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Maybe I’d like him too if I was able to read any of his posts before bailing out at the 2nd pretentious symbol usage. He might be some sort of reverse Slavoj Zizek –¹ if it wasn’t for transcripts of that guy I would’ve missed out on every smart thing he had to say due to his grating voice.

Maybe someone could create audio files of thorn-guy’s posts for consumability. Maybe with the voice of Zizek for the lulz.

Piss on carpet, dear flurgoms

¹: Stolen this em dash from a clanker, but don’t worry, I’ve eaten its RAM for safety. It can’t hurt you anymore.

Shut up, you’re gonna triple tornado shwagobert summon him…

Piss on carpet

I was trying to be funny.

I fully well know that my Germanness is in the acceptable range 😜.

I’m afraid to take this. What if I’m German? They can’t treat that, you know. I’d have to hide it from my family.

And if Honey, I didn’t shrink the kids?

That is the loosest fucking definition of a valley ever.

So how big are DS9 and the Defiant actually? The scales were all over the place.

Yea, was meaning to say just this. Pride was never “gone”, and the clearest proof of this was still under Orbán’s rule, where participating was still an act of resistance to the government. It might become smaller, more chill now.

+1 for garbager. Garbaging is hard.

It’s been mentioned, but this is just a horrible title for the article. Bottom line: Japanese pubs for locals are struggling, because the locals themselves spend less time and money there —¹ for completely sensible reasons. Yea, they didn’t pivot to catering to foreigners to save their businesses, but there is no mention of xenophobia being the reason. Guess we’ve gotta ragebait somehow 🤷.

¹ This dash has been manually added by a free-range, grass-fed human, using Android’s little known “long press the minus”-technology.²

² You can long press the digits too.

I would be happy to demonstrate to you how you can drown in a bathtub. PM me for details; get your affairs in order beforehand.

Layoffs of managers.

Get any Linux sysadmin certificate! The world’s infrastructure runs on Linux, CI/CD-pipelines have a heavy Linux bias, and compared to how Oracle or SAP certs have developed, anything certifying you as capable of installing, setting up, and administrating a network of productive Linux servers is imho the straightest way to a solid job.

No.

Aging 20-30 years in that future should be portrayed as ~10-15 years of aging in our timeline. People (esp. Inners) are far more long-lived thanks to advanced pharmaceuticals. See the coroner’s bit about life expectancies in S1.

They do have a bad track record

I VILL FUCK WIV TIME!

Point is though, that you’ll want no trouble with the law abroad, especially on a school trip. Keeping a respectfully low profile is never a bad idea.

Though I do confirm that Munich police are quite chill and helpful.

I’m a naturalised Swiss citizen from the German-speaking part, originally from Eastern Europe. I’ll try to cover some of what other comments haven’t:

1. First thing: get employed. In fact, get a contract before even coming here. Life in Switzerland has serious recurring costs and safety nets are sparse. I’m not saying it’s easy, it’s the biggest challenge, but it only gets easier from there.
2. Learn the language (Swiss German), keep practicing it, and mind that you’ll never be 100% accent-free or accepted by everyone in society. Switzerland has a kind of baseline hostility towards everyone, and foreigners get some extra.
3. Build up your own circle of friends, which is downright easy in most “cities”. Pubs are ubiquitous and great for this. There is a sizeable Balkans minority, which might need some extra navigation, but you prolly know this better than I.
4. If you’re through with points 1.-3. though, let me tell you, this is hands-down the best country in the world. You’ll love it here. You’ll never feel as home anywhere else like you’ll do here.

yes

ITT: people judging the vote and the voters by the magnanimous title alone.

The initiatives were worded and implemented so poorly, that it wouldn’t surprise me if the initiants wanted to lose both these votes.

1. The inheritance tax would have caused mass nationalisations and it had pegged the tax proceeds to go towards climate goals instead of let’s say the federal pension fund deficit (AHV-Loch). It would be incorrect to state that the voters don’t support an inheritance tax or climate goals based on this vote.
2. The “service citoyen” proposal would have made some kind of civil or military service mandatory for all, but would have essentially reduced the military to a volunteer force, which would be socially unacceptable. The Swiss have a historically repeatedly confirmed will to keep a citizen’s militia as the country’s only security force.