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Yeah my eyes are bulging every time I find a job posting based in Brussels or Antwerp and then quickly run some gross-net simulations online. Whait... what?! Over 50% monthly on contributions and taxes? What the fucking fuck?! Employees of EU and other institutions have generous exempts and privileges, otherwise I have no idea what might be the motivation of a person employed in Belgium.

Agree. DACH countries are among the most desirable for immigrants globally. Natives are hyper self-aware about their desirability and one can feel it when negotiating a job with them or making business with them. Many immigrants (ehem.... expats) masochistically buy into their hosts' superiority. Well if suffering if fun for them... in the end masochism is invention of German speaking world.

The GBP 350m weekly will go to Accenture now. They will business travel the shit out of it. "Today I'm in San Francisco, tomorrow London and Paris, next week Sydney. Don't have time for you, here's a box with post it notes".

I said clearly about total deductions seen on monthly payslip, gross to net. Income tax is only part of them.

> when you have hard times, you are cared for quite well.

In hard times you better don't lose Anmeldung (e.g. asshole host deregistering you by sending an email), because then the delicate and expensive support system collapses instantly for you.

The problem with German nudist is that if you take a group of Germans and group them by who you would like to see naked, and those who you absolutely would not to, it's every time the latter group who gets naked.

I indeed did some net-gross calculations online but the last glimmer of hope was saying "people live there it cannot be that bad, can it?".

One doesn't need to work and pay taxes in Berlin to take a bicycle ride there, and better don't enter into or swim in its murky lakes and ponds.

Show me any major desirable city in EU where it's not the case. One contributes monthly to various social and public polls of money and is shifted at the end of the queue every time, as the queues are on the best effort basis but with too many privileged people and organizations. Real estate prices are the ultimate slap in the face.

> I pay 42% taxes and still these government pools are not only a bit pricy

You're eligible only for making a shopping at Lidl and Netto after work, and for paying Rundfunkbeitrag. As I had heard multiple times while on full time employment in Berlin and seeing over 40% cut off on my monthly payslip: "beggars can't be choosers".

Someone over here is a big fan of Shawshank Redemption and that's how this got to the front page. See how Andy left a message for Red.

Did Trump marry his daughter? I'm out of touch with American politics.

We've officially replaced trickle down economy with trickle up economy. Sustaining certain standard of living on private islands in Hawaii, Bahamas, and Fiji is expensive. The phones will be larger though, that's for certain.

Now this cute application button doesn't look that innocent anymore, does it?

What do you think about watching portrait video letterboxed to widescreen on smartphone held vertically?

Funny how panoramic/horizontal arms race between film producers and TV producers calmed overnight. I was prepared to ask a snarky question about vertical movies going mainstream but apparently there has been already a relevant festival since 2014.

> Which one is easier to reacquire? You can just walk to any store, grab a phone and restore it from a cloud backup (or even a local one if you're so inclined).

Losing the phone can equally lock you out of services for good. There are a lot of overzealous and badly implemented 2FA.

Smartphone cases and drugs.

The cards are much more likely to survive such "disaster". Cash as well. They can lay without needing attention for months.

> credit cards on my phone

Take a physical card and a phone. Throw both on them on the ground and step on them, then let them lay there for two full days without connecting any cables to them. Then let me know which one will still work.

> Inconveniencing yourself due to some vague paranoia about government is for the tin foil hat crowd.

I'm equally irritated by an another extreme. Nowadays the bank branches are all hostesses selling credit deals. Cannot update personal details, refuse to deal with cash. On whatever non-credit request they almost snatch a mobile from my hand and force to install their bank app - "simply do it on your mobile". That's an inconvenience.

> Your bank was already compelled to do all the work of vetting your identity, so the state trusts the bank to pass on your authentication.

Long time ago I thought it's an okayish idea, but to think of it... banks and governments are separate entities with not exactly overlapping interests. Lots of heavyweight lobbying happening. Many of their interests are not in favour of an individual. I don't want to connect dots for them, it's not going to work in my favour. Ideally the only data shared between banks and governments regarding a law-abiding citizen would be only an IBAN.

What's wrong with plastic national identity documents exactly, are they too heavy, too large, not enough waterproof? With the next wave of broad consent for authoritarianism like during 2020-2022, the new "features" promptly integrated into this ecosystem will be not nice at all.

> Finally, the revised law clarifies the scope of the qualified web authentication certificates (QWACs), which ensures that users can verify who is behind a website, while preserving the current well-established industry security rules and standards.

Pan-Europan edition of the German Impressum enforced by hordes of vicious bloodthirsty legal trolls and predators.

I loved my s10e, although the camera glass (or rather plastic) cracked during the first months from basically placing the phone on flat surfaces. Otherwise the form factor, dimensions, audio jack port, photos quality were excellent.

All Android devices and all but one iPhones are phablets. Come at me.

They mean phablets? The shipments of smartphones likely plummeted above 90% because there is like 1 model available in total.

Domestic aristocratic and industrialist families, Slavic oligarchs, Arabic sheikhs, Chinese dignitaries, foreign dictators and kings, organized crime, Tina Turner. The same in all DACH countries.

Just emigrate to save for buying your home like everyone does, dummy Swiss! For example to a comet and once you collect enough rhodium and iridium, you're good to go... or stay there, it is likely cheaper than in Switzerland.

My dude, In Europe elevators with capacity half a ton say they can lift 7 people.

Yeah I meant short rental eligible places in the desirable tourist spots... and palaces in desirable locations, but for these you really need to be a "member of a family".

If you have a real estate in any desirable location in Italy, it immediately starts to ejaculate with money. Airbnb is like viagra on top of it.

It's pinging T-Mobile whether you're allowed to use magenta.