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Tesseraction posted:I will push back a little in that China recently ended all restrictions due to domestic political fallout - I'm not saying that racism hasn't been a motivator, but I can also understand practising caution given that the rolling lockdowns in China was loving their economic situation, and if there's one thing the EU as a whole will not tolerate, it's messing with the money. In addition, China itself used to (?) require mandatory Covid-tests for people entering the country and a required hotel quarantaine of 10-14 days. So for China to now claim this is racism is a bit rich, especially because their policy helped create a spike in anti-foreigner sentiments in the country.
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i say swears online posted:it's absolutely racism lol Well deep down it's always racism with Europe. But this round of covid is a bastard - I'd know, I caught it.
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Tesseraction posted:Well deep down it's always racism with Europe. But this round of covid is a bastard - I'd know, I caught it. Might want to ask a negative test for all incoming travelers, then. Also bring back mask mandates. Kassad fucked around with this message at 20:17 on Jan 5, 2023 |
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there's already a december wave of excess mortality, not just from covid but the flu, rsv etc. it just gets grouped into "covid". no one's been told to change any of their habits much beyond getting their kids vaccinated, which few have ended up doing the contrast between the collective shrug at this and the people coming from china are definitely a bad look. a stronger former would have made the latter reaction look a lot less bad
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A Buttery Pastry posted:There is no point in continuing this discussion if you're not going to actually attempt to understand my posts. I accept your gracious admittance of defeat. More helpfully/less sarcastically, I'd really recommend you purchasing and reading this to give you a better understanding of the fundamentals of electoral politics: https://academic.oup.com/book/26299 Its well written so easy to read, and its a first year introductory book so not too in-depth or complicated. It would give you a decent grounding in the subject so that you wouldn't keep making fairly rudimentary factually inaccurate claims - that right wing parties don't do well with high voter turnout, that the communists were the only party to the left of Nazis in Germany etc.
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Blut posted:I accept your gracious admittance of defeat. perhaps when people keep telling you that you're misreading basic points in favour of projecting ridiculous opinions on them, they may be telling the truth
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V. Illych L. posted:perhaps when people keep telling you that you're misreading basic points in favour of projecting ridiculous opinions on them, they may be telling the truth A Buttery Pastry posted:Looking at voter turnout in Europe, it appears to have dropped from 85% in the '60s to 65% in the '10s. This does have the effect of pushing the electorate rightward, as the rightward shift of the parties on offer demoralizes left-leaning people more, but the cause and effect are reversed. A Buttery Pastry posted:If this is the standard we're going with, the Nazis were center-right, having captured all but the communist part of the population. 
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right, and if you try to interrogate why the poster is making such facially outrageous statements you might be able to have something approaching a conversation
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V. Illych L. posted:right, and if you try to interrogate why the poster is making such facially outrageous statements you might be able to have something approaching a conversation They're not "facially outrageous", they're just plain factually incorrect.
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So I'm listening to 'Adults in the Room' by Yannis Varoufakis, and wow Wolfgang Schauble is genuine grade A evil to the core, I genuinely hope he's experiencing the very worst senility has to offer. And that little poo poo worm Jeroen Dijsselbloem, Europe was destined to fail with these people in control. it DESERVES to fail with these insane people in control.
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Blut posted:I accept your gracious admittance of defeat. Why the gently caress would you recomended this and not Lijphart?
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Al-Saqr posted:I genuinely hope he's experiencing the very worst senility has to offer. We go live now to a video feed of the fictional timeline where justice is served 
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Al-Saqr posted:So I'm listening to 'Adults in the Room' by Yannis Varoufakis, and wow Wolfgang Schauble is genuine grade A evil to the core, I genuinely hope he's experiencing the very worst senility has to offer. And that little poo poo worm Jeroen Dijsselbloem, Europe was destined to fail with these people in control. it DESERVES to fail with these insane people in control. My theory is that Wolfi quietly and deeply went off the rails when he survived his assassination attempt, and turned from just a basic corrupt politician into a Batman villain.
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Antifa Poltergeist posted:Why the gently caress would you recomended this and not Lijphart? Gallagher's writing is more lay accessible (which is a pretty big priority for a poster of that apparent knowledge level) while being just as academically sound for introductory study. Plus I had Gallagher as an undergrad lecturer and liked my dealings with him on a personal level so eh some (sub)conscious loyalty I guess.
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Blut posted:Gallagher's writing is more lay accessible (which is a pretty big priority for a poster of that apparent knowledge level) while being just as academically sound for introductory study. Christ, you're inseffurable, and also wrong.
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Looks like LKAB found a very large deposits of rare earth minerals in northern Sweden, says it's a gigantic find. Good news for Sweden as usual. And good news for EU wanting becoming more self-reliant in rare earths. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64253708
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Looking forward to Juan Guaido being declared interim president of Sweden.
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Why doesn't Euro have €1 and €2 bills, like dollar has? The 5€ bill is the smallest and a bunch of everyday stuff costs less. 5€ is 38 kn and we had 10 kn and 20 kn bills which served the purpose well. Now I have a choice of either paying every small expense by card (not always possible), or carrying around a pouch of coins. It actually feels like a step back -- now that we've joined the European future etc, my wallet is bursting at the seams and my pockets are full of coins.
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Doctor Malaver posted:Why doesn't Euro have €1 and €2 bills, like dollar has? The 5€ bill is the smallest and a bunch of everyday stuff costs less. 5€ is 38 kn and we had 10 kn and 20 kn bills which served the purpose well. Now I have a choice of either paying every small expense by card (not always possible), or carrying around a pouch of coins. It actually feels like a step back -- now that we've joined the European future etc, my wallet is bursting at the seams and my pockets are full of coins. Commemorative / country-specific coins are cooler if they aren't worthless. I had an American friend who lived in Belgium for a while and she instinctively just threw coins onto the sidewalk (already a  American 'habit' that she insisted was real, but what do I know) until she realized she's throwing out tens of euros every week
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Doctor Malaver posted:Why doesn't Euro have €1 and €2 bills, like dollar has? The 5€ bill is the smallest and a bunch of everyday stuff costs less. 5€ is 38 kn and we had 10 kn and 20 kn bills which served the purpose well. Now I have a choice of either paying every small expense by card (not always possible), or carrying around a pouch of coins. It actually feels like a step back -- now that we've joined the European future etc, my wallet is bursting at the seams and my pockets are full of coins.
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It's probably because Deutsche Mark also had 1 and 2 Mark coins.
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A Buttery Pastry posted:It's to annoy everyone enough that you go cashless. This is probably true, I would've used cash a lot more if we had 1 and 2 euro bills. Can't stand coins.
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Doctor Malaver posted:Why doesn't Euro have €1 and €2 bills, like dollar has? The 5€ bill is the smallest and a bunch of everyday stuff costs less. 5€ is 38 kn and we had 10 kn and 20 kn bills which served the purpose well. Now I have a choice of either paying every small expense by card (not always possible), or carrying around a pouch of coins. It actually feels like a step back -- now that we've joined the European future etc, my wallet is bursting at the seams and my pockets are full of coins. Germany had 5DM coins before the Euro. There should have been a 2.5€ coin or even a 5€ if you want to think ahead inflationproof. Anyways, the 5DM coin bought a pack of cigarettes at a vending machine. Vending machines accepting bills is still rare in Germany, and afaik the rest of the EU too, we skipped directly from coins to cashless. I do think that that is at least half the reason.
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Doctor Malaver posted:now that we've joined the European future etc, my wallet is bursting at the seams and my pockets are full of coins. Now you can feel rich without Germany having to give up the money to actually make you rich.
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Deltasquid posted:Commemorative / country-specific coins are cooler if they aren't worthless. I had an American friend who lived in Belgium for a while and she instinctively just threw coins onto the sidewalk (already a Sorry but your American friend made that up to disguise her madness
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Deltasquid posted:Commemorative / country-specific coins are cooler if they aren't worthless. I had an American friend who lived in Belgium for a while and she instinctively just threw coins onto the sidewalk (already a what on earth lol maybe that person is just dumb as poo poo
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Doctor Malaver posted:Why doesn't Euro have €1 and €2 bills, like dollar has? The 5€ bill is the smallest and a bunch of everyday stuff costs less. 5€ is 38 kn and we had 10 kn and 20 kn bills which served the purpose well. Now I have a choice of either paying every small expense by card (not always possible), or carrying around a pouch of coins. It actually feels like a step back -- now that we've joined the European future etc, my wallet is bursting at the seams and my pockets are full of coins. If I remember correctly the coins were designed with low end products in mind, like the ones carried in vending machines, while bills were for bigger items carried in shops (This is what i remember from school and tv at the time but since it was more than twenty years ago i could be mistaken). The single digit cent coins and the 500€ bill were an example of thinking too much about every possible use case.
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I understand the cashless trend and in 2023 it's nearly achievable. But in 2002 I don't think they had that in mind, and there were no €1 and €2 bills then either...SlowBloke posted:If I remember correctly the coins were designed with low end products in mind, like the ones carried in vending machines, while bills were for bigger items carried in shops (This is what i remember from school and tv at the time but since it was more than twenty years ago i could be mistaken). The single digit cent coins and the 500€ bill were an example of thinking too much about every possible use case. You usually do small purchases more times a week than large purchases, so it would make sense to make the more frequent purchases easier. I'm sure I'll get used to this so maybe I'm all worked up over nothing, but the stores here still refuse €50 and larger bills. So for practical purposes my new currency offers only three bills: 5, 10, and 20, and a billion different coins. That's inadequate. They had decades to get it right!
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Forget about COVID Are we about to see Spanish Flu: Electric Boogaloo? https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1621565175416426498
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Deltasquid posted:Commemorative / country-specific coins are cooler if they aren't worthless. I had an American friend who lived in Belgium for a while and she instinctively just threw coins onto the sidewalk (already a where does she live in america so I can go get the thousands in quarters all over her sidewalk
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Doctor Malaver posted:I'm sure I'll get used to this so maybe I'm all worked up over nothing, but the stores here still refuse €50 and larger bills. So for practical purposes my new currency offers only three bills: 5, 10, and 20, and a billion different coins. That's inadequate. They had decades to get it right!
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I once had a 500 eur bill it was cool, until I needed to actually spend the money and deposited it on an atm, never had one again 
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Doctor Malaver posted:I understand the cashless trend and in 2023 it's nearly achievable. But in 2002 I don't think they had that in mind, and there were no €1 and €2 bills then either... Carrying like a couple dozen low-denomination Euro bills sounds like it'd be more of a hassle than having a small amount of 5 or 10 euro bills and the rest in coins. What's the fear, that a store will refuse your 3.5 Euro purchase with a 5 Euro bill because they don't have change? I'd say that's absurd... but then I'd say the same about stores refusing 50 euro bills. That's stupid.
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Rust Martialis posted:Oh god not minks again
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Charlz Guybon posted:It should be illegal to refuse government issued currency That is to say, pay your daily shopping with a contactless debit card like a normal person.
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