Slow down there, cowboy.

VAT was so high because everyone and their mother would be cheating their income taxes. He bumped it 2%, I believe, for whatever the heck reason (insatiability?), so we’re pretty much world leaders in that regard.

Where are you from? In Hungary people are just realizing they have a semblance of power with their vote. We were conditioned during the communist era to keep our heads ducked and make due for ourselves. This is changing, we’ll see on the 12th how quickly.

I hope I was able to answer some of your questions.

Great, now I have Weezer playing my head :/

It really is a slow burn, especially compared to modern movie pacing.

I watched it when it came out and found it gorgeous. Maybe a bit heavy on the message, but the world-building doesn’t try to punch above its weight. It really felt like a not-so-far future.

Took me around 500 hours to beat level 20 in StS1. Such a great character.

I wasn’t patient this time around, so it’s Slay the Spire 2, early access.

It runs really well on my two core third gen ryzen laptop, and I will gladly recommend it to anyone who likes deckbuilders.

Sorry, not really. I could only point you towards my wayward comment mentioning Weber and Dürkheim.

Sociology really wouldn’t be a bad place to start, you can see how the words are derived from the same base. I don’t know any modern thinkers, I flunked out pretty early from that uni.

If you try the inward out method (by observing social transactions, peer pressures), you would still be well off to pick up some literature, so you can get some framing for it.

Me and my reading comorehension. Good luck!

Sorry if came through as judgy in my first comment. What territory of sociology interests you? Why do you want to learn more on the topic?

In the school where I was taught, one of the major directions was statistics. Harm reduction and drug policy also go under the umbrella. I really enjoyed the idea of mental maps, but that might’ve been the cultural anthropology class (which kinda bleeds over into the subject).

Easy way? What do you mean by that? Sociology doesn’t even have a basic axiom, it’s such an elusive thing.

Either be attentive and critical to the social constructs that surround you (if possible, it’s really hard to just observe, because many things we thing are natural, like inhereting your father’s name, not your mother’s), or start reading Max Weber, Karl Marx & Emile Dürkheim’s writings to get started.

It’s not a rule in Hungary, I thought it wasn’t an issue in Europe. But I guess the nett Germans would bring such a law.

I’ve only seen it in the states that cars need to park in the direction of the lane.

No, not really. It’s mostly a numbers game.

My sister was a vote counting volunteer in '22 and she told me that there were drunk people asking her to remind them who they need to vote for. Illiterate people asking which on is Fidesz. Nasty, nasty stuff.

It’s still not outright Belorussia or Russia… I don’t think Fidesz can bag the supermajority this time around with their usual tricks, but even so, the situation looks grim.

No, the law they write let’s them get away with worse stuff. Like using tax money to campaign.

They also do full illegal shit, like extorting the lowest class to vote for them, otherwise they lose their government subsidized jobs (like cleaning the streets). I’ve heard of instances, where they even give money in exchange for the vote.

I was against banning the communities, but the second link doesn’t feel like it deserved to be banned. Many examples brought up in the vote were comments that were looking for a fight, using aggressive language.

It’s also pretty telling that the vote was about banning access to communities, and after it finished, they banned the whole instance. I guess it is important to the community (or the folks that are paying to support the instance), that everyone is on the same page on this issue.