How does the ground floor look at this point? Even more bent?

Well yeah that works I guess, impossible to fit into old and often small buildings though so not an option for us. Let alone at home!

Thx for the response!

Well yeah people confuse net with cross, that happens all the time and it’s annoying, but take home is a new one for me

B- is like a 6 out of 10 and a B+ is like a 7,5 out of 10 right?

What is “Take Home”? I assume your net salary or at least that’s what I would call it?

+/- 25% of taxes isn’t that bad, how are the other taxes/benefit you get?

But if a CEO does something that actually destroys the company (without question) the governance structure that most companies in most countries have will put a halt to it. If the company is of size to have an actual CEO than they will have a need for a governance structure.

The sad part is that due to whatever reason it doesn’t always work like that.

Heck somebody once told me that in the US you can just fire people for whatever, which is insane to me

Civilisation is a good thing yes also having access to clean and drinkable water is a good thing, but we don’t need to flush our toilets with drink water, we don’t need to shower with drink water, we don’t need to water our plants with drink water or wash our cars with drink water.

I drink a lot of water per day and I hate it when I am in a country where I can’t, but buying jugs of 8 litter water to drink isn’t the worst thing either.

And since when are we obsessed about something when we talking about hypotheticals? Cause that is what this all was, heck I didn’t even start about cars, that other person did …

Tell me your secret on how to get these things out of a building, it’s already freaking hard in a house where the door doesn’t open every 5 minutes.

Flies or wasps are also a completely different thing. The worst/only thing that can happen with wasps is that one doesn’t move away when you take a bite and stings you.

Edit: yes I know mosquito nets etc will help against flies, but that generally doesn’t help in a store (depending on the type of door even impossible). Plus once they open insects like to get in with the people at the same time and even if nothing opens they tend to find a way in a lot of buildings.

Yes I know we have plenty of ways to get water from A to B, but that isn’t my point.

I am just saying that this hypothetical depends on what we would be giving up. If we can still live our lives, but we have to get water from the store instead of from the tap, I would be fine with it.

Car’s are a necessary evil at the moment, and we need to change that, sadly there are a lot of people in countries like the US or Canada who actively work against biking, walking and public infrastructure.

“We need to remove the bike lanes because the fire engine can’t get to point C quickly enough” meanwhile in NL they just drive over the bike lanes to get to D even quicker …

If you work in the public sector you often don’t have shareholders breathing down your neck for more profit (but it can happen). And yes smaller companies can have bullshit bosses as well, especially when they are the type that either already had decently sized companies or just wants to be the next millionaire.

It’s nearly impossible to keep wasps and flies out of your store.

Not the person who you replied to, but if you could trade all the cars in the world to go back to using rainwater to shower/flush toilets and buy drink water I think we should take that deal.

It has already been proven countless times that having walkable/bikeable cities with the adition of public transport is better for our health and the environment. Most countries don’t even have drinkable water out of the tap anyway.

The only issue is that it doesn’t rain enough in a lot of countries to keep up with our water usage for showering/flushing toilets, but infrastructure to move water is as old as the Roman’s, so we would find a way again.

Man I already hate it when I can’t drink water out of the tap when I am travelling abroad.

Go and work for a company that gives more about other stakeholders, you see that often with smaller companies.

Apparently it is slower, but to me it just looks and feels better than the screen on my OLED Switch

Grouping Europe (or America) together as one can be corrupt in some situations, but I don’t believe it is accurate to mention the entire of Europe when talking about colonisation. There is a big part of the continent of Europe that never had anything to do with colonisation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colonies

You are right that Europeans and American’s are very similar in some areas, for one that might have to do with the fore mentioned colonisation of America. Heck America has been doing a digital take over of the world, which Europeans are just (or a couple years ago) realising it is in our best interest ot create our own alternatives.

But there are tons of differences as well, for one, that America is a country and Europe is a continent. Which isn’t even all united. The EU only has 27 states and a couple that want to be, while Europe has 51 countries. That is not that important when talking about culture, to be fair. You can see a lot of cultural differences when looking into company culture, work ethics, how people pay, sharing meals/receipts or things like sports, but also on the sense of the military and how nationalistic people are. All of the above are also different between different European countries, some might have similar things regarding sports or things that are centrally arranged like payment methods/platforms, but others are vastly different between countries. The Fresh are generally a very nationalistic people, while the Dutch are more or less the opposite.

Edit: where are you from?

At least here in NL there is a difference between the poor who receive social security, the people who earn a bit more but get (almost) no social security and the rich. The “middle” here is often a forgotten part due to people like you grouping everybody who isn’t rich. It happens regularly that people in the early middle class earn less after a payrose due to the loss of social security. The missing out on social security, but also paying taxes makes it feel like you pay a lot more taxes and percentage wise you do

So at least in NL there is a real difference.

There is also a difference between people who work for a boss or people who are self employed or people who are shareholders.

Depends on the context and your gender

I just checked, yes it is every 24 hours, but I have to restart that thing regularly so that it is why it feels quicker I gues

The laws needs to change before Nintendo stops. The whole thing of backing up games is not even explicitly legal or illegal in a lot of countries. Currently they are just following the law and a lot of decisions are made together with the Anglo-Saxon brand of Nintendo America