Recommend me a book about Rome. I'm currently undecided between pic related. Second one is currently German only.
Have you read Mary Beard's? It does have good reviews. If you know something totally different, please recommend. :3
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If transwomen are women why is there a need for the word trans and an implicit distinction?
I hereby propose the abolishment of the word trans!
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>Sane people believe in equal opportunities
A lot of actual social justice attempts are designed at creating equal opportunity, of course with the hope that there is greater parity of outcome. So schemes are created to make it viable for a wider pool of people to access and participate. Eg. those women in STEM schemes schools put on are exactly designed at creating a greater possibility for equal opportunity.
Since you are banned on KC anyway, please take your time and tell us something about Slovenia.
I have only seen it on pictures so far and it looks like happy wonderland, rich of beautiful nature and tradition.
How is it to live there? Are there actual companies and jobs with a population of only two million people?
I would like to visit it some day because I am too poor for switzerland.
Jokes aside, it really does look like an awesome place and I am a little jealous because around me there is only gray industry, noise and germany.
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>How is it to live there?
we have pretty high standard of living actually (at least judging by how people live): most people can afford what would be considered "the vanishing middle class" in the wect
how? I assume relatively high home ownership rates mean we don't leech money to the landlords all the time lol, also services aren't expensive and quality food is cheap
>Are there actual companies and jobs with a population of only two million people?
kind of. there's a couple companies that do really well (though bureaucracy is making sure to chase them away to italy and austria lol) but it isn't well covered. basically if you want to find a decent job here you can't be picky, you have to take it because there's rarely another option. if you want to be picky – get a job in wien or münchen instead (and it pays twice as much).
we have managed to kill the old industry pretty well though, lol
and yeah come visit, it's basically switzerland but affordable, also no niggers (albanians are still here though)
Oh we have our own quirks, they just aren't as well-known as Italian chaos or German Ordnung.
Idk how I would describe them – deliberate forestallment? Like bureaucrats will deliberately take as much time as they can so that you run out of time on your side.
For example my not-really-gf would not receive residence permit for a whole year, and was told to just tell everyone she's waiting for one.
Does Brent wanna play a game tomorrow/today (Sunday)? 17:00 CET?
Do you also sometimes have the feeling that you are shadow banned on the internet?
I am part of a small community and they wanted to do something that requires a pretty niche skill.
I thought that sounded like fun and since I have that skill started to work on a version of that thing. I did most of the ground work and posted that in the thread.
Zero reactions
I thought "okay maybe they don't actually care that much about this", but then a few days later more people started posting and throwing in their ideas. They talked about if anyone knew anyone who could do something likes this.
And it's not like my work is bad. I gave them a solution to accomplish what they wanted and they could use it however they want.
It's as if someone wanted to build a swing and you brought over a bunch of power tools, lumber and steel and they just ignore you.
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No wonder old online communities are dying. Even Bernd shows more appreciation towards anonymous strangers.
Well it's really not that impressive of a skill. It's just a bit of knowledge with a level editor.
Someone had the idea of improving a map so I decompiled the map, fixed some obvious mistakes by the original author and made some changes as an example of what is possible.
I used to make maps for CSS that actually got played on community servers back then. I was thinking about starting to make maps again. But now I realize that no one is gonna play them. So why bother?
modding has gotten really shekelgrubbing
went from all "community service" mentality to redirect adlinks to download to patreon exclusivity
some people still do it for free but it's a relative minority who stay like that
can't really blame them when some of these people have been making like $10k a month for years now from it
Last session of physical therapy is completed and I'm feeling very optimistic. I can train again, have a plan to strengthen my leg muscles and knee pain is 98% gone.
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Any /lit/-Bernds here who enjoy reading highbrow literature and/or know foreign languages other than English well enough to read in them?
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Its pretty good actually. Houses are pretty cheap. old ones go for 40k in some villages. Ofcourse you have to do lots of work to modernize them. Relative modern ones go for 150-200k.
Rent is pretty cheap too, and you have good job oportunities since Luxembourg is right around the corner, even as an untrained worker you get 2000 net/month.
Ofcourse there not much going on in the villages here. You need a car, in some villages you need to drive 15km to the next bigger city.
All the big online communities I was part of are dead.
Doesn't matter what topic or how normie they were. None survived.
I wonder where all the people went and how the new generations replaced them. I tried joining discord communities but it's so uninvolved. Every day is different. New topics and new people.
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>scrolling through itch.io
>sees these two fucking abominations