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You are really surprised by a guy who wanted to name his car series S-E-X-Y and had a temper tantrum when model E was taken and he could not "buy" it.

You can easily kill yourself with a water overdose (and it's actually fairly common),so yes.

Nutmeg was already mentioned - high doses can easily kill someone, sadly even without hallucinations simply by killing off ones liver and dying an agonizing death a few days later. The same goes for cinnamon, but with a much lower dose.

There are a few more, but I don't want to give people too many ideas.

To make it short: Yes, possible,but it's mostly a very slow death over multiple days that fucks you up really bad and is a horrible way to go.

Sadly the hallucination effect does not correlate with the toxicity,especially the hepatotoxicity with nutmeg.. You can absolutely kill of your liver and die an agonizing death a few days later and have no hallucinations at all.

Often enough the credit card payment still is done through PayPal, though

Dude, Brother is not even an US company - like most big printer companies it's Japanese and traded at the Tokyo stock exchange.

So.... You're arguments are invalid and only show your americentric world view.

That was once very common in Europe and is currently gaining traction again. Big companies did provide accommodation for their staff - from dorms style accommodation for bachelor's to full houses. E.g. there are huge urban wards in western Germany (coal mining, steel production), Ludwigshafen (BASF), Berlin and Munich (Siemens) but also smaller towns (e.g. Singen - Maggi/Nestlé) which were build this way. Initially meant as a way to accommodate the huge amount of workers drawn from more rural areas it became a huge competitive advantage after the war as housing was scarce - and the company which was able to provide such had a better chance to recruit the required staff (which,due to the huge losses in some generations were scarce).

It fell out of favour in the 70/80ies but especially municipal corporations continued to provide it sometimes and some industries,mainly healthcare, continued to do so. (e.g. most hospitals in central Europe have a "nurses home" - a cheap apartment block next to the hospital that is often rented out to junior nurses and doctors)

Nowadays, due to the massively increasing prices to rent and own the whole idea gains traction again for other branches as well - e.g. Mercedes Benz and BMW are planning to invest heavily in these things, so does BASF. E.g. one of my clients (ambulance service) does provides (very high quality) fully furnished temporary flats both for travelling paramedics but also for new hires so they can settle down in peace.

I am a CEO of a small company and while my staff works 100% remote (exclusive of direct appointments at the offices of our customers - which we try to avoid) I do offer paying for a real estate agent upon hiring staff if they need a new flat for working Home-Office full time. (E.g. due to having small kids at home and wanting a separate office) It does cost me around 3000€ - which is a small amount compared to the overall hiring costs - a new staff member costs me around 30.000€ after adding recruitment costs, induction, initial training courses, hard& software,etc. If I manage to retain 1 out of 10 staff members due to that it's worth it.

Reminded me of the company a friend worked for. They had little parking space but the price one had to park was reasonable - and most people used public transport anyway.

Then they moved their office to a commercial area with no public transport within a few kilometres. And multiplied their parking prices by 10.

... surprisingly the staff retention and recruitment rates dropped.

Surprised Pikachu face Leopards ate my face

Affinity publisher can be a reasonable alternative for a lot of people - while it lacks a few features in terms of multi-user collaboration it is far better in the actual graphical design area.

I added two points that might be relevant.

• Proton is not an Email app but mainly an email provider that locks you into its own app.

• Proton does not provide e2e encrypted email outside its own environment (so any mail within proton will be encrypted but not outside - and it's far harder to do the later due to point one)

• Proton is heavily run by US citizens living in the US - and therefore to some extend fall under the homeland security act and similar laws, including pressure by the current administration.

• Proton claims to be based on Swiss privacy laws. One should be aware that Swiss data protection laws are amongst the weakest in Europe, that service providers can (and mostly are) forced to monitor cross border traffic and that Swiss intelligence services have a long history of unlawful overreach and extremely close cooperation with US services. To what extend Proton is affected by this is unclear, unlike other Swiss based service providers they refuse to comment on this(and they would be allowed to comment, don't get me wrong)

Just to be aware. I know there are a lot of fans of proton on Lemmy,but there are far better services available nowadays. If the Swiss privacy law does not bother you Infomaniak is an option, alternativly mailbox.org is an option within the GDPR sphere. (Can be bad or good depending on your own situation)

Neither of them is an app, nevertheless,but they work with any major app,e.g. thunderbird.

Yeah,one of the few drawbacks they have. Most people can live with it, but it's indeed one of the things they should be providing by now but don't

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