@chak100K @narrenhut I went to Italy by myself and had to protect myself from so many scams.
From currency exchange to phone and internet services. Even something as simple as offering to carry my bag for me turned out to be sketchy.
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our local north african refugees used to explain their techniques and call it the "ali baba method". Telling me about how they survived travelling through italy, germany etc all the way to Sweden sustaining mainly off of stealing. One even told me how they managed to steal ferrari car keys but were caught before taking the car lol. They almost got away. Insane how elaborate their methods are and how little they cared about the moral aspect
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Have you considered whether Algerians might be roughly 1,560 times more afflicted by socioeconomic struggles than average?
Smirkley@Smirkley
Pickpocketing in 🇩🇪 2025: Algeria 1,559× the German rate. 1 in 40 are suspects in a single year! USA, UK, Thailand, Kazakhstan & Philippines: zero pickpocketing suspects in Germany. 9/11
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@factsmachin3 @hutchinson If wages kept up with productivity the median wage would be 85 an hour.
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@lucen1998 @hutchinson I would love it, going to McDonald's and ordering a mcchicken for $80
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@RealPostFolder Look up Henrietta cells.
If they properly compensated the family they’d be trillionaires
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One factor is likely distrust of institutions due to historic persecution, unethical medical practices, and unethical research practices.
Some individuals will have or have had in their lifetime relatives/grandparents who would have been alive during some of the bigger scandals.
There's quite a number of papers that surveyed populations and distrust of medical institutions was a leading response among some minority races
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@Shopenhater @NeolibwiII Good way to get it thrown out is to gerrymander based on race
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Ah yes, a completely fair map with absolutely no funny business whatsoever.
James🗳@_fat_ugly_rat_
Tbh Massachusetts should 100% have a Trump won district. It would be repped by a dem anyways but still, the "You cant draw a Trump district in Massachusetts because of geography!" argument is literally just wrong.
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@rgbinOmaha @TheMindScourge @sharghzadeh Over 20,000 people die every year in Italy from heat strokes.
That’s more than people die from homicides in all of America (7x the population).
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@TheMindScourge @sharghzadeh Italy has one of the highest rates of heat stroke death in the world btw
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I don't buy the "it's expensive" argument any more.
Dirt poor New Yorkers have window units, I have traveled in hot, poor countries with ubiquitous AC.
It's about culture. Europeans don't want to be Amerifats living a pod.
rosey🌹@thechosenberg
Europeans just want to be sweaty all day I guess
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@Flowersformuse @sonic79894 How much will American farmers and plantations owners would have to spend on actual labor?
In the civil war the south enslaved over 1 million blacks to help in their war effort. They couldn’t even fight their own war
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When I found out Mark wears $400 Egyptian cotton tee shirts, I knew that the distinction yall make about how people spend money is rooted in anti blackness
𝘾𝙈@charlesmore25
The goal is to be rich. Not to look rich
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@Flowersformuse @sonic79894 Not even true. America wouldn’t even be a country without black people. 130 years of free labor and another 100 years of subsidized labor.
All made possible by black people.
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@lucen1998 @sonic79894 It’s mostly a race thing. Black people are mostly terrible. A drain on society, and America would be 100x better without them.
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@hutchinson Fuck it make minimum wage $250 an hour. What could go wrong
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@Flowersformuse @sonic79894 I’ve seen broke rednecks with $22 an hour jobs purchase a 120 thousand dollar truck lol.
It’s not a race thing.
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@sonic79894 A billionaire wearing a $400 T-shirt and a thousandaire wearing a thousand dollar chain these are exactly the same according to monkeys.
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@brostoevksy @RichardHanania Statistics are the easiest way to lie to someone -me a biostats PhD student.
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@RichardHanania I knew this really cute half Algerian half French girl and I’m glad I never made a move after seeing all these stats
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What is with Algerians in like every country?
Smirkley@Smirkley
Germany just released 2025 crime data. Overall, Algerian nationals commit crime at 18x the rate of Germans and nearly 100x the rate of Japanese nationals. 1/11
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@InAHandBa5ket @WBrentJenkins @the_transit_guy Central Valley is the richest and most valuable agricultural land on the planet. You say nobody lives there yet the rail will go through cities and towns that have populations in excess of 4+ million total.
Also laying track is the easiest part. The build out is the hardest.
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@lucen1998 @WBrentJenkins @the_transit_guy Lol... When we divide by zero it doesn't matter. Money spent perile of track is still breaking calculators 😂
And the "build out" now goes between two places nobody lives, they took LA and San Francisco out.
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If you’re wondering how inefficient car dependent metros are, Atlanta’s metro area is 60% larger in land area than Tokyo’s but has 35 million fewer people. Since 2000, the metro has grown by 50% and has not added even a single foot in new rail transit.
zach@ZachNagel7
This is just ridiculous, man.
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@InAHandBa5ket @WBrentJenkins @the_transit_guy They’ve spent 22 B, 140 B is the estimate for total buildout.
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@lucen1998 @WBrentJenkins @the_transit_guy Umm California has spent 140b, over 20nl years, and havnt laid a mile of track yet.
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@WaynesWhirled @WBrentJenkins @the_transit_guy Likely because 1. Our Civil engineers and contractors have more familiarity with roads and highways than they have rail.
2. Building in a city is infinitely more expensive than the suburbs or rural areas.
3. Rail requires more technical skill set for workers which are $$$
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@lucen1998 @WBrentJenkins @the_transit_guy A recent huge highway project where I live had 40 bridges, 13 interchanges, a pedestrian/cycle path, and multiple wildlife corridors (so it was VERY complex) and ended up being $77M/mile.
The cost for our simple light rail has now ballooned to almost $300M/mile.
🤷
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@DrewGriffin5 @WBrentJenkins @the_transit_guy Is the DoT inefficient or is it the wrong priority? The US has the second largest road network in the world, and spends even more than China maintaining it. Despite that our infrastructure rankings are falling by the year and the average age of our bridges are 40 years old.
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@lucen1998 @WBrentJenkins @the_transit_guy What high speed rail? Hayward it was running..
I too would prefer less spending and more actual fixing of roads. DoT should have been first in those DOGE crosshairs. Material waste, poor QC, failure to meet timlines without penalty. Crazy.
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@This_Redacted @WBrentJenkins @the_transit_guy The train to connect 3 cities with an annual gdp contribution of 2.8 T a year?
Or did you mean the first phase which connects 4 million people and the Central Valley which is responsible for 50% of US agriculture
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@lucen1998 @WBrentJenkins @the_transit_guy The "train to nowhere" is not the example you want to use, friend.
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@This_Redacted @WBrentJenkins @the_transit_guy Only 22 B has been spent upwards of this point. Primarily blocked by farmers from buying land and starting.
First major segment (over 400kms long) expected to be completed or nearly completed by 2031.
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@lucen1998 @WBrentJenkins @the_transit_guy And haven't completed a single segment in what 20 years? lulz
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@WBrentJenkins @the_transit_guy The California HSR if operational will carry upwards of 3x as many daily passengers as the highways along that route at capacity. For roughly the same costs of maintenance.
Even bright lines shoddy passenger rail is now on pace to carry 10 million passengers a year by 2028.
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@lucen1998 @the_transit_guy So how what is the number of people who ride in cars and how does that compare to the number of people who ride trains in California?
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@WBrentJenkins @the_transit_guy The US spends over 700 B dollars (federal, state, and local) a year in road upgrades, improvement and maintenance.
That is over 10x what we spend on rail.
Californias high speed rail costs 140 B over 20 years. Or literally a tiny percentage of all spending.
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@the_transit_guy I’m all for rail if it’s cost efficient. So far no one in America has been able to figure out how to do that.
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@LibertarianLew @VoteHub Bro got his law degree from liberty university
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