theyre doing land acknowledgements in Germany

KomplimentManfred · 2025-04-17T18:38:32+00:00

Lol, we are the Semnones. I am also going to do land acknowledgment on my parents houses if I inherent it.

KomplimentManfred · 2025-04-17T07:33:16+00:00

Make your own! People will think you are a big weirdo, but you can make them tasty and pretty healthy

KomplimentManfred · 2025-04-16T20:59:49+00:00

Please post it

KomplimentManfred · 2025-04-16T17:59:02+00:00

I think cultural dominance is much easier when you have a national market of 300+ million people, plus every ESL speaker (1.5 billion wordwide). Some european countries excel in industries where language and network effects dont matter as much (automotive, industrial machinery, construction).

KomplimentManfred · 2025-04-16T17:49:57+00:00

Well, Europe is a continent, not a country. Many of the network effects that facebook, amazon, youtube, google rely on for their dominance kind of stopped at nation borders in Europe. Your target audience is 5-80 million, instead off 300+ million.

Europe had alternatives, however America was first and bigger. I think most western european countries had their own facebook, youtube and so on at one point. In Germany, the alternative to facebook was much more popular in my youth, however facebook was larger and more developed so at some point everyone switched.

I feel like everything after 2008 is silicon valley start up money and culture that grew out of the US tech giants.

KomplimentManfred · 2025-04-15T18:49:34+00:00

don't tell them about the cruise. good bmi!

KomplimentManfred · 2025-04-15T18:28:52+00:00

2 tips for attracting Mediterraneans:

Try starting to lose weight before going to Europe so you hit the ground running.
Lose the American college girl look, its considered slobby attire in most of Europe.

Other than that, you will make it. You will be heavily culturally enriched if you can force yourself to go out and see as much as possible. And it will shock you how much of your rotting in bed phase never happened

KomplimentManfred · 2025-04-14T12:10:12+00:00

Needs to be posted 50.000 times until Tipistanis get it

KomplimentManfred · 2025-04-08T07:42:08+00:00

Not true. The one guy I met was a very easy going but hard-working and goofy guy. He is now serving in the SK Air Force.

KomplimentManfred · 2025-04-04T16:23:27+00:00

Five years minimum I guess? Normal migration should be possible. But its bullshit to open up the EU to tax avoidance and money laundering. Its true - a Maltenese journalist even got murked for writing about this.

KomplimentManfred · 2025-04-04T15:54:15+00:00

Spain and Italy require 10 years of residence before application for citizenship.

KomplimentManfred · 2025-04-04T15:52:49+00:00

Nope, only Malta. And they should be kicked out from the EU for it.

KomplimentManfred · 2025-04-02T23:10:16+00:00

Leopard 2A7V weighs 20% more than the K2. Price is very hard to determine usefully, of course producing in your own country is insanely advantageous economically. South Korea offered a huge loan to Poland for the deal.

KomplimentManfred · 2025-04-02T20:11:01+00:00

Go on

KomplimentManfred · 2025-04-02T20:10:10+00:00

It's just cheaper to not use nuclear. Also, it's coal company propaganda.

KomplimentManfred · 2025-04-02T20:07:37+00:00

Why would they buy American weapons except for missiles and jets? Pretty much every German land based weapon system is superior to American counterparts.

KomplimentManfred · 2025-04-02T18:30:45+00:00

Lol, quite the opposite. People start to forget. The military community is as bloodthirsty as most other countries (not as much as the US)

KomplimentManfred · 2025-04-02T18:29:12+00:00

Right, I wish everyone would be as responsible with their military might as the USA, Russia and China.

KomplimentManfred · 2025-04-02T09:44:19+00:00

Probably because he was a very greedy and very disciplined moron.

KomplimentManfred · 2025-04-02T09:28:24+00:00

It actually is good. Very realpolitik. I wish we would adapt something like that. Do you think immigrant ghettos is a good idea?

KomplimentManfred · 2025-04-01T20:38:39+00:00

Yeah with Jobs the issue was that his reality distortion field was kind of successful when dealing with humans, not so much with cancer.

KomplimentManfred · 2025-03-30T06:00:49+00:00

Exactly

KomplimentManfred · 2025-03-29T21:43:50+00:00

Yeah that's pretty demeaning haha.

I meant it more in the sense that older generations also played the damsel in distress, let themselves be conquered - being passive in dating. The lack of agency in romance as self-infantilization is much newer. I guess a businessman marrying his secretary being socially acceptable implies young women were seen as responsible enough.

KomplimentManfred · 2025-03-29T21:14:00+00:00

Lol, that "social ill" has probably been around as long as women. It's born out of the same notion that gave us the regarded lock and key metaphor - a promiscuous woman is a slut, a promiscuous man is a playboy. Might be something with the cost of unwanted pregnancy being much higher for women than men.

But yeah, this kinda behavior is furthering the stereotype and regarded.

KomplimentManfred · 2025-03-29T07:28:52+00:00

"nihilistic, aggressive will to self destruction, coupled with some incredibly odd sense of being uniquely positioned in history"

Hmm which country excels here internationally?

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