And they built the Burj Khalifa!

Especially cause CSGO crashes when you change graphics settings in-game all the time

I have two landline numbers that came with my internet contract but I don’t have a phone connected to the modem. So whenever your scenario happens to me I just give them one of my real landline numbers. I’ve tried calling myself and you can actually hear it ringing as the caller but no one will ever pick up lol

Ich bin immer noch salzig, dass ich nach über 12 Jahren auf Lases zu Lassmich wechseln musste. Ich bin ein großer Verfechter von offener Soße und stehe grundsätzlich hinter meinen Prinzipien, aber gleichzeitig muss ich auch eingestehen, dass ich mich ein wenig nach den alten Zeiten auf Lases sehne. Es gibt halt leider - zumindest bis jetzt - bei Weitem nicht so viele Inhalte, wobei mir jedoch sehr gefällt, dass selbst in politischen Unterlassmichs (community/sublemmy/whatever) ein bisher sehr zivilisierter Ton herrscht und selbst (für mich) kontroverse Meinungen mit sachlichem Diskurs empfangen werden.

Japan was unwilling to surrender for a long time even though Japanese cities got bombed on a near daily basis near the end of the war. The US gambled on, for a lack of a better word, the wow-factor of the atomic bomb. They guessed correctly that Japan’s leaders would assume that there’s no way in hell the US could produce another one of these “special” bombs. They dropped the second one to basically say: “Hey, we got a huge stockpile of these things so we can do this as long as you like”. Or to put it simply: It was a show of force. When Nagasaki got hit Japanese leaders were in a council meeting about the Hiroshima bombing and the Soviet’s declaration of war on Japan and even after the news arrived in Tokyo half the cabinet was still insistent on their own terms of surrender. They didn’t know how many more bombs America had and that fear played a huge part in Hirohito’s decision to end the war after more than 14 hours of debate that day.

Das war soweit ich mich erinnere ein ’arald. Mit Weizenbier kann ich allgemein nicht so viel anfangen, aber die Mischgetränke von denen sind als leicht herbe Limos für heiße Sommertage echt ganz geil.

Ich glaube das Rockabilly-Ehepaar bei mir die Straße runter kommt dem schon recht nahe. Die haben alle ihrer FÜNF (!) US-Importautos vollgekleistert mit “Fuck you Greta”, “Grüne? Nein, danke!”, diversen Anti-Impfaufklebern, Südstaatenflaggen und natürlich dem eisernen Kreuz.

I think, at least for non-savvy people, that buying individual stocks is not a great idea anyway. If you’re investing to have long term capital gains something like the MSCI World ETF would probably be the better choice. If you invested in that specific index fund in 2016 you’d have doubled your money by now, even during this economic downturn. Sure, you can make more money in a shorter time day trading but that shit is damn near a full time job and more risky unless you heavily diversify your portfolio (which you should do anyway).

Another poster mentioned stocks of the company he works for. My company for example distributes a good amount of their yearly profits to their employees. Meaning that once a year you can choose between a couple hundred bucks one-time payout or get a bunch of company stocks for a heavily discounted price, but they’re trade-locked for two years. At the beginning of 2020 I chose the stock option and the shares got bought right at the beginning of the covid dip. When 2022 rolled around I had essentially quintupled my initial investment in the discounted stocks. So that’s another great tip, provided you company offers similar plans.

Japanese society is very old-fashioned, male dominated, hierarchical and “I’m older than you so that means I’m right”. Japan’s cybersecurity minister admitted a couple of years ago that he had never used a computer in his life. While I understand the frustration it is (unfortunately) not surprising that these changes do not happen in a timely fashion.