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People overestimate the percentage of immigrants in their country
  • I know, since I replied to this:

    I think they’re saying that children who are born in the new country should be counted as foreigners. Which is kinda fucked up but yea

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    It's fascinating that while languages vary wildly by speaking speed, information transfer is fairly similar.
  • Looking up the article the baseline is French and English I'd say. So it might be biased, but I didn't read the article and even if I did, I'm a chemical engineer so what do I know of this field.

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    People overestimate the percentage of immigrants in their country
  • It would actually depend on where in Germany you are going, but since the first Turkish "Gastarbeiter" (among others, quite some nationalities) came to West Germany over 60 years ago, it is not uncommon to meet people of Turkish descent there. (East Germany not so much, they had Vietnamese workers but mostly deported them back to Vietnam after the re-unification.) Combine these Gastarbeiter (and the three generations after them) with a declining native birth rate and an influx of asylum seekers, and it could well be 40-50% all together.

    The big question is what the problem is here, and the answer is that the far right wants it to be a problem so they can come to power. So they'll bloody make it a problem and try and sabotage any solutions. These last lines are my personal opnion obviously.

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    Why is Elon supporting Trump MAGA?
  • This saviour complex is a big part of it. That said, all these big "self made" billionares suffer from it. That's why they all refuse to pay taxes but will instead make a charity foundation so they can choose which public interest is best served by "their" money. Like another poster said, Elon's public interest is apartheid, which aligns with Trump.

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    happy Indigenous Peoples' Day!
  • From what I gathered (years ago, so take it with a grain of salt), he couldn't get funding because he hugely miscalculated the distance to India if you'd travel west, like more than half the the distance. Most sailors and scolars knew better, but somehow he got the funding from the Spanish queen.

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    France, Italy and Spain condemn targeting of UNIFIL by IDF -joint statement
  • The Dutch government is basically controlled by the PVV party, who's founder and leader used to be a settler on the west bank. They run on a heavy anti Islam/ anti refugee platform. So basically, "Isreal good, brown people bad".

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    Role models
  • Maybe not your hobbies (or mine), but these are all examples of an activity that someone does for pleasure when they are not working.

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