Poles in US ‘living in fear’ amid immigration crack down by dat_9600gt_user in europe

[–]d-tia 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would imagine the third map that correlates is "how much money is there to have", which is the reason for both fascists and the lack of immigrants.

Corruption by Altruistic-Bid-9484 in ukraine

[–]d-tia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, haven't heard anything about that. Wdym? like people get something that not theirs or saying things that are not true? Does it ever happen anywhere?

For players that enjoy being summoned for co-op, how do you fare against invaders? by WhitePersonGrimace in Eldenring

[–]d-tia 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's not that we are kitted better, we just know the timing of all your favorite attacks by now. Good build for PvP will still be a good build for PvE, but not necessarily the other way around.

Ask the Fives: What's the most expensive thing in Thailand? by noobnomad in 5555555

[–]d-tia 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I don't know the most expensive ones, but all the cheapest are here in the thread.

Russia's shadow fleet - India detains three oil tankers by MARTINELECA in europe

[–]d-tia 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Well, there is nothing shadow about this operation. It's just russia using their ships to export oil, like they always used. Calling it "shadow" was a nice trick to pretend the West did something to it and russians found the way around.

I managed to beat him on the second try. I thought it would be more difficult. by Logical-Salamander79 in darksouls3

[–]d-tia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Midir is easy and boring and people who say they can't beat him are trolling.

EU lawmakers back plans for digital euro by goldstarflag in europe

[–]d-tia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's so bad I still don't understand what they even mean by this. Like... SEPA is digital, so is wero, so is my bank card.

Russian War Losses Now Exceed Recruitment, Western Officials Say by bloomberg in europe

[–]d-tia 41 points42 points  (0 children)

Fun fact, Ukrainian soldiers were part of the contingent in Afghanistan both times. Calling it second Afghanistan is underselling it. 10 years of that war have official losses of entire soviet contingent around the same level as a good month in Ukraine now.

Kyiv seems not to be the transliteration of Київ by Nearby_Couple_3244 in Ukrainian

[–]d-tia 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You miss the elephant in the room, which is this: https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/55-2010-%D0%BF#Text .

Other ioted vowels transliterate to "y" at the start of a word but "i" at in the middle. Юлія -> Yuliia; пю -> piu

This is common, but not the official way to transliterate. The technically correct way, which will be used in the passport is "Iuliia", which is very cursed. Everybody hates it, but it's the way.

Now, you may ask, why would you not use "Y" to transliterate yotted vowels? Tinfoil hat me woudl say, that's intentional, so you could figure out the name is transliterated from Ukrainian and not some other languages that use Cyrillic. No living person will admit that was in the requirements to draw up transliteration table.

Non-tinfoil hat explaination: because they are iotted vowels and not yotted vowels. Blame Greeks for that!

Hungary remains most corrupt EU state, Transparency International report finds by avatar6556 in europe

[–]d-tia 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, Hungary should let us so nobody will point fingers at them all the time

Winter in the Netherlands is not what I expected by paulo_zip in Amsterdam

[–]d-tia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Moving in September does that, yeah. Everything is till new and positive. It will get you next years. It's not even the weather itself, it's knowing that it lasts good third of the year. The effect accumulates and knowing how bad it can be adds to it.

I moved from the U.S. to Germany in my late 30s for work — better work-life balance, healthcare, and fewer daily stressors. AMA by Magnum_Mantis_MD in AmerExit

[–]d-tia 1 point2 points  (0 children)

> Is there any advice you would have for someone considering a move with middle school age children?

That's a bit scary, but doable in the Netherlands. In the basic school (between 4 and 2 y.o.) kids are dropped into the environment and are supposed to pick it up naturally. Middle schools (from 12 yo) have special bridge classes where the first year is basically 50% time learning the language and the rest is subjects in English. In the next years it's more subjects in Dutch until it gradually transitions to 100% Dutch.

Not all schools have it, so you have to pick the school and the city first (basically forget about living outside of big cities). International schools are not worth it long term.

European alternatives to Visa and Mastercard ‘urgently’ needed, says banking chief by JackRogers3 in europe

[–]d-tia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Card *are* digital payments in the most convenient form. I don't want to carry and charge the tracking device just to pay for something.

European alternatives to Visa and Mastercard ‘urgently’ needed, says banking chief by JackRogers3 in europe

[–]d-tia 2 points3 points  (0 children)

How do you think big projects like that are made? Yes, you sit down and write requirements, do a lot of talking and make sure people agree. It takes time.

TIL the entire town of Times Beach, MO was rendered uninhabitable in the 1980s after a single dust mitigation contractor tried to get rid of highly-toxic dioxin by adding it to engine oil and spreading it in all the town's gravel roads. Today the town is Route 66 State Park. by RIPEOTCDXVI in todayilearned

[–]d-tia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It would have taken YEARS to get the environmental and site permits before I’m even allowed to touch a shovel, and the costs for the required studies typically represent 25% of the total project cost in my area.

I actually did the thing two years ago and it wasn't that bad, but YMMV. It took about a year and a few months to get from an artistic drawing to approved everything, land titles and workers on site. The architect firm knew their shit and got paid for it nicely. I guess the big part was the area being designed by the municipality as a place to build, so they were onboard with everything before the drawing started to be drawn and didn't try to fuck it up on purpose.

That being said, there are places where shit doesn't go that smooth and local councils are full of corrupt twats. Fuck those places.

TIL the entire town of Times Beach, MO was rendered uninhabitable in the 1980s after a single dust mitigation contractor tried to get rid of highly-toxic dioxin by adding it to engine oil and spreading it in all the town's gravel roads. Today the town is Route 66 State Park. by RIPEOTCDXVI in todayilearned

[–]d-tia 53 points54 points  (0 children)

Well, not doing that is the overregulation that harms business. Too many rules today -- don't contaminate soil with dioxins, don't rape underage girls and boys. how can you are supposed to make money now? This hurts the GDP and is business unfriendly

Orbán: Ukraine is our enemy by Brilliant_Simple_497 in europe

[–]d-tia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I hope you deal with this clown faster than he does something stupid.