letrowekwel

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by letrowekwel 3y ago
It's not xenophobia to point out that a nation's migration policy is failing, when it obviously is. It's a systemic issue, not some cultures or people being better or worse.
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by letrowekwel 3y ago
I fully agree. Globally highly multicultural countries tend to be less stable on average, and it makes perfect sense if we consider basic human biology. We are tribal animals, it's hard to get around that. Places like Sweden will have
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by letrowekwel 3y ago
It's not a good idea to take in massive amounts of poor and uneducated refugees from distant cultures, give them free money and housing, and then just leave them be. That's not a real migration policy, it's just a recipe for
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by letrowekwel 3y ago
I fully agree. It's all about meeting enough potential partners with similar interests. Shared-activities with healthy gender balance (at least for heterosexual relationships) are the best bet for most people. Many such activities also
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by letrowekwel 3y ago
The boomers are retiring, and the US economy is strong. Here in EU boomers are also retiring, but many countries still have high youth unemployment, and there is no real worker shortage even if businesses like to complain about one.
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by letrowekwel 3y ago
These devices do have their value, but most users would be better off cycling or walking. From public health point of view replacing cars with these is only a minor improvement.
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by letrowekwel 3y ago
Wow, I had zero idea Brazil is doing so good in that front. I agree with you completely. EU's biggest economy shuts down nuclear plants in favor of coal, I think that tells us all enough about how much those in charge really care about
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by letrowekwel 3y ago
Yes, people with decent education are almost never causing trouble, no matter the country of origin. They can find legal paths to improving their lives, while migrants with difficult background (and their children) have very difficult time
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by letrowekwel 3y ago
Integration is exponentially harder if you're a (potentially traumatized) and uneducated asylum seeker from a poor country, compared to someone who migrates for work and already holds some qualifications. So, in that sense Sweden'
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by letrowekwel 3y ago
No it won't. Once the economy starts booming again, RTO'd people who like remote work and have the choice will look for new jobs.
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by letrowekwel 3y ago
Yeah it all depends from how much you actually use the machine, My old i7 gaming system runs maybe 7 hours a week on average. I drive barely 10k kilometers a year with my old ICE car. Upgrading to a new gaming PC and Tesla would make neithe
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by letrowekwel 3y ago
Similarly I've never bothered to upgrade from my from old i7-2600k gaming build from 2011, and will likely use it for many years to come. Paired with GTX1070, more RAM, and a larger SSD, it still delivers good enough performance for an
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by letrowekwel 3y ago
Lumber is widely used in Nordic and other Northern European countries, precisely because they have lots of forests. It's most common in houses, but even apartment locks are being built from wood these days. Fire safety is not much of a
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by letrowekwel 3y ago
At least in my country, there are three types of "labor shortages". 1. Pay and/or working conditions suck so much people aren't interested. Think of nurses, various staff (restaurant, cleaning etc) that are often employe
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by letrowekwel 3y ago
Nope, most people don't borrow a strong sense of identity from their jobs. They just do them so they can afford to eat. With UBI they could actually choose to do something which gives them a sense of purpose and identity. Doesn't
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by letrowekwel 3y ago
IMO the main problem is the arbitrary way borders were drawn in Africa by colonialists. Too many ethnicities that didn't get along very well suddenly shared a common state, while others were split between many countries. When even much
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by letrowekwel 3y ago
Depends on how you define quality. A car that feels nice to sit on and drive may not be the most reliable way to get you from point A to point B consistently. The reliability of many (at least older) Toyota models is impressive, while Germa
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by letrowekwel 3y ago
Admissions are easy to do right. Just give anyone with a valid educational background (like college/high school completed) a chance to participate in a strictly observed live exam, which is then graded anonymously. 100% fair, leaves no
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by letrowekwel 3y ago
Moodle seems to be good enough to cover the needs of vast majority of university courses I've encountered - ones where you read some materials, watch some vids, discuss and write essays. However, I feel that there are better options fo
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by letrowekwel 3y ago
Why exactly would people change batteries that don't need to be changed? Phones do have battery health indicators, and buying one costs money. There's no logical reason to change one, until they have degraded significantly. The on
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by letrowekwel 3y ago
I think CS major makes lots of sense if you want to go really deep into research of some advanced field inside it. But otherwise I feel like there's more benefit from minoring in it, self-studying the more practical aspects, and majori
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by letrowekwel 3y ago
I guess you last tried Linux on desktop in XP era. Choose the right distro and it's perfectly fine, much better than Win 10 / 11 and fairly similar to XP.
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by letrowekwel 3y ago
Not as unsafe as using coal instead of nuclear, and pushing the world towards a climate disaster. Climate change has already done much more damage to Europe than Chernobyl.
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by letrowekwel 3y ago
"So many would say that it’s really convenient NOW we want to help all poor people, whereas in the past we made it difficult to help poor black people. It’s like, why do “all lives matter” now?" Does historical injustice make it r
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by letrowekwel 3y ago
I agree. Old school leftists were smart enough to understand that being rich is the ultimate privilege, nothing else comes close. Help the poor, and you will also help minorities which are poor due to historical racism, slavery and so on. H
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by letrowekwel 3y ago
It all depends very much from social context. In my country stricter gun control has absolutely saved lives, simply because it has effectively prevented random mentally ill people from committing school shootings. It didn't make our go
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by letrowekwel 3y ago
It should be still common sense to limit access to guns, so that people who are likely to harm themselves or others can't just go and buy one easily. Works very well in most of Europe.
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by letrowekwel 3y ago
The law should not force anything. Western feminists should focus on improving women's rights in migrant communities, rather than calling people who point out real problems racist. Then more women actually do have the choice to wear wh
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by letrowekwel 3y ago
"Power to choose" in the eyes of law and general society, as advocated by feminists, is not much use if women's family, relatives and other close community strongly disapprove and don't respect that law.
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by letrowekwel 3y ago
Wood is renewable, burning it for heating houses in countryside full of forests is perfectly sustainable. Not caring about social status is only smart, as long as your choices don't hurt others. It should be up to individual to decide

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