

The eEU is supposed to be one, itself. And even if it fails Wero and MBWay are growing, which are direct money transfer systems.
European guy, weird by default.
You dislike what I say, great. Makes the world a more interesting of a place. But try to disagree with me beyond a downvote. Argue your point. Let’s see if we can reach a consensus between our positions.
The eEU is supposed to be one, itself. And even if it fails Wero and MBWay are growing, which are direct money transfer systems.
The Nederlands, Germany, Spain, if I’m not wrong, France and Italy have prostitution as legal. My own country abstains from legislating on it, instead opting to criminalizing procuring and the facilitation of prostitution, as well as human traffic for such end.
Europe has a well established culture of sex work, with a good number of organizations lobbying - openly, through open public debate - in the way of making sex workers being recognized as any other worker and increasing their social relevance and recognition.
If you inform yourself a bit, in my country, you can legally establish yourself as an escort, under a very specific tax code, and pay taxes according to the money you make and have tax deductions and social benefits.
Currently, we already have a direct payment and transfer system, called MBWay, that through your phone number, allows for transfering, paying and collecting money, from one account to another.
No fintech, no middle agents, no shit: direct transfers from one account to another.
The Digital Euro takes this a step further. And even if the eEuro never takes place, this system is to be widened to all EU and abroad, to run against AliPay, Visa, MasterCard and others.
Bankers want money.
American bankers should spit out the “holy” book they have stuck up their arses.
Mythbusters would be proud.
It has its moments.
I would use it to test how much destruction it could unleash. Maybe bury it in a pile of sand or in ground. Set a long line to. Start it. Overpressure it. Wait.
But completely agree. It is unsafe. Do not use it.
Let the Digital Euro become a thing. It will wreck havoc on the current payment ecosystem.
And the Digital Euro is not a crypto. It will be a digital currency, backed by the ECB, at a one to one exchange rate with standard euro currency.
When I was 14, “Zombie”, by the Cranberries, was the music of the year.
I still go back occasionally but there’s a lot more to listen. And I’ve discovered other genres since then.
So, if good sense fails me not: japanese goods imported into the US will have a 15% markup at border…
Right.
What makes me morbidly curious is what Japan waved in return of that “agreement”.
I’d more quickly turn my back on them and let them levy whatever tariffs on my nation’s goods they see fit and enter “negotiations”. Yes, it would be painful in the short term for my country but it would be worth it.
Great. Fuck’em. It is the most stupid “industry” we, as a species, devised. Although I’m not that much of a fan of synthetic fibers, it’s better than sustaining this barbaric practice.
Tone it down, “bud”.
If it wasn’t clear from the start, pick ups are light vehicles in my country, which was my starting point.
The longest vehicle, under 3500kg, thus retaining the light category and still built around a load bearing chassis is the van I showed. Emphasis on “van”.
You showed a freight truck, which is a heavy cargo vehicle, not a touring one, like that monstrosity appears to have been built to pass as.
Something like that, here, considering its sheer size alone, would be classified as a heavy vehicle and thus pushed into the same group has freight trucks, but it would still be commercially and coloquially designated has a pick up. Insurance wise, I don’t have the slightest idea how it happens but it would have to be insured in order to able to use public roads. Probably it would boild down to a matter of numbers to be paid. What would surely face, would be serious constraints and impediments to freely circulate, again, from its sheer stupid size and lenght.
F150s are being pushed into the market recently but the pick ups are too large for many roads, with disastrous results. That aberration would easily get stuck here.
Tallow fried potatoes? Heart attack venue.
As a light vehicle, under 3500kg, that is the best I can do here. If there are light vehicles as long as that pick up roaming in my country’s roads, I am yet to see them.
What you linked is already in the heavy cargo category, as in a cargo or freight truck.
We are weird with our distinctions here.
Not that long. The closest thing to this would be a super long cargo van with extended crew cab.
I have a vague idea there is a limit to the dimensions of a vehicle before it is classified into another category but I will not insist on it.
You didn’t notice that monstrosity has three rows of doors? It’s probably a 2+3+3 or 2+2+2. So, at least, six passengers.
But I agree. It would most probably fall under C category here, making it a commercial vehicle.
It seems to be too long. I doubt it would be road legal here. And if it was, by some absurd event, it would probably fall under C category, which is for heavy load vehicles. It would not be something someone would park in a supermarket parking lot.
Because they can.
I can’t read a single word of german but I’m glad to randomly stumble on a german post.
Makes the fediverse more pluralist.
Stories carry ideas and ideas is what moves humans.
We are not satisfied with what is. As a species, our survival at some point depended on changing the world around us, not just enduring it.
Be it an uplifting story or a cautionary tale, the ideas inside carry meaning and individuals will build a part of their worldview around it.
So, essentially, the guys visited an escort and got the rug pulled under their feet.
Could be worse. A lot, lot, worse.
Celibacy makes no sense.
My own country too.
Now allow me too share a conviniently forgotten fact about most far right governments of the last century: they all were very at ease with having sex workers.
My own very catholic and repressive country had a very detailed law on prostitutes, which mandatory registration, regular medical exams and visits, etc. It’s a good way too pacify populations.
The current hunt on independent adult themed art/entertainment/etc is more about good old fashioned religious zealotry than anything else. Pornography gets some flak but it’s a lot harder to successfully target.
This isabout forcing people into conventional set roles and definitions and closing minds and shutting down free independent thinking. And stopping people from being or becoming humane.