Comments by "" (@steemlenn8797) on "Type Ashton" channel.

  1.  @CasualObserver65  There is no "consensus" on "Russia bombed a supermarket again", that is a fact. There is consensus creating on the wording (which frequently gets critized from both sides) to make it as neutral as possible and there is of course editorial of what is shown at all (again, frequenmtly citized by all sides). The point however is that it IS reporting about facts, not about consensuses. It might fail here and there - all humans are fallible, especially under time pressure - but the vast majority of reports is neutral and correct.
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  2. I take most offense at the "have found ways to extract more money from their passengers". For me, a passenger, that would make them pretty awful. And of course it says blatently obvious what that CNBC video is really about. Hint: It's not about having a better airport.
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  3. I love those Toyko walking videos through the backalleys where an average American car would physically not being able to drive though, not to mention corners. It's always so quiet there, in the center of one of the biggest town on earth! I wonder why... The answer is of course: Cities aren't loud, cars are.
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  4. Sounds very logical to me.
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  5. Thanks you in behalve of whoever gets there ;)
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  6. No, those things are even more expensive. More than a million, could even be several. Plus maintenance. But of course they are also used a lot so the price per use is only a tiny fraction of that.
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  7.  @CarlosDanger-y9r  It's not a fact that US has no more income inequality. The opposite is the fact. The 10 lowest Gini countries are all EU countries, and the US is nearly double their number. Same goes for social mobility: The US is last or very close to last of all OECD countries. And the EU countries are not that far away from the 2% GDP goal of NATO on average. As for growth: Putting aside the problematic measurement, your growth is only so big because it happens on the cost of others. Especially future generations. You are literally growing on debt. I would not be proud of that.
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  8. There is one of those monsters here too - though not uplifted (or not much, it looks so for me but think that ius just the normal hight). If the owner drives it through one of the smaller medieval streets, it looks like a war elephant invasion.
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  9. The moment you see a qualifier like "to adults" or "in our research" you know that someone is not saying all the truth.
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  10. lol good one, I have to remember that!
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  11. Because they are those who didn't work 40 years for at least average wage. If you only worked 15-20 years and then the reunification happened (where half the people lost their job), and you were too old and too long without work to get a new one... you end up with social pension only.
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  12.  @urlauburlaub2222  Socialism? I do seem to remember that in Socialism housing prices were far far far lower than they are today. And it can't be building costs or whatever, because e.g. Vienna somehow manages to build a lot (relativly) low rent houses build to the newest standards. I don't think Vienna somehow has a globally recognized discount on buliding material and labor.
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  13. I second that. There is not a second in my life where I thought it would be better if our health care system was like the one in the US. I have heard of several cases where a cancer in the US meant bankruptcy (or death because the treatment was not affordable). When my father got cancer, it cost us around 200€ - and that already includes the gas for driving him to the hospital.
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  14. In my "dumb box", build in the 60s with moderate slap-on isolation, the averaage energy use for heating is 1/5 of a single family home. Now, there are several 1-room apartment (german counting) in here as well as family apartments, so if you only count families it might be down to 1/3. But that is still a huge difference (And also a reason why I was a bit confused about the costs people were throwing around last winter. What I pay in a whole year is what they claimed they had to pay more per month.)
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  15. Oh yeah, the whole array of typical and long time ago disproved right wing egoist's lies!
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  16. Not to mention the money that saves. Road signs are surprisingly expensive, and if you have 4 of them on any lightly used crossing... though of course the air strips are a lot more expensive. Just make the streets really small, put boulders on the sides aat crossings and voila, you have your cheap, effective, slowed down and save for everyone living area.
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  17.  @jessicaely2521  So the father kidnapped her out of the class room instead of just on the street?
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  18. Human rights are not dependend on how long you have lived in one place.
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  19. That explains why Americans completely refused when I said before Trumps election that it feels like Hitler in the 20s. They didn't know what I was talking about. 😑
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  20. No, it's very easy to get a cheap place to rent. Just do it somewhere in e.g. a small East German town. I am paying less than 500€ for 62qm in a reasonably modernized GDR building from the 1960s. Also it's 9 minutes lazy walk from the office.
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  21. Alternative Science. Like alternative medicine.
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  22.  @mulraf  In a DB station? Where is that? The company that owns stations (if they still do) is a different to the one that moves the trains and a different to the company that maintains (if the do) the tracks. Oh, and if there is a DB cafe, that is also another company I think.
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  23.  @ochala9541  Judging on the comments all of those channels are overwhelmingly watched by Germans.
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  24. I knew that comment would be here 🤣
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  25.  @guyro3373  That strategy actually goes better/cheaper with more major stations and longer routes. It's a normal efficiency of scale. To be (example numbers) 95% sure one train per hour has a replacement, you need 1 spare. For 10 trains it's 3. For 100 trains it's 15 spares. And with longer routes you have more places where you can take them or the personal in a reasonable amount of time. Also, while rolling stock is expensive, you can use old wagons for this type of reserve. Like the "football fan trains" that use stuff from the 70s because the "fans" always break things, or at least shower beer on everything. That old stock might not be OK to run in normal service (reliability, comfort...) but as a reserve train it still works well. In a town here they did that with streetcars btw. In case of especially high demand (like a festival), they ran extra service with GDR-age Tatra sets. Maybe even the originals from 1969. Those cars were not in official use since a decade, but still sometimes put on until last year I think (when new stock arrived)?
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  26. That is not what people understand from the word gated community. For one, the size. Second: This is even more homogenous group of people then in a gated community. But they are not there with the intention of being seperated, it's just a byproduct of the circumstances. We have a lot of those institutions: schools, hospitals and so on. One key difference, imho, is that all those things are temporary. All those places are not made with the real possibility that you live your whole life there.
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  27.  @signalshift6676  Das war bei meiner alten Hausärztin auch nicht anders. Wenn du krank warst, hast du da oft 2, manchmal 3 Stunden in der Praxis gesessen, bis du dran warst. Kein Hausarzt hat Patienten angenommen und im Radio sagte dann die Verwaltung, dass es für diese Stadt eigentlich schon eine halbe Hausarztstelle zu viel gäbe...
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  28.  @autohmae  They often have the education. They just choose to not act on it. Buy a small, slightly used car for 10K or a new big one for 40K? That's (if invested) 100 dollar per month in eternity more. You can tell that, show a 2 hour presentation, let them write a test about it including the math... and the next car will be a 50K truck because they "deserve it". Or the daily coffee from starbucks. They can get perfectly fine, good, free coffee from their company, but instead they drive to a starbucks in their break to pay a huge sum for a bad coffee. Not to mention to CC debt. If they didn't pay interest on it, they would have more to spent. That easy (and in my eyes not good) calculation, even that get's ignored!!
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  29. That is the thing I can't understand for the life of me. The ususal answer is: But it is different from state to state or even county! To which I think: How often do stores cross borders?
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  30. The insurance makes more money with 10% from 100K than 10% from 10K. It's not the insurance paying, don't get that wrong!
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  31. It's incredible how much support there is for single people to store their private property on public (and publicly financed) land.
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  32. No, those amount to about 2-3%. And that was years ago before a lot of those things were cut.
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  33. That is an important point and one part that I like to point out is crime. A lot of crime in the US is caused by poor people without any income. That is especially true for drug related crime (THE thing imho for Americans), since drugs are an escape from a destitute situation. And of course if you don't even need to know how much a cancer will cost you is quite a peace of mind, too.
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  34. Just come to a 5 digit town in Germany. I pay 500€ for 62m² apartment.
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  35. Yes. But the other side is Trump.
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  36.  @michaelgoetze2103  Nobody wants to disqualify people with money. Many are just of the strange opinion that not the money has should decide if they come in power, but what they want to do. I admit for Americans used to families of presidents, senators and congressman, that might be surprising.
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  37. The Vietnam war was a focal point of the 60s... empowerment? movement. I am sure the vets played a big part in the legislative development.
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  38. 100 years ago a famous economic (insofar as you could use the term for someone at that time) predicted that people would only work 15-20 hours in the year 2000 because of the advancements in productivity. As we all know he was wrong. Or was he? With a German average income (per hour) you can easily live better with 20h/week then at his time with 40/48. When he wrote that, workers didn't have cars, their houses were a lot smaller and TVs were a fantasy. And in Germany you would still be fully health insured.
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  39. Because of the prices customer numbers where dropping, so MD has started some special offerings again - with good success as per the (one before) last earnings. So it definitely has an effect.
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  40. Oh, I never heard of that! Nice!
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  41. Still possible, since you have to work to 67 ;)
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  42. WOW! 160K??? Let's say both would have gotten a small car costing 1/10 of that... let's round for 20K. That means there is 120K or, if invested, according to 4% rule, 400 dollar per month for eternity that they could have additionally! btw. that one starbucks coffee per day for 2 people adds up to the same amount. As is eating out. The "small" things are adding up fast and heavy.
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  43.  @musicofnote1  thank you
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  44. High taxes on stocks? WTF??? 25% is low in international comparison, that is part of the problem! Work is taxed high, capital income low. Even though I have never seen a bank note building a street, it was always guys in yellow vests.
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  45. ​ @colinsedgwick8938  The fun thing is the people who say this are generally the ones who believe the first thing they hear, if it is from a media they don't consider a media, especially of that media is paid to create your opinion by some corporation.
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  46. And not to forget that sucking off society by tax fraud and tax evasion (each!) cost the society more than all payments to refugees.
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  47.  @i.w.9711  The idiotic Maßnahmen are a feature, not a bug. It's part of the "make it so hard to get the money that you don't take it". This is not about effective use of the money, this is about ideology (that you only have to motivate people, with motivation being the boot). In the same that there is no problem paying 5000€ to one of those, but asking for 150€ for special books so you can learn has - quote - no legal grounds.
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  48. You were not happy, but you were lucky. (Fool's friends.) Very important difference in that case ;)
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  49. The USA has one of the lowest (if not the lowest) social mobility of all developed countries. The highest mobility is - surprise - in the "socialist" Nordic countries where people pay high taxes if they can afford it and get helped a lot when they need it. Or in other words, where skills and will actually play a role and not inheritance and pedigree.
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  50. The Question I really want to be answered now is: How often do American go to the toilet? Personally I drink shortly under 2l I think, half of that during my 2 daily meals.
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