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Hahahah look at this guy!

Bet you never tried to get a permit for home construction? Shit can take YEARS in most states/countries. Even worse if you dare suggest to make apartment complexes. N I M B Y

Take this area, plenty of plots now housing cows. Distance to city centre (by car!) is 20 minutes.

Same thing to the North West, in between Munich, Grobenzell, Puchheim...

Buddy you are buying into the horsecrap being told by current homeowners. "It's full!"... Nope, not really. Just like in the Netherlands, about 50% of land in Germany is farmland. And even outside of big cities like Amsterdam and Munich there's plenty of space left. But you're not allowed to build there, let alone build high apartment complexes...

Agricultural land here in the Netherlands sells at 6 euro per m2. With a single stroke of a pen that ground can become 300 euro per m2, when the municipality decides you can build a house there.

Same process in Germany. There is more than enough space. Problem is the price of plots is kept artificially high by municipalities, because they rely on the easy money it provides to finance their projects.

The fix is to enable builders to build enough housing, and not just single family detached housing, by removing regulations which allow NIMBY-ism. At the same time, prevent investors from hoarding houses and jacking up the prices. I find it similar to scalping GPU's and reselling them for more money, which was a common practice in the past few years during the chip shortage and crypto mining boom. This kind of investment provides very little value to consumers, and in my view only serves to extract money from the poor to the rich.

Likely your testosterone is suffering. And testosterone makes hard work feel good.

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Oh and you'll get to go outside aswell, which is nice. Sometimes a hike to the rocks.

Not a double clutch one, e.g. DSG

(I'm not aware of the current situation in the US btw, just know that it's perfectly possible to get a booster in the NL)

https://nos.nl/collectie/13799/artikel/2304403-stikstof-vier...

As you can see their output of NO2 has mostly DECREASED in the past decades...

Even the "typical" Dutch heather fields are a product of our destruction. Because when we drained the swamp (haha) and removed its top layer to use as fuel, we left a very mineral deficient soil, which is very suitable for growing heather.

Now some biologists have decided that some areas (nature2000) should remain exactly as artificial as they are now, forever. And that some plants, insects and birds were more valuable than others. Thats why the farms surrounding these areas suddenly need to go. Even builders are having a hard time getting permits, because this also produces nitrogen oxide.

The political parties who support these farm closures funnily enough are the same parties who don't want immigration to the Netherlands to be restricted... Like we can just keep on growing in population forever and our "nature" won't suffer from it. Ok.

Personally I think we shouldn't sacrifice our economy / home building capabilities for protecting our "nature", which in my opinion is nothing more than a poorly maintained park. I feel like we are becoming victim to some biologists pet project. Maybe the proponents of this policy should raise money and purchase the farmlands themselves. Costs about 6 euro per m2 here.

It's illegal to produce weed with the intention to sell, but legal to sell. At the same time it's illegal to have a large inventory. So criminals make large amounts of cash by illegally growing weed. And cops have to waste their time dealing with these guys.

Eventually these guys grow up and start with the more profitable stuff such as cocaine & mdma. Next step is to start ripping off other criminals, threatening local businessmen who dont want to hide your cocaine in their fruit imports...

I am pretty introverted + slightly autistic (not self diagnosed). I do a lot of customer facing work too, which I would never endure when not working remotely. But working remote means I can just turn off when I'm not feeling so great. Presenting is a lot easier... Approaching people, also, a lot easier. Just send them a message on slack/teams/discord. Before that I would have had to muster the courage to talk to certain people. It's a lot easier to onboard as well, given the change in environment is much smaller.

I feel SO lucky that I just happened to apply for this job when COVID and remote work started.

I think this remote work has equalized the playing field in terms of attractiveness & height aswell, as those qualities are far less visible when interviewing remotely. Wouldn't be surprised if we see the average height of high paid workers decline due to this.