She (similar to Reagan in the US) enacted a massive shift in government/society from a more social-democratic focus to a more (economocally) liberal one. Her big goals were to privatize and financialize as much as possible.

This ended up leading to (as it always does) massive increases in inequality, with particularly rural/industrial regions suffering heavily while the services/financial sector in London boomed.

So she is EXTREMELY polarizing. Many conservatives or big-business types worship her, while for many/most others she’s seen as the worst thing to happen to the UK.

Both were really intense for me, but Jurassic Bark can’t be topped (personally)

The physical design was somewhat similar but if you look at old footage from cities you’ll see that walking on the street was completely normal.

There didn’t yet exist this idea that we have to leave 80% of the street exclusively for cars.

As a non-native working in German, the numbers are one of the trickiest parts.

My jobs generally involve a lot of math and discussions of numbers, and I often struggle with swapping numbers around in my head. Especially because when you get to bigger numbers people often switch between (or use a combination of) listing individual digits left-to-right and saying multi-digit numbers.

The though is when you occasionally notice natives mess it up!

That’s been my thoughts as well.

Eliminate income tax on anyone making less than, say 500,000 per year. Then aggressively tax wealth and those making more.

Is this a MASSIVE shake up? Absolutely! Would it likely be a bit messy? Definitely!

But we are at a point where such fundamental change is necessary

I do a lot of programming, which is generally easiest with the US layout (since most languages were designed using this) but I also type frequently in a couple other languages which have extra characters. For me it’s easier to use than switching layouts.

Everyone knows that Albania actually rules the world

I can’t live without the EurKey layout! Even had to get approval to add it to our systems at one megacorp I worked for.

Compared to chains? I’d say it’s generally quite good

On a serious note, they probably meant ‘my’ (and speak a slavic language)

We used to do 12-hour, all-night Empire Earth games!

Weirdly, WoW was like a constant, ongoing lan party for us.

We would all lug our rigs over to one guys house and play, even if we were in separate raid groups

It’s definitely still true in Central Europe

Or how people tend to prefer Pepsi in blind tests (I think it’s sweeter or something, if i remember correctly) but overwhelmingly chose CocaCola if given the choice.

It’s a fun story, however I also found it really interesting after learning German that this is really overblown outside of Germany.

I once tried to reference it with German friends and they didn’t even understand why it was supposed to be funny!

It’s definitely true. There are so few places that are really walkable in the US and the demand is quite high… once you live that way, it’s hard to go back.

We really need to build more walkable areas, but it’s difficult for a lot of (mostly-nonsensical) reasons.

The only thing to keep in mind, however, is that the math changes significantly when you remove cars from the equation. Our rent is higher than somewhere less walkable, but it’s also roughly equivalent to the full price of owning two cars. So comparatively, we save a bunch of money despite higher rent.

The two are closely connected.

You can’t really build affordable and convenient car-dependent style housing (think single-family suburbs) for everyone because they take too much space. So you’ll always end up with the situation where well-located houses are outrageously expensive and you get cheaper by buying something much further out. Essentially people are willing to pay a premium to no have to drive for a long time to get anywhere.

The only reason why conveniently-located suburbs were ever affordable (think 50s or 60s) is because most people back then didn’t have a car yet, so the demand wasn’t saturated.

Being a scientist is a ridiculously hard career path these days.

Yeah weed easily smells at least as bad

“I wish I could work at home tidying up the house for no salary and have no income of my own!”

As a fun aside: both my wife and I would both love to do this! Unfortunately it’s just too tough financially in the modern world, so it’s never a really serious discussion.

Plus we would have to flip a coin or something to decide who has to be the breadwinner.

We don’t really have a relationship that revolves around power-roles though, so it’s a bit of a different discussion.