Depends a lot on your personal situation, and jurisdiction.

• Doing a ceremony when you publicly say you love each other is already a valid reason

• In some jurisdiction, you’d get a form of tax benefit for being married, it often comes with downside like having welfare benefit based on the couple revenue rather than on individual ones (hence the tax benefit). Talk with an accountant/Tax-lawyer knowing your local laws for details

• It gives a legal status to your shared asset. Sure you could create a real-estate-investment company to buy your house and many people do that but being married, with a proper prenup give you a lot of agency regarding your shared asset

• It protects the weaker partner, usually the one scarifying their carrer for the couple if things goes wrong

• No need for a big ceremony, you can get a notary to prepare the pre-nup contract, and do a ceremony at the townhall with 2 witnesses and done.

TIL thanks,

I heard about wired torpedo but didn’t know it was also a thing for missiles

Reality is that there is a lot of difference between office jobs, mechanical designer, purchaser, corporate laws specialists, and let’s say project managers have very different jobs but still have office jobs.

Hour by hour? Read e-mail, browse lemmy, chat using teams (or slack), run to a meeting, then to another one, meet someone in the corridor and ask them a question about an ongoing project, realize that you need to review a report, open the file and get called, rfget a coffee, run to another meeting, conclude you won’t neither review the report X or nor start the report Y and call it a day.

This kind of idea is between genius and stupid.

It’s a cheap an easy solution to a lot of problem, and it sounds like the kind of proposal an intern would do

Many countries have law banning stupid name which aren’t a way to give abusive power to a civil servant but to protect kids from crazy parents, so your example doesn’t work

If you remove the Luxemburg, Andorra, and a couple of smaller countries, VAT rates are relatively consistent. Indeed, if you live within 20km from the border, it’s worth buying some stuff across the border, and for some trips to plan a fuel stop on the right side of the border.

But if you need to drive 100 km, you won’t recover the cost of the road if you don’t do some specific purchases.

Note also, that at least in theory, you’re not free to travel with unlimited cigarettes and alcohol (where tax rates difference can be crazy) so again, if you pass by Luxemburg or Andorra, you can’t legally speaking buy 100 packs of cigarettes, (but would still save 30 to 50 € on a 10 packs carton)

While it’s a great initative, French research has it’s own issues, while historically it was offering permanent position early but with low salary, nowadays, it’s short term position for a low salary, not sure how it will unfold for the selected applicant.

Male fashion sucks, but tank tops aren’t seen like acceptable for men (out of the gym)

That said, students are old enough to understand how to dress, so IMO the professor should have say nothpng

But soon enough you’ll discover that if you dare to wear a short at work your manager will ask whether you’re in Hollyday or even sends you home to dress properly

Interesting that there is a successor to KSP.

But, do I really want to spend another hundreds hours of life trying to recover a lost Kerbal on Duna?

Because many government left partics have converted to liberalism, and economic rigor with cut in government spending, and private corporations.

Which isn’t exactly a left wing platform.

former East Germans spoke a noticeably different dialect to West Germans

With my limited German knowledge, They are pretty liberal regarding local dialect. People do not speak the same language in Cologne, Stuttgart, or Munich, and at least as a foreign-speaker, it’s not because you understand the people in Stuttgart that you understand the one in Kȯln. Let alone Switzerland. So I am not surprised that German spoken in east-germany sounds different.

Actually, how does contested debts work with the US credit system ? People do genuine mistake which may be settled quickly sometimes even without needing to escalate far, but there is also bad faith companies/landlord which charge abusive fee, and would try to go to collections while your still contesting.

For legal questions you need to specify jurisdiction the answer may depend vastly. Typically, you may have a notice period to do when leaving and the lease would renew automatically if nobody denounce it.

But again detail would depend on your specif jurisdiction, if not done yet, join your local tenant union

Can we avoid using the reciprocal word where it’s mostly an uniltaeral decision from US ?

I bet that the only US jobs that will be created on the short term will be to re-inforce the purchasing department of US companies importing foreign group, and the US-logistic department of foreign companies exporting in the US. But in between, I see why many corporation will push the brake on any non urgent purchasing. (And Ironically, business school graduates aren’t a category massively impacted by unemployement nor fearing to be replaced by LLM)

I am going to grab some pop-corn, and may-be even a Lyra, if I have to watch the world burn, let at least enjoy-it

And glad to be in Europe, where we’ll just be hit by the turbulence rather than the main blast

Note shat while États-uniens is sometimes used in French, it’s not really used beside some left wing intellectual wanting to brag about America being the continent and sometimes sounds mildly anti American but not too much

While it’s indeed a better word than American, one can also argue that USA aren’t the only United States as a larger federation e.g United Mexican states so you can make the same argument about états uniens

Until you’re on the verge of dying it’s never too late.

People go (back) to university later, either to get an extra degree/qualification to advance their career or to finally find the job/qualification they want. Depending on your location, and CV you may not have to do some course, and be allowed to retake a year/test as often as you want (Because university understand that a 40 something adult, sometimes with kids, can only follow 1-2 class per semester).

At lest it’s work giving a couple of call to your university, they most likely have a person dedicated to adult student which can guide you through the process. Note also that depending on your country/status you may be eligible to some government help (usually through unemployment agencies)

Anyone has the right to criticise any government. Tons of Lemmy thread on !world@lemmy.world are basically foreigner giving negative (and sometimes positive) critics about government with sometimes locals giving contexts

If you can criticise dictatorship like Russia, North Korea you can also criticise democracies like US or France. Even better, in these countries, you can legally do it from national soil, while in dictatorship you’d get into trouble

At least in (most of) Europe, we do still have a large public part in healthcare/retirement and in general less stock investment culture so people won’t see their safety netand retirement money collapsing, sure loosing let’s say 10% of your saving sucks, and may even impact your ability to buy a new home (unless interest-rate fall faster in that case you may even be able to buy a nicer home)

We’re also kinda lucky, The US adding tariff means that we’ll export less to the US, but we can still export to the rest of the world at the same conditions as before. Note also that the remaining manufacturing in Europe is mostly complex product with high added value Planes, industrial robots, or Champagne’s wine are already very expensive so I expect that many of the American who can afford these will still be able to afford-it with the tarifs. I am not Naïve, export to the US will dip, but I see some factors that should limit the dip.

Don’t get me wrong, some European companies will loose US contract, and will at best launch mass lay-off plans or even bankrupt, and people will be unemployed (see point above about public safety net it makes the difference between selling your car, not going in holiday and shopping at Lidl and ending up homeless). But I am kinda optimistic, the impact for real people will be under control. I am old enough to remember 2008, and it wasn’t that bad.

*Which market ? *

Most people don’t have much money on the stock market, and many of the one who do understand it comes with risks, and look at long-term trends rather than week to week fluctuation.

Sure it dropped a lot over one week, and some Bubble are finally collapsing (Seriously who the hell believe Tesla is worth so much ?). However, a part of the drop is coming back to the level it was 1-2 years ago (After the big dip of last week Eurostock 50 is back 3% under it’s level one year ago, so most of the dip is just cancelling the 10-15% raise over last year)

Moreover, while people rich enough to have large saving on the stock market won’t see their life change if they loose 5000 EUR due to politics it’s not money they need right now to pay a bill or go to holiday, it’s money they don’t need on the short term, it may have an imapct the day they want to buy a larger house/apartment or buy-back their mortgage, but that’it