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Cake day: August 9th, 2023

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  • Fellow German here.
    Want to point out that I had to attend a minute of silence during school after the terror-attacks of 11.09.2001 (“9/11”). And that was ok. I even remember how a teacher got into Trouble for not wanting to do it because we dont do shit like that when “others then westerners” die.

    To me, the official reaction of state and media is and was always a question of who dies.
    3000 US citizens - gotta have a minute of silence. Same number of dead people world wide due to landmines? C’mon, thats boring and uninteresting!
    1200 Israel citizens- jupp, gotta be all down and sad, flags need to be half-masted. 100k Palestinians, c’mon, they had it coming, deserve it, where hiding terrorists…
    To me, everything is bad and sad.
    But politicians and media here and elsewhere in the west have it nicely separated. All double-standard bs.







  • Thanks for (starting to) explain this concept to people not accustomed to how the US does their shit.

    See, where i live, we used to have for example a Tax-Number. That was a thing the taxdepartment used to identify a person. But if you move from city a to city b, that numbers changes. So if you move a lot, you will have numerous of these.
    Now, some 15 years back, the Tax-ID was introduced (fellow residents at this point will lnow it might be Germany) and this number is a one-in-a-kind ID that will only be assigned to you. They create it shortly after birth. My sons first registraion ID was this, before anyrhing else. You will also get a uniqie healthcare-ID that also works like that.

    So…how does that work in the US and why is habing a changing number that is not unique helpful? Or what is Elon not getting? I dont get it either because I dont know how this works for you.

    Thanks in advance to shed light on this.