My wife is quite useful. She achieved a 4 years la, degree in 3 years time by doing some of the classes during summers. She did a 6 week work week at a law office. Her education was paid by getting a scholarship. Top 5% university in Indonesia. She speaks perfect English, in a country where it’s quite rare. She’s beautiful, loving and kind.
Do you have anyone speaking about you this way?
So, do I just insult you now? We wanna yell at eachother? What’s the point here?
Wanna wrestle? I’m too autistic for this shit bruv, provide content or you’ll just weird me out.
I’m a social democrat. We’re sane.
Meanwhile you’re pro russian as a European, quite the disgrace
I’m married, have a job, will be a dad, got friends, have a stress free life, am physically fit, have a good functioning brain. Am mentally healthy. Laugh and smile quite a lot.
I think I’ve been winning in life.
How about you
Then why aren’t you a liberal. You’re european. You’re in the same environment. Your own existence is a contradiction to your belief.
I’m a social democrat. my dad likes trump type of people. My brother likes economic liberals for lower taxes. (His gross income is 5000 euros a month, kinda a workaholic, really wants to pay fewer taxes).
So one house. 4 different ideologies. (My wife doesn’t care, as long as it’s liberal, she thinks Indonesia is doomed because of the military clinging onto political power).
You say they exploit the lower classes. But in Belgium social mobility is extremely high.
Yes, I desire English to be an official language in all of the EU countries. We need unity. I don’t care what happens outside of the EU.
But I only met my wife outside of my continent because she spoke English. Communication connects people.
I’ll look up XHS, thanks. Edit: the translate button next to every comment/post is really nice
Being strict is not how I’m going to handle my life. Now that I need to guide younger employees, I’m not going to order them around. I’m just going to talk to them and try to make them understand. If they refuse, then I’ll take a step back. If shit hits the fan then I’ll offer help. When the shit is cleaned up, I’ll communicate how they can prevent the shit in the future.
My wife’s pregnant, I don’t feel like being a strict parent. I want my kid to be able to think for itself.
Authoritarianism has its benefits. Singapore is very safe. The cars cannot go over the speed limit. It’s very clean. They punish you economically if you step out of line.
I do like parts of Chinese culture. Like the whole family living together. My family lives together in one home. It makes the cost of living extremely cheap.
Don’t get me wrong, usually I am the one talking good about china. Their economy boomed tremendously. Poverty went down by far.
But socially, I don’t know any Chinese person. My wife does. She’s indonesian and a lot of Chinese people are near her area where she grew up. She doesn’t like them. That’s her choice, I guess she’ll have her reasons. Mainly because she worked for Chinese owned law practices and had many Chinese clients. I’m guessing it’s just typical employee disliking their boss stuff.
Global south is such a vast place. Let’s just choose a country. Indonesia. They are developing quite well.
https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/idn/indonesia/poverty-rate
In purchasing power, it has been improving. Western companies are quite present in Indonesia.
I’m 29 years old. My parents are Belgians and when median net wealth is so high, the likelihood of generational wealth is high. Their income came from labour, my dad worked at a steel factory for 40 years. My mom did part time opening a bank and insurance service at home.
They built a house and bought the land next to it. Value of 1 million euros. Gifted to me and my brother. (3% tax)
So yeah, I have 150k euros and property.
Low cost of living as we all just live in one home. Can invest most of the income we have. My wife works 20 hours a week, she saves up 90% of her income.
Being white is kinda necessary to have European generational wealth. Why? Because European DNA is European. You call us white. We’re European. Immigration is relatively new. But social mobility here in Belgium is fantastic. Diaspora’s their parents also own their home.
Belgian nationals simply are wealthy. Why else do we have so many people migrating to this place.
I go where I please. You stay in your bubble and insult me for not being in my bubble. I’m a globalist. I do nothing else than leaving my bubble. I go where I please.
Why would opinions be worthless?
The combination of all our opinions, is the basis of democracy.
We discuss our opinions, to come to a compromise.
People here have been giving arguments pro of the great firewall of china. It definitely has good sides to it.
But my opinion is of being a globalist. I think the arguments pro globalism outweigh the ones of isolationism.
If I do it well enough, then I’ll change some people’s opinions.
People think that people are morons. Coworkers think that coworkers are morons. People overestimate themselves and underestimate others.
So it’s really important to listen and challenge others their opinions which differ from your own.
Wanpies is a way to say one piece, the anime. Made this name years ago and re-used it here.
It’s been almost a year since I’ve caught up with the manga tho
They are arresting Jews for being against Jews?
Do you mean arresting German Jewish religious folks for being against Israeli Jewish religious folks?
I think the Jewish part cancels eachother out, so it’s just German folks being against Israeli folks.
WhatsApp doesn’t work in Shanghai, we had to use WeChat. Her emails also only went through after she left china. So Gmail is also blocked.
I’m not a native English speaker. I don’t feel comfortable using a language that I don’t control. Obviously I’m more comfortable with Dutch and English because then I can truly communicate how I want. Just far higher quality.
My wife has been learning Dutch for a year now, doing classes and has received her integration certificate quite quickly.
She still hasn’t spoken a word Dutch to anyone here in flanders. She doesn’t like how she sounds in Dutch. She’s embarrassed. So we talk in English all the time.
I don’t expect everyone to speak English, but it would be very useful for there to be one global language. English has the most non-native speakers globally.
Edit: your article states that foreign apps need to apply the great firewall of china.
I’m getting this feeling that china really wants all the information on their citizens.
Social media like lemmy is the way to go imo. No country owns the data.
There’s no objectivity in politics. You’re a dangerous person when you think your choice of policy is objective.
there’s a dozen political ideologies in my country and during our democratic election, people vote differently.
If it was objective, then people would just do a simple calculation and all vote the same thing.
Like I bought an e bike with my tax money. Good for some stuff like one less car on the road. Bad for other stuff. Now there’s fewer taxes available for education.
It’s always subjective. You can state the goals objectively of your subjective policy, but it’s still subjective that you want that goal.
Oh my, so Belgians are all oppressors?
How dare we buy goods, improve them and then sell them. How dare we sell our services.
Lil question. How will Nigeria fare when the world all uses renewable energy? Their main export is oil. Their economy depends on it.
If you don’t interact on posts, then the algorithm shows you these posts less and less until it completely stops.
You seem like you wanna be cool but are really just obviously a moron.
Gijse sloeber
English is allowed in a lot of instances here in Belgium, but it’s not an official language. Here it would be Dutch, french and German.
In practice, employees at city hall will just speak English but if they kept themselves to the rules then they would have to speak one of the official languages to the person.
The unity is present when we’re looking at the Ukraine-Russian war. Only Hungary is opposed.
I do believe there’s a sense of unity within Europe.
You say you went to Russia and they think we’re too lax. Now when the war broke loose. People protested and they were arrested. Opposition seemingly is silenced in Russia. Their broadcasting, just like in EU, sells a story.
We don’t have much of a choice. Neither do the Russians.
It’s an unfortunate situation.
I think the communists side with Russia because of its history, not its present state. The history of the USSR is vast and impactful for communists.
However, current day Russia looks like an oligarchy to me. Putin is one wealthy dude. Some sources say he’s worth 200 billion USD.
To me, Ukraine is like Palestine and Russia is like Israel.
To communists it’s not like that.
It’s very simple to me. The one crossing the border with their army is the aggressor.