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Europeans of Lemmy, what places in Europe should foreigners avoid at all cost?
  • Indeed. My girlfriend lives there, last time I was over we went to the big demonstration against mass tourism. I felt a bit sick at the airport listening to all the north European pensioners talking about how they rent a place year round for 800€/month just to spend the odd week now and then there. While many locals working in tourism make minimum wage, around 1300€/month I believe.

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  • The military doesn't attract the brightest minds.

    Reminds me of a joke that did the rounds shortly after Finland joined Nato.

    Finnish general: "You know, it's difficult, we have mandatory military service, but around 15% are unfit for service"

    Other Nato generals: "That 15% is where we have to recruit from"

  • ‘If you don’t have money to go to Europe by boat, you try to get there by starting a relationship with a tourist’: Sex tourism plagues Gambia
  • Reminds me of quite a dark joke that made the rounds in Finland some years ago, when a grooming ring run by recently arrived immigrants was discovered in Oulu.

    "A sex holiday for the whole family: Dad goes to Thailand, mom goes to Gambia, and the kids go to Oulu"

  • To those with 2+ monitors on your machine: What's your use case, and how much does it actually boost your productivity?
  • Two screens and a laptop screen, could find use for more. I find myself shuffling things around depending on what I need, but most commonly I have the left screen split between notepad++ on one side for any notes keeping, and either documentation I'm reading, documentation I'm writing, a browser I'm using, or something such. Whenever I need to compare text files, notepad++ gets to take the whole screen.

    On the middle screen I usually have the remote desktop or VM I'm working on at the time.

    Right (laptop screen) is usually reserved for Outlook and Teams.

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  • Live in a country where tipping is practically unheard of. Lately pay terminals have started appearing in restaurants that have asking for tip enabled by default, and restaurants often don't know how to disable it.

    Well, at least there are some safeguards. I was handed the terminal so I put in my PIN code, not realising it was actually asking for a tip. I was pretty confused when it said "value too high" or something like that.

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