u/ido

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I have some relatives with similar experience/situation…at the end they still need to think about expenses and don’t e.g. go on a month long vacation to exotic destinations with their whole family at the drop of a hat & other such things we associate with “rich people”. They can’t afford to not work for long. So they don’t feel “rich”.

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Nonsense!

It's Flashback with a shotgun.

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Bashir?

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I must be the pedant to mention that supposed "young Picard" James is the same age Patrick Stewart was when TNG season 1 aired (47 years old). Suspension of disbelieve RUINED!

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The programming was less of a bottleneck in game development than in e-commerce. The next bottlenecks were things other people were working on in parallel that still need to happen - remove the biggest bottleneck and the 2nd biggest hits.

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how can you say this with such confidence when you haven't seen what OP sent?

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Not the same continental plate 

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Geographically Europe is not a separate continent - it's part of Eurasia. The reason it's considered it's own continent is probably because of European racism at the time this was decided (by Europeans).

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yeah using public transit instead of cars & reducing meat consumption or becoming a vegetarian (or vegan) is hardly "unhinged"...

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I didn’t realize they’re supposed to be evenly distributed, I.e. a single 100 people fallout shelter remaining intact.

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100 people can have babies.

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I think private citizens have only very minimal ability to affect what their government is doing (especially in a dictatorship). Without knowing anything about a person except that they’re a Russian citizen I wouldn’t jump to conclusions either way.

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The point is that everyone can attend a Gesamtschule and then go on an Abitur track when the time comes. You have to get accepted to a Gymnasium (in Berlin meaning grade average >=2.1).

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“Should” but thats not the thought process. They want the money and don’t care too much about anything else.

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Because it’s richer than where they come from and easier to earn money in.

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You can also get an Abitur at a Gesamtschule after 13 years (at least in Berlin). While I’m sure there’s classism still, if a kid wants to and is capable of going to uni there’s usually a way to do so.

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I was thinking of German/Austrian Jews. But thanks for the correction!

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Every time i see amazing pixel art on this subreddit & click to see who it's from it's inevitably from you :D Good work as always!

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Some parts of it! Some are a bit rough :)

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Zehlendorf or Köpenick in Berlin

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Add railings?

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As far as I know Jews were allowed to leave if they had a visa to a receiving country.

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Other countries didn't want the refugees.

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that would be a super strong PC for SC2k. maybe you meant 3K?

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If you use chatgpt/claude/etc type LLMs for translation you can give them context - "this is a message to my hausmeister, be friendly and polite, phrase it in a way that will not offend anyone", i find it create quite good results.