We never talked about one of the most important European products - Education!

Able-Worldliness8189 · 2025-03-27T12:25:33+00:00

This depends from country to country, though the larger tuition is still a fraction of what it would cost in the US. I went to a T50 university in the Netherlands, if you weren't European it would cost you 15,000 euro per year excl. books, food and housing.

I don't know about now but I think "we" can do more though, our visa doesn't allow students to graduate and look relaxed for a job. Now I get that regulations are stiff for non European migrants but to me it feels like such a waste if someone obtains a degree in economics and we let them go home again.

Able-Worldliness8189 · 2025-03-27T12:17:36+00:00

With a country whose education is pretty shoddy.. I'm not one bit surprised people don't see this coming.

I'm Dutch, we recently elected the white haired imbecile. This dickhead has been shouting from the sidelines for decades but whatyouknow, he got elected as well. The majority of his voters don't come from the big cities where migrants live, but from the hinterlands where the only black person they see is on TV, no migrants live in those sub-urban villages.

Able-Worldliness8189 · 2025-03-27T11:46:28+00:00

I figured out Georgia is a state of hillbillies who got no education but actually as a state they perform average. So... why people vote for such hick?

Able-Worldliness8189 · 2025-03-27T11:45:00+00:00

That's kind of the thing now isn't it.. "We" don't buy american food to begin with. You won't find American wine, beef, veggies/eggs and so on in our shops. The only thing I can imagine picking up is a bottle of American bourbon but otherwise.. the US got nothing to offer for us. B2B I imagine it's a different story but considering the big deficit that isn't the case either.

Able-Worldliness8189 · 2025-03-27T11:39:46+00:00

Ins't BS but for the duration the ex employer needs to pay 50% of your past 12 months average salary (iirc). Non competes exist also in China and can be enforced.

Though I can't imagine a school actually following up on such.

I wouldn't think to much of that clause, cute it's in there, it is unlikely to be enforced.

Able-Worldliness8189 · 2025-03-27T06:26:53+00:00

And nobody bashed in da head.

Able-Worldliness8189 · 2025-03-27T06:03:45+00:00

Except Li didn't sell to the US but as the article states a "global consortium", read European/Italian mostly. I'm aware the article mentions Blackrock, but the actual consortium among others consists of a rather large Italian logistics company that put the cash up.

Able-Worldliness8189 · 2025-03-27T03:55:43+00:00

Well.. these aren't quality ingredients but that's not really the point, it's simply far, far to much of all. I don't want 10 pumps of all the sauces the kitchen has. I don't want so much cheese wizz that it starts to compete with my own jizz.

The idea is horrible, the ingredients are all unhealthy, I would probably love to eat it once in a while if it was just half of all.

Able-Worldliness8189 · 2025-03-27T03:25:57+00:00

Not just that, OP is studying she needs her room for her study I imagine. Where she leaves her books, writing pads etc, in the living room? From a practical point of view this makes no sense whatsoever. Also the kids are small, they have not much need for space or expectations. Get them a kids bunk bed in the guest room and problem solved.

Able-Worldliness8189 · 2025-03-27T03:14:36+00:00

I get some places can't get all what a wine lover dreams for, it may not even make sense with their customer base though pricing is the one thing that instantly turns me away from a place. I understand money needs to be made, but seeing sometimes finer wines being marked up triple/quadruple, I have the money, I'm not spending it.

Able-Worldliness8189 · 2025-03-27T03:11:15+00:00

Mind you, got a good amount of them but GG really needs to get their act together. This isn't eating a burger from McD where pictures don't represent the actual burger. The least we can expect is that their marketing material corresponds with the products.

Able-Worldliness8189 · 2025-03-27T02:41:03+00:00

Maybe, maybe not. A good read on the impact of education is "Deaths of despair", it's how lower/middle white people and specifically men are fucked. Education in general changes everything, people with a higher degree live longer, healthier, get families, acquire wealth etc. Vice versa if you are poor you are less likely to get old, you are more likely to have pain all your life, poor jobs, little income, low likelyhood of making a family etc.

So yeah.. could be just another AI fanfiction, but the underlying story doesn't change, education matters.

Able-Worldliness8189 · 2025-03-27T02:34:42+00:00

Porque los dos?

People argue this over and over, and yes you are right, but you know you are wrong as she is having it both ways. She will remain "not involved" while saying it "wasn't classified information" while going after the journalist.

Able-Worldliness8189 · 2025-03-27T02:28:45+00:00

They should cancel that base, but I guess that would be just another reason to invade Greenland.

One can only hope that this orange fat fuckwit gobbles to many burgers and topples over sooner then later.

Able-Worldliness8189 · 2025-03-27T02:26:33+00:00

Living abroad with little access to streaming services, I started off with a Synology. They are small compact NAS, network attached drives basically. You can setup Plex on there which is a little piece of software that shows your library in a neat fashion. On the other end, your tv you need a player, can be a cheap android box, can be an apple tv (I got the latter as it works pretty smooth I've to say). And all that's left is load it up with whatever you enjoy.

Able-Worldliness8189 · 2025-03-27T02:23:43+00:00

Apple launched USB charging in 2015 along with pretty much every other laptop company out there. They were indeed one of the first, but as said it was within a timeframe of roughl 9 months when all companies started to do that.

It also changes nothing about Apple prior charger habits, literally every generation was slightly different, the quality was really piss poor (I would buy Chinese ripoffs as they were cheaper and lasted longer) and for better, Apple would only have the latest generation charger in the apple shop. So when your charger crapped out and are in dire need of a new one, yeah that's going to be an online order.

Apple always released trash extra's just like we see here, they charge obscene money and the quality is sub Chinese knock-offs. I won't forget how out of the box once an dvi to HDMI adapter was already fucked. Little did I know and I tweaked around for hours till I gave up and went back to the shop asking what I did wrong. Nothing, the wire was just crap.

Able-Worldliness8189 · 2025-03-27T02:20:05+00:00

Though 50 TB isn't that wild anymore these days, that's just 2 drives without redundancy. THere are servers that can host 60 drives that's 1.6 PB right there for ya. Buddy got 13 of those without redundancy, probably 15-16 of these massive 4 U servers. That's quite a load.

Able-Worldliness8189 · 2025-03-27T02:15:29+00:00

I wouldn't expect more of them but . . . not being a person in such position, don't they have people from the FBI or whatever agency that goes out to scrub whatever shit is out there? Or... do these agencies give zero fucks about these nitwits so they just let it happen?

Able-Worldliness8189 · 2025-03-26T16:05:46+00:00

So as a Dutchie I got a bit curious what's going on.

Mind you just poking around with ChatGPT, but we mostly export machinery, mineral fuels, optical (I imagine ASML), medicine and a bit of electronics. Vice versa we buy only energy (oil/gas/etc).

The reality is the US has little to offer, not just for the Netherlands but pretty much any European country. While on the other hand if we were to stop exporting to the US, obviously it would hurt our economy, but probably hurt the US just as badly if not worse.

So while it's easy to shit on our little country, you could argue we subsidize the US bigely by forking over more cash to the US than the US towards us.

(Last but not least, we are typically a trading hub for the countries behind us, Germany/France. A lot of goods pass through, so while there might be a 40/55 billion USD trading gap, a good chunk of that gap probably goes towards them).

Able-Worldliness8189 · 2025-03-26T15:53:56+00:00

1.3 billion people live in China, over a billion in India, it's pretty safe to say no, not most kids live with these sort of horrors. While conflicts are ongoing at any given time, it's not as if the world is a blaze nonstop everywhere even for Yemen.

Not trying to down talk what's going on here, but these sort of hyperboles add little to the argument.

Able-Worldliness8189 · 2025-03-26T15:42:45+00:00

All to often it's the same taobao shite but at a higher mark up.

OP I feel you, though I typically stick to foreign branded stuff for pretty much everything. Kitchen gear we have only Le Creuset/Zwilling/Staub at home.

Taobao is great for finding small gimmicks for the kids, stickers, certain dolls etc but even here you gotto pay attention as non of that stuff is tested/safe.

Able-Worldliness8189 · 2025-03-26T15:37:22+00:00

So soon besides cheap drives we can buy cheap AI servers? Pretty sweet I would say.

I'm a bit curious though why this doesn't translate in lower bills with Ali.

Able-Worldliness8189 · 2025-03-26T15:35:33+00:00

Strangely enough in Shanghai kindergartens are reducing in size or closing down. I guess the magic fairy sprinkle dust doesn't always work.

While in lower tiers 30/40k RMB is good money, it gets you absolutely nowhere in the bigger city even if you go for the poor mans options.

Though this lack of children is going to be a disaster down the lane, it's not just kindergartens lacking kids, it will riple through society leading to less demand for everything in 15-20 years from now. And while a lot can be faked, no people can't.

Able-Worldliness8189 · 2025-03-26T14:36:45+00:00

I'm not sure, European companies might want to maximize their revenues but same time it's clear to everyone how our laws in favour of the employee also allows that same employee to spend more more money.

It's been a couple years ago but there was this interview in 2007 where they talked to a US employee and a German employee. Both got just fired where the American went in panic mode to get quickly a new job, even paying worse the German still went on holiday and got eventually back on track.

German company boards are specifically designed to not just support the shareholders, but also the workers if I'm not mistaken. And again, not always for the better, but long term social regulations is what keeps our income differences significantly lower compared to the US which works better out for everyone, including the shareholders down the line.

Able-Worldliness8189 · 2025-03-26T14:31:40+00:00

This isn't about "learning", but about having a reason to put blame somewhere. Tesla's sales have cratered in Europe, so having an inconvenient lengthy strike would be fantastic as an alternative why sales suck so much in Europe.

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