When a soldier did not follow orders in nazi Germany they were executed. Would you rather be executed now for treason or maybe not at all later?
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paranoia@feddit.dkto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why don't people like Melon Tusk get tired of the shit they have to pull through literally every day ? I mean doesn't the guilt of bad decisions pull them down enough like the rest of us ?2·4 days agoThere isn’t really any rehabilitation of his current image possible. It’s not like he did one or two bad things he could apologise for, it was systematic and continuous. He’s revealed himself to be a fascist which is pretty bad to begin with, but also a degenerate which repels even the fascists from liking him.
Yeah but you can’t though. Like let’s be real, you have 1bn, you’re not Elon Musk or Bill Gates level - and even they would not be able to stop an angry Donald Trump
Okay, cool. Probably so do a lot of billionaires, at least from a pure pragmatic POV of them not wanting their skull cracked open. The point is that for a tiny portion of their wealth, they can insure against a lot of more realistic severe problems (unrest, riots, communism arising in the US, war, assassination, widespread famine), in addition to more extreme and less likely problems (doomsday, machine uprising, environmental collapse).
Frankly, were I a billionaire and able to see the choices Trump is making to make the average civilian in America jobless, penniless and hopeless, I would also be making a bunker in the wilderness or distant nation.
I don’t think they necessarily “prefer” it. It’s more just that they have what is an unimaginable amount of money in comparison to us, why not invest to preserve your long term survival?
They have already dealt with the normal shit the rest of us have to. They have a house, car, enough money for them and their families to never work again, to do whatever hobbies they like with no restriction.
If you are someone with a worth of a billion, this bunker development will cost something like 10m. That’s 1% of your wealth. It would be the same as the median American spending $1920 in pure relative terms, but probably would have an effect more like $500 on their real finances (again, every other need has been financially met long, long ago)
paranoia@feddit.dkto Technology@lemmy.world•German court sends Volkswagen execs to prison over Dieselgate scandalEnglish18·13 days agoI mean the diesel engine department would probably be quite big for a company like Volkswagen. Each engine type has a team of engineers and a manager.
No candidate has ever offered this. I am a structural engineer and have decided on this as a view of my own.
I don’t live in America, I don’t care about America. It would cost about 800b EUR to fund it in Denmark without considering economies of scale, industrialisation or existing stock. In my opinion, it is completely achievable.
I already pay the top rate of tax in Denmark. I am completely fine with it. My personal belief is cheap accessibility to work and living space is what generates prosperity.
To say “no one wants to pay for it” to me when my marginal rate is over 52% is ridiculous.
Idk. The kind where I believe that every adult over 18 should be given 80m2 by the government. Apartment, office space, storage space, workshop, lab, whatever.
I believe that you shouldn’t need to worry about a place to live at the bare minimum, and I believe that not having space for people to use and experiment with is one of the main hindrances of economic development (development, not “growth”)
Just a reminder that Reddit was once difficult for people to understand.
To be honest though, I’m a bit disappointed by the other users here. The quality of comments is really poor, both idiotic and adversarial. I’m talking fox news comment section level.
Throw a water balloon
paranoia@feddit.dkto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•I did something really terrible when I was 6 years old. Is it normal I still feel bad even though I'm trying to do good and redeem myself?5·22 days agoOkay, what are the circumstances? You’re skirting around the fact here, just say what you think was so bad. Did you say you were being molested? Did you say you saw someone cheating, taking heroin, etc.? Unless it was something on this level, I don’t think it was your fault as a 6 year old.
paranoia@feddit.dkto Europe@feddit.org•How to find jobs in Europe as an American?English8·1 month agoIreland is a poor choice because of English speaking immigrants flooding in. You will immediately be thrown into the shittiest housing market in Europe while also dealing with the most underdeveloped transport system of any European capital. The country has seen population growth far in excess of what the government was able to handle. There is not one efficient state service other than taxation and the passport office. Investment in ETFs is effectively banned. The weather is also shit.
paranoia@feddit.dkto Europe@feddit.org•How to find jobs in Europe as an American?English18·1 month agoYou need to be much more specific. You need to say what your exact job will be and have a solid reason as to why the European company couldn’t hire a European to do it. This isn’t a choice thing, this is a legal requirement to get a work visa. You need a real qualification.
If you haven’t tried it already, I think there’s a lot of benefit to using khan academy and Duolingo for maths.
Maths by its nature is a bit abstract, but I think that the primary issue is that it is sequentially learned for the most part in primary and secondary education. If there is ever a point that a student is struggling with a concept and the teacher/parents don’t identify it in time, the student is then faced with not understanding new concepts afterwards, and may just be left behind.
This is starkly different to other fields a student will be presented, they generally will have multiple topics that are not strictly reliant on parts learned before, and that can be relatively easily co-developed in everyday life.
Good idea, maybe you should start by not electing a man who only likes dictators and would like to be one himself.