In modern countries where worker right have more than minimal standard, by getting fired, you get a Severance pay (it’s not what it used to be, but may let you survive a few month) and unemployement benefit (which would give you a fraction of your salary until you find a job)

Quiting means you’ll loose these rights

I know someone who was doing that when I was a student. The guy got a scholarship from the unemployment system (basically was allowed to keep his unemployment benefit while attending university) got his master and became a teacher. So it was possible in the 00’s.

If you’re unemployed talk with your employment advisor.

Big talk if you’ve never crossed a six lane stroad on foot. The American transit system is often downright hostile to anyone not in a car. It can be goddamn terrifying.

Unfortunately you’re right, I remember needing to take the car between the hotel and the Starbucks 500m away because there was a flicking big road on the way(which is insane for a European) .

I don’t get how American Karen don’t get mad at their mayor for the lack of way to cross the street

Restaurant, bars and cafe can be a huge spending. You can also do a romantic dinner at home.

Check all your subscribed services you may find a cheaper competitor.

Before buying anything ask yourself about whether you really need it, and whether there is a used alternative available

If you do have money, set an auto transfert of 100-200€ to a saving account at the start of the month, you’ll main account would feel empty faster.

It’s legal in some countries, so I don’t see much risks. They rotty sure you can look up for data from Switzerland, Belgium and Netherlands

In functional democracies, there is law protecting individual against the government. Meaning that you’ll require a court-order to request the localization of a phone (to the phone provider or applications collecting GPS data). This is (in democratic countries) allowed in criminal matters but not for administrative status matters like immigration.

I ve seen a popular one saying burn fat not oil but while on one hand it looks cool/edgy, on the other hand you pass for one of the douchy bumper stickers guy.

Just get an extra high visibility sticker and one backup light on your helmet

Pretty sure that if you’re Russian expressing your hate to Putin would at best put you in trouble, and at worst lead to a slow and painful death in a labour camp.

Don’t under-estimate how privileged we are in the West to express our hate for Biden, Macron, Trudeau, Von der Leyen and who ever is the British PM it’s changes so fast that I stopped to follow. Without any legal repercussion

what we know that’s on the table

Who is we, and what’s on the table currently ?

But let’s make a few prediction for end of 2028

• First wave of climatic refugee to hit the west. We start to see place with more intense flooding or deadly heat-wave, but not yet at the point people massively seek asylum far-away, but this is getting close

• The mess in middle-east won’t get better

• The conservative wave isn’t stuck to Murica, I see a couple of European countries more having either far-right at the goverment or with blocking-minority

• Some progress in cancer research, it’s easy it’s moving every-day

• IA industry crash, nowadays, there is tons of cool stuff, but beside AI generated catgirls, and instagram bots, there is no big application, and I don’t expect the tech to be mature enough in the coming 5 years, leading to some bankrupcy. It’ll be enough to turn mainstream social media in Bot-infested hell

• Still on the technology side, I don’t expect all these cool start-up about fusion to go somewhere, some would announce major delay (ITER won’t start by then, but we know-it) or pivot

• China keep rising in power

Actually, they are, look at how they voted.

You can say that it’ll just make the thing worse, but someone promised them to kick off the “immigrant stealing their job” and cutting the "green policies banning them from driving their gigantic SUV "and they believe it will solve all their problem. Is that a lie ? sure, but at a point people believe plenty of lies

May-be a couple of time as a joke when turning to 2012 with the Maya end of the world coming, and when the coffee machine breaks at work it’s always an end-times level of traged"

Actually, the younger you fuck up, the worse are the consequences. A 13 year old go in a school fight, he is kicked out of school, has to go in another school further away, sleep less, see his grade fall down, and next year he’ll be pushed to start an apprenticeship rather than high school.

A 31 one year old (otherwise a good citizen) does the same. He’ll spend a night in police custody and at worst pays a fine (with a high probability that change are dropped because judges and prosecutor are busy)

Might be worth crossposting to !rpg@ttrpg.network

Fart ring is a great but fun one

Aren’t you staying dead for millenia until the second comming and the judgement day ? To my understanding the reason why Christian burry their dead rather than burning them is that they need to resurrect on jugement day

In theory, An expat is someone sent abroad on short/mid-term mission while working for an employer, while a migrant is someone moving abroad to find a job and sometimes to start a new life.

This means that, if let’s say if a Mining company in Ghana sends someone to New-York to be the “US sales director” that person would be an an expat While an American opening an hotel in Ghana would be an immigrant.

But indeed, in many cases : Expat = European/North-American, Immigrant = From somewhere else

Most of the rich cannot just move to a tax haven. Sure someone who inherited multi-generational wealth can hide it in the Caiman island.

But if you own a canned tomato factory, or even if you’re a business consultant, you get rich because of very local things, and can’t easily move-it away.

At the speed at which government push back the retirement age, I expect something like 70 with 47 worked years by the time I’ll be old enough.

I have an interesting job, mostly in an office, some savings, so I may be able to do otherwise. But yhea, I don’t count that much on retirement

Mobilizon is a federated group/event platform

On my area meet up and Heylo are popular group/events platform, but both are proprietary

While there is tons of nice place/stuff to do in Paris, many people see it as a perfect, romantic, ideal whatever city, and a visit there the trip of a lifetime.

Paris is a 10 million inhabitants urban area with all the associated problems,

Imagine thinking you’re in the perfect city and being stuck in a crowded train, then in traffic, and falling in any possible tourist traps, from the barely legal but legal low quality, high price restaurant to the pickpocketsand other petty crime

While I love the theoretical idea of direct democracy, the EU is supposed to address high level issue with generic directive.

So complex laws on complex topics. Do you know the details of directives like reach? (and typical lemmy audience has more chance to understand REACH over finance) Do you know the details about every chemical substance allowed/banned? Even good faith politicians end up believing lobbyists, imagine a regural person without a team of assistant

Direct democracy is great, but the EU is a too generic level for it to work