Just noticed I used “strongly” three times in the post. Gonna need to find new adverbs.

I think this is a very valid question. Sometimes the grass really is greener on the other side.

I like it here in Germany. Laws and social safety are relatively strong. Oftentimes I see an article about some chemical common in food being a cancer risk, and then I research it and see that it is a US-centered article and that the EU already banned the chemical years ago.

Right wing populism is strongly on the rise here though. Racism and LGBTQ-phobia will strongly depend, with smaller villages and regions in East Germany being worse on average.

If you’re a top earner, you most likely won’t get the crazy high salaries here that you might expect from the US (even if accounted for cost of living, childcare etc).

Bureaucracy is annoying.

Rent can be very high depending on the region.

Job market strongly favors German speakers. I heard the Netherlands are more open in that regard. I think this will be your biggest hurdle.

Very true on the damage part. I used a similar mod in skyrim and it made the game significantly more fun to play.

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Sorry you have to go through that. Try not to let it get to you, but retain the ability to recognize constructive criticism.

class CountToTen is the perfect example of why I dislike Java.

Every time I see a Luigi Saint pfp, it’s a based take.

Is this a Ben Shapiro reference?

What the duck

Look into the differences between altered states versus altered traits for a scientific perspective on this.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauchy's_integral_theorem

Not sure if you’re referencing this intentionally? I love when the same thought can come up in different forms for different contexts.

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Ah, I see the issue now. Parties get voted into the parliament. The government consists of a coalition of parties that together form a majority. The other parties form the opposition. Therefore, a single party can have many seats in the parliament, but still not be part of the government, if enough other parties coalise without them.

It’s the same take. They’re not in the government, and possibly never will be.

They would require a coalition with another big party, but all other established parties are strongly opposed to working with them, while being at least somewhat open to working with each other. From that perspective, the current voting predictions can be seen as 19% AfD vs 60% established parties (no longer counting FDP, lol). Still bad, but I think it’s reasonably likely that the other parties would keep coalising with each other and excluding the AfD.

Fortunately, AfD is not in the government and possibly never will be

Why would the absolute amount of money matter for investing vs. saving cash? Assuming he finds a broker for which absolute transaction fees are negligible, the only important factors should be time window and risk tolerance, both of which are independent of the absolute saving rate.

I love the concept of this book but was pretty disappointed by the actual recipes tbh.

I remember this meme!! In 2020 I came across a stackexchange question referencing this meme, which I found kinda interesting: https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/49999/are-cadavers-normally-embalmed-with-butt-plugs-before-burial

I wish my memory was as good for things that aren’t memes.

Even NDS games should be pretty playable on a phone. Give Heart Gold/Soul Silver a try if you’ve missed it, they’re the best Pokémon games.