PerCarita

joined 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Here's another "insider's insight": The car industry is a tough business. The profit margin is not like selling bottled water, especially when you consider overheads in R&D and the regulation compliant measures they have to adhere to, to sell in the German/EU market. Cars sold in the US are cheaper to produce because they go through much, much less vigorous testing, but then they are loaded with stupid add-ons (screens behind each seat, more luxurious user interface, better speaker+subwoofer combos, etc)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If you can read Spanish, you'd be disheartened at how many people still claim that the kiss was "cultural".

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

My stupid ass watched a Youtube video about this and the comment section broke my heart. Thanks Lemmy users for restoring my faith in Europe-based, over-30, left leaning internet users.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I saw someone starting this thought exercise just yesterday - imagine Al Gore became president, say for two terms. Then the boat swung back into two terms of McCain, followed by Obama. No Iraq war. No Benghazi. Possibly no 2006 Housing Crisis. Maybe Covid would still have happened. But anyway, wouldn't that have been a much happier timeline?

Back to no Iraq War, maybe Saddam would have gotten toppled over locally. The Arab Spring would still have happened, but then also maybe no ISIS?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

You used Tiktok as an example for something that is more interesting than learning. (Of course it's more interesting than learning, it's digital crack cocaine.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

DB the company has a lot of foreign interests. It bought a British transport company in 2010. Why did they do this instead of reinvesting the money back into the Deutsche Bahn? Because it's a joint-stock company beholden to stake-holders. It should never have been managed like a private company. Now the damage is done and decades of unrepair is catching up to them.

Somehow I don't blame the politics for this disrepair. I blame the execs and upper management.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

And your parents didn't take you to the doctor? Aren't you covered under their insurance (assuming you went to school in Sweden)?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

It's not like researches into cognitive sciences or how humans learn are well funded. It's not a sexy field, like cancer treatment, or one that attracts flashy billionaires with PR problems, like space travel.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Send them a head of white cabbage every week (can use an online grocery service.

If you have access to their dwelling, put all their bedroom furnitures in the living room

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't know about you, but my school did the best it could. Some adults might even say what you said about society in general - infinite resources to harm and burden, etc. People usually try their best, your teachers too. Maybe you'll grow up to be a teacher and you'll be better at it than the ones you had. Good luck!

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Please don't learn about how Hitler died through Tiktok. Befriend your librarian and read it in a book.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

I also want to know. Same with Tony Blair. Alas, I'm not a legal scholar.

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