Well, to be fair, I died about a year ago (literally) and me staying dead would also pretty much have meant leaving the current home. So while in Europe the immediate medical bills do not ruin you a family loss still might, since you’re missing the (part of) income.

(there’s a circular relationship between living location/costs and possible job)

Censoring social media?

Sounds like another benefit!

Even if I weren’t wfh nobody cares about some boobs in barvaria.

Okay, why is it NSFW… Ohh I see.

Or no I still don’t. You must be from those uptight overseas people 😏.

Just to give you a little something:

My glasses cost around 500€ to 700€ per glass (so around 1200€ plus frame) and I have to pay them myself.

Fair point, but if you need to switch anyway you might want to pick an available option that solves at least the issue being currently faced.

The again, we’ve moved back a lot to throw away mentality.

Yes, you need to run the service somewhere. But anyone can do so (Foss).

With discord my experience is limited but I currently understand it’s a service model so you’re dependant on a company, which can pull the same sh*t teamspeak did at any time.

Not needing any technical knowledge just means someone else is running it, possibly being able to lock you in. And in the case of discord, you already are locked in and have to accept whatever they think up.

At some point, monetization will take over.

It seems many don’t remember why there was a ts2 mass extinction. It was because of the horrendous ts3 licensing.

Why the masses went to yet another closed system like discord I’ll never understand while being very satisfied with mumble/murmur.

It seems your /s was not sufficient. Sigh.

Yes indeed. Upon seeing this thread I thought I need to add the information you added, but going from dick to thick does absolutely not improve the situation.

I would say a lot of people in Germany are feeling left out/alone with their problems.

It’s been like this for at least 10, if not 20 or more years.

Most stuff is lobby and economy driven and we’re getting nowhere.

In came the afd offering easy solutions and appealing to the public (never mind their program stating completely otherwise) so I guess it gave people the feeling of someone doing something and caring for them.

And if not, pissing off the rest of the politicians.

At least the latter is working.

I do not support or condone this behaviour but it is not that hard to read.

And instead of approaching the real current issues (inflation, money issues, buerocracy, environment) directly most parties even try to move further right, to get the afd voters back, which is the worst they could do.