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Ok firstly, suspending someone for weed is insane because that’s not a performance enhancing drug, if anything it’s performance degrading.

Secondly ask yourself why are they catching someone for weed but don’t catch all the obvious steroid use that literally every professional athlete does? It’s because they’ve intentionally made it possible to cheat their system and get away with steroid use, and the trainers and officials are the ones helping the athletes.

Watch the doco Icarus, the first half before it goes off the rails is all about how doping is an open secret and all athletes in all countries do it and their trainers help them

Oh it’s absolutely done at a government level by the US as well, they’re just a bit more subtle about it than Russia and China

So you mean, the Olympics?

I dunno what you’re doing wrong but I bought an apartment in Germany a couple years ago and that wasn’t my experience at all. I saw plenty of nice places big enough for a family of three for 250-300k. We had a little bit more than 50k in savings and were able to buy something much bigger than we need with a large garden (we spent 440k), but could easily have gotten something big enough with 50k savings. We’re in a medium/large city but just not right in the middle, more towards the outskirts. Still only 15 mins bike ride to the centre though!

Yep that’s generally how housing prices work in Germany, since rent is heavily controlled and fixed interest rate loans are readily available, the value of a property adjusts depending on the current “cost” of a loan

Misleading post title: altered the original to remove the word “recent”

Hello pot, meet kettle

I do. It happened somewhere in my mid-late 30s. The two main contributing factors have been:

1. Years of therapy so that I’m able to have my shit together
2. Having a kid so I’ve got a reason to have my shit together

Order of those two is very important!

Pretty important detail missing from the headline:

However, if ending the war would include Russia returning the territories that it has occupied and annexed throughout the conflict, only a third (34 percent) of respondents said they would support that decision.

We’ve had guns for 200 years but not ones capable of mass shootings. Semiautomatics only became widely available more recently, and most countries have since banned them from casual use but not the USA

How is being a contractor relevant here? A normal employee could say exactly the same things

Ah the classic “I’m going to vote no to something good for me because I wanted something even better” argument 🤦‍♂️

If it was reasonably priced, I’d agree. But €20 is just insane, especially when the clients it competes with already have no ads for free