Yeah, indeed. Fwiw I hope you’re right. Although I don’t think this process is going to take just a few days, even at the rate things have been going the last few years that’s too fast.

No we aren’t lol Europe is going to capitulate to keep NATO intact

“we must save the traditions of Western civilization” people in shambles

The only people who are lying are people who upload stuff which is against their terms of service lmao

“democracy”

No, lol. If it were a real place there would be a real story of how it came to be that way.

There’s a fair argument for a longer sentence for such a horrible crime, but for Germany this is pretty long, prison sentences are not as inflated there as in the USA.

But allowing school children to start writing ‘thru’ instead of ‘through’ might actually work.

Indeed, I think the kinds of simplifications which we already naturally use in casual writing, like ‘thru’ or ‘tho’, might take off if they were allowed, unlike changes imposed from above.

(Great comment btw!)

In the sense that Alphabet has an ‘a’ in it.

Don’t get me wrong, there are a lot of wonderful things about it, but living there is much worse than visiting. It is very normal to have mould all through your house and have to wear your coat indoors in the winter because you can’t afford to heat and the house has no insulation, we have staggeringly high levels of poverty for a “developed” country. Yes, people are friendly, the nature is some of the best in the world, and the lifestyle is relaxed. But the disparity between incomes and cost of living means most normal people are really quite struggling to make ends meet, the health system is a shell of its former self, and things are just overall getting worse quite rapidly. I know that’s not unique, most of the Anglosphere has basically the same issues, but we already started at the lower-income end of that group.

I promise you you wouldn’t like living there as much as you think. I agree our immigration laws are really shitty though, and you should be allowed to come find out for yourself what a crappy country we are.

In principle I agree with you but this really requires faith in the justice system to always work. In this case for sure it’s correct, but I wouldn’t be comfortable taking it as a universal rule in our current actual society.

The existence of Israel in the way it exists now is an injustice.

Nah, it’s from it developing in puberty

The people doing the guillotining weren’t the state (at first anyway)

A normal dose is more like 0.01g for someone with no tolerance

This meme is not saying anything like it’s the average price? It’s suggesting that the aesthetic of the tater tots in the jar conjures feelings of those places you can find which are that expensive.

Big change from your last comment

20 dollars is about 16 CHF, that’s an extremely normal price for a cocktail. I live just outside Zurich, I’m not exaggerating for comedic or dramatic effect. In a fancy bar in district 1 or niederdorf it’s more like 25 CHF or 30 USD.

Just a random selection of a few bars in downtown:

https://www.oldcrow.ch/rare-cocktails/

https://www.widderhotel.com/media/lr5czzlx/barkarte_september_2025.pdf

https://marea.bar/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Menukarte_Marea_AUWI_2025.pdf

http://barmuenster.ch/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/240617_WEB_Version.pdf

Paris is not nearly one of the most expensive cities. For a huge cultural capital it’s really quite affordable. Try Zurich or San Francisco or Singapore.