#eu vs us

[mapsontheweb]

Passenger trains in US vs Europe (image is making the rounds among U.S. transit advocates today)

#maps #rail network #eu vs us

[arcadebroke]

#Tekken 7 #Combo Breaker 2022 #Combo Breaker #EU vs US #fighting game #gaming #video games #video

[slicedblackolives]

Valid point re eurovision being mid, let's all boycott, but blocked for the us-centrism. By god, you guys are just so blind at the ramifications of the harmfulness of your propaganda-fed god complex. Everything is about the US, everything is born in the us, the us is the only standard and the only measure. Surely this mindsets doesn't fuel anything bad. Anyways, have a good day.

I can’t believe that I, an Indian who lives in India, am being accused of being a US centric yank because of pointing out that most Eurovision competitors who sing in fake american accents and use the aesthetics of american singers and use songs written for american singers are in fact imitating American singers.

#THIS IS SO FUNNY #asks #anonymous #I’m an Indian and I hate us centrism but this is not. centrigade vs Celsius. #this is EU folks singing in midwestern twangs #*Fahrenheit vs Celsius

[designsdefiance]

lays on the floor. i really wish i was one of those people who could play Just Anything on their characters and not worry about it being canon or making sense because it would make my life so much fuckin easier

#my desire to play loren's canon class for msq #vs my desire to play the class that feels Good and Fun to play on na without noclippy #fight to the death #like..... #drk is so key to who loren is. i really don't want to change that. #he's literally built around being a drk if i take drk away from him i don't have a character. #and i'm happy with where he's at *as* a character. especially now i've been replaying msq on him and thinking a lil more about him #but drk.... is not fun to me without noclippy. #and blm IS. #because i'm used to raiding on drk not being able to double weave feels like shit. it feels clunky and bad and unfun. #blm literally feels no different. bc it has so little weaving. #but idk if switching his class for dawntrail ruins his character. #and trying to brute force 'class i enjoy playing' is what spoiled corvus for me so much. #idk it sucks. #i just want to be happy with my main. #i don't have this problem with literally any of my other characters its JUST him #but like obviously i want to play him for my first play through dt!!!!! he's my lil guy!!!! #and my only other character through ew is m'seyli who is on the eu servers lol #and i wanna play with my fwends #idk im sure i'll figure it out or like get over it #i just needed to bitch in the tags of a tumblr post instead of feeling like im bothering my friends

[queenlucythevaliant]

Love the vibe in the Star Wars EU novels where Threepio is like Leia's extremely nervous poodle and Han is the dad who begrudgingly puts up with him for his wife's sake. Very true to life.

#eu han's defining trait is DadTM and it rules #like I'm rereading dark force rising (for the first time in like ten years!) and there's a whole part where han is like #'day one of the trip i tried to be nice to threepio bc leia wants us to get along. day 2 i avoided him. #day 3 i seriously considered scrapping him for parts and only my love for leia held me back' #exact same energy as my dad vs the dog #pontifications and creations #a star wars fan like my father before me

[thegirlwholied]

retcons. they're a writing tool. they're not fundamentally a bad tool. though I greet them more often with an "ugh, retcon" than a "nice, retcon"-

and that's often because they're overwrites. sometimes carelessly so, the 'didn't pay enough attention to what came before'/'guess I changed it' route. And sometimes retcons are the 'that's not the story I want to tell now or I can do better than that' route.

Andor is doing the second type of retcon, and interestingly so, because there wasn't a whole lot there to retcon *and yet* they are managing to do that.

When Rogue One came out, Disney dropped a bunch of expanded universe material. The NEW expanded universe, because they'd already ditched the old one, to avoid conflicts; this new one could be consistent (ha, ha, ha).

In those 2016 detail books we got the facts on Cassian Andor's backstory: from the planet Fest (clearly carefully chosen for its old EU history), father killed during a protest against militarization on Imperial Academy planet Carida (another world with EU history), involved with a Separatist cell from age 6 on...

Anddd anyone who'd read those extended materials knew Andor the show was ditching that backstory within seconds of him dropping the name 'Kenari' in context that was immediately clear it was his home planet. I appreciated at least getting a nod to the backstory we had since 2016 with dropping that his 'cover story' planet was Fest. They definitely were aware and chose not to go that route. And that's OK! they have a story they want to tell, they're digging into some interesting themes and meanings and...

Well. Either way it's a retcon. A minor one that 97% of the audience will never notice or care about. And yes they're still keeping to the spirit of that key line in Rogue One-

"I've been in this fight since I was six years old"

- clearly the mining disaster on Kenari presumably happened when Cassian was six years old. So his childhood was ruined by the Empire then and he's been resisting them ever since, it's not that it renders it untrue it's just-

it's just that he's pulling a moral high ground with that line over Jyn whose life was also ruined by the Empire at eight years old and was raised as a child soldier by Saw Gerrera, a character whose very name is designed to evoke guerilla warfare...?

I mean a Cassian who's already been in prison and is scrapping by and sticking it to the Imperials all he can, drawing those character parallels between them even closer then are we, but the whole crux of that (excellently written & filmed I'm still not over it) argument hinges on Cassian's relationship with/committment to the Rebellion above all else. The show's retcon has just... shortened that relationship. By quite quite a bit.

And there is now some unintentional irony, from this retcon, if Jyn was actually (via Saw's cell) part of the Rebellion longer than Cassian.

...it's fine, it's fine, tbh watch them retcon Jyn's backstory soon enough, it's a very minor retcon and maybe future episodes will reveal Cassian has been doing more actual rebelling than it seems and... nonetheless. Ugh retcon.

#andor #andor spoilers #cassian andor #rogue one #does no one else think kenari sounds a little too much like kenobi #I'm not saying fest is a great name but goddammit it was a planet that existed #i really don't understand why so many of the Disney movies/shows (except Mandalorian to a degree but even Rogue One my beloved did this) #refuse to use and build on old EU planet names #there's a frigging galaxy map #there's decades of source material #and every fan fic writer out there seems capable of doing research and crafting creatively off those details #yet it's mostly just been new planet after new planet #i do like that they name dropped Wobani in Andor #I'm not saying i dislike the show! #the choice to retcon feels a bit dismissive of the work of the writers who put together all those Rogue One books and those who bought? #it's by no means exclusive to this show this kind of thing happens all the time #my writing philosophy is just more 'work with what you have' vs 'this is a round peg and i want a square hole so let's make it a square' #that sounds harsher than i mean it to- sometimes the square hole is the better hole! #but just #ugh retcon

[oldtvandcomics]

Just as long as we post educational things about the Public Domain: Bound by Law?:Tales from the Public Domain is a comic written with the explicit purpose to explain what exactly it is. It's a really nice introduction, though US-centric, if I remember correctly.

#it has been a while #Public Domain #Public Domain Day #I'm still confused about details to be honest #EU vs US copyright for one #but you can always look up specific works you need information on #this comic gives you a basic idea about what you are working with #comic books

[pomellon]

#I have no idea what digimon is but this is fascinating!

The way this tag made me wanna cry and info dump at the same time ; u ;

#pom talks #i get it tho #digimon def peaked late 90s early 00s but has become so much more niched now #people used to argue about pokemon vs digimon all the time #And now the US and EU digimon fanbase have to fight just to get the new games and shows translated and dubbed ; u ; #I will personally always favor digimon over pokemon just slightly #the concept just resonated with me more as a kid

[phantom-of-the-memes]

Let me just say shut the fuck up to my fellow Europeans saying shit about the US and how they expect it cause “welp it’s America”. This is a horrific fucking tragedy. How dare you make light of this. And we’re not better than them!!

First of all, there are European countries with just as horrific anti abortion laws and policies in place. The war on abortion is very much alive in Europe.

Secondly, when a change like this happens in a country as powerful and influential as the US, the pro-birth rats across the world are going to scurry at the chance to ride this wave. Our countries could be next, be careful and be vigilant.

#of course not to take away from the struggles of the us but just to say we aren’t necessarily safe from this either #roe vs. wade #America #ireland #irish #Europe #European #the eu #pro choice #abortion #roe v wade #feminism

[anarchotolkienist]

I am glad that the American habit of thought-terminating clichés is alive and well and can be applied to literally everything

#saw a group male a simple visual comparison of parking space for an arena in US vs EU #to be met by a hail of americans going #'wwll you can't compare cultures' #'america is so big you need cars' #'land is so cheap here in comparison to europe'

[mapsontheweb]

Is religion very important in your life?

#maps #eu vs us #religiosity

[arcadebroke]

#Tekken 7 #Combo Breaker 2022 #Combo Breaker #fighting games #gaming #video games #video #EU vs US #lol

[ladychlo]

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#@canada anon #please HDHSHSHH no but I really get you #you end up just enjoying it #I'm glad you had a great time #I with silly guilt enjoy when the EU vs US who's favorite fight #its extremely funny to me bc I can't relate but I can't take it seriously too 😭😭😭

[digitalguap]

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#brics #brics vs g7 #china dumping dollars #china dumping us treasuries #de-dollarization #dollar #economic news #EU energy crisis #EU Russia #germany deindustrialization #global economy #gold #inflation crisis #investing news #macroeconomics #recession #recession 2024 #russian economy #russian oil #sanctions on russia #sean foo #us dollar #US economy #US Russia #usd #world reserve currency

[head-post]

Germany’s decline is a warning sign for Europe and Ukraine

Germany is experiencing a recession in almost all spheres, this may negatively affect both Europe and Ukraine, according to The Washington Post.

The thought of trains being late in Germany seems as strange as all the good food suddenly disappearing in France and the peat bogs drying up in Ireland. However, Germany’s national rail company Deutsche Bahn (DB) has become so unreliable that Switzerland has become seriously concerned about ending its cooperation with its German neighbours to avoid delays on its own trains, which are renowned for their punctuality. DB has recently been paying record compensation to customers who have to postpone or cancel trips altogether.

DB’s disruption after weak investment is a sign of wider problems that are undermining Germany’s already shaky economic outlook, deepening its political crisis, eroding its credibility and raising doubts about whether Europe’s largest country can stand up to a moment of crisis.

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#world news #world politics #news #europe #european news #european union #eu politics #eu news #germany news #germany #ukraine conflict #russia vs ukraine #ukraine war #ukraine news #ukraine #ukraine aid #us news #us politics #usa news #usa politics

[isaacsapphire]

The problem you keep on pointing to seems to be caused much more by bureaucratic incompetence than by EU labor laws; if anything US labor laws incentivize quite a lot of time wasting and protecting missing stairs in their own right, especially at the highest levels of corporate power where people get paid millions while doing no work. In fact, you could argue that US labor laws are precisely why so many companies are hanging on a cliff in the first place.

In my observation, many companies, rather like many individuals, are hanging by a thread because they are managed by idiots who like to indulge in stupid real estate decisions, throwing expensive parties a lot, and subsidizing sexual partners.

I'm not arguing at this point if the US or Europe has more bureaucratic incompetence, but it seems like if you are making an argument that one has such a higher level of incompetence it's noticable on a national budget level, that requires a bit of evidence to back it up.

US labor protections don't magically get more robust for salared workers, the workers at that level demand contracts that grant them more rights. It's a market thing. In Europe, laid off office workers get gardening leave. In the US, they often get a few months pay anyways because of their contracts.

This means absolutely fuck all for hourly workers in the US, who are often informed they've been fired on the day of their termination, or discover they're laid off when they find the doors locked. If they're lucky, they'll get their unused vacation days cashed out.

#oh geeze i can tag asks now #it's the economy stupid #us vs eu #labor law #class in the us #class in the eu #vacation time