I guess I’m eating nothing but garbage every day.

I’m definitely not paying those prices.

Also workouts that leave you sore just when you need your strength. e.g. an extremely exhausting workout the day before you’re moving.

When’s the last time a “billion-dollar startup” was a net positive for society? All I see is grifters and privacy-invading, planet-polluting tech that furthers authoritarian government policy.

Do you have either Aldi or Lidl within easy walking distance to your home/school/workplace? If so, just go to that one.

I did write that they came as slaves, but that’s not the necessary part. I’m starting to think that you just really want me to be racist, facts be damned.

Brits didn’t need to immigrate to the US in order to learn about American rock music.

Yeah, because american rock music already existed, and USA and UK have a long shared history. Inventing rock music without close personal proximity is much less likely, and inventing a style is one thing but popularizing it is quite another. It wouldn’t have gotten as popular in the USA and Europe if all the early blues and jazz musicians were in Africa.

How can you get spaghetti wrong?

Don’t they carry regular pasta (spaghetti etc.)?

But the claim that you have to whip people and chain them up to synthesize European folk melodies with African base rhythms seems at once absurd and sadistic.

Cool, I never made that claim. They probably needed to immigrate to a western country to invent it and popularize it, that they went there as slaves is a different matter.

There’s little chance that immigration wouldn’t have been involved somehow in your scenario(s). But true, maybe we could have gotten blues and jazz from a thriving, industrialized Congo, Nigeria etc.

Hell, maybe it would have come from middle class American Natives in the Mississippi Delta. Or Chinese rice farmers in a country not ravaged by opium. Or Iranians not ground under by the Shah’s dictatorship. Or Austro-Hungarians who weren’t cannibalized to fight the Napoleonic Wars or the 30 Years War that caused the Caucasian Exodus across the Atlantic.

They might have invented interesting musical genres that merge mainstream european music with their own more rhythm-focused music styles, but I really doubt any of them would have invented something that closely resembles early black music. Maybe one of them could have invented techno, but blues, jazz, soul, and blues-derived rock music as we know it? Very improbable. Music genres don’t spawn out of thin air.

Stiftung Warentest (at test.de) does a great job comparing products and pointing out faults. Probably not that useful if you don’t speak German, though, if the products they’re testing are even available in your country …

The world would be a lot poorer without the music genres that spawned from the USA and UK, too. And most of those were only possible because people from Africa were (forcefully) brought to the USA.

Neither is cheap enough to justify not going to an EDEKA or REWE if those are in reasonable walking distance. Usually, the cheap store brands of EDEKA, REWE are just as cheap as the equivalent products at Aldi and Lidl (in Germany, at least). And even if you use a car for shopping, EDEKA and REWE have a much bigger selection.

Even then, they’re generally still cheaper than products made in the e.g. the US or Germany. There’s a reason why German companies have so many auto/auto parts factories in lower-wage EU countries, and even for models that are “made in Germany” often a considerable amount of the parts are manufactured outside of Germany.

Also, don’t confuse chinese brands with products made in china. Most consumer electronics are made in the far east, even if the brand is from the US.

Zurecht! Habe allerdings Zweifel, ob sie aus meiner Situation die richtigen Lehren ziehen würde anstatt nur irgendwelche Vorurteile zu reproduzieren.

Leute, lasst eure Kinder auf Autismus, ADHD usw. testen bevor sie erwachsen sind (und wenn der Test positiv ausfällt, informiert euch bei Ärzten und Betroffenengruppen, nicht bei Facebook-Schwurblern), behaltet ihre psychische Gesundheit im Blick und wenn es um euch selbst geht, geht zum Arzt bevor alles den Bach runter ist. Oder versucht es zumindest - je nachdem was man hat und wer man ist (z.B. ist Geschlechtergerechtigkeit auch bei der ärztlichen Diagnostik ein Problem) zeigt einem das deutsche Gesundheitssystem eh oft nur den Mittelfinger.

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Familien und Haushalte zu vergleichen ist aber ziemlich Äpfel und Birnen.

Yeah. There’s video game companies that literally make games that are used for military training (sometimes purpose-made, sometimes just as a sideeffect of making the game they want to make), and Nintendo is definitely not that company.

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“Polizisten essen kostenlos”, ist das überhaupt legal?