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In the EU, you also have to be able to buy exactly as much as you need

Yeah I was going to say the same, "Berlin has its U-Bahn Museum, Stockholm boasts the Sparvagsmuseet, and London is home to the Transport Museum", Budapest has the frickin BKK running buses and trams as old as your grandpa.

Japan had an aircraft carrier fleet rivaling the US, better carrier fighter planes than the US, and were occupying a lot of China, who was a peer opponent. It also took a US-USSR alliance to take them down.

Russia on the other hand is able to wreak a lot of havoc, and is also good on some technological fronts, like drone warfare, espionage and ballistic missiles, but it has recently lost a lot of its fleet against an opponent with no navy, and is stuck in trench warfare with equipment that in WWII would be the equivalent of muskets.

This whole posturing is because Russia ran out of easily recruitable people, and needs internal justification to start throwing in conscripts as well.

Oh, BTW it's "Wunderwaffe", if you want a "Wunderwaffle", go to Brussels, they put strawberries and cream on it so high it won't fit in your mouth.

Yeah but they are taking your data from the laptop your mum bought yesterday and put all the family vacation pictures on. Mum didn't know she had to kill off OneDrive or Microsoft will hoover up and monetise your memories.

Yeah I think I mellowed out too much from highway driving, average speeds on a Belgian highway where I am now is like 40 km/h.

The whole thing is a huge problem TBH and there is no easy way to solve it. Pouring money on it mindlessly is not enough.

I've seen several interviews with successful Roma people who became teachers or engineers for example and it seems like it is an universal experience that their family cut ties with them. One girl who became a schoolteacher was violently attacked by her own family after coming to visit after she graduated, as her attending higher education was seen as a kind of betrayal at home.

This is in Hungary BTW, and that said the Roma politician who is supposed to represent them and preside over integration efforts stole most of the money given, so there's that. I guess he at least integrated well into the government of thieves. IIRC he had a scandal as well because ministers and the like in Hungary have to have at least finished elementary school (8 years from 6 to 14), and he faked his record.

It also doesn't help that the child protection system is broken, while the foundation was solid. In Hungary, child protection services visits are mandatory in the very early years of having a kid for everyone, which IMO should be a good policy.

That said, it was corrupted by being defunded and children's homes being used by pedophilic politicians as a brothel for example. The Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister for Public Communication (propaganda) have both been implicated in essentially raping orphans, among other people. Numerous other people.

This also impacts Roma people in and outsized way of course, as children's homes are mostly full of Roma kids. Kids have been taken away by power-drunk officials from perfectly good Roma parents on racist grounds while cases of totally unfit parents getting signoffs are mounting in number, including cases where the child dies in the end. Of course, this then is used to fuel racism instead of calls to reform the system.

That said, there is also cause for hope. The current Hungarian government is, as things stand, going to lose the April election. The new government will likely have Kriszta Bódis in their cabinet. She led a program that had the rate of enrollment in secondary education of the local Roma population of one of the most destitute Hungarian towns go from 2% to 100% in 5 years. Her foundation called "You have a place / You belong" (IDK what the better translation for "Van Helyed" is), led an effort of joint cleanup and reconstruction of the ghetto Roma people live in at Ózd.

Don't you have traffic jams on highways? Including some that involve cars stopping completely?

I mean the reason you can do 130 kmh on a highway is because you can see like a kilometer forward and stop safely from that speed.

Oh yeah, the "peacekeepers" led by Trump and Tony Blair. Almost forgot about it.

I hate it so much that this exact headline could be from any day of the past 3 years.

Well really it's "his" Gaza "peace" "accord" since Hamas hasn't even signed yet IIRC? And Israel will break it either way, even if Trump did in fact win the PP, they can't take it back, so let's get back to the genocide.

That's fucked up. It's still fucked up if the parents ask for it. My body my choice and all that.

I guess I meant an inclusive and, meaning Jewish or US American, but it would have meant an either or situation there.

Where I live, chopping dicks is predominantly a Jewish thing, and is the butt of many Jewish jokes. Personally, I'm anti-baby-dick-chopping.