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Bro, even for an entire year that is less than a single ambulance ride in some parts of the US. Heck, you might pay $1000+ even with insurance coverage.
It's $1400/month per person in Germany, just hidden from you. That's more than a monthly family plan in the US.
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Makes sense to me. As an Italian currently in Austria, you are close to being German, without being one fully.
Isn’t Austria culturally basically German? My understanding is that Austria was the Germans who ended up running a multi ethnic empire ruling over Slavs also, while Germany was the Germans who didn’t do that. Then once the Austrian empire fell apart only the German part was left in “Austria” and it basically has no reason to be separate from Germany anymore because the Slavs are no longer part of the same territory a…
Question 9 imho is the most German one ("When someone says 'we should get coffee sometime,' you understand this to mean:"). It depends on context a bit obviously, but most Germans are sincere about it. You either propose coffee or you don't. However, there's a subset of Germans who seem to propose coffee and then don't follow up themselves, but it's not just a phrase. If you are the one to follow up, they'd join you.…
This gets mixed up with the whole dance "I want to measure how much you care about having a coffee with me". We're social creatures so negotiation of your position in the hierarchy is very fucking important. You invite to a coffee someone who's from the same or higher social class. You accept invitations from the same or higher social class. Stronger signal "I really want to have a coffee with you" corresponds with bigger difference in hierarchy. Your goal is to game the system so that you're at the top - everyone invites you for a coffee, you decline all invitations. Actually meeting for a coffee is basically failure of diplomacy. People are subconsciously, without any awareness at all, creating very elaborate strategies to this game.
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I also got both. I'm Norwegian, so culturally half-German seems relatively reasonable. And the autism part I think more than one person who have met me have suspected (no diagnosis, and probably wouldn't get diagnosed now , because I've had a few decades of getting good at masking quite a few things I know would've shown up on an assessment)
I don't think the tests "you care about thing being done well" is good way to diagnose autism...
Posting my result here in case you want to see the different results without redoing the test: German 47% - Autistic 47% Wittgenstein was Austrian, which is close enough. He was also, by most accounts, someone whose relationship to social convention was at best functional and at worst a source of significant suffering to himself and everyone around him. He rewrote philosophy twice. The first time by establishing what…
I got the very same 47/47. What if it's always giving that?
I assume that the 10% is I dont really care.
This man is gay and European!
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It's obvious Claude slop, a stupid meme for people who want to think they are special
I’m pretty sure Claude is German, which complicates things.