That’s because the costs are negotiated centrally, so healthcare is relatively cheap even if you have to pay for it. Some European countries are even having problems because some Americans found out that it’s often much cheaper to pay for a plane ticket, a nice hotel, and the treatment costs fully out of their own pocket in Europe than having the same treatment in the US even with insurance.

Potayto-Potahto, despite rivalries here and there the oligarchs are a big worldwide friends club, and Russia just happens to be one of the places where they have a tighter grip.

It happens to everyone, once a doctor prescribed a medicine off-label and my Krankenkasse (german non-profit health insurance) refused to cover all of it. I had to pay 10 euros out of my own pocket.The pharmacist was super apologetic about the whole thing. /s

Like some professional investors are not breathing in more cocaine than air to trade 24h around the globe. The current gap is on weekends.

You know Nazi concentration camp was once a smoke screen/euphemism for something far worse, right? Concentration camp was a warm and fuzzy enough of a term to be used by other countries, US included.

Of course Trump is not going to call his camps concentration camps, we are just going to have yet another euphemistic term that no one will dare to use outside of historical context 20 years from now.

To a large extent yes. The only exception I know is, like @[email protected] mentioned, Portugal that used the 100$00 format and now uses the 0,5€ format - which is still the closest to the previous standard without looking horrible.

The actual standard for English language (as well as Irish, Maltese and Dutch) is € first: https://style-guide.europa.eu/en/content/-/isg/topic?identifier=7.3.3-rules-for-expressing-monetary-units

For all other languages it’s value first.

Luckily no one remembered to put it in the middle yet, which I assume is only because 50€10 looks cursed.

Except it doesn’t, the most popular order is nonsensical and Ted was right about it.

If someone asks you what you did yesterday, do you usually list events at random, or do you list them in chronological order? Sentences with multiple clauses are ordered by timeline by default.

So, of course you can have a cake and eat it too, you just won’t have a cake anymore at end of the sentence. What’s impossible is to eat the cake and still have if after that.

prime minister calls for free elections

Better later than never I guess.

I don’t think you understand what the word bloat means.

Why should git have a mediocre ticketing system instead of getting out of the way of dedicated ticketing systems?

Small personal projects just need a text file with a Todo list, large organisations might need something super heavy weight like Jira. If your VCS has a ticketing system it’s going to be dead weight for a large chunk of users, because there’s no one-size fits all solution.

At a much higher price. Between things like this, the tariffs, and playing populist politics with the interest rates, US inflation graphs might start coming in logarithmic scales.

meme economy community

It’s spelled NFT.

deleted by creator

You also call it hockey if it has no puck. The common element in all hockey variants is the stick.

Yeah, but in monkeybrainish that all translates to “no large predators in sight”.

A system of oppression can only be a system of oppression and nothing else. It can oppress some less than others, but it can’t ever free anyone.

1. It’s the first round, unlike the US there’s a second round if no one gets 50% of the popular vote. Georgescu got 22.7%. The expectation is that Ciolacu will easily win the 2nd round.

2. Romania is a semi-presidential republic, with a mostly cerimonial president, and as such the president doesn’t have the power to rule by decree like in the US. So even if won it would be bad, but mostly symbolic.

Skimming through their financial reports it seems they needed to the money to finance share a buyback program. So they are helping the rich people money economy.

It depends on the exact definition of wet.

According to theWebster dictionary and the OED water is wet:

consisting of, containing, covered with, or soaked with liquid (such as water)

Consisting of moisture, liquid. Chiefly as a pleonastic rhetorical epithet of water or tears.

According to the Cambridge dictionary it’s not.