ECB

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[–] ECB 7 points 3 months ago

Not nearly as much of either. I went to both US and German universities and the difference was huge.

In German university there was really only loosely-organized recreational sports. You know... for normal students to enjoy. Professional athletes start their careers at professional clubs (which are much more prevalent than in the US due to how leagues are organized) rather than at universities.

In Germany there was also much less interacting with the administration. You basically only interacted with them when you started your degree and then once you could prove you were done. It's much more 'on you' to figure things out and organize things compared to the US.

[–] ECB 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah it's just that the transport ministry is arguably the single biggest opportunity to enact green changes.

We don't know how the negotiations went (maybe the FDP would have refused to go into government if the greens got the transport ministry) but it feels like a huge missed opportunity.

[–] ECB 4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Same in Croatia. The idea is that the combined gift amounts cover the cost of the wedding + leave a little bit extra

100-200€ per person is pretty standard

[–] ECB 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The US was always kind of a dead region for Dota, but it is/was very big in europe (especially Russia), south America, China, southeast Asia

[–] ECB 10 points 3 months ago

Exploding property process will do that.

Average houses in most cities are at or over 1 million easy.

[–] ECB 1 points 3 months ago
[–] ECB 2 points 3 months ago

Very cool visualization!

Would be interesting to see just those who are representing a different country than where they were born.

[–] ECB 4 points 3 months ago

Also the world has grown increasingly hostile to young people. There is a constant trend towards there being fewer places for them to hang out, and it being harder to get around.

In the US, often the only option to get around is a car and there really aren't many options of affordable places to go even if you have one.

This wasn't as much the case 30 years ago.

[–] ECB 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I've literally never had this work for me, sadly

[–] ECB 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah that's basically what I did too.

I just installed dash to dock and made the icons quite large, then rebound a button on my air-mouse to the super key (to bring up the dash). I also installed Just Perfection and used it to hide the top bar unless the dash is open.

90% of the time, I'm just using Firefox, so I don't need anything too fancy.

[–] ECB 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I've heard that the focus is on the ARM versions (so maybe they are much more developed) but I tried the x86_64 version on my HTPC recently and it was super barebones.

In the end I found Gnome with a few extensions to be a better solution for my needs

[–] ECB 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Housing shouldn't be an (in real-terms) appreciating asset. In the long run that just leads to feudalism.

Imagine if everything keeps appreciating for 200 years.... now only cyborg Elon musk can afford to buy a house.

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