This is one of those times that I wish my mom was around to ask if she ate this back home in the Caribbean. Just like discovering that she ate weisswurst back home too.

I would be hungry after thirty minutes!

It became a bit of a badge of honor for some people, and a filtering mechanism for those looking for other like minded people.

I was a COVID nutter, but never quite bragged about my vaccinations. I just got the bloody things and encouraged others in the hopes that we could eradicate the virus. OTOH, there were times I was viscerally upset at others online for not being willing to double down and do everything possible to fight the virus, and I've always said it's hard to let go because as the Occident, we're supposed to be in control and on top of viruses.

Wow, head cheese.

That's a bit outside of my comfort zone.

What's under the pickle and red onions?

*Then it's more like buying deck furniture or a cruise vacation with a credit card.*

Which is coincidentally what lots of average people (in America) do every day...

*Most of us are never going to go to those colleges, so why should we care?*

In a cold sense, I want as many of us in the elite as possible on principle, and if I had kids, I would want them to have that chance of making it into those elite classes.

I see somebody has discovered a new social media that earns supplemental income. :-)

I'm in a weird boat as my older brother and nearly most of my older cousins in my branch of the family are all Gen Xers, so Gen Xers have always been in my life. Even at work, the Gen Xers are taking over as the Boomers *finally* retire and release their grip on the good assignments...

Because like other consumer purchases, I derive some emotional and practical benefits from purchasing the car. If buy $30k of photography equipment and travel expenses to go ride trains, it’s not investment, but fundamentally it’s not that different from buying a car at a similar price except there’s even less utility.

The German is strong with this one. :-)

In contrast, I view it as a consumption purchase that while expensive isn't that different from most other consumer purchases. You might as well just buy something nice, comfortable, and enjoyable. YOLO.

I suspect your average American family would flipout at being told that a Golf Variant was a family car. That's a nerdy college grad's car here.

OTOH, even the salaries I hear from DB screams underpaid given that you'd earn nearly twice as much doing the same work in DC or NYC.

Can't tell if this means Americans overpay or if Germans are underpaid...

FWIW, 5 years has been relatively normal for the past decade or so in the States. OTOH, it's the new 7 to 9 year loans that are becoming far more common due to higher price points. A lot of people want $50K pickup trucks and crossovers, and they're kinda willing to overpay for them...

The problem is that as a country, we're generally wedded to single family housing, so upzoning huge chunks of existing working and middle class areas for apartments like Europe is basically illegal, so in some markets, this is the only option left for low income workers.

I suspect the people fleeing Twitter will see that as a positive. Twitter in the past few years became the weird social media space for the left leaning nerds, and Musk has destroyed that safe space where they could cast away the right leaning. Threads may become popular in spite of this because it makes for a safe space away from bad people with bad ideas.

I remember when I signed up for a non-AOL dial up service. Real interesting trying to explain the concept to my non-computer using parents about why this was better…

I get that in a low income or even medium income country. I’m less accepting of that if you’re a middle class adult in our age range.

Oh crap, you’re right.

We swapped AOL’s walled garden for multiple walled gardens from Meta, Google, Reddit, Twitter…

I was told everyone on Tinder is banging each other immediately upon meeting each other.

Real life feels so disappointing…