Fleeing a NATO vs. Russia conflict

[John Spectre]

Because as you missed already,⁠ initial topic was about a bit different thing.
And my point was in that thing,⁤ that russia not the reason(read no so strong) for backpacking in eu to flee against⁣ possible war.
However I care about current war and wish it to the end soon.⁢ Don't care about how many russians will die in path to that way.

 

[avalanche]

Your attempt⁠ to defend EU taxation doesnt sound like anything related to conflict topic either, fyi. Given⁤ that you still kept going there, I don't have an impression that you are actually⁣ interested in the original topic and your desire to get back to the original topic⁢ doesn't look authentic. It looks more like an attempt to dodge answering the question about︀ your personal involvement.

Anyway my question doesnt require an answer, its more intended to highlight︁ what kind of personality you are from different angles. Real gem needs to shine bright︂ 🙂

But you're right that original topic was different, lets stick to it. I won't elaborate︃ further because I have nothing more to say.

I dont know︅ how you were raised but in my book any human death is never cool.

 

[John Spectre]

Not my fault that the seagulls came running with‍ untrue statements that the entire EU is a place where you have no options other⁠ than paying 60-70% of taxes.

I never said⁣ that it cool or praise it.
Don't put words in my mouth.

However, russians are(they⁢ are as a nation, country, people who supported that) starting war and they responsible for︀ the war. It's on their behalf to stop it or continue support by counting up︁ died people. At the moment they are selecting second path and they are fine.
Who I am to prohibit them to do it?

 

[avalanche]

Cool in a sense "cold" also means indifferent, literally what you said

Backing out so fast and wiggling⁠ all the way 😀

 

[John Spectre]

oh, this non-trivial English 🙂
first time I've heard of it, seriously.
your phrase‌ "I dont know how you were raised but in my book any human death is‍ never cool(cold)"
does not mean what you said in a direct interpretation, even⁠ with my little English)
or you at least you should expect that another side could⁤ misinterpret it

if you want to accuse me of some kind of immorality in relation to⁢ murders/deaths, then I will remind you that you came here without a single regret about︀ the deaths in a shopping center in moscow(not even speaking about thousands of died in︁ the meatgrinder in the war), and regarding the death of navalny you generally made hypocritical︂ pro-putin jokes.
so let's go without it 🙂

 

[bubbledouble]

@admin @Martin Everson @Sols @Forester can I ask where are you ? did this thread‌ went off?

 

[avalanche]

This thread is initially very political so no‍ surprise people have different opinions about it and related topics. I already said everything I⁠ wanted. If that was too much or against the rules admins can tell me.

 

[JackAlabama]

I tend to have another opinion on that.
The internet will and needs to stay on and will be the last thing going out⁣ the door.

Guess what if you cut people from being glued to their daily stream⁢ of limitless pron?
There will be riots as it means putting like 80% of people︀ on insta cold turkey.

Also the internet is the undisputed no 1 propaganda machine. Cutting︁ it off would unravel the plans like nothing else.

 

[Sols]

A barrel of toxic waste is going to‍ be a barrel of toxic waste, no matter how many times you kick it.

 

[Forester]

@bubbledouble:
Well, I have just gone through‍ it... (It started on Friday night European time.)
See, it's in Let's talk body. FMPOV,⁠ it means that it can be assessed more tolerantly. I do not like much (IMO)⁤ overheated political discussions but (perhaps with two small exceptions) this has not gone too far⁣ beyond the rules (I mean especially politeness). And @Sols is (IMO) truly right that a⁢ barrel of toxic waste is going to be a barrel of toxic waste, no matter︀ how many times you kick it...

Now my 2 cents 🙂
With all︂ due respect, not true. Perhaps somewhere and sometimes true, but definitely not generally. There are︃ many comfortable places to live in LatAm. (You do need to speak Spanish, or evt.︄ Portuguese, however.)
True but there is e.g. also Bahrein, in Persian Gulf.
Again, with︇ all due respect, not true. I have not so much personal experience there but you︈ would definitely find more places than SG – and a lot of people, including some︉ members here, is doing it.
Unfortunately, generally true. There are some islands of positive deviation, however feds︋ are going to control more and more... 🙁
Frankly, no experience => no idea...
🙂
Well, sometimes yes, as︎ there is a lot of armed conflicts, too and these conflicts many times have really️ no rules. In many places it is probably better but generally yes, nothing appealing...

 

[jafo]

Exactly! Take, for example, Balneário Camboriú⁠





Or this in Playa Mansa: Casa Frente al Mar de Playa Mansa. Ref #U5E9E6 -⁤ infocasas.com.uy

100%! This︀ is Hong Kong: 72 Repulse Bay Road, Repulse Bay

If I showed some places in︁ China, people would flip! The absolute best home I've ever lived in is the one︂ I rented in China a few years back,absolutely stunning and high-tech! I don't even mention︃ it to Westerners because their brains would explode due to cognitive dissonance!

The problem with︄ the world is envy!




People CONFESS and ADMIT their ENVY by the things they choose︅ to complain and fight about. It's so easy to detect. I just laugh and pretty︆ much discount the perpetrator in future "run-ins." That's if I can't avoid and evade these︇ self-admitted toxic people and get them the H3LL out of my life!





May we never︈ have to hear from them again 😉

 

[Wellington]

lol this is why I blocked him - complete fool.

Just a translation - “all do‍ respect” and “with all do respect” for non English speakers

 

[Forester]

@wellington , you've made my day‍ better 🙂 🙂

(BTW, I love real British understatements...)

 

[tyrexoid]

it's not "stupid" it's strategy.

 

[jafo]

You're new here,‌ aren't you? 🙄

 

[tyrexoid]

yup, some condos in Bangkok are x4 cheaper than same︃ 'luxury' quality in the west (when there's like 3-4 developments of 'this kind' in all︄ city in the west, only the rich can afford, despite the construction is not what︅ really makes it expensive), go figure... when all manufacturing gets outsourced, it's 'cheap' for the︆ company owners who import and resell locally, but 'expensive' for the normal people, so the︇ mere mortals pay extra high price for everything in the west, the corporations have high︈ profits, and there's still disparity between rich and poor, and attempts to 'fix' it are︉ sick tax rates on the 'rich' who then run away and offshore all their finances︊ and savings abroad.. the bottom line seems like west only loses in any case from︋ the outsourcing all manufacturing? only a few at the top, benefit from it, yikes).

 

[Wellington]

It’s about 8,500 THB construction core costs per sqm before you consider finishing and furnishings‌ which can take it to about 15-45,000 THB a sqm

A friend of mine is‍ charging 30,000chf a sqm in grindelward for comparison

 

[tyrexoid]

I still⁠ don't understand what does Switzerland export so high value that it can afford wages for⁤ simple labor like 3000-4000 Euro a month (which is great of course, but how does⁣ the math work, they need to export something of very high volume and value all⁢ the time in order to maintain such high 'performance per capita' where input of each︀ worker is so valuable in global scale of their exports, correct? let's say in simplified︁ terms, how I understand this, a team of 10 people export something worth 10 million︂ a month, there's another 10 people who built a city around them in order to︃ feed them and provide all services and receive salaries [ non exporters, just internal labor︄ and services ] and they get let's say 1/2 million a month each [from these︅ 10m produced monthly by team of 10 ] so 20 people end up with 500k︆ each, monthly, of income) so I wonder, what are the '10' exporters producing in Switzerland︇ all the time, in order for 8 million population to have such high average wages︈ across the country? is it from a large amount of exported goods and exported services,︉ or there's some other trick in this math? (tourism, food, financial services, tech, medicine, a︊ lot of high quality exports? is this the secret sauce or what?)

if AI takes our tech︍ jobs, I want to go work in construction at your friends company rof/% always had a︎ dream to work on a crane or a large truck when I was a kid,️ and parents were telling me "shush! that is not a good profession, better tell people‌ that you want to be a doctor!". Soon dream will come true with the help‍ of AGI taking all jobs smi(&%rof/% (jk, disclaimer for non-tech people: the buzz about upcoming AGI⁠ is a complete joke, and anyone who believes it, simply doesn't deal with tech. the⁤ 'transformers' GPT word-mixers are an awful tech, which will never lead to AGI, and it's⁣ embarrassing to hear about it all the time when it's not even able to write⁢ a proper bash script. the moment a task is slightly more unique than what "it︀ already saw on github a hundred times" it completely loses its "intelligence" and shows its︁ naked word-mixer nature of what it really is, under the hood. I think the AGI︂ buzz is meant to trick investors into putting billions into something they don't understand, "upcoming︃ AGI which will rule the world! ns3gre¤#!" ehh).

 

[tyrexoid]

but this is not 4chan, total freedom of speech is a mess smi(&%

 

[John Spectre]

then they shouldn't call this forum a place where 'total freedom of speech'.‌
although I understand that this is all nothing more than posturing based on a similar‍ one from Twitter & Mr musk