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  • Yrt@feddit.detoMetal Memes@lemmy.worldDragonforce
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    3 months ago

    Never heard that dragonforce is hated, but maybe it’s first as others said cause online metal communities suck most of the time and 2. maybe cause through the fire and the flames is a “mainstream” known song through guitar hero and social media. And mainstream is often “bad” and not “trve”(a lot of metalheads are just gatekeepers with a hipster mentality).



  • Yrt@feddit.deto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneMadeline rules
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    4 months ago

    I’m sorry, what I tried to say was that sexuality of an individual isn’t something you “learn” through social or cultural things, but it’s something you’re born with. Only the ruleset of what is acceptable and what not is a social or cultural thing.



  • It’s a complex topic cause… it depends. I know a guy that lives in Germany and works in Luxembourg (he is the coffee delivery guy for a lot of people xD). If I remember correctly, he pays taxes in Luxembourg and has to fill out a form each year for the German tax office that he or more exactly his company is paying his taxes in Luxembourg. Cause one big thing in all the european countries I know is, that as an employee your workplace pays your salary based taxes. Most social contributions like pension payment is also a Luxembourg thing, but health care is a mixture. He pays the biggest part in Luxembourg but has to do a little extra payment in Germany, so he can visit a German doctor like someone that pays his healthcare only in Germany.

    But it’s different for every country.

    And also another funny thing I know: The US is the only country in the world where you have to pay taxes just cause you’re a citizen. No matter if you’re living and/or working in the US. So for example a US citizen working and living in Germany still has to pay a (small) amount of US taxes. For example if I would work and live in Italy I would only pay taxes in Italy even though I have a non Italian passport.


  • That seems true. The country is very small so a lot of people can live in cheaper places like German/French/Belgian border villages. I once met a guy living in belgium and working in Luxembourg city and he needed 40min via car (and the city isn’t right next to the belgian border). Same for the other countries. So yeah, I would also guess 50% of the coffee consumed shouldn’t count.


  • Yrt@feddit.detoYUROP@lemm.eeCoffee consumption in Europe
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    4 months ago

    Ooohhh let me tell you! Not only is the coffee and gasoline cheaper, but also champagne cause there is no champagne tax like in Germany (don’t know if you have this as well). And also taxes for tobacco is lower so it’s cheaper and at last: there is no “Pfand” for canned sodas/beers (great for things like festivals). But the one thing a lot more expensive in Luxembourg are clothes. That’s why a lot of people living in Luxembourg love shopping in Trier (Germany).

    Hope you have a nice trip :) The shopping is great at every gasstation at the boarder (they have most of the time a little shop with exactly the cheaper stuff on top), but the capital of the country is nice to visit as well :)


  • Yrt@feddit.detoYUROP@lemm.eeCoffee consumption in Europe
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    What data are they using? If it’s amount of coffee sold vs. population, at least Luxembourg is wrong. I know people who drive 2-3 times a year around 300km from Germany just to shop gasoline and coffee in Luxembourg. Both are so cheap that it’s still worth it. Cause there is no tax on coffee it’s 20-50% cheaper as in Germany. The same for Belgium. So germans and belgians love to buy coffee in Luxembourg.

    Edit: exactly this question is written by the author of the linked article. So it is plausible that the data or the result from the data is wrong.







  • I saw Alien 1 just a couple of weeks ago for the first time and I was amazed how good it still looked. The design of the spaceship and the alien itself still looked amazing in 4k on an OLED TV. And also the story still seemed like a fresh idea. Of course there are moments with stupid acting people, but all in all the decisions made felt plausible and logical, not the normal stupid horror movie group. And also the story twist came (for me) as a real surprise and not like a thing you knew after the first 5min. (And I’m also surprised that after all these years it’s still a surprise, cause everybody knows the alien but not the story of the first movie?)