MILES (often a small edit leaves it MILFS) is everywhere in Berlin. Cars share with some vans if you truly need a big trip.
azimir
joined 2 years ago
My salary was not covering the cost of living and raising a family. Bailed on the US ed system for greener pastures.
I moved to a major European city. Seeing people (and now doing it myself) bringing home furniture on the bus or train is great. I don't own a car anymore. Between a small wheelie cart and larger stuff coming via delivery with the order, we've been furnishing our apartment without trouble.
The percentage of days we needed a big vehicle was always low. Buying and maintaining a car when there's actual modern public transit is only for extreme edge cases.
American society is 99% in on it, but many other places are trying to go there too.
Classic: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0dKrUE_O0VE
The Katy cost a mere $7 billion and it's still often a glorified parking lot. It's got less throughput than a single train for moving people, but I'm sure adding another lane will fix it. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/o-F-7Yc-A8U
I've been trying the cheaper stuff. Some of it is great. Don't be afraid to try the bottom shelf items these days.
Mostly at the radio chipset sucks for range. It'll work fine, but don't expect the kind of physical capability without better antennas.
It wasn't supposed to be a pre-future documentary, people!
Germany's government is also pointing out that the nation needs 100's of thousands of skilled workers to fill jobs. The local training services aren't seeking the enrollments needed to fill the jobs, so where do they come from?
The usual suspects are in huge demand (MSTEM fields), but also anyone skilled in the trades is in high demand.
That's not the same as asylum seekers in general, but with falling birthrates, the EU must import people or the current models must change away from oligarchy-oriented capitalism. Given how the rich people move the decision making, but those same people push right wing populism to oppress populations, they end up in a cleft fork: not enough local workers to feed the baby crushing machine, while requiring xenophobia to maintain their power base. Once the situation becomes untenable, they turn to fascism to maintain their power.
Tough times ahead, just like usual.
Laughs in Germany. The carbs here never end.
Brot muss alles sein!
I'm pretty cool with being forgotten most of the time, especially in general "stir the pot to make people fight over stupid shit instead of building guillotines for the real problem" kinds of stuff.
But yes, I drank (and do sometimes drink) from garden hoses. It's just tap water delivered with more volume and outdoors.
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That's a reason our family fled the US. Once the Conservatives really started going mask off of just how little empathy they had for anyone, it was time to go. In the end, they're okay with my family dying for their twisted vision of reality and they have held power in the US too long.
They're running the French monarchy's playbook of 1830 that led to the 3rd French Revolution. That once ended relatively peacefully, but history doesn't repeat, it only rhymes.