Interesting! I looked it up and the lizardman constant appears to be 4%; not too far from the 6% of Greenlanders in favor of selling their country.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slate_Star_Codex#Lizardman’s_Constant

I feel personally attacked.

If you work in a country the US considers friendly then you can deduct some large amount from your foreign salary before you pay taxes to be the US (like $90k or so?). If you make more than that you can deduct the foreign taxes paid from the remainder. Since taxes are higher in most European countries, you don’t end up paying tax twice (Switzerland has lower taxes I think, and maybe others).

This is basically the plot of When Harry Met Sally.

https://genius.com/Bloodhound-gang-i-wish-i-was-queer-so-i-could-get-chicks-by-the-bloodhound-gang-lyrics

Turkey hasn’t wanted to join the EU for decades.

Why? 19 is 15+4 but is still prime?

I wish people would stop conflating energy with electricity.

So Germany had ⅔ of it’s electricity from renewables, but still has gas for warming homes, petrol for cars, diesel for trucks, and so on.

I have no idea what the situation is in Switzerland, but in Holland we had a pro-business, center right government for many years before their neglect of the common people caused so much rot that the far right has taken power and begun trying to smash up everything.

Anyway, their neo-liberal approach was that there must be a market solution to every problem. So, not enough affordable rental properties must mean that landlords don’t want to rent their properties because renters have too good of a deal. So the only possible solution must be to deregulate the rental market as much as possible, including getting rid of renter protections.

Again, I have no idea about the motivations or history in Switzerland, just sharing a perspective from a lower altitude.