Come on women are fine with these guys around. Little girls though…

Holy crap do I really need to use the /s behind the first comment. I thought it was so bloody obvious, that it did not need to happen. The idea to walk around town, scan people sneakers and if they are legit Nike call them fascists. To me that idea is just so insane that it is funny.

At the same time, there are companies, which are worse and it is worth boycotting them. If you do so, then stand by that and do not buy some fakes. Seriously imagine trying to convince some guy that Nike sucks, while wearing full fake Nike gear. That is again a funny idea to me.

Do you seriously believe that anybody would be crazy enough to check other peoples clothes with a medical scanning device? Thank you.

We all have to exist in this system whether we like it or not, and unless you’re living 100% off grid in a hovel in the woods, you’re contributing to the slow ascent of fascism in one way or another.

When you know that an action supports fascism you do not do it and you warn others about it. Pretending to support fasism, is at least in this case really stupid.

$500-2000 depends on what sort of shoe, where you buy it and so forth. If you go to a poor country it can be had for a lot less though. It might well be worth to have that vacation and find a shoemaker. You certainly will not exploit them nearly as badly as Nike.

So you are saying that you need medical scanning devices to make sure that a person wearing what looks like Nikes is not a fascist.

In somewhat interesting contrast, German law does not codify protection of whistle blowers, for example.

No, there is the Hinweisgeberschutzgesetz from 2023, which does codify whistleblowing. I have no idea how good it is and it is new enough that it has to prove itself in the real world, but then again codify is a low bar.

That explains why the US has no proper health care system…

Yes we are. In a mortgage the bank gives you the money today, for the promise of payments in the future. So for a bank far out payments are nearly worthless today. So they will not give you better conditions for a 50year mortgage compared to a 25year one.

The further in the future profits are, the less they are worth today. As in getting $1000 today is better, then getting a promise of being paid $1000 in a decade. After all if you got the $1000 today you could have invested it and got a return on it. So lets say you know you can get a return of a rate of 5%. The $1000 today invested over a decade would be $1000 * 1.0510 = $1628.89 in a decade. You can also use it the other way around, to estimate what the $1000 is worth in the future. As in X * 1.0510 = $1000 -> X =$613.91 That rate of return is called the discount rate.

The issue with getting money in 50 years is that it ends up being nearly nothing today. So it is just a horrible idea.

Anybody who believes a 50 year mortgage is a good idea, does not understand discount rates…

We all know that Vivaldi was a metal head without an electric guitar.

Do you not get a massive pigeon problem with them sitting on the nets and shiting on the people below?