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@Empty_America Likewise, my grandmother’s top floor apartment in even cooler Copenhagen is unbearable until same time if it’s sunny and warmer than 65F during the day.

@Empty_America I was in the mountains in Switzerland last summer. No AC. Hotter than average but not record breaking anything, 50s/60s at night. It took hours for the apartment to cool off at night with the windows open (+ BR doors for draft). You’d maybe get to a comfortable temp by midnight.

The average nighttime low in Geneva during mid-summer is under 60 degrees. The natives probably couldn't conceive of why you would want mechanically refrigerated air instead of opening a window. This is a *unique* and *exotic* level of Ameri-delicacy.

@ORWH98 @Tyras_Mikhail Noel Irwin was probably worse.

@Tyras_Mikhail I think there are other generals more deserving of that accolade regarding the post-purge Red Army - Rokossovsky & Konev in particular. As for Patton, the only other senior officer worse than him was Mark Clark, CO of the Allies in Italy - a frighteningly incompetent bloke.

>Win against Luigi Cadorna, literally the worst general of WWI >Defeat France and England in the Battle of France because they are fighting the last war >Lose in Bir Hakeim against a garrison of Free French you outnumber literally over 10 to 1 in a Medieval desert fort, who were literally dying of thirst >Lose Africa once the Allies figure out your one simple trick of pretending to retreat and baiting them into ambushes There are two reasons why Rommel is basically deified as "the good Nazi commander": 1) The Allies needed an excuse of why they were so dogshit early war. And "Well, we weren't bad, we were just fighting the reincarnation of Alexander The Great" was convenient. 2) Post-War, West Germany was a vital NATO ally, being the first likely target of a potential Warsaw Pact invasion of Western Europe. And they needed the German people to not be completely demoralized following their defeat and denazification. And so, amongst other myths like "clean and honorable Wehrmacht" and "it took 10 Soviets to kill a single German", Rommel the gentleman genius general was allowed to permeate German culture as a "safe" aspect of WWII they could be proud of.

@Tyras_Mikhail @Szymon69699660 Well right, but Patton knew that and exploited it well. He didn’t need to have tactical superiority when he had material and logistical superiority.

@Szymon69699660 Patton really was Rommel with his "fuck it, we ball" mentality, but without the tactical smarts The difference was, America had the best logistics of the war, while German logistics... we're German logistics.

@financedystop This should just be flat out illegal if the service charge doesn’t go to the staff? That’s just straight up hidden pricing? Since this is legal, why couldn’t a restaurant just advertise $2 hamburgers (plus 800% service charge)

Tipping culture in America and the private equity-style penny pinching of trying to squeeze every last dollar out of the consumer needs to be stopped.

@Empty_America It works when you are able to have second class citizens like gulf states. Westerners find this unpalatable though.

Being average in a wealthy country is a lot different than being wealthy in a poor country. In a wealthy country, imported "goods" are cheap but the average person has no special ability to consume the time and labor of other citizens. It doesn't feel like you expected.

@Empty_America I used to take a regular connection at Reagan National in a tiny little terminal branch with a Five Guys and some other crappy option. I’d never eaten at one elsewhere and I assumed it was just expensive at the airport because it was 90% expense accounts.

Imagine the meeting at the 5 Guys headquarters when this strategy was invented. "Listen, people are infinitely dumb, we CAN charge $25 for a fast food meal, they will pay it." "Won't they just refuse?" "No."

@PenguinInNY There was another one that tried this that I used to go to a lot and they had to switch back.

実はこれを導入したレストランがNYCにいくつかありました。 コースメニュー$200をチップ込みで$250に変更したら"過去8年で一番売上が良かった"と話していたレストランオーナーの方もいました。 し　か　し…

@s21n @Tombiribuborz @ylecun @elonmusk Were the means of production privately controlled? That’s the question that matters.

@SPFCCMT @Tombiribuborz @ylecun @elonmusk Hitler's policies were switching Germany into a war economy, not socialism. They more resemble the US war economy in WW2, or even Trump's crony capitalism, than socialism.

Hitler was a socialist, therefore all socialists are Hitler

@Jason_R_Burt By grandfather said there were just so many weapons it was hard to believe. Like piles and piles. They just let the GIs take whatever they wanted and send them home as war trophies.

In May of 1945, German Soldiers turn in their weapons while surrendering to American soldiers after crossing the River Elbe using the partially destroyed bridge at Tangermünde to escape advancing Soviets. 🇺🇸

@LionBlogosphere I think it helped that there was a Cold War. People loved America for about a year after 9/11 too. Helps to have someone to hate together.

Back in 1976, people celebrated the Bicentennial because they loved America, even though inflation was sky-high and the President (Ford) was some guy that nobody had voted for. A celebration like this won't happen this year. Nobody loves America anymore.

@LionBlogosphere I don't really know. Perhaps I'm just being optimistic about Novo because I now own a fair amount that I can't sell while it works its way through the Danish probate system.

@SPFCCMT What about Pfizer $PFE?

I need undervalued stocks to buy to rotate out of my AI bubble stocks (like Sandisk, Intel, Western Digital, Taiwan Semiconductor, South Korea, etc). Does anyone have any suggestions?

@collin_ruth89 Code requires a ton of exhaust ventilation in a lot of places vs 0 for electric. Complaining about the need for upgraded ventilation cost during kitchen renos is a favorite pastime on my town's FB groups. Induction is really the best choice for 95% of people anyway.

Do people actually buy electric stoves? Gas is 10x better. Someone explain this to me.

@LionBlogosphere I think it's a number of factors, but a lot of people are saying it's undervalued.

@SPFCCMT But isn't the price low on that because they are facing patent cliffs?

@StefanMolyneux Maybe the best mom in the world is paying

Where did they get the money to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on travel? Don't they have jobs to go to? I'm sure they are rich kids with stupid and indulgent parents.

@financedystop Well it depends. What if you have a lot of hangers-on? That’s how NFL/NBA players and lottery winners often go broke. What if you’re a gambling addict?

$1 million invested at an 8% annual return could generate roughly $80,000 a year on average while still growing long term. That’s why most financially literate people would take the lump sum

@cremieuxrecueil If it weren’t for selling miles, every major airline in the US would lose money. The flying is essentially a loss leader.

Card benefit proliferation has made it so - Everyone uses Premier dropoff - Everyone uses Clear + Pre - The lounges are always full - Everyone preboards - First-class upgrades are always locked behind a 50-person queue

@CivicChronicle1 Since you have Savoy, how about Austria-Hungary and Byzantium too?

Tierlist European countries

@esben_rahbek @CivicChronicle1 Bottom one is Savoy, not Denmark.

@CivicChronicle1 Edit: Uk is a D tier, at most. Netherlands A/B. You have put Denmark in both A and B. Croatia and Portugal should be in B, at least. Albania at least C tier.