Competition Sign Up Thread #16

[StaySharp]

Edit off topic: StaySharp - what does suck so much about living in Germany? I would be hard pressed to choose somewhere else to live at the moment - well - the weather could be nicer, but otherwise - could be much, much worse. Where would you like to live? Spoiler for Offtopic Blast: Well there are a lot worse places but those are mostly places without better choices or america. Germany has a few certain things that damn hard bother me, and that's why I'd like to live elsewhere. 1: GEZ/Zwangsbeitrag - Stealing more than 200€ from me a year for low class tv, bad information, recycled videos and movies. I really, really never use any of their services anyway. Actually the Zwangsbeitrag violates the german constition and witht that my basic rights right from article 1 to 5 and should be outright illegal, but politicians do what they want and people always vote the same ones anyway, whether they screwed up or not. Our country is as far as I know currently the highest paying country there, and that for services you get better and for free on the internet every minute of your life. Here I'm paying the luxury of a huge company while I'm not even sure how I'm gonna get over the next months. 2: Medicine laws - Our law says we may not import pharmacological effective subtances, just as vague as that. Now let me put this short, this basically means they could prevent you from importing anything you could swallow just so as long as it is deemed to have any effect appart from filling your belly. Even if you want to nurture your plants with that. The only reason food doesn't fall under this is apparently because there's a list for food considered things. But there's no list for restricted things, people may just decide to confiscate your stuff one time and next time someone else may check it and say that everythings fine, they're a totally disorganized bunch. Now when you wonder why that's so bad, here's the reason: It's controlled by our pharmacies, they shut germany off from the rest of the world to gain a monopol on what they sell. Something that in this size would be considered illegal for any other kind of competition interference. Again it's only this bad for germany. 3: Shortsighted voters - This year the AfD participated for the first time and they nearly took the 5% hurdle because they wanted to get rid of the euro in favour of the old german mark. Great idea, considering that the impact on our economy could dump is into a huge crisis, not to mention seperate us somewhat from the rest of the EU. And that gets them nearly into the parlament. Seriously? But people don't care about: -Starving people -Climate crisis -Cleaner energy (well okay, they do care a bit, but they always fall asleep on this topic unless some nuclear power plant blows up somewhere in the world once every few year) -Privacy I don't want to get too political but this doesn't bode well for a clean und peaceful future. 4: Schools - Our schools outright suck, and I've been to 8 different schools: -2 Grundschulen [primary schools] -1 Internats Gymnasium [boarding grammar school] -1 Normales Gymnasium [grammar school] -2 Hauptschulen [secondary modern schools] -2 Berufskollegs [vocational colleges] The best and only somewhat good school was that boarding school. It got closed because of MONEY and nothing else. The last vocational college where I'm currently is ok, it's parallel to an apprenticeship and I'm there one in three weeks, each week we get our things to do and then it's mostly up to us, no frontal teaching. I spend: ~10% of my time on doing the actual things I'm supposed to do, my grades are between 3 and 1 depending on the topic ~30% of my time on learning things which are totally unrelated to my job or even to that school in general (quantum physics, yay ) ~60% of my time slacking off and playing around And still do I learn more than in any school ever before. In short: our schools are so bad for certain individuals that I can say for myself it was a waste of time to go to school, the only really good one was that boarding school, it was called Talenta and was located in Eringerfeld. That school was also the only one that contributed to my development as a person, I consider the other schools I was on a complete waste of my time and if I would've spent all these years learning by myself I'd be on a different level than I'm now. I skipped a class but thanks to Talenta being closed I also was set back one, becuase the other schools had a totally shifted learning schedule. I remember that normal grammer school right after Talenta, it was the 9th class, our first lesson in chemical stuff and the teacher asked what an oxidation process is. No one had a clue, I felt like I arrived at a wrong world and I was years further than everyone in my class together. These are just the strongest points I currently know of, that's not even everything. I know there are a lot of worse places but there are better places as well. If some people had their priorities straight germany could also become a wonderful place, but it isn't and we are most certainly going down the wrong route as well. As for where I'd like to live otherwise then... Japan: While I like some of the japanese traits and especially their landscape, their police is just corrupt and stupid, and the common people also have certain behaviour traits which are not so cool. I definitely want to visit it sometime but I wouldn't want to live there, not yet. America: No. Even worse than germany in many ways. Ireland: This one I could imagine, I was there for a month during my time at the first vocational college. I had a great time, the people were nice and there wasn't anything else being bad either. It also has some bad points but so far I don't know of anything as bad as the things mentioned above. England: I don't know, there are things that are better there but it also has some weak points, I would have to seriously consider moving out first and take a look into england. Switzerland: Same as above Canada: Same as above, and while I like cold more than hot I'm not quite sure if I'd like it there in terms of weather. All other possibilities are currently outruled by language. (There could be some errors in here, I just got a message to head out fast, so... finders keepers) Depending on when this thing'll start it coud fall into my holidays, when I'm with my father back in my old home. Could be an advantage, but maybe not, we'll see.