Eastern Europe must be a paradise [Archive]

Ekco

12-17-2024, 07:18 PM

Hungary has seen an increase of in vitro fertilizations since they implemented policies that award mothers with multiple children.

The pendulum swings right to left and cuts everyone in the middle.

The Tokyo government plans to introduce a four-day workweek for its employees in an attempt to support young families and boost record-low fertility rates nationwide.Dec 9, 2024

The West used to make fun of China for their one child policy, we basically fucked up and created our own via the freemarket, only japan seems to be trying to fix it.

Duik

12-17-2024, 07:22 PM

There is enuf people.

Ekco

12-17-2024, 07:29 PM

There is enuf people.

yeah, i'm fine with it even getting worse. hope red team does away with property taxes funding schools.

taxing single childless workers is tyranny of the highest order.

Reiwa

12-17-2024, 09:11 PM

yeah, i'm fine with it even getting worse. hope red team does away with property taxes funding schools.

taxing single childless workers is tyranny of the highest order.

https://img.ifunny.co/images/b192c753d60ca84b1c06dbfe6bda75389fb856c0d24c5dbb06 6402c7da1ecb17_1.jpg

Ekco

12-17-2024, 09:36 PM

Hate the game not the player

“You don't have to go to the movies, you don't have to go out for dinner, just spend time with the most wonderful gifts you can ever have, is the children,” she said. Elon's mom, Maye Musk, talks about how people should have kids even though they can't afford it"

new tax pigs are on their way soon as they get rid of these pesky child labor laws. also tax sports gambling more.

hope this helps, good luck with this society of yours.

hehe escapism go brrrrrr
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https://i.imgur.com/r6jjBg7.jpeg

Reiwa

12-17-2024, 09:45 PM

Ekco

12-17-2024, 09:58 PM

It's not an error of opinion you goof. There is no federal ad valorem.

Okay, I'm in Texas so ad valorem is my only point of contact with the issue at all.

quick google search says its roughly 10% of funding from federal so its semantics about income,sales,property regardless.

NopeNopeNopeNope

12-17-2024, 10:58 PM

also tax sports gambling more

This video was fairly eye opening. I saw it a few days ago so I’m trying to remember some of the interesting points:

- Apparently people have bet a half a trillion dollars on sports betting since the Supreme Court passed a law allowing it around like 2018(?)

- Sports betting sites will happily take all your money, but if you are actually good and win too much, they will throttle how much you can bet or outright ban you. So you can only lose big, not win big

- Sports betting sites prey upon and rely on people with gambling addictions, offering them terrible-odds bets called parleys and projecting those profits into their expected earnings before the actual games even take place

- Apparently other forms of gambling require people to prove they have the funds they are spending via W2’s to prevent addicted gamblers from pawning all their shit. But sports betting sites skirt this

- Obviously the rates of people identifying as gambling addicts have gone up, while their average age has gone way down

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qJw7lIO9KeE

Ekco

12-17-2024, 11:16 PM

yeah, it's super fucked up.

especially when you combo it with lootbox/gacha games starting at the age of 3 rofl.

https://i.imgur.com/oWT15At.jpeg

Reiwa

12-17-2024, 11:29 PM

Okay, I'm in Texas so ad valorem is my only point of contact with the issue at all.

quick google search says its roughly 10% of funding from federal so its semantics about income,sales,property regardless.

Sure, but take it up with Texas. Donny Johnald Trump and Co can't do squat about it.

I'm liking this temperance digression. Online gambling is a rotten son of a bitch. :cool:

Eisai

12-18-2024, 12:07 AM

Who am i to stop the lemmings parade? God has a plan, surely.

Ekco

12-18-2024, 12:19 AM

Sure, but take it up with Texas. Donny Johnald Trump and Co can't do squat about it.

I'm liking this temperance digression. Online gambling is a rotten son of a bitch. :cool:

it's trending that way without me do anything already, the voucher thing is getting passed next year so that's step 1 in their plan of destroying public schools.

>liking this temperance digression. Online gambling is a rotten son of a bitch.
i for one look forward to our new puritan sin tax overlords.

NopeNopeNopeNope

12-18-2024, 12:30 AM

Online gambling is a rotten son of a bitch

Reiwa

12-18-2024, 12:35 AM

it's trending that way without me do anything already, the voucher thing is getting passed next year so that's step 1 in their plan of destroying public schools.

>liking this temperance digression. Online gambling is a rotten son of a bitch.
i for one look forward to our new puritan sin tax overlords.

I'll grant that it's a soft sort of resegregation. But why does that mean destruction?

Some people will just pay extra.

shovelquest

12-18-2024, 12:39 AM

fvPpAPIIZyo

Ekco

12-18-2024, 12:42 AM

I'll grant that it's a soft sort of resegregation. But why does that mean destruction?

Some people will just pay extra.

good religious school education if you can afford it

and public will be given over to corporations to indoctrinate (more than they already are)
https://i.imgur.com/4d15kDs.jpeg

that kind of destruction

shovelquest

12-18-2024, 12:42 AM

This video was fairly eye opening. I saw it a few days ago so I’m trying to remember some of the interesting points:

- Apparently people have bet a half a trillion dollars on sports betting since the Supreme Court passed a law allowing it around like 2018(?)

- Sports betting sites will happily take all your money, but if you are actually good and win too much, they will throttle how much you can bet or outright ban you. So you can only lose big, not win big

- Sports betting sites prey upon and rely on people with gambling addictions, offering them terrible-odds bets called parleys and projecting those profits into their expected earnings before the actual games even take place

- Apparently other forms of gambling require people to prove they have the funds they are spending via W2’s to prevent addicted gamblers from pawning all their shit. But sports betting sites skirt this

- Obviously the rates of people identifying as gambling addicts have gone up, while their average age has gone way down

You think that's bad? Just wait until 2036 when you find out they replaced fluoride in your water with radioactive toxic waste thanks to some random shit they shut down.

https://i.imgur.com/DMLVTxg.png

Ekco

12-18-2024, 12:46 AM

fvPpAPIIZyo

YOU! YES, YOU! STAND STILL, LADDI!
K6PwUG283DU

Ekco

12-18-2024, 01:00 AM

You think that's bad? Just wait until 2036 when you find out they replaced fluoride in your water with radioactive toxic waste thanks to some random shit they shut down.

https://i.imgur.com/DMLVTxg.png

"I never noticed until yesterday (prob because I saw it on VHS on a small TV 30 years ago), but in Batman (1989), the news anchors have visible blemishes after the Joker laces cosmetic products with Joker toxin. Obvious watching it now in HD."

rofl.

this thread is getting way too depressive and dark and i don't wanna someone reading it to get the big sads almost a week from Xmas.

so here's a picture of zen cat for em.
https://i.imgur.com/Hqkg2Cz.jpeg

Eisai

12-18-2024, 01:12 AM

That might be the most horridly satisfied looking cat I've ever seen! Why do they only love things that i don't do! This is the worst moment to ever have taken place!

Hehe #freshkitten
Thanks!

Reiwa

12-18-2024, 01:13 AM

good religious school education if you can afford it

and public will be given over to corporations to indoctrinate (more than they already are)
https://i.imgur.com/4d15kDs.jpeg

that kind of destruction

What is or was preventing people from purchasing those educations before they imminently do or do not the things?

Reiwa

12-18-2024, 01:15 AM

I'll see your kitty cat and raise you a rodent

BtxBOOico28

Ekco

12-18-2024, 01:38 AM

What is or was preventing people from purchasing those educations before they imminently do or do not the things?

no idea.
not my circus, not my problem.

hence my lolbertarian throw away post of "taxing single childless workers is tyranny of the highest order."

I only care about how any of this affects me, personally.

Reiwa

12-18-2024, 02:07 AM

There is enuf people.

Thomas Malthus was badly mistaken and possibly very evil.

iV18Xx5EkaE

Ekco

12-18-2024, 02:20 AM

Thanos did nothing wrong, dude just wanted to save audiences from having to watch 20 capeshit projects a year.

Ciderpress

12-18-2024, 09:13 AM

Thanos looks like a shlubby bus driver. Terrible villain.

The nothing from neverending story, now that's a villain.

Ekco

12-18-2024, 09:36 AM

The nothing from neverending story, now that's a villain.

glad i missed out on the childhood trauma of neverending story, i only had to be terrified of sorcerers that look like David Bowie.

Ciderpress

12-18-2024, 09:42 AM

Oh there's a generation of people in therapy over that horse dying scene, you dodged a bullet

As a kid I legit thought bowie was a woman in labyrinth

Ciderpress

12-18-2024, 03:12 PM

And speaking of the neverending story, there's no WAY swamp of no hope wasn't inspired by the swamps of sadness.

Also I just realized the nothing is probably an allegory for communism, the timing would be right (roughly). As the Gmork states, Fantasia is dying because it's the world of human fantasy, and people have begun to lose their hopes and forget their dreams. And people with no dreams are easy to control. And whoever has the control has the power.

Makes u think!

shovelquest

12-18-2024, 03:31 PM

Also I just realized the nothing is probably an allegory for communism

The nothing did need a psychopath wolf to get rid of people who spoke out against it.. You might be onto something.

Swish

12-18-2024, 03:49 PM

https://i.imgur.com/z9wwLLr.png

Sorry you don't got

The countries with the lowest ownership probably correlate with the highest migrant worker populations (except maybe Turkey) - keeping wages suppressed and demand for limited housing up. A lot of people can't even get mortgages at this point.

I've known a bunch of people who came to the UK to work, saved every penny to buy a family home back in Poland/Croatia/Romania/etc. It works because the UK minimum wage is about 7-8 times the average Romanian wage. Meanwhile if you're wanting to buy in the UK...good luck/is it worth it? Most older houses are 100+ years old and falling apart, and the new builds are made with shitty materials because profits/line must go up.

That said I can see the US is in worse shape in terms of homelessness. We're not far behind.

Jimjam

12-18-2024, 04:03 PM

Yo Swish, you reckon there a vintage of house worth buying in Uk?

Eisai

12-18-2024, 05:40 PM

Yo Swish, you reckon there a vintage of house worth buying in Uk?

ROFL
how did i fall in love twice in one day?

NopeNopeNopeNope

12-18-2024, 08:00 PM

Home ownership is realizing that literally everything around you is breaking, just on a different timeline :/

Duik

12-18-2024, 09:55 PM

The fact home ownership also includes those chained to a mortgage makes the numbers skewed. Like how many get reposessed (god damn it whatever the word is for that). Forclose?
My 1st house in 1989 was AU$120000. Not flashy or new but built when hardwood was used and craftsman built them not the prefab crap we get now.
Spent $10K on bathroom and a bedroom renew. 2001 it sold for $500k.
We earnt $1k per week then. Now a house there is more like $750K.
My kids will likely never be able to own a mortgage let alone a home. They will prolly end up just killing me and living here. Lil bastards.

Reiwa

01-26-2025, 11:38 PM

The countries with the lowest ownership probably correlate with the highest migrant worker populations (except maybe Turkey) - keeping wages suppressed and demand for limited housing up. A lot of people can't even get mortgages at this point.

I've known a bunch of people who came to the UK to work, saved every penny to buy a family home back in Poland/Croatia/Romania/etc. It works because the UK minimum wage is about 7-8 times the average Romanian wage. Meanwhile if you're wanting to buy in the UK...good luck/is it worth it? Most older houses are 100+ years old and falling apart, and the new builds are made with shitty materials because profits/line must go up.

That said I can see the US is in worse shape in terms of homelessness. We're not far behind.

The lesson I take is from the highest ownership being in the former Warsaw countries.

They're not really countries but the point is inelasticity in the housing market is a bad economic thingy too.

shovelquest

01-27-2025, 02:59 AM

The lesson I take is from the highest ownership being in the former Warsaw countries.

They're not really countries but the point is inelasticity in the housing market is a bad economic thingy too.

1 world currency would solve a lot of problems including global trade and immigration.

Duik

01-27-2025, 11:03 AM

1 world currency would solve a lot of problems including global trade and immigration.

We cant agree on whether its soccer or football.
Its soccer btw.

We have fuckleys chance in hell of deciding on $ or £ or ¥ or ₩ or ₽ or €.

Better to just say Australia is superior and you can all just prove me wrong.
Or not. Dealers choice.

We got cricket, rugby, NRL, bush barbie, spiders and snakes. Crocs 'roos and emus. Crikey! Crocodile Dundee.
Zero NFL or Crascar (Redneck Metallic Rodeo).
Supercars, bulletproof hello kitty backpacks, no wait we dont need those. AFL and the Beercan Regatta.

Right Hand Drive. OMG you guys on the wrong side of the road.

Me.

shovelquest

01-27-2025, 12:42 PM

We could use the dollar everyone in the world already uses but you have some racist hang-ups about the people of my country.

Duik

01-27-2025, 08:59 PM

It isnt racism. Its stupidism.
There is a difference. You can't choose your race, however you can choose not to be stupid.

shovelquest

01-27-2025, 09:30 PM

It isnt racism. Its stupidism.
There is a difference. You can't choose your race, however you can choose not to be stupid.

I disagree with you about your biggoted and racist constructs that defines race. I find it absurd that you think I can be a woman or a man but can't be chinese if I was born and raised there.

Duik

01-27-2025, 09:46 PM

You assume much grasshopper.

You brought up race. I just said yanks no matter the colour or origin.
Born baby to illegals.
Born to redneck brother/sister.
Born from a test tube in a surrogates womb.
Married to a yank.
Illegal alien naturalized (how ever you get that done).

You all, grouped together do stupid things. However, individually I'm sure there are some smart ones.
Some of those are here. You are not one of them.