Heavily interested in politics, games, music, technology and just the World altogether.

Bilingual in English and German.

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Joined 3 years ago
Cake day: September 18th, 2021
  • vxnxnt@feddit.detoasklemmy@lemmy.ml•Users from before the current wave of Reddit refugees, how do you feel about the incoming monsoon of refugees?English
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    1 year ago

    I’m actually quite pleased at the new influx of users! There’s finally a good amount of activity and real discussion going on here, instead of just posts with links to articles with zero comments and no real OC.

    Aside from that, I have enough faith in the moderators and the structure of the platform itself that there shouldn’t be too much of a toxicity problem. Honestly, my own biggest fear is just that a lot of the new users here lose interest and move on, returning the platform to its earlier days.

    For now, I just hope that the servers don’t go down in flames when the 12th comes around. I can’t wait to see how this platform will look further down the road though!

  • vxnxnt@feddit.detoasklemmy@lemmy.ml•Europeans and Oceanians of Lemmy, what are the pros and cons of living in your country?
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    1 year ago

    Hello from Germany!

    Due to the availability of public transport and lots of bike friendly infrastructure, commuting is pretty easy and accessible. In my city we even have hybrid busses, so called “Velo Routen” (bike highways), a local train network, with a tram network being planned for the future. We even have free ferries here in the north! However, most of this is usually city specific and some will definitely be better or worse than others.

    Aside from that, we also have tuition free college and a pretty good healthcare system as far as I can tell. The beer here is also cheap and really good, while you can usually find yourself a kebab shop just around any corner. The vegan and vegetarian options in grocery stores are also fairly decent.

    However, the main problem probably lies within our current retirement system with our aging population and decline in birth rates. Because of this, younger generations keep having to pay more and more for the older generation’s retirement funds. Also you have to manually opt-out of paying church tax here, which is really absurd.