Enemy in disguise!

Biste jetzt Kommerzgandalf oder was?

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Rick and Morty. The humour is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of the jokes will go over a typical viewer’s head. There’s also Rick’s nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation- his personal philosophy draws heavily from Narodnaya Volya literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realise that they’re not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Rick & Morty truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn’t appreciate, for instance, the humour in Rick’s existential catchphrase “Wubba Lubba Dub Dub,” which itself is a cryptic reference to Turgenev’s Russian epic Fathers and Sons. I’m smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Dan Harmon’s genius wit unfolds itself on their television screens. What fools… how I pity them. 😂

And yes, by the way, i DO have a Rick & Morty tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It’s for the ladies’ eyes only- and even then they have to demonstrate that they’re within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand. Nothin personnel kid 😎

Well that was the joke. Tough crowd

So I think many of the ASML ladies have migrated to the Netherlands due to them being highly qualified in the area and there seems to be a lack of people who can do it locally. With the 30% tax ruling that’s a sweet deal if you’ve got the right background and experience.

I assume whispering in Dutch would just sound horrible and insulting to the ears. I kinda get that they would want to move to France. I imagine French whispering to be more appealing, so they would need to hire less skilled workers from foreign countries.

The only thing that I still don’t get is why they need a factory for this when it’s such a WFH friendly job.

Now I’ll be that person: Europe is not the monolith Americans imagine it to be. It’s roughly 50 countries and an equal (if not higher) amount of languages.

tldr; Europe is not like having 50 states in the US but each state has their own language, history, culture that can be very different from others.

Culturally, as a German I don’t have a lot of in common with a Polish or a French person. There may be things we can agree on, but eventually you being European is equal to being North American. The USA and Canada are probably kinda close to each other because of the mostly shared language. But then e.g. Mexico has a completely different history and language than those two.

And now add to that that Schengen came to effect like what 25 years ago. Before that there were border controls between EU countries. For people above 40 they still grew up with their world ending at their country’s border. Only in the last 15 years with open borders & cheap flights it became affordable to most to visit other countries.

Also, education, legislation, hell even on which side of the road you drive differ from country to country. There really isn’t that much that most countries have in common. So it’s very different than the USA. Or more like the difference between France and Germany is at least as big as the difference between culture in the Bay Area and rural Alabama. And also they speak a different language and most older people can’t communicate with each other all.

I mean you have a point and I agree with most of what you’re saying, but we’re sending weapons and providing rhetorical cover for the Israeli government. E.g. by the police violently interrupting protests, or worse insisting that the claims of genocide are baseless and going as far as announcing to intervene on Israel’s behalf in the ICJ.

Palestinians are being killed by German-delivered ammunition all while Germany is defending Israel in the ICJ. This is clearly supporting the ongoing genocide