Hey, is it possible that the German defense budget went down so much because they switched from a militia to a professional army?

Throwing money at problems can help solve the problem if the right incentives are set. However, as other comments have said, if you throw sub-par money, and you forget that people (teachers, in this example) have non-monetary needs, too. You just need to throw an awfully huge amount of money to offset the “work with…

Am Swiss!

Oh the Night Manager is so, so good! I watched it in one evening, alone, told my wife about it, and I watched it again with her, within three days.

The weird thing is that there are alternatives, but they would probs involve treating prisoners like people, and hiring social workers and other specialists instead of more guards.

You can put on lures that attract more pokemon to come by. If there are many so-called pokestops in an area, it pays off to place lures in all of them and just stay there to get many pokemons. That’s what’s happening in your park.

Cool, but, I mean, why is handball on the list? As a former handball youth player (sucked at it so hard, as did my team), and granted I’m European, I can tell you it’s a shitload of fun to play. It’s mostly jumping around, into other people, trying to block other people from scoring while not getting the ball in your…

Yup, me too!

The debate actually started a while back before the whole refugee situation in Cologne. I’d bet it would have passed if the government allowed a vote back in December as well, but not unanimously.

This is the beauty of soccer cups. This year, the Swiss cup was won on the very last game of the season by a side that has been relegated - they will now play in the second tier league and in the Europa League qualifier.

Oh I’m sorry for your loss and my insensitive post.

Oh yeah, I remember now! Though I guess it’s not really clear whether the red comet is bringing magic or it’s just a coincidence. GRRM is a master of first person POV so we never really know what really is going on.

Yeah, GRRM did a GREAT job in the books to keep magic kinda hidden, but around, like your drunk uncle.

The thing is that in the books, it’s pretty clear that magic is having a comeback after being dormant for a long time, and many readers tie it to the dragons. So yes, ASOIAF is not a magic-heavy world, but it is there, and it only gets stronger.

Thank you, this made my day. Kbye.

Ever heard of moral obligations?

> They’ll all die back together soon enough to fight the war for the dawn.

Since European soccer clubs have their own youth academies, most teams have a few players at any point that went through their youth team. Most of the time they are not good enough - or nice enough - to stay on the team for long. And if you make it to 25 or so, you usually want to leave town for another country just…

So this is not THE world cup, but a world cup -ish thing where the NHL earns money from? Do I see that correctly?

But what if they suck :(