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Comment · 3 months ago
They do, usually 1,8m+ for men and 1,7m+ for girls
Comment · 3 months ago
It depends. Quite often, Germanic countries are grouped with Northern Europe because many of them are located around the North Sea, Latin countries with Western Europe, Slavic countries with Eastern Europe, and Balkan countries with Southern Europe.
Comment · 3 months ago
I'm not American but if I would not been 190cm tall white man I would not take such risks, my wife doesn't, and it's always sorry to hear. Broken windows as is.
Comment · 3 months ago
If after sobering up during detention or camp they're not able to work for mental reasons and a court agrees with medical picture then they're placed into asylum, often permanently. Either way, people are not afraid letting kids play unsupervised, travel to school on public transit and taking shortcuts through a park during a night.
Comment · 3 months ago
Such people always have a choice of taking a job at a state factory and a room at its dorm plus enough salary to stay poor but fed and housed. If they refuse such option and willingly deny social norms, they're detained, sent to a labor camp, and forced to work there without right to leave, basically a prison. The good ol' socialist way of solving a problem.
Comment · 3 months ago
I grew up in Minsk (2M people) and seen obviously homeless person just once in my entire life. It's not illegal to be factually homeless, but illegal to do everything homeless people usually do, unlike in Berlin, where I live nowadays, like sleeping outdoors, camping (insane!), being intoxicated etc. In Minsk such people instantly removed into correction facilities, thus cities are clean and more importantly safe.
Comment · 4 months ago
That’s exactly why I added “or any other premium.” Why buy a sleek phone made of premium materials just to bury it in the cheapest, ugliest, chunkiest plastic case you can find?
Comment · 4 months ago
I thought only poor people used phone cases. Otherwise, what’s the point of having an iPhone Air or any other premium built phone at all?
Comment · 5 months ago
This is when they stop being simply consumers/receivers and become producers/owners.
Comment · 1 year ago
I’ve seen multiple instances of robberies where the attacker was a head shorter and could have been easily stunned, or worse, with a single hit, yet people gave away their valuables because even the thought of using violence is taboo. Of course, the police always say, “Just file a complaint,” which never results in anything. It’s not a joke: even if violence is used purely to stop a criminal, the police will prosecute you, lol. I’m not American, but I like the idea that one could defend themselves and their property using all means necessary.
Comment · 1 year ago
I think that the Allied victors laid the foundation of the current German education system on initial denazification and subsequent extreme pacification, to such a degree of impotence that people refuse to defend themselves even when they are fully capable of neutralizing a criminal, preferring to become victims rather than use force.
Comment · 1 year ago
Just yesterday, I talked to a neighbor who has two kids attending a local school in Mitte. He told me that the children are constantly indoctrinated into group conformity, obedience to authority, and fear of "wrong-think," with a good splash of wokie-talkie on top of it. To me, that sounds like a complete erasure of agency. Schools must provide knowledge, not override the nurture given by parents.

I have personally observed how locals are bullied by overseas guests and choose a delusional escape into virtue signaling rather than defending themselves. I consider German upbringing to be that of a defeated people.

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