freedom2099

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by freedom2099 3y ago
What do they teach you at university nowadays??? When I was in university studying computer engineering (almost 20y ago) we were taught networking a very thoroughly! Not only every technology involved but even the small details of how every
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by freedom2099 3y ago
I have been a home owner for roughly 20 years by now and I don’t think I spent more than 5k euros in maintenance so far…
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by freedom2099 3y ago
6% interest rate? Things are crazy in the US! For my house I got 0.9% fixed rate over 10 years. No yearly fees.
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by freedom2099 3y ago
As someone that has been living near Nice for the past 11 years I can tell you that rents outside tourists areas aren’t that high… not cheap but not 1k either
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by freedom2099 3y ago
He was also driving without a driving license (in France you can’t drive if you are 17)
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by freedom2099 3y ago
On my area my salary seems relatively above average for my role/experience… I live in Côte d’Azur. I could earn a bit more changing company but I am not that keen to change… I just had a son and the relaxed environment allows plenty of
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by freedom2099 3y ago
Honestly I feel poor reading your salaries… although I do live in France where you can have a good standard of living with less! In my case around 60k for 35h a week… 15 years of experience.
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by freedom2099 3y ago
As an Italian the government can’t really take away my citizenship (there are only 2 cases in which it can and both involve working for a foreign government and refusing to cease to work for it). And with my citizenship I can work everywher
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by freedom2099 3y ago
You fire them… it’s harder than in other places put you can still do it. You just need a valid reason! I had at least a couple of colleagues other the years being fired! At least employees are not victims of the employer every whim! And thi
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by freedom2099 3y ago
This! Vive la France!
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by freedom2099 3y ago
Country law state 30 days for my kind of contract… but since I work more than your normal contract (in France the work week is 35h a week whilst I work 37h) I get extra 5 days. On top of that I have 5 days for sick children and unlimited si
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by freedom2099 3y ago
I have 7 weeks plus bank holidays… but I am not in the US (mandatory days… you are obligated to take them all)
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by freedom2099 3y ago
I am surprised by the amount of people doing psychedelics here! I know no one… and even expanding the drug pool at best I know a guy doing weed maybe once every 2 years. Is that common in the US doing drugs?
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by freedom2099 3y ago
Are you sure you have been using chatgpt? In all my tests it understands logic extremely well! With version 4 it is even way better!
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by freedom2099 3y ago
If you ask to set it in the forgotten realms it reuses existing factions without using tokens! With gpt4 it’s amazing! It is better than my actual human dm!
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by freedom2099 4y ago
Or simply don’t marry someone you have just met! (And by “just met” I mean someone you haven’t been in a relationship with for at least 5 years)
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by freedom2099 4y ago
“” Marathon" means to run slowly for a long time.” This quote is factually false. Marathon is a place in Greece where a big battle against the Persian Empire took place. A running competition is named after it due to a legend about a s
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by freedom2099 4y ago
It really depends where… in Europe we have good salaries but not crazy stuff like in the US
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by freedom2099 4y ago
I work in France… the company I work for is travel related… and we have thousands of employees. During the pandemic we did not let go a single person! We had 2 years of basically zero revenue and the most we did was offer very juicy severan
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by freedom2099 4y ago
Or live in a country that by law paid leave for sickness (yours or your kids) and vacations (I have 35 days off a year… and I am obliged to take them all)!
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by freedom2099 4y ago
You mean the value system that got us the dark ages, people burned at the stakes for “heresy” (or hanged, or many other form of death), silenced people because what they were saying was against what is written in a non particularly good fan
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by freedom2099 4y ago
I am Italian… raised catholic… my high school was owned and managed by the church… and I am an atheist as well! An I can tell you that in my country the problem are the believers not the atheists! The presence of faith implies you are willi
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by freedom2099 4y ago
If you don’t see the issue with “often religious” then nothing I say can change your mind! Religion as a moral compass is horrible! Religious communities are often the most toxic ones!
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by freedom2099 4y ago
Sadly true
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by freedom2099 4y ago
The possibility to have a healthy debate on any topic is the root of progress!
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by freedom2099 4y ago
Come on… 60 you are still “young”! Just got my first child (I’m 36yo) and my parents are keeping him whilst me and my wife are at work (they are both 72) and doing pretty well!
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by freedom2099 4y ago
5 weeks? In Italy summer vacation alone is 15 weeks!
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by freedom2099 4y ago
I never had a play date my entire childhood… I don’t think it was something that existed back when I was a kid. All the lone children I know used to play by themselves!
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by freedom2099 4y ago
Lone child… my parents never played with me! Always played by myself!
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by freedom2099 4y ago
When I was a kid my parents did not constantly tried to entertain me… even when I was 4 I played by myself… non need to have an adult helping with it!

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