ECB

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[–] ECB 23 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Just look at history though and you'll see that most significant changes (both bad and good) happen abruptly and it's often a bit messy.

Unfortunately it's just the way that humans work

[–] ECB 33 points 2 weeks ago (12 children)

Sure, that didn't help, but she also was a "more of the same" candidate (she's rhe current VP!)

As much as I wanted her to win, she was always a stupid choice in at a time where voters can essentially all agree on one thing: they want change.

Status quo politics is dead, the dems just haven't realized it yet. As braindead as Trump and a most of his policies are, people like that he doesn't give a shit about disrupting things to achieve his goals.

[–] ECB 21 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

I don't know anything about the campaign in Oregon, but most people are scared of things they aren't familiar with.

Also I'm guessing neither party really supported this much, since they benefit from first-past-the-post.

[–] ECB 93 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

Status-quo politics is dead, many major western parties just haven't realized this yet. People want firmer political leadership that promises fundamental change and isn't afraid of breaking things along the way.

It's just fucking unfortunate that (in most countries) it's only the far right who are ahead of the curve at realizing this.

Center to left parties need to reinvent themselves and focus less on pleasing everyone or fighting losing battles. They also need to present a much clearer vision.

[–] ECB 12 points 2 weeks ago

Another reason is that Hispanics (like many minorities) are on average both more religious and more socially conservative than the general population.

[–] ECB 2 points 3 weeks ago

Exactly this. I gave up on it once or twice (always starting from the beginning).

Eventually I got past the initial awkward phase and it became one of my favorite shows!

[–] ECB 2 points 3 weeks ago

Just as a note: Wienerschnitzel is from Austria!

[–] ECB 20 points 3 weeks ago

This is 90% just a proxy for how their parents will vote.

Its only a very small portion of kids that age who are going to have substantially different views than their parents (not that they don't exist!)

[–] ECB 2 points 3 weeks ago

(Most) stocks represent partial ownership (read: control) of a company and most of their value is derived from that.

For an extreme example: if the stock price were to drop below the amount of money that could be made by just selling off all of the assets, then someone would (in principle) just buy all the shares, sell the assets and make a profit.

Each share represents a small bit of control over the company and their assets.

[–] ECB 4 points 1 month ago

Personally I always always buy phones with two sim slots. It's super practical if you travel semi-often.

Idk about apple, but basically all of the mid-range androids have this feature. I guess this is about the US though, so it's probably Apple.

[–] ECB 2 points 1 month ago

My credit cards I've had in Germany/Austria were all basically glorified debit-cards which had their own bank account attached to them. Technically I had a credit limit of a couple thousand, but I never went into the negative.

The only difference (for me at least) was that I could use them to rent a car, which is nice.

[–] ECB 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah most of europe is waaaaay better when is comes to mobile plans compared to the US.

I don't use use that much data, but my 8gb plan is just under €6 per month.

In the US, I had a plan like this for over $30...

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