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Have clankers visited my blog one hundred twenty-one sexagintillion eight hundred ten novemquinquagintillion times so far in November??

I had to pull an all nighter to fix some unoptimized query because I had just launched a new website with barely any visitors and hadn’t implemented caching yet for something that I thought no one uses anyway, but a bot found it and broke my entire DB through hitting the endpoint again and again until nothing worked anymore

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German central bank: Lift retirement age to boost competitiveness

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Thanks for linking a source but this is a misleading interpretation, please don’t try to argue with data if you don’t know how to interpret it.

You need to look at e.g. the top 10%, middle 40% and bottom 50% to get a proper idea. And then look at it country by country because the scales don’t match. Yes, the USA are extremely inequal, I think back to like 1913 level in 2013 or something like that iirc, so if you put them on a plot with e.g. France, France will look great.

But if you look at France alone you get a different picture and inequality is rising again since the 80s. Here’s an article by a French economist with research focus on inequality which cites the same data: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities/2025/09/24/global-inequality-in-historical-perspective-part-1/

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Algerian law declares France's colonisation a crime

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And this development aid is going where exactly… to the estimated 800.000+ victims of the French there?

Algeria has rich natural resources and is not receiving a lot of "development aid“ in fact they kinda don’t want it and of the aid that is being paid out 80% doesn’t even leave French territory: https://al24news.dz/en/algeria-france-what-development-aid-are-we-talking-about/

Have you seen the images of humans wearing chains and sitting in cages? Have you read reports of what they have done to people there? This is such an uninformed, low effort comment, I think we can do better than that.

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Von der Leyen opens up to economic migrants: "Let's bring skills to Europe"

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And they will still end up cleaning your toilet and flipping my burger and deliver my food. I don’t get this obsession with "skilled labor“.

Humans like any other animal have been moving around ever since and only recently we as a species have developed this idea of imaginary borders and sense of entitlement to the place we randomly got thrown into without any doing of our own.

Even ignoring the humanistic aspect of this morally rotten debate, seriously, who’s gonna do all the shitty work that nobody wants to do? I don’t want to be a cleaner or work at McDonald’s in bumfuck nowhere next to a highway or work for a moving company or be a plumber.

It’s not even about money, I will just never want to do it and there’s not enough people in any of these jobs and many more even though we’re in an economic downturn period.

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Twenty years on: Did joining the EU make new members richer?

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Because it’s not worth engaging with this person I just copy paste my answer to the other place where they posted this.

Thanks for linking a source but this is a misleading interpretation, please don’t try to argue with data if you don’t know how to interpret it.

You need to look at e.g. the top 10%, middle 40% and bottom 50% to get a proper idea. And then look at it country by country because the scales don’t match. Yes, the USA are extremely inequal, I think back to like 1913 level in 2013 or something like that iirc, so if you put them on a plot with e.g. France, France will look great.

But if you look at France alone you get a different picture and inequality is rising again since the 80s. Here’s an article by a French economist with research focus on inequality which cites the same data: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities/2025/09/24/global-inequality-in-historical-perspective-part-1/

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Sad but true

Some really ugly guy in my high school class was scoring with no limits. Absolute legend. Like he was really ugly, not particularly tall, maybe like 1,70m and not ripped or anything. Idk what his secret sauce was. It wasn’t limited to our school, it also worked with complete strangers. Women just loved him and until today I don’t understand. But it gave me hope, I know he’s out there somewhere, dating beautiful women for all of us.

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Europe must unite or it’s ‘finished,’ Poland’s Tusk warns as Trump salivates over Greenland

Not gonna happen. The EU has a joint GDP as large as China but Europe is stuck in nationalism and not getting over its imperialist past in terms of mindset.

IMO all kids in the EU would need to learn native level English from kindergarten on next to their native tongue and English would need to become an official language next to the local language if applicable in all EU countries.

And then all administrative matters and everything would need to be bilingual. Then Europe could use its immense cultural heritage, history in unionizing, strong labor laws and social security networks (that should become EU wide) to attract skilled people.

But for that people would have to get over the idea that they are somehow superior to other cultures, which is not gonna happen, so an Indian software engineer will rather go somewhere else than e.g. Germany because they don’t want to be treated like shit.

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Germany's far-right AfD may seize regional power in 2026

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Yeah basically all big parties and mainstream media are, kinda the entire elite of the country. This even extends to German Lemmy, I used to have a Feddit account a couple years back and now created one again, did like 5 posts until I got a ban and got called an antisemite and will move instances again. Germany is cooked.