I'm sorry, what I tried to say was that sexuality of an individual isn't something you "learn" through social or cultural things, but it's something you're born with. Only the ruleset of what is acceptable and what not is a social or cultural thing.
Just to explain it maybe a little: the German far right party has a rethorical mixture of 3. Reich speeches (damn autocorrect) and modern US republicans. And the people supporting them have the same mindset and fact denial maga fans have.
It's a complex topic cause... it depends. I know a guy that lives in Germany and works in Luxembourg (he is the coffee delivery guy for a lot of people xD). If I remember correctly, he pays taxes in Luxembourg and has to fill out a form each year for the German tax office that he or more exactly his company is paying his taxes in Luxembourg. Cause one big thing in all the european countries I know is, that as an employee your workplace pays your salary based taxes.
Most social contributions like pension payment is also a Luxembourg thing, but health care is a mixture. He pays the biggest part in Luxembourg but has to do a little extra payment in Germany, so he can visit a German doctor like someone that pays his healthcare only in Germany.
But it's different for every country.
And also another funny thing I know: The US is the only country in the world where you have to pay taxes just cause you're a citizen. No matter if you're living and/or working in the US. So for example a US citizen working and living in Germany still has to pay a (small) amount of US taxes.
For example if I would work and live in Italy I would only pay taxes in Italy even though I have a non Italian passport.
That seems true. The country is very small so a lot of people can live in cheaper places like German/French/Belgian border villages.
I once met a guy living in belgium and working in Luxembourg city and he needed 40min via car (and the city isn't right next to the belgian border). Same for the other countries.
So yeah, I would also guess 50% of the coffee consumed shouldn't count.
Ooohhh let me tell you! Not only is the coffee and gasoline cheaper, but also champagne cause there is no champagne tax like in Germany (don't know if you have this as well). And also taxes for tobacco is lower so it's cheaper and at last: there is no "Pfand" for canned sodas/beers (great for things like festivals).
But the one thing a lot more expensive in Luxembourg are clothes. That's why a lot of people living in Luxembourg love shopping in Trier (Germany).
Hope you have a nice trip :) The shopping is great at every gasstation at the boarder (they have most of the time a little shop with exactly the cheaper stuff on top), but the capital of the country is nice to visit as well :)
What data are they using? If it's amount of coffee sold vs. population, at least Luxembourg is wrong. I know people who drive 2-3 times a year around 300km from Germany just to shop gasoline and coffee in Luxembourg. Both are so cheap that it's still worth it. Cause there is no tax on coffee it's 20-50% cheaper as in Germany. The same for Belgium. So germans and belgians love to buy coffee in Luxembourg.
Edit: exactly this question is written by the author of the linked article. So it is plausible that the data or the result from the data is wrong.
Yeah, but you still have to pay social taxes on top for every worker. That's why salary and labour cost are two different things. And boy is it a difference in Germany.
Not only this, they cut the budget starting 2025 by a lot and only productions with >400k on their own will be qualified to apply for a state funding.
Cause that will be a good reason for each state (Bundesland) to rise their funding (Berlin has some millions and Hessen 260k/year funding budget). Or at least that was one of the arguments to cut the state budget.
(couldn't find it on any other side, so it's a like to the bad r page, sorry!) A couple of years ago I laughed way to hard on this pic:
https://images.app.goo.gl/Mxz1apkpmAsPTsiS7
Wasn't it that COVID came as a surprise for most scientists cause they bet on avian flu viruses? So it isn't any new info and a fear they've had for quite some time now.
I heard from a guy from the German COVID watch (RKI), that the probability for a new epidemic is around 2.x% each year and around 1.x% for a pandemic. That's why there is a big epidemic around every 30-50 years and a pandemic every 80-100 years. What type of virus will be the next big thing is nothing but a guess and often wrong (like COVID out of nowhere), cause it's difficult to predict the next mutation of a virus.
That's also why a lot of flu vaccines in the past didn't have the effect they hoped for (mostly it's still a very good vaccine!).
Even if it's not the 70s or 80s, I still grew up with lots of second hand smoke in the 90s.
Once a year my village had a little comedy thing (german carnival) for one evening in the local gym. You couldn't see the stage after the first hour if you were like 10m away from the stage. It didn't matter, smoking, drinking and just a little music and everybody was happy.
And it was the same in every restaurant or subway station. It just felt normal, it smelled the same no matter where you went and everybody smelled like cold smoke.
After it got shut down in quiet a rush, the new normal came so quickly, that even today nobody can believe how it was just 20-25 years ago.
I saw Alien 1 just a couple of weeks ago for the first time and I was amazed how good it still looked. The design of the spaceship and the alien itself still looked amazing in 4k on an OLED TV.
And also the story still seemed like a fresh idea. Of course there are moments with stupid acting people, but all in all the decisions made felt plausible and logical, not the normal stupid horror movie group. And also the story twist came (for me) as a real surprise and not like a thing you knew after the first 5min. (And I'm also surprised that after all these years it's still a surprise, cause everybody knows the alien but not the story of the first movie?)
I'm sorry, what I tried to say was that sexuality of an individual isn't something you "learn" through social or cultural things, but it's something you're born with. Only the ruleset of what is acceptable and what not is a social or cultural thing.