mastodon: @krisowe@mastodon.world

Washington, DC
Joined November 2010
give belgium back to austria instead.
Wtf is wrong with Luxembourg GIVE THEM BACK TO BELGIUM (it lowkey is their Kosovo)
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Die Kommentare sind unterirdisch. Warum ist es vielen so wichtig, den Beitrag der Gastarbeiter so gering wie möglich anzusetzen. Das sind - so wette ich - die gleichen Versager, die das Märchen der Trümmerfrauen verbreiten
Vor 65 Jahren kamen Arbeiter aus der Türkei nach Deutschland. Sie haben dieses Land mit aufgebaut, geprägt und die Infrastruktur des Wohlstands geschaffen, in der wir heute leben. Aus Gastarbeitern wurden Mitbürger – Freunde, Familie, Kollegen und Nachbarn. Dafür danken wir.
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As ever the reality the Russian elite cannot process is that since every EU state is existentially dependent on the EU's system, individual EU states at the table end up representing and consulting with the collective decision-making processes anchored in Brussels.
Ru made it clear yesterday it could see the leaders of Finland and Norway at the table, but only as leaders of Ru neighboring states. Ru does not want anyone from Brussels there. The “neighbor” format may extend to Turkey/Poland/Slovakia/Romania/Hungary, but not now.
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One never consults the public if it can be avoided. There is a mediterranean botanical garden in my city. according to a plaque posted there it was installed for a garden exhibition decades ago, *in a park* against protest. it is now one of the most popular places in the park.
Remember the time a transit community engagement consultant wrote an article about visiting Amsterdam to see how they built transit infrastructure and was shocked and offended that they didn’t do “community engagement”?
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Me, looking at an Austrian map from 1918 and one from 1919 side-by-side.
That’s a hell of a lot of coastline to lose.
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It is difficult to maintain a monetary union without a fiscal union. That being said, it’s not that the Euro was a mistake, but rather that European integration has progressed too slowly.
Was the Euro a mistake?
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Great now do EU Ltd. so one no longer has to deal with bullshit like Germany's GmbHs.
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tony judt’s famous paragraph about one of the most distinctive features of america may not have as much basis in reality for much longer
For a long time there was an assumption that every state should have a publicly-owned research university offering graduate education in every field of scholarly inquiry. That assumption had been dying a slow death since 2008, but it is truly gone now.
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Oh dear, Peter. In March 1917 the Kaiser's ally, Emperor Karl of Austria, proposed precisely such a peace settlement: restoration of Belgian sovereignty and Alsace-Lorraine to France. He urged Kaiser Wilhelm to agree. It's called the Sixtus Affair. Rather unfortunate to lecture others on knowing “very little about war or politics” while overlooking one of the most remarkable peace initiatives of the Great War. Like Putin, Wilhelm rejected the approach because Germany's military leadership still believed victory was possible and refused to surrender its territorial gains. A catastrophic miscalculation. Instead of negotiating from strength in 1917, Germany fought on to unconditional military defeat, revolution and the Kaiser's abdication in 1918. The real lesson of 1917 is the folly of confusing the ability to continue a war with the wisdom of doing so.
.@stevedh42, Yeah, the way Wilhelmine Germany could just have pulled out of France and Belgium in 1917. You know very little about war or politics if you think that.
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last jedi was such a great film and then the online crybabies masquerading as fans fucked it all up.
Star Wars: The Last Jedi - shot 2410
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this one:
Coats of Arms of European Countries What's your favourite? brilliantmaps.com/coat-of-ar…
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which is why europe was a better place. i am a german city dweller. my natural counterparts are ppl from paris, prague, lisbon, rome, or athens, not some dipshit provincial moron from rural brandenburg. the nationstate is one of the worst ideas of the last 200 years.
The basic takeaway here is that European ruling elites from England to Poland, whether in the 19th Century or 12th Century would have replaced their proud uppity native peasantry with docile Hindu migrant labourers if they could have. The technology simply wasn't yet there.
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It really is that simple.
Wake up!!! We are fighting for this. 🇪🇺
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In Österreich wird seit 1983 das Staatsbürgerschaftsrecht nicht reformiert weil man (wie früher in Deutschland) bloß keine türkischstämmigen Doppelstaatsbürger haben will, währendessen werden wir von den Piefkes überrannt, die nicht einmal den Anstand haben, Dialekt zu lernen.
Most Common Origin Country of Immigrants To Western Europe More detailed maps of each country: brilliantmaps.com/origin-cou…
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they should ban you for life from their cabs for putting your feet up, this is the type of shit you get rightly reprimanded for on public transport or trains. this is not your car.
Coffee and Contemplation just hits harder in the Tesla Cybercab.
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Auch in Deutschland ist es dumm, eine girocard statt Kreditkarte zu nutzen. die 0815 kreditkarte in DE ist eh ne Charge Card, also eine, die monatlich voll abbucht, zinsfrei. Man bekommt also ein Tool für Auslandsreisen, ist bei Verlust geschützt und hat sein Geld 30 Tage länger
If you live in the US it make NO SENSE to use a debit card for your regular expenses. For one, if it gets stolen, it's your money that's stolen and it's a headache to get them back. With a credit card, it's the lender's money, not your problem. Second, the credit score system in the US is heavily boosted by borrowing->paying it back in time, so you can basically use a credit card for purchases->always pay it back on time, and earn credit score, all while getting a bunch of perks and cashback bonuses that basically erase the very small interest you are paying in the first place. So yes, the smart thing to do if you live in the US is to NOT use a debit card.
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ngl excepting serbia becoming a russian puppet yugoslavia i like this idea much better than what we got.
Rusya Dışişleri Bakanı Sergey Sazonov’un 1914 yılında tasarladığı, I. Dünya Savaşı sonrası Avrupa’yı gösteren harita. Bu harita, 14 Eylül 1914 tarihinde 11 maddelik bir öneri olarak İngiltere ve Fransa’ya sunulmuştu. 1- Rusya, Doğu Prusya ve Doğu Galiçya’yı ele geçirecek. Kongre Polonya’sı yeniden kurulacak ve Silezya ile Batı Galiçya’nın eklenmesiyle genişletilecek. 2- Fransa, Alsas ve Lorraine’i ele geçirecek; ayrıca Pfalz'ı da ele geçirme/işgal etme imkânı olacak. 3- İkili Monarşi kaldırılacak ve Avusturya İmparatorluğu, 1867 öncesindeki durumuna geri dönerek üniter bir devlet haline gelecektir. Macaristan Krallığı, tıpkı Bohemya veya Dalmaçya gibi, Avusturya İmparatorluğu’nun bir eyaleti haline geri dönecektir. 4- Şlesvig ve Holstein, Danimarka’ya geri verilecektir. 5- Almanya’da bağımsız Hannover Krallığı yeniden kurulacaktır. 6- Sınır boyunca Belçika’ya Alman toprakları ilhak edilecektir (gelecekteki kesin sınır belirtilmeden, daha sonra belirlenecektir). 7- Avusturya, Bosna, Hersek, Dalmaçya ve kuzey Arnavutluk’u Sırbistan’a verecektir. 8- Tarafsızlık karşılığında Bulgaristan, Sırp Makedonya’nın bir kısmını; Yunanistan ise güney Arnavutluk’u alacaktır. 9- Vlorë (Arnavutluk’ta bir liman kenti), tarafsızlık karşılığında İtalya’ya verilir. 10- Alman kolonileri Büyük Britanya, Fransa ve Japonya arasında paylaştırılacaktır. 11- İttifak Güçleri, İtilaf Devletlere tazminat ödeyecektir. Tazminat tutarı açıklanmamıştır ve daha sonra belirlenecektir.
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Public park access in the nations capital being removed in favor of private golf space is really vile.
Trump releases his plan to re-do the East Potomac Park golf course in DC. His graphic does not show the current road which runs around Hains Point, or the picnic and memorial areas at the end. Getting rid of those public areas would be terrible.
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