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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are there so many german communities on Lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess Germans are rather privacy focused so they might

  3rd Reich then east Germany gave Germany a hard lesson about privacy, so indeed they’re very sensitive to that topic

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come nobody does anything about North Korea?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  We live in a sad world, western democracy with high standard regarding human right are the exception, not the norm.

  So are we gonna start war against every dictatorship? Look at the results in Afghanistan instead of freeing them, they now rank worse than North Korea in the economist democracy index not only they got a 20 year long war, but in the end stayed one one of the worst dictatorship in the planet, not really a success

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's up with the sudden increase in AI slop?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lemmy is a mix between technology geeks and leftists, and many of us are both. The geek tend to be at least somehow interested in gen “AI” and often know the technical words behind it (if not what they mean). The leftists are more worried by the socio economic impact of AI

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can an American go to Europe just for cheaper healthcare?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes but

  Full healthcare coverage is typically limited to fiscal resident, so you’ll have to pay out of pocket. That said to my understanding the US price are so absurd, that we’re like 10 times cheaper than you before insurance like a GP visit costing let’s say 30 EUR, while in the US you’d pay 300 US$ (Giving a doctor seeing 6 patient per hour revenue in the 1800 US$ per hour that’s just ridiculous, even when deducing taxes/rent/insurance and more). This is also why medical tourism is a thing.

  That said, a big limit, is do you want to be away from your loved ones, in a country you don’t speak the language post surgery ?

• How do some fragance reppel bugs
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some good places/activities where a middle-aged man can new make friends?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, even non profit clubs need a constant influx of newcomers, whose member due will pay the rent when the ancient will leave. And for game shop it’s even worse. It’s a hobby where a 50 € book can entertain 4 adults for year, so you need new comer to keep selling.

  My local rpg club runs monthly discovery session and many GM gladly take beginners at their table. (most) RPG have relatively straightforward basic rules, any semi decent GM can give you a 30 minutes briefing with enough information to play. Most of these hugs books aren’t rules but story, and special abilities (e.g. Magic spells and potions) so you don’t need to read them before playing.

  Usually, I advise to look for one shots session to start it allows to discover a game and test the alchemy with other players without signing up for a 2 years campaign.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some good places/activities where a middle-aged man can new make friends?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I woald advise other RPG than D&D, too many beginner look for D&D and nothing else, while tons of GM struggle to find player for non D&D games

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New community for free flight - paragliding, hang gliding, wing suits, etc.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty cool, subscribed

  However, not sure we are enough pilots to bring much discussion here.

  Well, the X alps is starting, so we’ll have for the week

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hello, non-Americans, do you have any Chinese language classes in your education system?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The French education system require to study two foreign language among a long list, so why most people take English + German/Spanish/Italian some people take rare language like Chinese.

  To my understanding rare and hard language like Chinese (or Russian) are also a way to be admitted to a better school/class than your local school, so it’s often used by rich kids who want to bypass their local public school and be affected to a good school/class

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨where are worker rights parades? why are we focusing on very limited issues?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There is tons of worker right protests/riots, it as a thing long before pride, and untilcapitalist culture turned pried from riot to business friendly music festival. The worker protest were way more popular. I know that US are an outlier, but I am sure that even American do protest.

  Most “Minority rights” aren’t specific rights for minority but basic rights for everyone. If you can’t dress as you like or be rejected for a job due to ryour private life it impacts more than just LGBTQ+

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not complicated, they know there is first time and non frequent flyers who get lost easily. Here is a form of routine.

  • Do as much as possible in advance if you can self-check-in online and just go to the bag drop, do-it

  • Try to drop your bag and clear security as quickly as possible, you’ll get some “peace of mind” once done, as these are the parts where you can loose a lot of time. To do so check information panel at the airport entrance.

  • Before clearing security, remove shoes, belt, put laptop/phone on the tray bins. While it’s not requested, remove your jewels/piercing they might trigger a metal detector.

  • Another pro-tip for security, while in theory it changes nothing, but dress properly, give the image of someone who travels internationally and can afford business class.

  • You fly business, so you most likely have access to lounge, it’s way better than the standard waiting room, so enjoy. If you’re a bit stress a glass of wine in the lounge way help you to relax and sleep better during the long flight

  • roughly 30 minutes before departure, try to be at your gate, usually, I try to locate the gate before the rest.

  • You have a connection, when dropping the bag, ask whether it comes directly to your final destination. I expect that you’ll clear custom in München (assuming you fly from the EU), this is not a big deal

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If we replace most plastic with a non plastic alternative and would that really be better?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A big issue is the single use. Why do you need a plastic wrapping in the cookies ? if you get cookies at your local bakery, and give them your own bag, they’ll put-it inside, no problem.

  Note also, that a lot of things are already ongoing to ban single-use plastic. I am old enough to remember the late 90’s early 00’s when you would get a plastic bag from any shop, these have been outlawed a while ago and nobody miss them

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do so many piece of Hardware come with windows only software requiring admin right for installation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually, we do have now an approved way to get admin privileges through a dedicated application. However, on my experience if you run one installer it works, but if the installer calls for a second installer (let’s say one for the driver and a ne for the software). So I end up having to still bother IT.

• Why do so many piece of Hardware come with windows only software requiring admin right for installation
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your thoughts about AI?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Fun toy to play with, but everytime I tried to use is for real work, it ended up so bad that I spent more time than doing it properly from scratch

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(i feel really stupid asking, but what the hell!) could i be of french descent?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What the hell are these map? Ancestry dna is not more scientific than astrology

  Do you speak French? Do you visit family in France? A story about a famous French ancestor? If not why would it be relevant?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How are roundabouts made?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you seen these people with a weird tripod on construction sites ? They’re surveyor and have tools allowing them to do very precise measure (A guy told me that one of the coolest things he has done was to make sure railway track were aligned below 1mm on both side of 2 km bridge to build) I would expect that drawing a circle isn’t that complicated.

  Then the rest is usual road construction, add temporary marking, close the road, do the measurement and build the roundabout

• Which kind of applications need legacy processor but up to date OS ?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is coal and fossil fuels still used?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you’re under estimated how much fossil fuel are used and the electricity production from solar and wind farm.

  It’s definitely possible to replace all fossil fuel by electricity, but it’s a massive shift involving multiple nuclear power plants (or the green equivalent which is even more expensive/complicated) , not a few windfarm and solar panel over the parking lot. And today there is no political will to do such massive investment, let alone the NIMBY

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  D&D comes from chain mail, a heroic fantasy miniature battle game inspired by naval miniature battle game. Hence the concept of character class (instead of boat class) and armour class (where the lower the better). But based on that, slowly the idea of playing a single character appeared and it turned into D&D and then early RPG

  Modern RPG got (Somehow) rid of character class (even though some archetype/Playbooks are classes witha different name) and armour place. But D&D kept it by traditipn

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s one of the thing where laws and audit can help a lot. Hospital (and lawyers) are supposed to secure their data. But nobody will care unless doctor loose their licence and hospital management get fired upon negligence with patient data.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Will We Know If The Trump Tariffs Were A Good Idea?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Objectively What’s the stated goal (A classic example being green policies which are bad for the economy but good for society) and then compare the results in let’s say one year.

  That said, economic have plenty of model whose accuracy go from not worse than rolling a dice to good enough to predict the consequences of policies before implementing them so they can do better

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What should I do if someone applied to a job at a company I work at without being able to legally work in my country?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Large companies have an international team within HR that will sponsor the prospective employee for a work visa.

  For smaller companies, the answer is always the same, get a lawyer

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the point in getting married?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends a lot on your personal situation, and jurisdiction.

  • Doing a ceremony when you publicly say you love each other is already a valid reason

  • In some jurisdiction, you’d get a form of tax benefit for being married, it often comes with downside like having welfare benefit based on the couple revenue rather than on individual ones (hence the tax benefit). Talk with an accountant/Tax-lawyer knowing your local laws for details

  • It gives a legal status to your shared asset. Sure you could create a real-estate-investment company to buy your house and many people do that but being married, with a proper prenup give you a lot of agency regarding your shared asset

  • It protects the weaker partner, usually the one scarifying their carrer for the couple if things goes wrong

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do office workers actually do?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Reality is that there is a lot of difference between office jobs, mechanical designer, purchaser, corporate laws specialists, and let’s say project managers have very different jobs but still have office jobs.

  Hour by hour? Read e-mail, browse lemmy, chat using teams (or slack), run to a meeting, then to another one, meet someone in the corridor and ask them a question about an ongoing project, realize that you need to review a report, open the file and get called, rfget a coffee, run to another meeting, conclude you won’t neither review the report X or nor start the report Y and call it a day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should naming your children stupid names be illegal?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Many countries have law banning stupid name which aren’t a way to give abusive power to a civil servant but to protect kids from crazy parents, so your example doesn’t work

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you remove the Luxemburg, Andorra, and a couple of smaller countries, VAT rates are relatively consistent. Indeed, if you live within 20km from the border, it’s worth buying some stuff across the border, and for some trips to plan a fuel stop on the right side of the border.

  But if you need to drive 100 km, you won’t recover the cost of the road if you don’t do some specific purchases.

  Note also, that at least in theory, you’re not free to travel with unlimited cigarettes and alcohol (where tax rates difference can be crazy) so again, if you pass by Luxemburg or Andorra, you can’t legally speaking buy 100 packs of cigarettes, (but would still save 30 to 50 € on a 10 packs carton)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Male fashion sucks, but tank tops aren’t seen like acceptable for men (out of the gym)

  That said, students are old enough to understand how to dress, so IMO the professor should have say nothpng

  But soon enough you’ll discover that if you dare to wear a short at work your manager will ask whether you’re in Hollyday or even sends you home to dress properly

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kitten Space Agency - A community for/about the game by the same name that aims to be the spiritual successor to Kerbal Space Program⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting that there is a successor to KSP.

  But, do I really want to spend another hundreds hours of life trying to recover a lost Kerbal on Duna?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do European Leftist call their government's right wing despite having free healthcare?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because many government left partics have converted to liberalism, and economic rigor with cut in government spending, and private corporations.

  Which isn’t exactly a left wing platform.