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Raylon@lemmy.worldto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•I avoid approaching women in public because I believe it's inappropriate. My parents say that it's a necessary skill. Who is right?
3·7 months agoIf you’re not dependent on your parents, think about cutting them out of your life or at least strongly reducing contact. Trust me, mich less stress this way, choose people who are good to you to keep around.
Raylon@lemmy.worldto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What subreddit are you trying to replace on Lemmy that needs pumping up?
3·8 months agoIn general i miss all the TTRPG communities
Raylon@lemmy.worldto
World News@lemmy.world•German election live: Centre-right CDU and CSU parties win, say exit polls Far-right Alternative for Germany records best result with close to 20 per cent of the voteEnglish
11·9 months agoIf you meant democrat vs republican just write that next time lol
Raylon@lemmy.worldto
World News@lemmy.world•Election winner Merz invites Netanyahu to Germany, despite ICC warrantEnglish
5·9 months agoYeah the only option would be if SPD declares that they won’t do a coalition if Merz becomes chancellor. But 1) that would require SPD to have some guts, which they don’t have and 2) in that case the CDU would likely go for a minority government and work with AfD to push their cruel proposals.
So yeah, lile you say, realistically the GroKo is pretty much guaranteed.
Raylon@lemmy.worldto
World News@lemmy.world•German election live: Centre-right CDU and CSU parties win, say exit polls Far-right Alternative for Germany records best result with close to 20 per cent of the voteEnglish
154·9 months agoLeft vs right is literally down vs up
Raylon@lemmy.worldto
World News@lemmy.world•Swiss government rejects proposed super-rich inheritance taxEnglish
2·1 year agoIn most places, if you’re a child or spouse of the deceased, you don’t pay any tax at all on it.
Raylon@lemmy.worldto
World News@lemmy.world•Swiss government rejects proposed super-rich inheritance taxEnglish
3·1 year agoAs someone already commented, there is narrative that the free market is the reason for Switzerland’s success. A narrative pushed by corporate media and burguois politicians of course, but imo also not completely untrue.
But I also want to point to a different reason, which is our value system. Due to historical reasons, similar to the US, there is a strong emphasis on personal freedom, usually overshadowing solidarity and equality. A big part of that is for many people the right to own private property and to play as little taxes on it as possible.
Then there’s also protentatisms ideas about work etc.
Raylon@lemmy.worldto
World News@lemmy.world•Swiss government rejects proposed super-rich inheritance taxEnglish
1·1 year agoGood lord Silberschmidt is probably one of my most hated persons in Swiss politics.
Raylon@lemmy.worldto
World News@lemmy.world•Swiss government rejects proposed super-rich inheritance taxEnglish
6·1 year agoThe country? No. But remember we’ve always been (majority) governed by parties that are right-wing corporate lackeys. There’s a lot of criticism of these practices from the left and even the center (sometimes), but those critics are unable to get majorities.
Raylon@lemmy.worldto
World News@lemmy.world•Swiss government rejects proposed super-rich inheritance taxEnglish
1121·1 year agoFor context, it was clear from the outset that the right wing-free market gov would reject this. The proposed tax was submitted by the Juso (young socialist party) and it’s pretty clear that it will lose a national vote as well by a large margin (as the Swiss voting population is worse free market brained than even the US).
Now why would I consider this still a good move by the Juso? Because it brings up debate. About inheritance tax, but also about the injust society in general and how rich people don’t contribute their part. And in the long term, it moved the overton window to strech further to the left.
I’m Swiss and open to answer questions if you have any.
Raylon@lemmy.worldto
EGN+ has moved to: !eurographicnovels@piefed.social@lemm.ee•*"Man, are you truly happy ***KILLING*** yourself to make all those counts and marquis fatter?"* (from the brilliant "L'Âge d'or" by Pedrosa & Moreil) (3 pages, with notes)English
6·1 year agoThank you for sharing, absolutely love this style!
Raylon@lemmy.worldto
Ukraine@sopuli.xyz•‘13 of 15 non-Russians in military unit dead’: Indians seek return
7·1 year agoTbf he didn’t go to Russia to join the military. Similar to ther stories that I’ve heard, he was offered a job in Russia, and then forced into the military.
Raylon@lemmy.worldto
World News@lemmy.world•German police investigate 'racist' video on vacation islandEnglish
10·2 years agoMaybe, but at least 4 people in the video have lost their jobs over this, so it has at least some consequences.
Raylon@lemmy.worldto
World News@lemmy.world•When the water runs dry: Why France is freaking out over a tiny Swiss damEnglish
71·2 years agoYou’re mixing up two values here. Switzerland imports less than 10% of its electricity, the number you’re probably referring to is the total of “Energieträgern”, so oil, oal, gasoline, etc.
https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/de/home/statistiken/energie/versorgung.html
Raylon@lemmy.worldto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•American wanting to move abroad, what's the best bet for an registered nurse?
4·2 years agoIn Switzerland we pretty much lack professional healthcare staff all the time (like half our doctors are from Germany it feels). I’m not working in the industry but afaik nursing is better paid than in Germany, just other conditions around the job are very stressful and make many people leave.
During Covid, things got bad enough that a popular initiative by the trade unions got passed which demanded augmentations to the working conditions. The concrete improvements will soon get voted on and hopefully quickly implemented.
If you already speak German fluently, learning to understand Swiss German will hopefully not be too much of a challenge to you.
Update: I looked it up and a professional nurse makes on average a bit more than median income here.

Wasn’t there a project aiming to recreate the anime but without any filler?