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I know you're trolling but, for the record, Germany and The Netherlands have some of the lowest average hours worked per year of not just the EU but all OECD countries.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda...

UK Highway Code, rule 126. Here's a direct link to the stopping distance chart.

Spoiler: similar numbers to the "bullshit" website.

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You're funny.

You are, of course, right. It's been a few years.

That greatly depends on the country. In Switzerland, 500 EUR banknotes are common, though not as much as 500 CHF banknotes (you can use those to pay for your morning bread). UBS has ATMs for different denominations in many agencies and airports. Here, for instance, the leftmost ATM only gives out 100 EUR banknotes.

The feature made perfect sense when it was first used for large-scale disaster, e.g. tsunamis affecting the majority of people in a given area. Nowadays, I'm flooded with alerts about some guy who ran around with a knife, as if there's any chance that the people I know in the same city were affected.

Now that they're making it permanent, maybe they'll finally implement a setting to turn the whole thing off.

How nice for you. Finnish incomes are also thousands of dollars less per year compared to Americans, and that already takes into account the money you "save" on medical care; sounds like you're getting a bad deal.

Depends on how you look at it. While the average household income in the US is significantly higher, it is top-biased. The average income for the bottom 20% is higher in Finland at $13253/year vs $11194/year in the US. Suffice it to say that it is not the top 20% who need universal health care.

Furthermore, you're living in a tiny, sparsely populated monoculture at the ass end of Europe (...) Scaling that up to the whole population wouldn't reduce medical spending, it would massively increase it.

There's plenty of countries larger than Finland with effective and efficient single-payer health care.

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The summary is obviously wrong: Little Snitch, as a local traffic monitor, was only used to rule out his Mac being the culprit. He got to the Fire TV by trial and error.

Siemens solved the door opening problem in a simpler/smarter way with its liftMatic ovens. These are wall mounted ovens, and instead of having a front door, you push a button that lowers the bottom and trays. They're predictably expensive.

Are you suggesting the Swiss couldn't afford whatever plane they wanted? Of all the reasons they could have had to go with the Gripen, good or bad, do you really think cost was the deciding factor?

I'm all for the initiative, don't get me wrong. The funny part is that inequality in Switzerland is a little different from inequality elsewhere: you have people making a lot of money, and people making an absurd amount of money. There's no actual poverty and exploitation. Pretty much every other country in the world would need this law more than CH.

I've been having plenty of discussions on the topic. It's funny, as Switzerland is probably the country that needs something like this the least. The median salary is around 75,000 USD, and although there is no global minimum salary in the law, there are sectorial conventions. The salary for a supermarket cashier starts at around $4,000 USD per month, but a gardener with technical training, for instance, will not earn less that $4,600.

It's also one of the few where citizens can change their constitution easily and directly, i.e. one of the few where this could ever happen. It won't happen this time (according to the polls), although many voters I talked to just disagree with the number, not the principle.

The BBC has a nice article on it, showing the minimum and maximum salaries, and of course the ratio, for a few major Swiss companies. If you want to learn more about the direct aspects of Swiss democracy, the federal government publishes some information in English.

Modern lagunas are keyless; they use a keycard that either goes into a slot or works on presence alone, depending on the model. There is a start button but it can, of course, be ignored by software. Since it was modified for disabled drivers, I'm assuming this one has an auto gearbox as well, so your only option is the brakes, which might not be mechanical either.