work in other country than their birth one. expatriating is not as common as you'd think living in a major EU city.

We're far from that. The gap between countries is big. Just to mention Belgium's example despite having an eID, you can't even change your address online in most communes and you n…

Why would you need an unified solution? Why not leave it to the national governments and Youtube or whomever can personalise their checks based on your location.

I think this is the biggest worry. With the vaccine passport system soon to be revealed and now an universal SSO tracking a variety of EU wide actions... I feel the risk of getting…