Is that a common argument made in Germany? I'm not German so I'm just wondering. I know I've heard that here in the States. I my area we don't only have the tax on gas though, we also have registration, wheel tax, and I think alcohol and tobacco taxes are often slated for roads, though I'm not positive on that (tax dollars often feel like a shell game to me anyway and I'm not able to follow my local politics as closely as I know I should).

Nothing would get me to uninstall an app quicker. There has been a few apps that I wanted silent and minimized notifications from but didn't have the separate notification category for their ads so I couldn't turn those off. Ended up turning off all notifications for the app and said screw it.

This was how I remember it too, but it's been a while since I read the comics and watched the show. They used to basically be brothers. I don't remember any implication either. But given how many decades it's been, and my age at the time, I would have likely missed it. That being said, I looked through the TFWiki link the parent comment provided and didn't see anything about them being more than friends.

Yep. Worked there around the same time as you. I was on the appliance and TV repair side and was part of the massive layoffs. I left and focused more on my engineering career. But I saw the same thing you did. I started in '06 and left around '16. Saw the wheel spin a couple of times. My dad went there recently to buy something simple, asked for help, was told someone would be right over, and after half an hour he left and just picked it up from Walmart. They got rid of the checkout at our local store and now customer service rings people out, but when no one is around to do that... People just leave.

It's sad to see, I don't want less competition out there for electronics retail.

It's been more than 15 years since I rented. But it was around $370 and now they're charging $1000-1750. Not sure what the difference is for the 1BR apartments to have such a range. They list the same floor plan and square footage. My only guess is that this place has electric heat for some of the units so these might be the less expensive ones might be those with electric heat and they want a tenant before winter hits.

Push back but won't boycott. Tread on me harder daddy.

Yes. And remember that some of these things also track your phone (I believe via Bluetooth and the like). So I would suggest leaving any valuables at home where they're safe!

Or the subs on the anime is AI generated garbage that isn't accurately translated. I'd rather wait a few days and find a fan sub. Though that's hard these days. Seems like even pirated copies of shows just rip from Crunchyroll anyway. Which go figure, Crunchyroll is owned by Sony last I checked.

I worked in an office environment that regularly interacted with field workers. They would often give us grief about how easy our jobs are (being in an air conditioned office, on chairs, etc). Two of them got injured and in order to keep them earning a paycheck, and keep their sick hours, they came to help us in the office. They were supposed to be on restrictive duty for months I believe. Within two weeks they begged to go back into the field doing anything except helping us. Haven't heard any grief from them since. Haha.

I was going to share Jesse's music. I second this recommendation.

This right here. I know so many people who got into the trades and made $100-250k per year here in the Midwestern US. That's after just 5-10 years in a trade. Starting out it might be half that, but you get raises as you advance in the trade and if it's a union trade you usually also get good yearly raises. So some trades will advance your pay every 6-12 months as you step up through the apprenticeship. So you move up quickly and you're getting paid for nearly all your training (minus some studying you do in your personal hours).

If you're willing to work overtime, plenty is available. As others have said, there's a large demand for people in the trades.

Check local union halls. Many of them will even help you with job shadowing people in the different trades so you can check the jobs out beforehand.

Following their logic we should just starve to death because chemicals and compounds...aka everything we eat, drink, and breathe.