This is one of the big differences for me coming from germany to the US to visit.

Back home I can happily approach a police officer at night while drunk asking for directions and expecting general help and friendliness. It feels safe when they are around.

In the US and I am in the presence of a police officer I feel threatened and unsafe, even though I am a law abiding citizen.

In my personal experience it can be quite futile in general to deal with customer support.

My goto solution is to contact the public relations people instead with the same issue and it usually gets resolved very quickly...

I'm a simple man. I open an article link. I see a signup popup. I close tab.

For leisure travel the US is just not a viable destination any more. There's plenty of other beautiful places in the world. Why deal with all this political insanity...

I would argue quite the opposite.

.NET has the most comprehensive set of high quality paid libraries i have worked with so far. Yes they can be expensive, but you get long term support and professional documentation. For a commercial product this is worth a lot.

I think it is really sad that affordable furniture has gone down in quality so much. Now I walk into most homes and its full of pressed woodchips in furniture form. When I visit my grandparents old house (who are not rich) I see custom made solid wood pieces with carvings all over everywhere. This is unaffordable for me nowadays. What happened?

Rant: Now they just need to get their shit together and get VS2017 to perform at least as well as 2015 again for large codebases or i'm sticking with Rider...

Visual Studio Code team and Visual Studio team are completely separate, AFAIK.

I never get these pieces...

I own a couple of different computing devices and they are just tools. Some fit a certain job better then others. Why limit yourself?

As a german i find the economic reasons of "why should we pay for the poor people" highly ironic...

That's what we all founded europe for... stronger together!

No the treaties that led to the EU were to prevent Germany and France having huge destructive wars every 20-50 years - something it has done very well so far.

EU was formed for opening up the market in a way that the economic benefit will be more for richer countries. In return, there are many benefits for other countries, but lifting up poor country was not that much of an aim.

you don't find it so ironic when southern europe buys bmws :)

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