Comments by "Immudzen" (@Immudzen) on "Louis Rossmann" channel.

  1.  @deeanabowles2332  I absolutely agree with you. I just got tired of fighting what seemed like an endlessly losing battle so it seems better to stay in Germany for now.
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  2. So long as people keep buying them what incentive do they have to change? It is the same thing that enables all kinds of other corporate abuse.
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  3. Buying an old HP laser printer can be okay. However the only reason to buy a new one is to destroy it on youtube for the views or if you buy one and make a video of how utter garbage they are and all the ways they screw you.
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  4. I like that my work is just letting people that can work remotely to continue to work remotely as long as they want with no pressure to return. I am so tired of seeing news articles about how much better working in the office is, how workers like it more etc. I have even seen a news article about how great commuting is for your mental health, which is CLEARLY false to anyone that has ever done it. It is clear that there is a strong interest in making workers return regardless of the impact that has on productivity.
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  5. I went to Germany to get a PhD and you have doing that really opened my eyes to how bad the USA is. Louis you have done an excellent job to help convince me to stay in Germany. So much of the stuff you report is just not legal here.
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  6.  @RobertMorgan  At the same time companies rarely promote from within because then they have to find someone to do your old job. If you want a promotion in almost all cases you have to leave. That makes it really hard to keep people because if you have training and you can do better you might as well leave for better. This creates a vicious cycle where companies don't want to train or promote and encourages no loyalty from employees.
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  7. Hmm forced ads when I am viewing my own private content on my own private server that I paid for so that I don't have to deal with any ads or streaming services. Even though they have no part in that process they STILL want to insert ads into it. The executives responsible for this need to be punished severely and this needs to be illegal if it is not already.
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  8. @Cryptid Dating Sim That is being tried in one city right now and it still needs to pass and then go before the courts to look at the legality of it. It is hotly being discussed at least.
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  9. Not renting those places out means no businesses in the area. This lowers the number of people in the area. That not only makes the areas less desirable for people to live near or go to it also drives up crimes which increases the costs for anyone in the area and make it less likely people will want to go there. There should be a vacancy tax from cities that just keeps going up until the place is rented.
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  10. Most live service games are perfectly fine as single player games or coop games and they don't need a server. I don't want companies to get out of the requirements of a law like this by just saying their game is a live service game and adding something small to it just so they can shut the game down later. Ubisoft DID JUST THAT with some of the Far Cry and Assassins's Creed games. They had a huge sale on steam and then announced a couple days after the sale that they where shutting down the game servers and that most of the DLC you purchased would no longer work. The games where not online but apparently it required a server to allow the DLC to work.
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  11. You reading that letter was so painful. That sort of language in the letter just oozes sleezy. It is good you read the letter but ... wow did that letter suck.
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  12. Heh I loved your comment about watching an ad and getting a quiz on it at the end to watch the content. That is funny as hell to me. I am a student studying in Germany and I don't speak German. All the ads YouTube showed me where in German and I don't have any settings to change that. It would just mean that I could not use YouTube at all anymore since I would not understand any of the ads.
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  13. I love seeing those xtra normal video again. Do you remember monogodb is web scale?
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  14. I don't think that sending people to our current jail system is the answer. It doesn't work and it turns people into more hardened criminals. What we need is something more like the jails in Finland, Norway etc. where there is a lot more focus on fixing the problems instead of punishment. Punishment makes us feel good but if it does not make the situation better then it doesn't help. They need to do serious community service to help people. They absolutely can't just be allowed to go free because that is only encourage the behavior. I just hate the criminal justice system in the USA. We have a repeat offense rate around 90% while other first world countries have a repeat offense rate of less than 5% normally. Clearly we are doing something wrong and need to fix it.
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  15.  @pivotmastex  The place I live now is only a little higher than that. I am planning to move sometime soonish to a nicer apartment. I had looked at the prices and compared them to where I would end up living if I went back to the USA and it is much cheaper here in Germany. Food is also cheaper, transport is cheaper. I love not needing to have a car.
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  16.  @yankeewog  I had a hard time trying to compare that one. With copays, losing insurance if you lose your job, higher cost of drugs, etc. I find it hard to quantify that. Basically I decided that Germany is better on that because people don't go bankrupt from healthcare problems and everyone is taken care of and I know that is not the case in the USA.
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  17.  @Dantee.15  Germany is not using Russian gas anymore and has not been for a while now.
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  18.  @ittadakimaho  Hmm I thought from the original book from Adam Smith on the Wealth of Nations that capitalism comes from that he thought markets needed regulations to prevent any one player from controlling so much of the market that it distorts the entire market and breaks it. He although that that high marginal tax rates are needed on people on companies to keep any one person or company from accumulating so much money that it breaks the system. I don't think what we have is capitalism anymore we just still call it that. Kind of like how we call our system democracy.
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  19. Honestly the world has gotten worse. The rich take more for themselves than ever before and they make life worse for workers. I don't think it is your fault that old you could not get into the profession you are in now. I think you managed to make thing just slightly less worse. I think even the tiny victories we have had on right to repair would be even fewer. I don't know where this ends. We have billionaires being caught on video recordings that they want to double unemployment around the world and they want to really hurt workers to put them in their place. We have companies bragging about how they are making more money that every before in history and intend to keep raising prices. The rich are getting rich and the rest of us are getting screwed. Sometimes all you can do is make it so that the world is not quite as bad as what it would have been. You don't get a choice of good options.
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  20. Good luck. I know that I could never move to Texas regardless of the money involved because of how the politicians there are legislating women's bodies and voter suppression for minorities.
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  21.  @linsqopiring6816  In a small town around Aachen and Cologne.
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  22.  @wisenber  It is hard to compare pay across countries. The cost of living varies so much. You also have to include that those workers get health care, vacation, pension, etc. on top of that pay.
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  23.  @SomeGuyFromUtah  Going out to eat in Europe really is different than the USA. I only moved to Germany in the last few years and it took me a while to get used to it. Pretty much nobody is in a hurry when they go out to eat. You can sit at the table for hours and talk to people and nobody will want you to hurry up. The places are staffed for people that have meals like that. Just going in, eating, and leaving is kind of weird in Europe.
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  24.  @PapaFoxtrotComms  I moved to Germany for a PhD. The food is not more expensive here. Even restaurants in major cities are not more expensive than places I have gone in the USA. Even stuff like fast food is not more expensive. I don't know the reason why but others have said it is because the managers and owners don't take as much for themselves and the profits are shared more equally.
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  25.  @juanvaldez7279  You already have to pay the true cost. It is just that part of the cost is hidden. What I find strange is that service people are paid better in Germany but food prices don't really seem much difference. I have heard it is because the owners/managers take less for themselves.
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  26.  @xXJerry202Xx  In Germany most jobs that require a degree give 6 weeks of vacation instead of the standard 5. Also you tend to get a few more extra vacation days a year. Last year I think they gave us 3 extra around Christmas. That also on top of the 15 or so paid holidays per year.
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  27.  @briom1425  So why are the prices not much higher in Europe? The cost of eating out in Germany is not more expensive than the USA and people are paid better.
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  28.  @VJKMix  If they where paid fairly they would exist. If the only way that gig companies can operate is by not paying their workers and relying on others to use it they don't have an actual business model.
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  29.  @HoffyRS  What I find interesting is that in the EU people are paid better and with better benefits but prices don't seem to be higher. Maybe we need to stop letting the people at the top siphon away all the money. You are also paying for that.
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  30.  @nitroburn72  People say they tip based on service. However, this has been studied quite extensively and there is little correlation between quality of service and the resulting tip. Workers should just be paid fairly. Somehow Europe and other developed areas of the world manage to do it and we should be able to do it also.
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  31.  @bobbyjeff32  I keep hearing that but how does it work in the rest of the world? in the EU the workers are paid and tips are pretty rare and you still get good service. Do you only do your job because you get a tip?
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  32.  @VJKMix  Enough to live in the area so you can rent an apartment, buy food, get health care kind of stuff. The basic things for a decent life.
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  33.  @flyingfrog7847  Why are those not real jobs? Don't you want them to be done? Who do you think should do not real jobs?
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  34.  @crescentprincekronos2518  What I see is the business owners are keeping most of it for themselves, paying the workers less, and then relying on others to make up the difference.
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  35. I just buy blu ray. Screw this stuff. I own it and I can watch it whenever I want.
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  36. I recently had to return a motherboard that started having weird problems in Germany to Amazon. I don't know what was wrong with it. I had contacted ASUS about it and they agreed that something was weird with the board. I got the board about 9 months ago. I ordered a new one from Amazon, all the problems went away, I returned the old one back to Amazon. Since it was Germany I just contacted Amazon, told them the problem, I sent it back without an issue and no dealing with ASUS warranty service. That was just so painless compared to my experiences in the USA.
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  37. We stand for a wealth transfer from poor people to rich people. The only rights that matter are the ones the billionaires have. All that other stuff is just a scam to keep you from going after the billionaires. Every so often a person is even allowed to rise up to give the others hope.
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  38.  @mrbubbles6468  Waymo vehicles are level 4 autonomous and you can take a nap in those. They are legally the operator of the vehicle and not you. They have run a taxi service for a few years now in Arizona and have been expanding it to other areas.
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  39. The core problem is that with the delta variant it sheds about 1000x the viral particles as the original covid-19 strain. This means you need near universal vaccination to stop it. What has been found in these European countries is that even though vaccinated people can get infected they can't sustain the spread. Mostly it seems to just infect a vaccinated person's nose and maybe beyond that if the person is immunocompromised. What we are seeing in these countries is large groups of unvaccinated people get infected and overwhelming the hospitals and at the same time cause others to become infected. Think of the vaccine as resistance and not immunity. A shield might protect you from tens of attacks but when you start getting hit with tens of thousands of attacks stuff gets through. Right now the only way to get out of this is to vaccinate everyone or have different rules for people that refuse to be vaccinated so that they can't just spread the virus and create variants. To further add to this and give some perspective with the original variant if you were near another person on average you would have to be close to them for about 5 minutes to get enough virus particles to get infected. With the delta variant that time is about 1 second. It is much better at spreading.
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  40.  @mattsmith8947  There is nothing copy and paste about this. What I wrote there is based on reading journal articles and talking with other researchers. At this point I am tired of this situation and the best I can hope for is we run out of unvaccinated people.
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  41. About the only time I am okay with losing money is when the money is lost investing into something. If you have to build a new factory to make something then I expect that to be a large cost but your products should be sold such that it can make money. I see the same thing with tiny startups for research into new types of medicines. It is a bunch of engineers and scientists trying to make a medicine based on research they have done but they are absolutely planning to make money from it once it works. This idea of losing money on every transaction and making it up on volume is insane to me.
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  42. Since when has rationality ever had to prevail where banks are involved. I am sure the super wealthy that own these places will get some kind of bailout at some point so that they can keep the places at these extreme prices that nobody can move into as the city dies.
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  43. Maybe if the city had a more balanced mix of living and office space this would not be such an issue. It would also be less of an issue if the rents demanded where not so extreme and landlords refused to lower them in the face of falling demand. I moved to Germany for a PhD and what I noticed is that in German cities this doesn't seem to be an issue. You mostly see buildings with stores on the bottom and apartments above them. The areas are dense and walkable. People want to live there because it is a nice place to live. It is also much easier to go to the office if you can just walk to the office.
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  44.  @KilljoyTDA  The USA IS A third world country. It is built so that the wealthy do well and everyone else gets screwed. There is even a push to take away free school meals from poor kids because being hungry will get them to try harder and their parents would work harder so they are not hungry. That is just cruelty for the sake of cruelty and won't improve anything.
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  45. You have done such a great job on this channel of convincing me to never buy something from Apple. On my current laptop I can replace anything.
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  46.  @TDesil5000  I don't believe this is actually true. I am American and most of the Americans I know hate our current system. They just don't see how to change it. The USA has made it VERY hard to actually establish unions and very easy to undermine them. Even though there are laws to prevent companies from stopping unionization they are rarely enforced.
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  47. Interesting is that Asus does NOT do this in the EU. I have talked with some people in various EU countries and Asus seems to do the repair properly without charging. Basically in the USA the law has a loophole and Asus and others are exploiting it to the maximum legal extent they can. They don't have that loophole in the EU so they don't do it there. The USA needs tougher regulations on this.
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  48. Louis go on a vacation. Find a nice small coastal town in Spain, Italy, etc. where you can just completely unplug, walk around, ride a bike, relax on the shore etc. All of this stuff you are doing is important but it is not healthy for you to keep doing it all the time.
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  49.  @snex000  Texas has VERY lax worker safety laws. That is a major reason that factories locate there.
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  50. Tesla autopilot is a scam. They call it full self-driving or autopilot but it is only level 2 autonomous. Musk knows he is lying but he is just a scummy marketer. What this will end up doing is harming the entire industry as people won't know the difference between Tesla and things like Waymo. Elon Musk is a very rich con artist.
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