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Oh I've only ever really tried one or two American beers, the local lager that everyone said was good (Yuengling?) sucked ass lol. So I had to drink some IPA that wasn't much better. If I'm talking about beers, I'm talking about European beers personally

Normally I drink mass-produced local (Estonian) lagers, or the original czech pilsner that modern light beers trace their heritage to. All great cold, or OK warm. The American beer wasn't even OK cold lol

I'm aware that cold drinks mask some parts of flavor, but I'd say it's not that light beers are bad beers, but rather that they're made with being consumed cold in mind - much like ice creams are made with being consumed cold in mind.

It's summer. It's warm. I don't want a warm beer. I want cold beer. So I choose the one that tastes best cold, rather than the one that tastes best warm (which I'd rather consume when it's not scorching hot)

PS: Speaking of warm beer, ice cream, and dark beers: Stouts and porters pair well with ice cream. I know, it sounds funny. But it's true.

Oh wow, I was like "interesting, haven't seen these" seeing the three emojis and stuff on yours

However

To test the theory, I (a car nut) went to one of the biggest automotive YouTubers, Mat Armstrong, who's currently rebuilding his dad's dream car and released the last video 2 days ago.

Two comments, different profile, same profile pic that, zoomed out enough, looks like a vagina. Go on the profile and they both look like this:

NSFW WARNING

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Rest assured, there was no bikini bottom, I just cropped that out

Honestly? We can't eventually afford to pay for everyone's retirement.

American system with the 401Ks and stuff is looking better by the day, as there you're supposed to earn your pension and it keeps earning interest while you're still working. It's still not an ideal system, but if you take that, increase the tax benefits, and in addition to employer matching, add government matching...

Of course what good is money when there's nobody to work and actually produce things... But at least it would take most of the burden off young people.

Right now, 12% of what I earn goes to the pension system to fund current retirees. This is going by the full salary fund not gross income, because in Estonia, gross income isn't actually gross income (there are employer side taxes so us employees don't think about how much our income is really taxed). The funniest thing of course is that "social tax" only comes out of salaries, never dividends. So while they'll say companies are paying it, it's directly based on what the company's paying it's employees. In all honesty, it's the employees paying it via reduced gross salaries.

So 12% isn't much, but consider that in 1994 the retirement age was 60 for men and 55 for women. In 1998 it was decided that by 2016 it would be 63 for both. In 2009 they decided it'd be 65 by 2026. Starting 2027 it'll rise as life expectancy rises. National pension prediction calculator says my estimated retirement age is 69. In all reality, I don't expect to ever be able to retire, not on national pension anyway. There won't be enough young people to pay for my retirement. But I have to keep paying for the current old people, who got to retire at 63, some of them even younger. Amazing system.

Oh yeah, I was gonna mention that, didn't want to seem like I'm actually advocating for anything though. Unfortunate as it is, I may still have to do business travel to the US at some point and while I'm white enough to hopefully be safe, I wouldn't want them to think I'm planning on taking any action on my political opinions.

ITT: A bunch of people who think getting Trump elected was the right thing to do, because harm reduction is bad.

Less of a good vs bad beer distinction, more of a light vs dark beer distinction I'd think?

I want my pilsner cold, but porters and stouts are good warm.

Honestly, no idea. Laws vary so much by jurisdiction anyway.

Tbh I agree that there should be an in-person option always. If for no other reason then just to be able to pay in cash. Just make sure to let people know it's not the most convenient option but it's available.

I'm not entirely sure what the point of the app is though, compared to a website with payment options. Lots of people will say tracking, but you can get a lot of info through a browser too.

Who in their right mind quotes a former president on a serious matter and makes a typo instead of just... copy-pasting that part of the statement to ensure accuracy lol

Journalist decided to re-type the statement instead of copy-pasting. You'll notice the distinct lack of a [sic] tag.

Well, sure. But they don't have time to pay for it or manufacture them right now, because they need to work hard to make sure the current old people get their pensions.

Nothing wrong with the system - if people die young enough and there's enough young people. But a nationalized pension system like most developed countries have is a huge burden once the population ages too much, and the fact that people are regularly living to be over 80 isn't helping it.

There's only 52 weeks in a year

Whilst a lot of CEOs are either not evil, or maybe are just inconsequential (like the CEO of some random startup with 4 employees creating a new app that's like Tinder but for whatever else), there's thousands whose companies are ruining our society and planet.

Though if one were to fall a week, that would maybe at least drive some fear into the others.

Who's paying for it? All the old people going to work?