You can help strengthen an oat if you introduce a third party that punishes people who do not follow the oat. You see that with doctors, accountants and other protected jobs all across the globe.

That doesn’t sound like are actual parttime workers, but either freelancers or “small business owners” who get hired.

I dislike billionaires just like the next person, but this also exists in other countries where billionaires either don’t exist or don’t gave the impact.

Part of it is because people think it’s better (at least here in NL) because they earn more after taxes, but in the long term it’s more expensive and because it used to be better for businesses. Now we mainly see a lot of people who wish to work like that.

Sadly the country is basically bankrupt and has been for decades

Excuse me for my ignorance, i keep forgetting the US only acts like it’s a first world country to the outside world, but it is basically a shit hole in the mean time.

Most of these things I couldn’t know and we get a lot of news about the US here in NL.

Voting here takes like 10 minutes and there are multiple voting locations available. A town with 2k people will have 2 or 3 voting locations and you can also vote in other cities.

Edit: I was not talking about freelance work, but parttimes on contract, they get paid leave as well

You got paid leave right?

And even so why would you need to take a day of to vote? We have over a 100 people we can vote for here in NL and we often do it before or after work

didn’t understand what tariffs are and how they work

I really hope people to make into consideration than one point to make a vote.

Have been using it for a while on different systems including some pretty unstable test systems and I haven’t had any issues. It does have some issues with that you cannot trust the automatic import since AB might create extra transactions

You can setup your own if you wish, but a lot of these parties also have had an audit done on security and on privacy. That is not gonna matter if you live in the US, but that is a problem

I have had a lot of issues setting up Firefly III on different systems so I never got to get it working.

Eventueel I ended upfinding Actual Budget, while not perfect it works really well and I have been using it for more than a year now

Just because you can (pretty easily) self host it doesn’t mean that the privacy concerns aren’t valid.

I don’t support conservative parties? I am more politically right aligned, but also more progressive. Stop assuming shit about people

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Yeah you are right, but US politics doesn’t allow for nuances. People aren’t left or right or conservative or progressive. They will have bieves that suit a certain direction on the politic spectrum, but people can have opinions regarding different topics all across the eniter spectrum.

Yeah and especially when they created a system that doesn’t even allow you to really vote for somebody who you believe in.

The US is a timebomb which is going to explode.

The US was doomed from the start, it might have been better to let every state be it’s own country. We would probably see some wars with the more extreme places/states of the country.

And even if they have an official language what then?

Nothing really changes

In the US walking outside is generally terrible even in the suburbs.

Extremism is bad yes, but you are assuming that is everything I can vote for. Politics is a spectrum and I know the US doesn’t see it, but in the end I vote in a country where I can vote on over 100 people from like 40 different parties. Same for when I vote for the EU.

I believe that the lack of nuance is part of the problem why I think the US lacks in the compromise department. No there is no defence for extremism, but if you don’t have any good options to vote for then you choose for the one you think is the least bad.

The actions of a few shouldn’t punish the rest. Yeah extremism is bad and that is where Nazi’s and MAGA fall under (or Geert Wilders here in NL), but that doesn’t mean that every party that has a more conservative view on the world is inherently bad.

And that is where I stand, but there are rarely parties that are centered enough in the spectrum to follow my view on the world.

The moment they ask for a tip they are not getting anything nor a repeat customer.