>Be German senior software engineer in 2026
>Wake up in 36°C apartment
>No AC because bad for climate and electricity costs 35 to 40 cents per kWh
>Decide to drive to work
>Fuel above €2 per liter for months
>Take train instead
>Train late
>Long-distance train punctuality at 58.7%
>Finally arrive at your €60k job
>Germany's tax wedge for average single worker is 49.3%
>Second highest in OECD
>Coffee machine chatter about social contributions heading toward 44.5% by 2028
>Someone says at least pension will be there
>Everyone laughs
>Check crypto
>It's down
>Government still removes one-year tax exemption on crypto
>DAC8 helpfully reports it to the Finanzamt
>Buy coke zero
>ALARM, sugar tax pending! Ze Little treat waz detected!
>Try paying €10,001 in cash
>Illegal from 2027
>Non-EU bank account illegal from 2027
>Digital euro and Digital ID coming soon
>Open news
>Fertility down to 1.32
>One quarter of Germany will be at least 67 by 2035
>Don't worry, the remaining wagies will cover everything
>Migration policy counts arrivals before tax contributions
>BKA says non-German suspects are majority of violent crime suspects
>Policy debate immediately becomes impossible
>Take train home
>Delayed again
>Read businesses spend €64 billion per year on federal bureaucracy
>Government deficit hits €71.3 billion in six months
>Europe's economic engine
>mfw
@ICRC this is the reason I will never donate to @ICRC . A corrupt and completely unprincipled organization that hides behind charity but is, in reality, useless.
The situation with Russians killing a toddler with a drone is especially despicable when you realize this wasn’t a stray artillery shell that landed 50 meters off, or a Shahed drone that hit a tall building, but an FPV drone, guided in real time by an operator watching it live
⚡️⚡️Працівник ОП випадково додав журналіста Української Правди в чат де обговорювались перемовини України і США
Зі злитого скріншота можна зрозуміти, що всередині команди президента є певна напруга.
America cut a key intel link for alerts at 2pm Kyiv. Before that: targeting data for HIMARS. Ukraine also isn’t receiving realtime information for long-range strikes. “Trump wanted a thank you,” says a source. “We will be writing it on graves of dead Ukrainians”
@AKamyshin@Amtrak Hey Alexander, how about making the trains going outside of Ukraine comfortable and tickets actually available? I don’t think the comfort there is up to modern standards, imagine elderly climbing up to the 3rd bunk.
I am not trying to give this bozo any play, but I have to address the Ukrainian Nazi thing.
I’m a black dude who lives in Ukraine and travel the country, from the biggest cities to the smallest villages. I do not see the neo-Nazis that this dude claims are there. Most Ukrainians hate them and the most extreme parties have the least political power.
Are there extremist/racist people in Ukraine? (Those folks are everywhere!���🏿♀️) Sure. Are they consequential?
Nope.
Anyway, all I’m saying is that I wouldn’t spend half of my year in Ukraine if shit was that bad. Most people who make up these Ukrainian Nazi claims have never been to Ukraine or truly have a stake in the country.
I’m honestly tired of these grifters talking about Ukraine but don’t know what the fuck they are talking about.
Страшна трагедія...
Рятувальник ДСНС Харківщини приїхав гасити пожежу після масованого авіаційного обстрілу селища Великий Бурлук, а опинився на згарищі власного дому…
Загинула його 37-річна дружина, а 10-річного сина з опіковими травмами госпіталізували до медзакладу.
Everyone supports 🇺🇦 in their own way, but some efforts are extraordinary. Today, ex-pro cyclist and Estonian MP @kristovaga launched a Tallinn-Kyiv bike ride from Freedom Square at 8 AM, aiming to raise €50K for Ukrainian forces. Heartfelt thanks to Kristo for his commitment!
You know what, @nytimes, fuck you. All you had to do was go to Hinkle’s profile and search for “Ukraine” to unearth this shit. And you profiled him anyways.
You’re promoting a literal war crimes denier. You’re complicit.
1. A Russian soldier goes to Ukraine to kill people and occupy their land.
2. He dies.
3. NYT writes a story about what a good son he was and that his mother hopes that he didn’t die but just “got married somewhere in Ukraine.”
@almormd @glukhovsky Какой ужас! То-есть сотни тысяч убитых русских, украинцев, резня в Буче, Ирпене - это еще не ужас. Но за Льошку-то Навального! Россияне реально в своем манямирке каком-то.