camelbeard

The world isn't this black and white, so you can't just compare things at a basic level like this

For example the Netherlands has intuition fee's for universities. It's about 2500 euro per student per year. I'd much rather have it free, but it's still nothing compared to the 50K or 100K some people pay for an American University

Didn't know that type, now I might have to get one

Let me give you some real advice, buy a Casio G-SHOCK, pick a version with tiny solar panels. Seriously, they will last a very long time, no need to change a battery or synch it. Strapped my watch on like a decade ago, still works without any maintenance or anything.

Lemmy kind of sucks, that's why I like it. Reddit to me was like beer and Lemmy is like non alcoholic beer. If stop drinking a non alcoholic beer is fine, but I don't really need one every day.

The US banned Huawei, is close to banning TP-Link, so there is definitely a fear over Chinese spyware. It's a very real risk, just like Russian anti virus software (Kaspersky) had been banned recently.

But even if you don't believe it's about spyware TikTok should still be banned for economic reasons. China basically blocks all non Chinese socialmedia apps, so why would we accept Chinese social media? The playing field should be equal, banning TikTok makes it more equal.

I don't really believe Gaza has much to do with it, you can find the same content on YouTube or X or other platforms.

That I didn't know, the healthcare system was very different when I was a kid myself. We have made it a lot more commercial on the last 20 years.

But why is dental health so bad? Is going to the dentist very expensive? I don't have dental insurance and I pay about a 100 euros to get my teeth checked and cleaned yearly. But for most people it's about 50 for a normal check-up.

I'm from the Netherlands, we have healthcare but dental is usually not included and most people pay it themselves. You can include it but it's usually more expensive than a normal yealy check-up.

Why do Americans and Canadians have bad teeth? Is brushing something people just don't do?

Do you really need it?

Out of a population of about three-quarters of a billion, under 14 million people (approximately 2%) in Europe receive artificially-fluoridated water. Those people are in the UK (5,797,000), Republic of Ireland (4,780,000), Spain (4,250,000), and Serbia (300,000).

Most European countries don't use it and we are fine.

That is actually not relevant, it's whataboutism. The fact that someone does something bad doesn't give you any right to just make your own rules.

Otherwise you could also say I should kill that friend that drove home after one beer too many, because he could have potentially killed someone.

Because unfortunately too many people vote for politicians that allow companies to do this. It's a shame someone like Bernie Sanders never became the president.