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[MarcAFK]

I know it's not the biggest anymore, but fuck I need to upgrade my Aurora fleet since it's being outclassed in tonnage by German mining equipment from the 70's.
I believe that when the batters are done raping all the coal out from under the largest forest in Germany they'll leave a nice 100 meter deep wet death pit. So there's that to look forward to.

[Arx]

BAGGER 288!

The heck did I just watch?

BAGGER 288 BAGGER 288

[sprinkled chariot]

Does all that refugee thing affect average EU citizen?

[Helgoland]

BAGGER 288!

The heck did I just watch?

BAGGER 288 BAGGER 288

Check out some of their other stuff too. The Axolotl Song, the Spine Song, etc etc.

[Sheb]

Does all that refugee thing affect average EU citizen?

Well, it's a lot in the news, and in my circles lots of people are involved in helping them (including a good friend of mine who netter a job with MSF after volunteering for several months at a refugee encampment and is now taking care of them full-time), but apart from that, not really.

[Sinistar]

Or rather, no, it doesn't affect them YET, but EU is sure to go down in flames because CULTURAL JIHAD

/joke

[Loud Whispers]

Does all that refugee thing affect average EU citizen?

Who's the average EU citizen? From what country, from what city, from what town or county? Italians and Belarusians are not in the same boat.

[Sinistar]

Mainly because their boat seats were already taken over by bunch of Syrians.

Hey-yooooooooooooo

[Reelya]

The coolest thing is that Bagger 288 is actually 3500 tons heavier than the Eiffel tower. So, you could mount the entire eiffel tower on catepillar tracks and make it move around, and it would still be lighter than Bagger 288. That gives some perspective on how huge this really is.

The French just build a big metal tower: The Germans build it bigger and equip it to come and kill you.

[scriver]

Does all that refugee thing affect average EU citizen?

The average EU citizen's countries barely accept any refugees at all, so no. But up here in Sweden, for example, it is going to affect the average citizen a lot, mostly because the government immigration bureau is just paying capitalist opportunists to house people without any regards to whether the commune the housing is in. The responsibility is then dumped unto the communes who are expected to care for most of the day-to-day social services (including school and such) but get no additional funding from the state to shoulder the extra load.

[Sheb]

Handy chart:



Sweden do take in a lot of people. But that's the number of successful applications, so not entirely representative of the strain on a country, Hungary for example grants very few people asylum, but got tens of thousands of people entering it.

[Askot Bokbondeler]

ptw

[scriver]

That chart is from 2014 too, so it's from before we started getting thousands of applications each week.

It should also be mentioned that people who gets declined asylum don't necessarily leave, so the communes still have to care for them.

[Sheb]

Yeah, it would be interesting to have numbers on the last few months... I know that here in Belgium, the government decided to cap things at 250 then 150 applications per day (so ~35,000 to 80,000 a year), which seems similar in per capita to Sweden.

[scriver]

Here is the numbers for 2015. So far Sweden has gotten 112 000 requests. The last few months there's been a rise of about 10-15 thousandpeople per months, but if we despite the current pressure assume that November and December will "just" add another 20-40 thousand people each we're looking at 150-200 thousand people for the whole year.