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As if the DNT thingy didn’t exist…

We, as humanity, really need to stop equating democracy with direct votes and referenda. There are reasons why some bodies are nominated indirectly and through convoluted procedure…

In one you have the head of government of each member state, in the other the relevant minister depending on what is being discussed. These are not European bureaucrats, they are t…

> Upon winning, he would have his name and face be publicly known. His name is already public, it’s on Wikipedia

> it's because they are bad at reading/writing as a skill and might make e.g. spelling mistakes. Reading and writing are part of language proficiency. If someone struggles to under…

C2 is better than the language proficiency of the median native speaker. A C2 speaker is comparable to a highly educated native speaker with a master degree who reads regularly.

> The US has a guy who occasionally can screw things up for a few weeks, but who will be gone in a while. We have all just realized that the American Constitution is the jurisprude…

EU legislature is an actual corpus of laws. It’s imperfect, but it’s arguably better than having a guy that can block a model or threat companies because they crossed him.

I’m a parent, children should be banned from social media and enforcement should include serious fines for parents who don’t monitor their children. After the first 2-3 fines, peop…

“Expat” is how white well-off immigrants expect to be addressed to differentiate themselves from other immigrants.

Some effects of Brexit began right after the referendum (eg a business investment flattened since 2016). 2019–2020 are the worst years to start a comparison, because the UK uses a …

Do people pay income tax on capital gains in the US? Why summing this fantasy rate with income tax otherwise?

> Some of these "tourist trap" activities are locals trying to make an honest living doing what they can. The local working in hospitality is earning minimum wage, the premium you …

Pinocchio was published in 1–2-page instalments in “Giornale per i bambini”, a magazine for children.

But it’s not guaranteed that you’ll ever be as rich as a pensioner who owns a flat outright. Asset prices inflated so much that income is not completely irrelevant, but it is at be…

> your politicians hate independent people so they are not gonna encourage it Your politicians are actually subsidising the rural lifestyle with direct and indirect transfers. Eg i…

The problem with this is that private health insurance is very cheap because there is an NHS that takes care of emergencies and does more than 50% of the rest. So your taxes keep y…

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/47342 https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Disparition_(roman)

> A modern server can be power cycled remotely, can be reinstalled remotely over networked media, can have its console streamed remotely, can have fans etc. checked remotely withou…

We have a similar law in Italy, but, not having much advanced technology foreigners are willing to buy, the government uses it to prevent foreigners from buying washing machine man…

My wife and child are regularly stopped at the border if I’m not with them, because they don’t have the same surname. I live in the UK.

These panels are heavily subsidised. My brother got it almost completely financed by the state of Berlin a few years back.

The reality is that these letters are written in a kind of pseudolegalistic language, where a phrase like “the employee was punctual” means they were usually late. If they were act…

Assuming these numbers are relevant and correct, there is a reason why qualified migrants prefer other countries. If you were a French or a German doctor or an engineer, would you …