@tomex030 Sollte jedem klar sein, dass Straßen mit Geschäften ohne Flair und entsprechender Gastro in Zeiten von Amazon dem Verderb geweiht.
Aber die CDU...
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Uncle Andy
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Uncle Andy
@Heisenhoff
First coffee, then I thing the thing.
München, Deutschland Katılım Eylül 2016
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Things that we’ve normalized that feel like robbery:
Ticketmaster Fees
4pm Check-In
11am Check-Out
Paying for Hospital Parking
$40+ Hotel Parking
$10 Mocktails
$8 Coffee
$5 Greeting Cards
$5 Bottled Water
$100 Bottles at the Club
$20 Tequila Shots
Tipping on To Go Orders
Astronomical Student Loan Interest
$2000 Daycare
$45 For A Seat on an Airplane
$75 For a Checked Bag
Insurance
WiFi
What did I forget?
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@MagicPuddingDi @KarolusWangus Day 1 at Angkor Wat my brain melted under a hat.
Day 2 I did like all the elderly Japanese and Korean ladies and brought an umbrella to walk the ruins.
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@KarolusWangus As a teenager I went to a cricket match on a hot day, with my friend, both of us in our teenage girl skimpy tops and sun block.
We frazzled for 6 hours.
The old ladies and chaps in their long sleeved shirts and straw hats were comfortable all day.
We learned.
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Shirts. What changed is shirts. People back in the day wore long sleeve shirts and hats and shit to cover up. Amish still do. Dimwitted white collar types like me today halfheartedly roll on a lil' sunblock. Nobody who actually deals with the sun underestimates it.
Sama Hoole@SamaHoole
Sunburn rates before 1900: minimal, despite people working outdoors 12 hours a day in fields, on boats, on roofs. Sunburn rates after 1900: epidemic, despite air conditioning and office cubicles and SPF 50. What changed? The fat in the food. Your skin is built from the fats you eat. Saturated fat is stable under UV light. Polyunsaturated fat oxidises rapidly the moment the sun hits it. Eat seed oils → PUFA gets built into skin cell membranes → UV light strikes unstable fat → oxidation → sunburn. Eat saturated fat → stable membranes → UV tolerance climbs → natural sun protection from the inside out. Your great-grandfather worked in fields all day on butter, lard, and dripping. He didn't burn. He didn't reapply anything. He didn't own a hat with a UPF rating. You eat sunflower oil for 50 weeks of the year, then go to Spain for one and come back looking like a boiled lobster. The sun hasn't changed. The sun is the same sun. What changed is your cell membranes. They're now made from industrial fat that combusts under UV exposure like cooking oil left in a hot pan. Carnivores consistently report dramatically improved sun tolerance. Not because meat contains SPF. Because saturated fat builds UV-resistant skin. You've been blaming the sun for damage caused by what you ate 18 months ago.
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@chicolitoo @schieritz So wie mit der Mütterrente?
Oder eher wie mit der Abschaffung von Steuerprivilegien, z.B. Agrar-Diesel?
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@schieritz Sparen Mark, einfach mal sparen. Subventionen abschaffen, NOG Finanzierung massiv reduzieren, Sozialleistungen reduzieren insb. bei Menschen die nie eingezahlt haben, Entwicklungshilfe drastisch reduzieren, Bürokraten abbauen - das geht alles!
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@MarvinTBaumann @EarthFirstVoter @ProjectLiberal This. From his rise to power to his death, Hitler killed exactly 1 person.
Himself.
All the millions died by the hands of people doing his bidding.
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@EarthFirstVoter @ProjectLiberal As a German I know the exact opposite
Obviously the people are ultimately responsible for what is happening in their country
Who else?
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Americans don't understand that we did not lose trust in Trump. We never trusted him.
We lost trust in the American people not to elect people like Trump & lost trust in US institutions to reign a president like Trump in if he hurt US allies.
Both people + institutions failed.
Justin Stapley@JustinWStapley
NATO is so important that it would be hoped Europe understands the current president is term limited...
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Fatal workplace accidents per 100,000 workers. Working in Germany is outrageously safe. Work in Türkiye isn't.
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@gagliarf @_einfachlisa @AmirAminiMD I've been to Würzburg on a school trip together with a few American exchange students and we came upon a pub full of American soldiers.
No idea how, it was pre internet.
Like it was like it was meant to be.
As in: Loads of free 🍻.
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@_einfachlisa @Heisenhoff @AmirAminiMD Of course. People buy groceries, go shopping, eat at restaurants, visit Christmas markets, take weekend trips, etc. They don't only shop at the on-base stores. (I get that Mexican food in Germany is bad, but not so much that you should eat Taco Bell.)
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Not a single German (except for the local fast food chain owners maybe) thinks that US troops leaving Germany would be a loss.
Jennifer Jacobs@JenniferJJacobs
BREAKING: Trump moving about 5,000 US forces out of Germany, partly meant as a signal of Trump's discontent with Merz's commentary and European allies' lack of support during Iran operations. @CBSNews cbsnews.com/amp/live-updat…
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@PeterMcCormack Minimum wage would not only affect you, but all your competitors as well.
If people stopped visiting coffee shops overall, the business was never meant to be.
A water boiler and an Aeropress is all you need for proper coffee anyways.
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A minimum wage of £15 would end my coffee shop, it would have to close, as would many other businesses.
I’ll explain for the economically illiterate.
Staff costs are currently half our costs, a £15 minimum wage is actually more than £15 an hour for the company, because you have to add:
- 12.07% holiday
- Sick pay
- Maternity pay if and when required
- National insurance
- Pension contributions
These costs would mean the shop loses money because remember, energy costs are up, rates are up, regulations are up.
Now you can pass these costs onto the consumer - that would mean charging a lot more for coffee, people won’t pay it. The likes of Starbucks and Costa can, because they have economies of scale. The independent doesn’t.
Now the little socialist will say well this is your fault, if you can’t run a business that can afford to pay its staff properly, but the little socialist has never run a business and does not understand the dynamics.
Now I could pay some staff off and fill those hours myself or reduce us to one staff member during certain periods - but this proves the point that a minimum wage costs jobs.
There was a time when these jobs were done by kids, perhaps on the weekend, paid a lower wage, no holiday and no silly employment rights. Perhaps they were even paid cash. The dynamic worked and small businesses like this could operate. It was also a great first job. Sadly now it isn’t worth employing entitlement youngsters at this level of pay.
So alas, I don’t need the stress, the business would close, a number of jobs would be lost.
Economics is about understanding these dynamics, no vibes.
The cost of living is not solved through passing on inflation to the business, it is solved by ending high inflation and creating prosperity. This is what socialists don’t understand, they can’t create prosperity, they can only destroy it.
Harry Eccles@Heccles94
The Greens will raise the minimum wage to £15 for all workers 💪
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1. Our skeletons are wet.
2. your nose is ALWAYS in your line of sight, but your brain ignores it
3. When you receive a donated kidney, they don’t take out the bad one. They just add the good one in.
4. Your immune system doesn't know you have eyes. Otherwise, it would attack them and make you blind. injuring one eye can introduce eye bits to the bloodstream and basically give your immune system the knowledge of having eyes. then it might decide it really fucking hates that and attack your non-injured eye.
5. The quality of the male sperm is responsible for morning sickness, preeclampsia, baby’s gender and almost every single pregnancy related issue.
6. You breathe through one nostril at a time. Don’t believe me? Put your finger below your nose and try.
7. The brain itself has no nerve endings, so it can’t feel pain. That’s why patients can be wide awake during brain surgery and made to perform certain actions.
8. That ringing in silence isn’t silence
When everything is quiet and you hear a faint ringing?
That’s your brain listening to its own nervous system.
You are hearing yourself functioning.
9. You will never experience your own death.
You only experience approaching it… Then nothing.
Everyone else gets closure, stories, funerals, and memories.
You don’t.
You never know you’ve become a memory.
From your perspective, the story just stops mid-sentence.
Kateroy🫦@Roy2if
What’s a creepy fact about the human body you wish you never found out?
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@imyiskid The drive from Houston to San Antonio is long and boring.
In the meantime, I get on my bicycle and just ride to another country and back in one day.
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this sucks for distance and whatever but mind u the netherlands and belgium together already have about the same population size as all of texas so this is like not a fair comparison at all
Simone 💘 𓏲ּ𝄢@soclosetoguts
To everyone saying “Be grateful that you have shows on all ends of your country” this is the size comparison of my state to parts of Europe! None of Texas neighboring states have shows either.
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War ne richtig gute Idee mit so reudigen drecks Pappenheim Tüten!!! Sind auch richtig gut fürs Klima! Nur reintun sollte man besser nichts
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Uncle Andy retweetledi
"es ist absurd zu glauben, wir würden in irgend einem Auftrag handeln."
Ihr Paul @ronzheimer 🤡
Flood 🇪🇺 With Facts 🥇@Hirn_aus_Hack
Berichterstattung der #Bild zu Habecks Reise nach Katar um eine Gasmangellage abzuwenden: "#Habeck verkauft unsere Werte" Zu Reiches Besuch in Katar: "#Reiche ist auf Werbetour für die deutsche Wirtschaft" #Kampagnenjournalismus
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@marijonas_mc @JulianRoepcke Trump will be president for another 3 years.
Unless he chokes on a pretzel, which would leave you with Vance.
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“Vergebliche Liebesmüh,” as we say in German.
Lithuania is trying to convince Trump that it stands with him – so that he, in turn, would stand with it if Russia were to attack. But this effort is in vain. Trump will not confront Russia – under any circumstances. And he will find a thousand excuses not to do so.
Polymarket@Polymarket
JUST IN: Lithuania reportedly plans to join a US-led naval mission in the Strait of Hormuz.
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@flowerlole @AnergoTeacher Granadian
Not to be mixed up with a Granadan, a person from Granada.
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@AnergoTeacher Canadian is a nationality/citizenship. It isn't an ethnicity. Anyone can be Canadian. His mom was probably born in Canada to Greek immigrant parents. That's how she became Canadian. Or better yet, a Canadian of Greek ancestry or Greek-Canadian.
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If your mum’s parents are both Greek, how the hell is your mum half Canadian?
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@social_sth Einfach nur Median ist mir zu simpel.
Dafür ist die Einkommens- und Vermögensverteilung speziell oben weg zu extrem.
Unten gibts dafür ein breites Band, wonnach abzug Lebensunterhalt nichts bis kaum was ubrig bleibt.
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@social_sth Lehrer und Ingenieure und IT-ler sowieso alle nicht Mitte.
Und überhaupt, wer mehr verdient als die Reinigungskraft beim Sub der DB eh Bonze.
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Wer Menschen mit einem Jahrebrutto von 100.000 zur mitte der Gesellschaft zählt hat halt komplett den Bezug zur Realität verloren.
Zacki@FrankfurtZack
100.000 Brutto, etwa 62.000 netto, davon 24.000 für Wohnen. Verfügbares Einkommen also 38.000€ Nach GKV "Reform" -2800€ für Ehefrau -1000€ wegen höherer Beitragsbemessungsgrenze (KK+ Rente) -2500€ wegen Lars' Steuerplänen Verfügbares Einkommen nach der "Reform": 33.100€ Also 16% weniger verfügbares Einkommen. Dazu: Mehrwertsteuererhöhung mutmaßlich, absurde Tank-Steuern, mehr Zuzahlung, Zuckersteuer und so weiter. Das ist ein beispielloser Raubzug an der Mitte der Gesellschaft.
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@mitchprothero @tobiaschneider Bikes (and the resulting radius of free roaming) seemed normal once.
Or did ET (loads of other classic kids movies) lie to us?
GIF
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@tobiaschneider I come from the first generation of widespread both parents worked and this is absolutely a new thing. Boomers had no idea about or interest in what we did. Gen X is the first and the last of free range feral suburban kids in the U.S. and we became uptight parents as a result
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Jesus! I think I was 16 when I left the country on my own for the first time.
James Lynch@jameslynch32
American parents place strong limits on how far away from the house their kids are allowed to walk or bike alone. @FamStudies
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@tobiaschneider "Rome alone" age 16.
A friend had her little brother, age 14, tag along.
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